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Spurs caught City at a good time, 2nd game in, after a non entity game @West Ham. You'd feel if that game was played in a few weeks time when City really start clicking with the new players, then the result would have been much different.
Liverpool have looked dodgy / uncomfortable with this higher line defending. Why would Klopp change something that wasn't broken? that was the best part of last season...our defending. I worry for next weekend's game v Arsenal with that higher line because Arsenal have the weapons in Auba & LaCazette to expose such an obvious flaw.
If we would have drawn/lost yesterday and City won, the smelly stuff would have hit the fan and the press etc would have been up in arms saying how we are already behind City and they have already won the PL as we will never catch them, our lack of investment caused this etc..... City drop points and there's barely a murmur. City were unlucky with VAR, but they didn't seem to have a game changer on the bench for them, David Silva came on and hardly got involved, I think they really missed Sane, as he would be usually the one to come on and tear apart a tiring opposition defense, they also seemed to miss Kompany driving them on.
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Spurs caught City at a good time, 2nd game in, after a non entity game @West Ham. You'd feel if that game was played in a few weeks time when City really start clicking with the new players, then the result would have been much different.
Liverpool have looked dodgy / uncomfortable with this higher line defending. Why would Klopp change something that wasn't broken? that was the best part of last season...our defending. I worry for next weekend's game v Arsenal with that higher line because Arsenal have the weapons in Auba & LaCazette to expose such an obvious flaw.
If we would have drawn/lost yesterday and City won, the smelly stuff would have hit the fan and the press etc would have been up in arms saying how we are already behind City and they have already won the PL as we will never catch them, our lack of investment caused this etc..... City drop points and there's barely a murmur. City were unlucky with VAR, but they didn't seem to have a game changer on the bench for them, David Silva came on and hardly got involved, I think they really missed Sane, as he would be usually the one to come on and tear apart a tiring opposition defense, they also seemed to miss Kompany driving them on. Playing against Southampton and Spurs is not the same package, is it? If Eriksen stays I think Spurs will come second in the league.
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Spurs caught City at a good time, 2nd game in, after a non entity game @West Ham. You'd feel if that game was played in a few weeks time when City really start clicking with the new players, then the result would have been much different.
Liverpool have looked dodgy / uncomfortable with this higher line defending. Why would Klopp change something that wasn't broken? that was the best part of last season...our defending. I worry for next weekend's game v Arsenal with that higher line because Arsenal have the weapons in Auba & LaCazette to expose such an obvious flaw.
He probably can see something that he can improve on. And thought that the Norwich game was a good game to test it. I suspect he won't try it against all teams. Only teams he is confident he can win. If it is not working then I am sure we will go back as we were.
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Indeed.
To push those teams sitting deep is surely something Klopp will try and get better at, and keeping the formation compact means a higher defense line.
I think we will improve this way, but at the same time I hope we won't use it against the better sides and the ones that try and play football against us, because we will get punished then.
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Spurs caught City at a good time, 2nd game in, after a non entity game @West Ham. You'd feel if that game was played in a few weeks time when City really start clicking with the new players, then the result would have been much different.
Liverpool have looked dodgy / uncomfortable with this higher line defending. Why would Klopp change something that wasn't broken? that was the best part of last season...our defending. I worry for next weekend's game v Arsenal with that higher line because Arsenal have the weapons in Auba & LaCazette to expose such an obvious flaw.
If we would have drawn/lost yesterday and City won, the smelly stuff would have hit the fan and the press etc would have been up in arms saying how we are already behind City and they have already won the PL as we will never catch them, our lack of investment caused this etc..... City drop points and there's barely a murmur. City were unlucky with VAR, but they didn't seem to have a game changer on the bench for them, David Silva came on and hardly got involved, I think they really missed Sane, as he would be usually the one to come on and tear apart a tiring opposition defense, they also seemed to miss Kompany driving them on. Playing against Southampton and Spurs is not the same package, is it? If Eriksen stays I think Spurs will come second in the league. Spurs were 26 points behind us last season. I wouldn't put my money on it
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I saw no improvement from Spurs,they barely had the ball,so this massive gap they've suddenly bridged is nothing short of a miracle.
That job interview was going so well until I realized I was fukked up on acid in the middle of a cornfield naked and talking to a scarecrow.
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Although by Vish's logic man u are now better than us cause they beat the Chavs 4-0 .
That job interview was going so well until I realized I was fukked up on acid in the middle of a cornfield naked and talking to a scarecrow.
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I saw no improvement from Spurs,they barely had the ball,so this massive gap they've suddenly bridged is nothing short of a miracle. Spurs have improved, but not enough. They were battered yesterday by city. They were very lucky.
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Spurs caught City at a good time, 2nd game in, after a non entity game @West Ham. You'd feel if that game was played in a few weeks time when City really start clicking with the new players, then the result would have been much different.
Liverpool have looked dodgy / uncomfortable with this higher line defending. Why would Klopp change something that wasn't broken? that was the best part of last season...our defending. I worry for next weekend's game v Arsenal with that higher line because Arsenal have the weapons in Auba & LaCazette to expose such an obvious flaw.
If we would have drawn/lost yesterday and City won, the smelly stuff would have hit the fan and the press etc would have been up in arms saying how we are already behind City and they have already won the PL as we will never catch them, our lack of investment caused this etc..... City drop points and there's barely a murmur. City were unlucky with VAR, but they didn't seem to have a game changer on the bench for them, David Silva came on and hardly got involved, I think they really missed Sane, as he would be usually the one to come on and tear apart a tiring opposition defense, they also seemed to miss Kompany driving them on. Playing against Southampton and Spurs is not the same package, is it? If Eriksen stays I think Spurs will come second in the league. City beat their most of the top 6 rivals last season, it was teams like Newcastle, Leicester & Palace who took points off them, so that is abit different. I'm not saying we are better than City, they are a great team, my point really was the press/fan reaction to them dropping points, compared to if we dropped points. Beating Southampton away after a difficult midweek trip to Istanbul was a big achievement in my view, as big as beating Tottenham at home would be, where we are expected to win, that was a big banana skin.
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Will be interesting to see how we fare against the Arse next weekend.
That'll give us some idea where we currently stand compared to another competitor for the top 4 spots.
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