06 Oct 2020 10:31:45
Shaqiri now tests positive for C.V.! It makes me think that maybe half our squad had it on Sunday, they were so lethargic. 😂.

06 Oct 2020 10:39:58
By the way not laughing at the seriousness of C.V.

06 Oct 2020 10:42:31
C.V. doesn’t care., Oompa Loompa’s aren’t immune.

06 Oct 2020 10:47:52
He must have been in a pub or restaurant after 10pm.

06 Oct 2020 10:50:33
I know at times like we seen on Sunday its natural to look at excuses but the true hard facts are, they were up for it more than us, the beat us to every second ball, Dean Smith tactics were spot on and we were beaten by a better team on the day. Nothing else nothing more.

06 Oct 2020 10:57:52
Yeah I was kidding, but how many players before we have to start cancelling games!

06 Oct 2020 12:02:33
Villa and Smith were class and sussed out how to beat our high line. People will try it again but we will need gomez pace. And we need to start defending. vvd nearly won the balon dor but I didn't actually see him do that much old school defending. Headers, interceptions and passing yes, But not much tackling. And when they try that, we will have a massive overload when we win the ball back. So Bobby is so important to the counter attack. In seconds he gets any ball under control and has vision like I've rarely seen from a cf.

Three of our player coming Down with it. Seems the lockdown being tightens is a good idea.

06 Oct 2020 12:19:54
It would be nice if we could blame that performance on C.V. but I think it was more bone-idleness and it was really contagious with most of the squad catching it.

{Ed025's Note - love it mikey..

06 Oct 2020 15:08:37
Robbie, the issue is not so much the high line, IMO even tho it my be some tweaking esp. with Allison out. The high press not being on point due mainly to a hapless lack of desire, effort and competitiveness in our one on one battles, were the real causes, IMO. Klopp said so himself after the game. He said could see that the Villa players wanted it more. That is where our issues were. We did not even compete so how do you expect to even play well?

Vs Arsenal, we smothered them so much they could not breathe and coughed up the ball in their final third and we were in on so many occasions. What was the diff.? The press was outstanding cos we were at it. Sure we gave up a real chance to Lacazette and Allison smothered him cos well, he is built for the high line defensive style we play.

What happened at Villa was the complete opposite to that. No fire, not effort, no work ethic hence, no press, no hassling hence, defence is exposed with nobody tracking runners from Villa's midfield. See a theme here?

People want to talk about Gomez and TAA being poor in the game and I agree BJUT these same players were brilliant vs Arsenal so what changed? I refer you to the issues described above. If you are not ready to compete at full pelt in any game (the very basics of sports) then, your qualities will never show.