Andy

aye, and last season as well. Bad tackle but to describe him as a league one standard midfielder is daft.

Goal was Lascelles fault like, Schar already had Vardy's run covered. No need whatsoever for Lascelles to get pulled across.

I inexplicably sat and watched it in a bar in palmanova ruined my holiday

This system will ruin him as a footballer. Every bit of attacking promise he showed last season is being sapped away by how deep he's playing. Even Messi would struggle to score 10 goals a season playing with that much pitch between him and the opposition goal.

It looks like this might just come down to keeping Shelvey out of the team, and that might make a massive difference. Maybe. If we're lucky. Shelvey isn't a premier league midfielder like. I don't care how good his long range passing sometimes looks.

Nah, fuck the ones who've come crawling out of the woodwork after this takeover like. Don't see any good that can come from letting them wind people up when tensions are already pretty high amongst our own fans.

Ok

Seem to remember one of the resident mackems turning into a tosser a while back. Can't remember if it was hithere or not like and I don't have the energy to research it, so this is a useless post basically, but if he was or still is a tosser someone give me a shout and I'll ban him thx.

He's completely wasted in the role that Bruce has got him in, IMO. Needs to be on the left side of an attacking three, beating his man on the outside then putting in early crosses. Offers basically nothing cutting inside, doesn't have the intelligence or instinct to play as a forward or attacking midfielder.

Pretty much. He's a fantastic player all around. A bit suss defensively at times, but that's okay. Still a massive plus for what he brings to the team. Pause this on 7 seconds and tell me how it’s poor positioning? We’ve got two defenders tear arsing up Firmino’s backside, he’s watching Mane...it’s just a class flick that takes them all out. Shelvey doesn’t track the runner (Salah) and that was always going to be a goal. nothing wrong with his positioning there like, just the usual rewriting of what actually happened to level some criticism at him. It's good football from Liverpool that would unpick the best of defences, nothing to see here other than that.

He won't next season.

Not really like? The fact remains that Shearer didn't leave and continued to play and score goals through till his retirement, breaking records in the process that the likes of Owen would never get near to in his ultimately disappointing career. Owen is a mercenary hated by the fans of every single club he played for, his words are as brittle as his ankles.

No need to go out your way to do something like that man, just send me bribes instead

He brought Muto on to be fair like.

Plenty of negatives, especially how unfit we looked towards the end - completely ran out of steam. But I will say that Willems looks a huge upgrade on Ritchie mind, at least on today's showing.

Yawn, another one who can bore off. We'll all just remind ourselves that Almiron's shit a few times a week then you won't be a miss See ya.

And now he's banned again for ban evasion. Not the brightest.

Who were you when you got banned?

Not going to criticise Bruce for that selection like, pretty much as you'd expect no matter who was in charge. Plenty of sticks to beat him with but I'm not sure this is one of them

Your theory is sound but in reality we're going to be backs against the wall against nearly everyone anyway.

Would you agree if we stay up he’s proved himself? Exceeded expectations maybe, certainly hasn't proven himself.

He doesn't have the engine for a premier league midfielder, his passing ability is irrelevant IMO.

You can clearly see that Kane is halfway to the floor before Lascelles makes any contact with him whatsoever like.

Well it depends, if the striker goes out of his way to make contact it can't always be a penalty or they'd all just ignore the ball and look for the defender's leg at every opportunity. And saying Lascelles didn't try to play the ball is a bit harsh since he fell over and injured himself, it's not like it was a reckless lunge.

Wouldn't say it's a different discussion since it's almost definitely the reason it wasn't given IMO. Many penalties are denied on the basis of "he was looking for it".