Liverpool against Wolves once again, that's fun. Spurs vs City is probably the most important game of this round. I'll probably be going with a Spurs win just to try, and recoup some points in this damn tournament 
. Can't see them beating City though, best would likely be a draw. Chelsea, and West Ham is also a decent game, considering that both teams have been woeful as late. Probably, go with Chelsea though since they did hold out against Liverpool, and looked pretty decent with their new signings.
. Can't see them beating City though, best would likely be a draw. Chelsea, and West Ham is also a decent game, considering that both teams have been woeful as late. Probably, go with Chelsea though since they did hold out against Liverpool, and looked pretty decent with their new signings. I was just thinking, how else could we match the dullness of the Chelsea game, and yeah, we do that by playing Wolves again. Might as well chuck in the same team that won in the FA Cup really... not sure right now if we can actually do any better until we get some boys back from the treatment table (Nunez did play a bit so maybe he returns to fitness and stops annoying us with his misses).
I feel it all comes to the lack of quality pressing. We did not give teams any time on the ball even in their own half before, nowadays teams are crossing freely from 20-30 yards out.
We aren't equipped to be defending like that, we need to be progressive in our defending and push up more.
We are really missing Jota and Diaz there, and Nunez does not press well too. He made us change how the team is set up and how it works and is what bothers me the most in all of this.
He will probably score goals - but I really dislike how the whole team's set up when he's playing. And on top of that, he is not even putting sitters away.
We aren't equipped to be defending like that, we need to be progressive in our defending and push up more.
We are really missing Jota and Diaz there, and Nunez does not press well too. He made us change how the team is set up and how it works and is what bothers me the most in all of this.
He will probably score goals - but I really dislike how the whole team's set up when he's playing. And on top of that, he is not even putting sitters away.
Yeah, again back to our energy levels. No team can go heavy metal for 60+ games a season, get half sent for a World Cup to return with nothing, and then ask to do it all over again without the personnel.
Klopp and Pep were hailed as geniuses when both teams went for a traditional striker to boost this season but yeah, while they have KdB to feed, we have not managed to convert. He'll come good eventually, he has to... but we do have to revisit the way we play football... we don't got the legs for it anymore.
