Great accurate article.👍ARTETA IS TACTICALLY INEPT - We are playing such boring football .? Gork is a carthorse and Zuebimendi as cute as he is easily knocked of the ball if he tries to move forward one on one.?
They went higher but were still not able to score from open play so the plan was working up to a certain point. That has got to be a positive from that loss is that we severely limited their multi million front play. We are the ones over reliant on set pieces but at anfield this is the only way they could beat us. Let's see what happens on the return leg and whether we can nullify an extra 130 million.
I understand Hopium was high, with the injuries we had and the new players we have, with hindsight the best I could hope for was a draw. That game came too soon.
You can not go to Anfield with all guns blazing, it's small margins, has to be the right balance and in the end with hindsight you may now say the dial was too far in the defensive side but on the other hand Liverpool may have scored earlier from open play. When teams are this tight it can go either way. Not many team won at Anfield so you have to dona risk based strategy. With Gryokeres it's too soon to judge, he is not 100% fit and he is still getting used to this team as well as his new team are getting used to him. Let's see what happens, especially around deep blocks!
You can see by the field tilt image that we were better in the first half, but the whole second half up until the goal Liverpool were actually getting better.
The problem is that Arteta didn't react timely - most probably he planned his subs around 70th minute and didn't recognise that Liverpool is bringing players higher up the pitch, because we stopped offering real counter attacking threat.
It's been proven all over last season that "defensive solidity" is not enough in this league, there's so much quality even in mid-table teams there are players who can score an unlikely chance. And we need to be offering constant threat ourselves. Even if don't score, we at least make them run up and down the pitch and make sure they don't send 8 players on our half.
Great accurate article.👍ARTETA IS TACTICALLY INEPT - We are playing such boring football .? Gork is a carthorse and Zuebimendi as cute as he is easily knocked of the ball if he tries to move forward one on one.?
They went higher but were still not able to score from open play so the plan was working up to a certain point. That has got to be a positive from that loss is that we severely limited their multi million front play. We are the ones over reliant on set pieces but at anfield this is the only way they could beat us. Let's see what happens on the return leg and whether we can nullify an extra 130 million.
That's the point, they were without Isak, they had a makeshift right back.
I feel like we had a unique opportunity to come with three points from Anfield and we failed to seize it.
I understand Hopium was high, with the injuries we had and the new players we have, with hindsight the best I could hope for was a draw. That game came too soon.
You can not go to Anfield with all guns blazing, it's small margins, has to be the right balance and in the end with hindsight you may now say the dial was too far in the defensive side but on the other hand Liverpool may have scored earlier from open play. When teams are this tight it can go either way. Not many team won at Anfield so you have to dona risk based strategy. With Gryokeres it's too soon to judge, he is not 100% fit and he is still getting used to this team as well as his new team are getting used to him. Let's see what happens, especially around deep blocks!
You can see by the field tilt image that we were better in the first half, but the whole second half up until the goal Liverpool were actually getting better.
The problem is that Arteta didn't react timely - most probably he planned his subs around 70th minute and didn't recognise that Liverpool is bringing players higher up the pitch, because we stopped offering real counter attacking threat.
It's been proven all over last season that "defensive solidity" is not enough in this league, there's so much quality even in mid-table teams there are players who can score an unlikely chance. And we need to be offering constant threat ourselves. Even if don't score, we at least make them run up and down the pitch and make sure they don't send 8 players on our half.