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Excellent stuff!!!

I thought Daka did ok today. He did lots of selfless closing down high up which lead to a good few interceptions in midfield.

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It does make you wonder what he is seeing. The wingers are so isolated when they get the ball and there is often just Vardy/Daka in the middle. We also just need to move the ball quicker. It’s painful.

Went to the game last night as it’s local to me. The thing that really frustrated me in the 2nd half was the complete lack of movement when we had the ball at the back. This resulted in pointless passing between Coady/Faes and Winks which more often than not resulted in a loss of possession or...

This is just a function of how much better we are than the rest in this league. EM only wants us to attack when the opportunity to do damage arises. By keeping the ball under Vesty’s foot for 20 mins it means that it is 20 mins when the opposition can’t score.

Didn’t know we were playing today!

If we’re playing it out from the back so much though he fits the system just fine.

Think we will be trying to keep it tight for an hour then bring on Maddison and Barnes.

Agree with the bit about not being a team. It reminded me of the old footy computer games where the player in possession lights up and does something while all the others just stand there until they get the ball and then they light up and do something…….except they didn’t do much!

Yep. He even did some defending that worked!

We just have to match everyone now and we’re ok.

Playing teams fighting for survival is always going to be tough. It’s good that we are now unbeaten in 3 and have it in our own hands.

A loss would be damaging psychologically. A draw however, isn’t a bad result as things are then in our hands. The goal difference could be the deciding factor.

Fitness looks to be a massive issue

This. I’d love to see stats on how many times the ball ends up back with the centre backs during a phase of play. Pretty sure we would be top!

Agree. This is frustrating/annoying in equal measure as this group does have the ability to cause problems if they play with more freedom/attacking intent. Confidence is also a big factor.

With Maddison out we should have started with Tielemans to add some creativity but Rodgers seems to be preparing for life without Youri.

Why are we not in 12th?

Five days since laughed at by trees

It’s exactly the same approach as the Newcastle game. Set up not to concede but provide little threat which invites pressure and chances against us. Hopefully get to half-time without conceding. Then when we go a goal down change it and play with more ambition once it is probably too late...

Agree with this second bit. I went along tonight as I am local to Newcastle. On 77 mins there was a stoppage in play and Perez was receiving treatment right by our technical area. Another player (Barnes I think) was standing next to Perez. I watched Rodgers and he basically stood with his...

Horribly predictable that we start the second bit of the premier league like we started the first.

If you get them sent to your email you can just forward them on and they can still be accessed that way. I have done this several times.

In the context of the question though not sure that it can!

It can’t get any worse

I would go: Iversen Justin Faes Evans Castagne Ndidi Albrighton Maddison Tielemans Barnes Daka

Good post BN. I’m just not sure what Top, Whelan, Rudkin etc can do about performances on the pitch. They have backed BR with transfers but we are one dimensional and mentally frail. This is down to BR and has been brewing for a year now. There is quality in the squad but they need...