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I think it was Carragher that said last night, 'there is no reason why it should take a long time for players to adapt to a new system'. If what we saw last night was this 'tiki-taka' formula then god help us. Hearts looked much better than us and I wouldn't have batted an eyelid if they'd beaten us by a couple of goals. We were pretty poor. Not looking forward to the the city game at all. http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/liv...pool_41626.htmlApparently we had 58% of possession - i know we were away but we were up against a crappy scottish team. Not good enough. Mind you, the above article says we had 58% and Hearts had 43%!!!!! Puzzling stuff. We won though. We spent most of last season "looking better than" the teams we were playing, but we still lost most of those games. I know which outcome I'd prefer between the two. There's no doubt we have a lot of improving to do, but there'll be no panicking coming from me just yet anyway, especially if we keep getting wins. In the last 5 games (including friendlies) we've won 4 (Gomel, Bayer Leverkusen, Gomel, Hearts) and lost 1. Unfortunately, the one we lost was arguably the most important one. We have 37 more games to make up for that one though. Patience. You're right. I was just disappointed as it was the first full game I'd sat down watched this season and was expecting to see something 'different'. I'm not entirely sure what 'tiki-taka' actually is but I didn't anything different to what I had to endure last season. Yes it takes time, but I thought I'd see some evidence of a change in style...but we just looked a dalglish team.
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Do not agree with regards to Dalglish team. Watched 4 games so far and what worries me the most is our defensive play, we looked very shaky passing the ball from goalkeeper to defense, ie, trying to build play from the back. It could come good but how long is this going to take and what damage will be done by then.
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Well at least we'll get used to it playing against teams that on paper are better than us. We should learn fast.
Plus, out of our 4 competitive games, we have had 3 clean sheets. Not bad at all.
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yeah thats one way to look at it..I would rather take a convincing performance over a clean sheet
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Clean sheet yes, but, shaky at the back against Gomel, WBA and Hearts doesn't make me too comfortable. Maybe if it's the same against City at home I'll be convince that I am getting worried for nothing.
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exactly that too without dagger...that said I would be happy with a draw
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I just knew this was going to happen. This tiki taka [oops] near our goal is just stupid.
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Skrtel's mistake not tiki traka or whatever you call it.
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Skrtel's mistake not tiki traka or whatever you call it. Us inviting teams to press us up high and then playing numerous back passes to our keeper is nothing but recipe for disaster.
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Agree and to add, Barca also gives away such goals often. However, they always score more so doesn't look that bad. As I said before our defence looks very shaky in this system and we were not harmed against Gomel and Hearts because they do not have quality upfront. However, with the likes of Tevez and even Long we were punished. I was however happy with the rest as we played the Champions who knows how to put pressure, but we still have problems scoring. I expected worse today I must admit so not too unhappy.
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