Smal

Cabaye has to be a lot further up the pitch than that and I'm not convinced Anita and Tioté will be able to play in the same team. From what Unbelievable! says and from what I've seen, Anita has to be the deepest midfielder who picks the ball up off the centre halves. That would mean Tioté playing higher up the pitch, where I don't think he'd be very effective.

Dreadful, like we have been for 90% of the season. We have vastly superior players, yet an Allardyce team are playing better football than us. Pardew needs to sort this out in the next couple few months. If he doesn't then a change is needed.

Jonás in the middle in a midfield 3 is fine. In a two, not so much

Can't see us winning this with that line up

You can see the reasoning behind it though. Adebayor is infinitely better at holding the ball up, which they'll need against Man City because their midfield alone isn't sufficient enough to keep possession in games like this.

eurgh

think it is. Taylor was warming up even in the first half. Wouldn't be surprised to see Ferguson come on for Anita as well

aye, deliveries have been far better than Cabaye's

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this is infuriating

Sammy really needs to work on kicking a ball, like

the fuck are our lot doing? Don't even look remotely arsed.

two games in a row Colo's been beaten by a simple ball over the top. Should be defended very easily.

Llorente on a free at the end of the season?

how many more appearances does Xisco have to make before we pay more money for him?

Not far off a million over 5 years

christ, if we signed someone like Benat then our style would have to have a major overhaul otherwise he'd be totally wasted.

Well that logic is flawed, because by playing on the left Cissé will never hit any form

yeah, at this moment he's too raw to start league games imo. He'd end up losing the ball a lot of times if he played from the start and it'd do him more harm than good. Give him a few starts here and there in the other competitions by all means though.

Why? He looked shaky there today and was much better in the centre

It's obvious, but we really do need to get the ball in his area more often. Last season we got the ball in the box a lot more, and Cissé did well because of it.

yeah, he was good today. I don't know how he beats players sometimes though. Looks so leggy and out of control and then just drifts past two men at once

I thought he was fine today tbh. I thought it was generally accepted that he will lose the ball a fair bit, but what he otherwise provides is far more important? At the end of the day, he set up our only goal with sublime skill that no one else in our team could've managed

aye, MOTM for us I think. Anita was good too.

Tyler willing Liverpool to score