In the context of us/Mourinho right now, and the opposition, I didn't have too many problems with the tactical concept, I get the idea of putting Sissoko at RM and Lo Celso inside, Liverpool's danger areas are very much the wide areas, using Sissoko the human but plug to stop the Robertson train seemed smart enough, and having at least one Cm that can play football through midfield means we should have been able to counter better (and that's how we got our equaliser and were unlucky not to get Bergwijn away too).
I don't think the problem was the shape or way the personnel was arranged first half, I think we were just fucking lethargic, too passive and reactive and allowed them to ping the ball about too easily, which is something our Mourinho bus park does a lot in games, makes it too easy to get into our box. And I also think, as with a couple of the other bus park games, that first half, we didn't make enough attempt to threaten, even on the counter.
Some will say switching things round second half had a positive effect, I don't think it made much difference, if anything, personnel wise, I think it made things a bit worse, Lo Celso was never going to chunder up and down a flank, and was quickly on a card, and we lost the capability to play through midfield, but what did improve initially was our attitude, clearly Mourinho had put a bug up their arse and we started more aggressively, were less passive, pressed a bit better in medium areas, created a couple of chances - which gave them something more to worry about for a while and made them a bit more cautious.
I don't rate Bergwijn much, but I get why he's in there at the moment, he does a job in both directions, and I thought he did a good job of helping to shut down the threat of TAA tonight, and was unlucky not to get on the score sheet. Kane's misses were just as bad.
First half I think we were lucky to come in even, ironically second half I think we should have fucking scored at least one of those chances and I felt they had run out of ideas. First half X/G Liv 60 Spurs 35, second half Liv 62 Spurs 117. Does that make us the better team, pffttt...no, surrendering as much ball and territory as we did can only be deemed "better" tactically if it works and you get something, if you get fuck all you can't really piss and moan too much. Could we have won, yeah, we had the better chances for sure.
The really disappointing thing is that it's another bit of schoolboy defending at a set piece that's cost us.
And what really fucking fucks me off is we can never seem to skank a fucking win against these cunts at their place, we can't even thieve a fucking skanky bus park win. Even when we were better than them we couldn't beat the cunts up there. I'm so fucking fucked off with it.
