Are we watching the same person? He hasn't looked like scoring, no movement, giving the ball away, no fight, looks despondent all the time...Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [31st October - 5th November 2014]
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Are we watching the same person? He hasn't looked like scoring, no movement, giving the ball away, no fight, looks despondent all the time...
Oh look another **** defensive performance and another **** poor midfield and another attempt at making the 4-2-3-1 work, despite it not working in 3 years Rodgers has been at teh club. Speaking of which, Rodgers making the same mistakes over and over again this season. Great stuff.
Good to see fans moving off Mignolet and onto Balotelli as the whipping boy as the season progresses. Little clue, folks if we persist with one up front we will have the same problems. Stay classy boys
Good to see fans moving off Mignolet and onto Balotelli as the whipping boy as the season progresses. Little clue, folks if we persist with one up front we will have the same problems. Stay classy boys
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He cost £16 million and he's done **** all to justify that price tag or even a starting position. People have every right to criticise a player they believe is not doing enough for their team. As soon as people start accepting mediocrity it becomes the norm and that's not something any supporter of any club in any division should knowingly do.
attitude counts for a lot in your working life and baltotelli's (frankly) sucks. he ****es me off as he seems to think he has some god given right to put in less than 90% because we all know he can come up with that 'one moment of brilliance'
well, i think you'll be waiting a while for anything brilliant from him.
He isn't a lone striker, or rather he isn't a lone striker with **** all movement around him. He is not the problem with our performances, the problem is the formation and the manager.
If Rodgers is going to persist in playing with one up front how about some instructions to the 3 behind him to give some support. We had exactly the same issues last year on numerous occasions when either Sturridge or Suarez were injured. No one buzzing around them offering either a run or an out ball.
We have numerous issues with the formation he is continuously playing:
1 - Gerrard cant play in a 2
2 - No defensive midfielder worthy of the name
3 - No movement or support from the 3 behind the lone striker
4 - Allen.
5 - **** CB pairing.
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Balotelli hasn't been good, but the movement around/behind him has been dire, the delivery has been dire. The commentator(who was the co-commentator today, frustrating me that I recognise the voice but can't remember the name) was rubbish as usual on bt sport, using a map of Balotelli's touches to say he's not doing enough as if a striker can choose how many touches he has and where. Lack of touches is a sign of little to no delivery, lots of poor touches is a sign of a player getting enough of the ball and doing nothing with it.
He had a go when Balotelli pulled wide and put in one of the best deliveries of the game because he wasn't in the box. Yes but no one else was delivering balls in that well, had he been in the box that delivery wouldn't have gotten in there, those in there did nothing with it.
Balotelli wasn't particularly bad this game the team was just dreadful, they are rubbish all over the pitch. Rodgers had one style that relies on 3-4 very fast breaking counter attacking players and taking control of the game in the first 25 minutes, outside of that he has no tactics, no gameplan, no back up plan. I think the fact is that even with Suarez people learn the more then play against a manager, if the manager never changes his main tactics teams would adjust over time. Many teams will expect to absord 30 mins of pressure and have a good second half.
Though today Liverpool started slow and Newcastle, particularly Ameobi(surprising us all) were very active in the first half, Ameobi closed down everything but clearly couldn't maintain it as he looked dead on his feet when he was subbed.
Either way Rodgers/Liverpool are very poor this season and are lucky to have the points they do have, crazy lucky against QPR.
He had a go when Balotelli pulled wide and put in one of the best deliveries of the game because he wasn't in the box. Yes but no one else was delivering balls in that well, had he been in the box that delivery wouldn't have gotten in there, those in there did nothing with it.
Balotelli wasn't particularly bad this game the team was just dreadful, they are rubbish all over the pitch. Rodgers had one style that relies on 3-4 very fast breaking counter attacking players and taking control of the game in the first 25 minutes, outside of that he has no tactics, no gameplan, no back up plan. I think the fact is that even with Suarez people learn the more then play against a manager, if the manager never changes his main tactics teams would adjust over time. Many teams will expect to absord 30 mins of pressure and have a good second half.
Though today Liverpool started slow and Newcastle, particularly Ameobi(surprising us all) were very active in the first half, Ameobi closed down everything but clearly couldn't maintain it as he looked dead on his feet when he was subbed.
Either way Rodgers/Liverpool are very poor this season and are lucky to have the points they do have, crazy lucky against QPR.
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what is going on at Newcastle at the moment?
Right up to the point where they lost the game ?
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LolBrendanRodgers
Good to see Costa walking out onto the pitch.
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This in a nutshell. Mario isn't helping Rodgers or the team and Rodgers isn't helping Mario or the team.
Apart from the start of the second half at no time did they look in control or dangerous.
The whole game was a dull mid pitch battle apart from a short spell for Liverpool and a few short spells for Newcastle, which we thankfully made use of.
He had support and movement behind him though. Nether of which he gets currently.
Oh I agree, just saying that he can do the role as people are suggesting he can't. He can, if supported.
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Mario's attitude? he got stuck in there a few times today chasing back and winning the ball. Every time Gerrard had the ball Mario was making runs with Gerrard successfully playing long balls to him.
Lets face it next two games against Madrid and Chelsea Liverpool are going to get spanked, 3 games lost in a row. Confidence in gutter
Lets face it next two games against Madrid and Chelsea Liverpool are going to get spanked, 3 games lost in a row. Confidence in gutter