28 Jul 2016 08:09:22
By the sounds of the chelsea game it was a boring affair in which both teams couldn't be bothered going for it too much and we made a lot of changes after 65 minutes, leading to a cheap goal. A loss on paper but nothing to worry about by the sounds of it.

1.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 08:44:26
It was nowhere near a boring affair, it was extremely competitive with many yellow cards and a red for Fabregas. The 'cheap goal' was from a corner after ten mins. We were by far the better team for the majority of the game.

2.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 08:47:17
Chelsea scored in the 10tth minute.

3.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 08:50:17
The changes did not lead to the goal. The goal was in the 10th minute.

4.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 09:25:23
Some of the yellow cards simply wouldn't have been yellows in the PL. As for the game, I was there and it was a competitive affair with Chelsea concentrating on defending and Liverpool looking to find their way in on goal.

For the goal, I thought the 'keeper could have come out. I don't want to be too critical of Karius but more often than not he seemed hesitant to come out and claim the ball. Klavan is physical and that can lead to fouls as it did today on a number of occasions. He is pretty decent on the ball too and was lucky to escape injury after that poor challenge from Fabregas (which made the 7 teenage Chelsea supporting girls behind me, who had come to the game because one of their name was Chelsea and hence their reason for support) .

Ejaria was excellent and I was surprised he looked comfortable physically against the Chelsea players. Grujic was largely anonymous and Lovren very determined to show he is the leader at the back with his assertive defending. Coutinho, Firmino and Mane all looked good in flashes but you could see that they were still looking to understand each other but there is definite potential there. The two full backs were poor; Moreno diving into challenges he didn't need to and Randall backing away from any sort of challenges or defending he had to do. I remember Randall as being average from his time at the U18s and U21s but here, he was quite honestly an invisible man. Stewart did well winning the ball back and keeping things simple.

Second half was less enjoyable to watch and changes disrupted the play. Milner, Lallana, Ings worked hard and tried to link up but to no avail, and Alexander-Arnold, Wisdom and Brannagan didn't do anything eye-catching.

For Chelsea, Loftus-Cheek and Victor Moses were impressive.

5.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 09:36:49
Still can't score when team park bus. Hope Wijnaldum changes that. Dire nedd of speedy tricky wingers.

6.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 09:51:02
I swear sky said the goal came 10 minutes from the end, my mistake.

Either way i don't expect us to be going hell for leather to break down negative football in a pre-season friendly, playing with firmino instead of a striker probably didn't help either.

7.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 09:53:58
Completely agree with 99% of your assessment AG but I thought Moses was dire - he had a lot of the ball but did nothing with it. I wasn't left regretting he didn't stay with us.

8.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 09:51:02
I swear sky said the goal came 10 minutes from the end, my mistake.

Either way i don't expect us to be going hell for leather to break down negative football in a pre-season friendly, playing with firmino instead of a striker probably didn't help either.

9.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 09:53:58
Completely agree with 99% of your assessment AG but I thought Moses was dire - he had a lot of the ball but did nothing with it. I wasn't left regretting he didn't stay with us.

10.) 28 Jul 2016
28 Jul 2016 12:36:28
I wouldn't worry too much about any preseason game. The team is going to look extremely different come the first competitive match. Good portion of the starting 11 are only back, some haven't played, and certainly 1. Maybe 2 haven't even signed for us yet.