facehugger99 wrote: » The difference this year in the amount of ways we can win games is crazy compared to previous seasons. in the last 10 days we've seen an deep injury time comedy winner, a battling come from behind victory, a 0-4 tonking and a backs to the wall 1-0, skin of our teeth nail-bitter.
Super-Rush wrote: » To be honest at this stage we could just have Allison, Robbo and Virgil as the defence and the rest can go forward and we'd be fine.
FitzShane wrote: » I have a feeling we will try play for the 1-0 tonight, and the more I think of it, I think that is the best option, for a couple of reasons. 1) Napoli are top scorers in the Serie A. If we go all out attack and try and blow them away and win 3-0, it turns the game into a higher risk game and runs the risk of conceding 1 or 2 and needing to score 3, 4 or more goals. Napoli have the ability to create chances and score goals. The ability to have a whole team playing for a 1-0 will help cover any brain farts from Lovren/Matip (Hendo / Gini / Milner screening) as opposed to a helter-skelter game where they will get exposed more easily. 2) Napoli also have one of the best CBs around in Kouliably. Do we really want to turn the game into a you-score-we-score game and backing ourselves to score past him, and an Italian team multiple times? 3) Energy - we have a big game at the weekend and will need to have that extra 5% in the locker to break down a deep defensive United team. 4) Since VVD & Alisson have come in, we have the ability to see out games at 1-0, while still having the ability to nick one later on the counter attack.
Charlie19 wrote: » I'm actually delighted for Spurs, for them to come through that group after such a bad start is very close to a miracle. I didn't look at the odds for tonight but a double with ourselves and Spurs might of been a nice double.
TitianGerm wrote: » Backs to the wall? What game were you watching last night? Napoli had one excellent chance at the death, other than that they had two shots on target and I think they were both tame shots from outside the box.
charolais0153 wrote: » We were back to the wall for a ten minute period around the 70th minute.
Demosthenese wrote: » In the big games Hendo's work is noticed - its actually the smaller games where we have buckets of possession and he needs to be more of a playmaker than holding Mid that he looks out of place at times. Huge expectation on him too.
5starpool wrote: » Essentially we'll gave to beat the good teams to win it anyhow, but there is still definitely an order of who we'd want to play from the teams we can draw in the next round. Here is my preference, although I await the scornful (I don't care who we get, they should be afraid of us type pointless replies) Porto Ajax (unlikely they will top the group but they can) Lyon (unlikely they will top the group but they can) This is where it starts to get really crappy and hard to choose.... Real Madrid Dortmund Bayern Munich (who I know are behind Dortmund in the league, but still) Barcelona Juventus Very little between the bottom 5 above really, just slight personal opinion on who we'd have the best chance of beating, although we would have a decent chance against any of them.
machiavellianme wrote: » Yeah it's a pity we didn't go for someone like Maddison in the summer. He offers a bit more forward looking creativity than Hendo and could've alternated nicely with him.
Augeo wrote: » Midfield wise we "lost" for want of a better word Coutinho and Can. We brought in Ox, Fabinho and Keita. Hendo, Wij, Milner and Lallana are also in the matchday squad unless injured. A squad is always a work in progress but I don't think we could have done much more in recent windows. Also, I reckon Keita might provide the more forward looking creativity than Hendo that you mention, I reckon that's one of the attributes why he was bought really.
citytillidie wrote: » Man Utd fans trying to compare Salah/Ramos to VVD lol
Demosthenese wrote: » Surprised they have time - they need to fill the tanks of their Triple Decker bus for Sunday ... it's basically their best chance of the year to spoil our party. Fingers crossed we turn in a performance like last nights!
gimli2112 wrote: » The tension of the result and the ridiculous tv commentary heightened the anxiety and may have lead you to believe otherwise.
gimli2112 wrote: » Just thinking of the VVD challenge. Obviously rival fans are convinced it should have been a red while we, as usual, hold a more balanced view. I would say however Sean Dyche will have fun if he's asked about it at his next press conference.
Widdensushi wrote: » Happy to see that the United game is not till Sunday, with injuries and the team looking ran out after 97minutes last night they will need the chance to recover. Did the injury time seem a lot to anyone else last night? No injuries as such and 3min (I think) in the first half and 4 in the second seems to be more than you would have in a pl game.
BullBlackNova wrote: » I think a big issue was that in real time, the ref appeared to wave play on, then stop and go back to it. Perfectly entitled to do so, of course, but it meant that people in the stadium, commentary and most fans had already made a split decision on it. For a lot of people that was "great tackle, van Dijk is a boss!" but the replay showed contact that didn't seem clear the first time around.
FitzShane wrote: » Top of the league. Unbeaten. Top scorer in the league. Best defence in the league. Through to the last 16 of the CL. Pretty nice place to be as a Liverpool fan right now.
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