KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum CONFIRMED TEAM & MATCH THREAD V OLDHAM

thats the fa cup for ya lads, it'll never change.

He had NO answer!!!!!!

BR picked the wrong team today. Poor performance from the players that got the chance. Just shows the lack of quality in the squad.

Schoolboy errors by all on the pitch, but most of all the manager.

You're playing a lower league team in the Cup, whose tactics almost universally consist of pressure, high tempo, and "get in their faces".

So a Premiership manager chooses to start with an ineffectual nine-stone guy named Joe Allen as a defensive central midfielder.

The opposition have a physical 6'6" centre forward - so the same manager selects a lumbering, paceless, 6'6" centre back with less aggression than a great-grandmother on Valium.

Absolute sh!te. I really hope Coutinho wasn't watching that debacle.

Totally Agree.

Seing that we cant win 3 in a row maybe we'll win our next game, lol.

I know anything can happen in the cup but this is poor. how anyone could defend this is beyond me.

Strong team? He should have started with Gerrard and having both Coates and Robinson was a huge risk as we lacked experience at the back. We did not have a team physical enough to play Oldham today and this 433 formation will always make us too vulnerable defensively, but what I know Dr BR knows best.

It was a stronger line up than a lot of us were expecting. With the exception of Downing in for Borini that was probably our first choice attacking line up.
BR picked two players in midfield costing 30ish million combined and both had a decent game, I don't think it was really central midfield where we lost the battle as they were normally bypassed by balls out wide or over the top.
In defense with the exception of Agger/Carragher in for Coates who had a very poor game (I think he needs to go out on loan) that was the best back 5 we had available for selection - Enrique, Johnson and Reina were all out injured.
The team BR put out should have been able to win that game so I think in this case the blame has to be mostly aimed at the players (particularly at the back) who didn't perform.