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Has to be said, I think our problems are far worse than formations though. Something stinks and if that basic motivation/belief is missing, then it's pointless.

Don't think we have well-rounded enough midfielders to play it to be honest. I think if we went 4-4-2 then we'd have to drop Cabaye. I think 4-2-3-1 is fine but it needs to be done right. Elliot Debuchy Colo/MYM/Taylor Haidara Perch Sissoko Cabaye HBA Cisse Gouffran

A lot of the blame goes to Pardew tonight, but I agree with Dave, that was very poor.

Stigmatising a whole nation is utterly, utterly embarrassing.

Ha! We looked like a disorganised shambles man, how the fuck have we worked on shape. Tiote and Perch were positionally abysmal, time and time again.

How the fuck can any cunt still be talking about Europe man People are just moronic and will lap any old shit up.

On a side note, I hope that one day someone takes Sturridge down a peg or two. Loathsome cunt.

Could he not have reached it? I was amazed to see him come out 2 yards and then scramble back. Not seen any replays.

What happened for the first?

He's a winner and showed some spirit. Daft it may have been but it was the most fight we saw all day.

The tactics and team selection were a joke like but that was just so poor on so many levels. The fact we conceded with such ease with a defensive line up is shocking. It's more than tactics and formations when you see that, basics neglected.

I thought that too. They weren't that good but they didn't need to be. We pretty much beat ourselves. They just passed the ball and moved, that's all they had to do. So, so, simple. They just targeted the right areas to pressure and overload and us and broke at speed. I don't have a clue where half of our lot were for the goals, the lack of options we had on the ball was staggering.

Disgraceful on all fronts. From that cowardly starting line up, to Jonas not bothering to track Johnson (and when Haidara asked where he was, the useless shit shrugged his shoulders), to Tiote and Perch not tracking their men and constantly going after the ball, to the ridiculous over-committing at the start of the second half, to giving up. Something is seriously wrong when a team comes out like that, even if the starting line up was a joke.

Worryingly seems to have no answer to teams that press us and then counter with a lot of speed. Liverpool were like a higher quality Sunderland, knew exactly how to unsettle us and knew which areas to target.

They guy is a moron but even worse, an absolute coward. Played for a point today, that line up screamed of fear. He's a small-time manager at a big club and he seemingly can't even do what he did last year, organise the fucking team. He's a disgrace.

It's just 1 step forward and 2steps back with this man. He finally gets Cabaye getting shifted up, but drops last week's goalscorer, puts Sissoko wide and keeps that useless shit on the wing.

You are a useless arsehole, Pardew.

2 defensive mids aren't enough, needs Jonas to start. Fuck off you actual scumbag.

Tonight's going to be very interesting. We'll see if this apparent staff meeting has made an ounce of difference to the side's mentality. Let's get some intelligence in attack and try to keep the ball a bit, they're really nothing special.

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You're right, we shouldn't be. We should be following the Spurs/Chelsea/Everton blueprints of building a unit around a star midfielder(s) instead.

I actually do think he's set up to get more possession, that's why he's moved Cabaye deeper. It just doesn't work well in practice for differing reasons and he's unsurprisingly failed to address it. But that's one of the reasons why he's not a good manager.

Our only convincing performances in that 6 game period came when playing 4-3-3, and only one of those could be classed as truly counter attacking, Swansea, as we clearly had the better of the overall play against West Brom and created more chances after the goals. We dominated Stoke and Liverpool, those performances were the antithesis of counter attacking. We even played alright and created quite a few chances at Wigan but were let down by rubbish defending. We've not seen the same formula this year, with Cabaye much deeper (bar Reading and Norwich away) or injured and Jonas playing virtually every game on the wing for starters. As for your Gomez comment. Yes, he's tall and is automatically more of a threat from set pieces, but can he move as well? Feed on through balls? Score the types of different types of goals that Cisse has here? Well done for highlighting that some strikers have strengths compared to others. It seems as if you've been reduced to pathetic criticisms these days, like covering the front post area at corners.

And yet, mystifyingly, we played the best attacking football that I've seen this club play in a long, long time with this man leading the line. Of course, Cisse must be the common denominator here, not the 10 behind him.

Marveaux takes a great corner and I remember Anita being decent too (bar one absolutely atrocious effort). It's amazing that Cabaye's are so poor really.