SLA
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I liked the look of Liverpool's Hoever, he cleaned up well at the back, but struggled in the corners.
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I liked the look of Liverpool's Hoever, he cleaned up well at the back, but struggled in the corners.
I liked the look of Liverpool's Hoever, he cleaned up well at the back, but struggled in the corners.
Was it about this time last year the Neves kicked on and started scoring a bit more regularly?
Rui would have made that, has made better saves already.Yes couldn't be faulted for not 'picking up' either. Would make a good sweeper.
Fairly comfortable win, except for the last twenty minutes or so after Salah and Firminho came on. Thought we made hard work of it for ourselves to be honest and could have been out of sight before then with a bit more care with the final ball.
Thought Dendonker did ok and will get sharper with more game time. Raul M.O.M. for me. What a save from Ruddy! Would Rui have reached that? Doubtful.
After a slow start, I was really pleased with that - the 2nd half performance was very good with a lot of positives.
Neves was excellent, Vinagre really surprised me with how assured he looked, Jota was a menace and Raul was my MOTM but I think John Ruddy deserves a lot of praise too. It can't be easy losing your place after such a great season (and the abuse he got at times last year was beyond laughable), but the way he gets behind the players, the high fives as each of his team mates enters the dressing room etc is just class. There's not been a single word of discontent for him - even though I'm sure he'd love to be playing more regularly. Last night, he did really well - commanded his area well, made a quite ridiculous save from Shakiri's free kick (I don't care if Rui would have saved it too - he wasn't playing, Ruddy was and deserves the credit). Nothing he could do with their goal either.
Hopefully Rui stays free of injury but if anything was to happen to him, I've no concerns with Ruddy coming into the side.
Sturridge was an absolute disgrace last night :icon_lol:
Gary Madine levels of threat.
Sturridge was an absolute disgrace last night :icon_lol:
Gary Madine levels of threat.
Yet the commentators were saying how valuable he is!
Shearer took him apart though
Makes a change - it's usually a physio.
Jenas annoyed me on the co-comms last night. So little thought and work done on our team ahead of the game that was shown when we put Doc on for Jonny. Clear what we are doing there as Doc will push Moreno back (plus he is shit) as he will get further up the pitch than Jonny and run at Liverpool but no apparently we are making that change to be more solid in defence as Liverpool push forward.