You gotta hand it to Jose.
You can bet your life all our ball boys will now be getting the ball back like shit off a shovel when we win a throw.
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You gotta hand it to Jose.
You can bet your life all our ball boys will now be getting the ball back like shit off a shovel when we win a throw.
Ridiculous
Any news on whether the ball boy from Tuesday is match fit and available?
I don't know where you got your stats from, but these are off the Wiki page:
Liverpool's back 5 play the overwhelming number of games. 'Rotation' is minimal.
| Total Games | |
| Virgil van Dijk | 50 |
| Dejan Lovren | 18 |
| Joe Gomez | 25 |
| Alisson | 51 |
| Andrew Robertson | 48 |
| Joël Matip | 31 |
| Trent Alexander-Arnold | 40 |
Liverpool's back 5 play the overwhelming number of games. 'Rotation' is minimal.
Aha, and was being sh*t in defense also part of the tactical plan? Not closing down attackers and failing clearing the ball that led to 1st goal?
If so - then my mistake! Then he followed through the instructions to perfection....
I mean you literally are saying that this position should be more defensively sound in our game-plan, and yet you have issue with playing way better defending player in this position? Just can't get your thinking.
Just like with Rose- after bad start with Olympiacos Wanyama was our only remaining senior DM. But he was not even named to bench. BECAUSE OF PERFORMANCE LEVELS. Even though he was also only senior player of this position.
I wrote "equivalent of full game" (hence minutes played / 90)
When we talk about playing load, coming on as 85th minute substitute is not the same as playing from whistle to whistle, is that?
Again, not concept hard to grasp in my book.
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So we go in to this 5 games unbeaten.
Son in his last 7 games has 6 goals, 3 assists, 2 motm, 1 red card.
The front 3 have 5 goals and 3 assists between them in Mourinhos 2 games.
Paul Tierney is on VAR duties - he was ref for the Leicester defeat.
Moura had a poor 15% win rate from his 13 appearances until Mourinhos 2 wins, putting him up to 27%
Dier on the other hand has 8 appearances with our highest win rate at 63%
Gazzaniga has conceded 12 in 7 appearances in the league so far. 0 clean sheets although arguably man of the match against Liverpool.
Our 1 league clean sheet this season had Lloris, Aurier, Toby, Jan, Rose starting - 9 games ago.
But - in 4 home games against Bournemouth we are winning 13-0.
Aurier has 4 assists so far. Only Son has more (5).
Wanyama as far as I know hasn't been injured yet hasn't even appeared on our bench for 10 games.
So what does all this nonsense mean?
That my work day has been pretty slow.
We win 4-0!
COYS!
Son in his last 7 games has 6 goals, 3 assists, 2 motm, 1 red card.
The front 3 have 5 goals and 3 assists between them in Mourinhos 2 games.
Paul Tierney is on VAR duties - he was ref for the Leicester defeat.
Moura had a poor 15% win rate from his 13 appearances until Mourinhos 2 wins, putting him up to 27%
Dier on the other hand has 8 appearances with our highest win rate at 63%
Gazzaniga has conceded 12 in 7 appearances in the league so far. 0 clean sheets although arguably man of the match against Liverpool.
Our 1 league clean sheet this season had Lloris, Aurier, Toby, Jan, Rose starting - 9 games ago.
But - in 4 home games against Bournemouth we are winning 13-0.
Aurier has 4 assists so far. Only Son has more (5).
Wanyama as far as I know hasn't been injured yet hasn't even appeared on our bench for 10 games.
So what does all this nonsense mean?
That my work day has been pretty slow.
We win 4-0!
COYS!
Okay, I'll give up on explaining here. I am feeling like you cannot read.
But last small try - LIVERPOOL TRIO OF VVD, TAA and Robertson WERE BEST 3 DEFENDERS IN THE LEAGUE LAST YEAR. Yea, I would not mind either to play best players in defense. But Rose is in awful form.
And I'd rather take a chance on someone else there.
Just like Poch took chance on bringing on Eriksen instead of DM in Olympiacos game, not Wanyama who was not even picked to bench (even though he also "Expert of this position", but in awful form)
I must admit I don't follow your thinking and have no idea why Wanyama has entered the discussion. However to play along, as far as I'm aware, Skipp is ahead of Wanyama in terms of DM. At least he's had minutes this season.
My position is absolutely clear - Rose at left back.
Who would you play v. Bournemouth?
So you're still disputing that the Scousers have a back 5 that play virtually every game and there is little or no rotation (barring injuries)?
Your whole premise is based up your hatred of Rose and the willingness to play anyone (Wanyama -since he's entered the discussion for some unknown reason. I hear Whiteman fancies himself at left back - as all goalkeepers do)
I'll try again. Who instead of Rose?
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Coming on for Spurs in the 85th minute is normally a pretty frantic situation to be involved in.
If it be desperately trying to get something from a game, or clinging on to something - we rarely have nice chilled out final 5-10 minutes of games where we see out a 2-3 goal lead.
Liverpool don't rotate because they have five classy players that play week in, week out and develop an unconscious understanding of each other's game. This results in them playing as a cohesive defensive unit and anticipate each other's moves and cover any errors
Something that our defence is sorely missing.
Anyway all this talk of the Scousers is making me feel queasy!
And the they get injured and can’t do that as easily.
Hopefully not if we’re trying to waste time. I wouldn’t want to be that ball boy. :mourpoint:
No school the next day, so that helps.
Granted.
However we play a combination of back 3, 4 or 5
Pick any two from 3 at CB (Sanchez, Alderweireld, Dier), Vertonghen back soon! Davies had a stint last season
Rose/Davies at LB. Pick any one from two. Sessegnon waiting in the wings.
Aurier at RB(Foyth may come into the equation) Sissoko's also had a stint. Anyone's guess who'll play there!(Although Aurier has had a good couple of games and appears current first choice. KWP is in the wilderness)
The Scousers play the keeper (barring the Wham clown) and the same back 4 every week. A system they know instinctively.
You can't say this about our defence.
David Brooks....good player. Glad to see him out.