Rob

good news is the scum are in the bottom three again

our defence is still wank

Just reflecting on the result and I have to say this result, potentially, could be huge.

To use a cliche, it had every possibility of being "after the Lord Mayor's show" and a defeat (and maybe even a draw), could have knocked the confidence back to pre-Blackburn game levels.

Having come through it with a win (and from what I read, not too bad a performance), and with the euphoria that a last minute winner always brings, it could take a huge weight off our shoulders. Maybe some smiling faces in training on Monday.

 

overall it was a good performance... our quality of passing and the "Final third" needs to be looked at though.

brilliant result ... i thought we might of had that kind of performance after the arsenal match to be honest. This is a really good win... normally we would have lost or drawn this kind of match... dont give a flying spanner about the performance, although from what i saw we deserved it.. we fought like we did against arsenal, but we had better quality overall going forward... final third needs to be looked at.. we were lacking people in the box in the right areas... if the players keep playing like this i will continue to support sam

We can't play like Villa are doing, standing off them watching them play... we will get murdered if we do that

we need to sort out a defensive midfielder who will protect the back four ... defending starts from the front, I saw alot of chasing down from the fornt, in milner, smith and martins, then there was a great big gaping hole between defence and midfileders which they managed to exploit ... He has to decide who will just sit in there and do the  basic stuff... i think that is geremi

I am going to back him for now based on this performance.. I think he's changed his tactics and is getting the players to play with more heart and more attack... we didn't try to just contain them we got at them, and if it wasn't again from some poor defensive midfield paly and a make shift defence we may have won that.  If we can get a settled back four and work on the defensive midfiled role, we'll do ok.

Im looking forward to us kicking Aresnal off the pitch on wednesday

If people are calling that header from Martins by the six yard box an 'easy chance', then they need to re-think. The ball was bouncing over his head and Friedel was fast coming out to meet him. Wasn't a sitter by any means.

 

It would be better to call it a sitter, Martins can't score those apparently..

 

It would have been a golden chance for Peter Crouch.

 

'Golden Chance' is the tier just below 'sitter', btw.

at the height the ball came into the box it would have hit crouch in the bollocks

bri

If people are calling that header from Martins by the six yard box an 'easy chance', then they need to re-think. The ball was bouncing over his head and Friedel was fast coming out to meet him. Wasn't a sitter by any means.

brilliantly taken goal... viduka a proven goal  scorer couldn't do the same in virtually the same position ... Martins did well today as did Smith

glad faye is back... also glad he has finally decided to bench viduka

Given

Beye Rozehnal Faye N'Zogbia

Geremi Butt Barton

Milner Smith Martins

if that is how they line up i would have preffered emre to either geremi or barton

i am considering putting a bet on on us not having a shot in the first half ... SS (Stupid Sam) will play the same - stupid tactics - with the same palyers in the wrong position, meaning the palyers, becasuse he wont listen to rational common sense, will and are carefully revolting against him to get him the boot.

andy gray scratching his head wondering why liverpool are playing bad tonight... having passed the life out of newcastle on saturday, and could have scored 6 or 7

nowt to do with us being absolute shite has it andy?

porto ripping liverpool apart with wide pacey attacking football ...hmmmm

even if he got the hint he's too big headed to change his mind

He couldn't possibly do any worse than BS is doing at the minute, and at least he will understand that to win a match you need to create opportunities ... If he had a defensive coach as his assistant then I reckon he would do ok

between 5 and 6 thousand pissed off people come 4:45 saturday afternoon

i read in somewhere on the internet, think it was the chronicle, that it was unlikely that BS would change his tactics ... if thats the case we're fucked

if we have faye back and he's paired with beye, and he switches to 442 with the players in the correct positions and plays the ball on the deck, we'll have a chance

with beye in the middle who would you put at right back ?

as pullman states geremi

if we have faye back and he's paired with beye, and he switches to 442 with the players in the correct positions and plays the ball on the deck, we'll have a chance

BS needs to take a long hard look at what he is doing.... and stop doing it.

He is single handly sapping the confidence out of the team and the supporters with his ridiculous tactics and formations.  He needs to admit to himself that what he has done so far hasn't worked.  If he does this and then changes his tactics and gets the players to play and enjoy their football again I think he will turn it round and I will continue to stick by him if he does this. 

If he continues with these formations and negative style footballl and continues to stiffle the creativity of the players we know we have, it will only get worse.  The next game will be very interesting and if he plays in the same way as yesterday then I don't think I will be able to continue to support him.

aye possibly stick with carr then

roz should play RB, he's far quicker to be able to get up and down the field

Beye and faye would get the nod now like if I was in the arse burning seat

we dont attack enough now to take the pressure off the defence

everyones scared of losing possession, so much so that they are too scared to take risks, so they try to take more time in passing and when they think about passing the inevitabley balls it up, also the palyers round them are too static, like shit scared rabbits.. this exposes us too easily , we give the ball away, and are on the back foot for most of the game.

It's not just the defence to blame, it's just the way they are told to play.