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On another day we'd have had Billy in the team, taking chances that Robbo wasn't
On another day Hendo would catch that cleanly.
On another day...

Personally i didn't think we were at our best today, but looked the better side for spells in the game. That Virgil is one hell of a defender.
 
SwissBlade said:
On another day we'd have had Billy in the team, taking chances that Robbo wasn't
On another day Hendo would catch that cleanly.
On another day...

Personally i didn't think we were at our best today, but looked the better side for spells in the game. That Virgil is one hell of a defender.
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Virgil is class
 
We gave our all today, in between boxes we got it right but at this level our fate will be decided by the quality in both penalty areas. It's a tad worrying that we are blowing our big opportunities and are getting punished for our mistakes in our box.
 
It's harsh to judge the players just on today given the way Wilder had us set up to play, however my observations so far are that


A. Robinson will reach 5 goals in the league max if he starts every game. He has no confidence in himself at all. In the first half a cross came into the box, he stayed rooted to the spot and the defender behind him cleared it away with ease. He made 0 effort to attack that ball.

B. I'm not sure what McBurnie brings to the team. He doesn't look like linking up with the midfield or his partner, and he only looks a threat at set pieces, which is few and far between given the poor deliveries overall. So we take him out of the game ourselves.

C. The flat three midfield makes us defensively soild but disjointed going forward. Wilder needs to start Luke Freeman behind the front two or Didsy. We look defensively solid but are no threat going forward, and again, set pieces are our best chance to score and they're poor overall.

It's early doors but these are my stand out concerns so far from what I've seen this season. We're doing amazingly well, but winning games on merit through being defensively solid won't last. When you invite that much pressure and allow the opposition that much possession all game, mistakes are going to happen. We need to be creating more and better chances.

We're doing better than we all probably expected, but we could be doing even better with a bit more belief going forward, and the formation is one of the reasons we're seeing so few genuine chances on goal.

Overall I can't be too unhappy with today and deep down we all know it should have been 0-0. But the score doesn't lie.

On to Watford next week.
 
SwissBlade said:
On another day we'd have had Billy in the team, taking chances that Robbo wasn't
On another day Hendo would catch that cleanly.
On another day...

Personally i didn't think we were at our best today, but looked the better side for spells in the game. That Virgil is one hell of a defender.
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Matip was really good today as well.
 
The point about them not taking their chances is a fair one and why I'm not so bothered about the clanger Hendo dropped (hard to be mad at him when he follows it up by stopping a one on one with Salah).

But today's a day we've seen so often under Wilder, result or not: we were supposed to see a huge gulf in class and we haven't. We made some good chances, we defended very well, we knocked the ball about well. Liverpool will be another side saying "Oh, we had an off day" but same old, same old, we don't let teams play their best.

It's a weird feeling given we've lost, but it's so encouraging to have gone toe to toe with the best team in the world and think that a loss is less than we might have deserved.
 
PokerBlade said:
The point about them not taking their chances is a fair one and why I'm not so bothered about the clanger Hendo dropped (hard to be mad at him when he follows it up by stopping a one on one with Salah).

But today's a day we've seen so often under Wilder, result or not: we were supposed to see a huge gulf in class and we haven't. We made some good chances, we defended very well, we knocked the ball about well. Liverpool will be another side saying "Oh, we had an off day" but same old, same old, we don't let teams play their best.

It's a weird feeling given we've lost, but it's so encouraging to have gone toe to toe with the best team in the world and think that a loss is less than we might have deserved.
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We're all gutted that Liverpool won today, take that feeling all season.
 
The food thing from my perspective is that I thought we defended so well, worked so hard, and have some seriously good players now on our books, but I thought we could have passed the ball so much better. We did give the ball away too easily at times. But that's just a small moan today. I thought on the whole we were fantastic today and to a man, they were a credit to the club.
 
Clueless, Scouse tosser

A defence who were in League 1 not that long ago kept the premier leagues best front three quiet except for a handful of chances.
 
sonofbruce said:
It's harsh to judge the players just on today given the way Wilder had us set up to play, however my observations so far are that


A. Robinson will reach 5 goals in the league max if he starts every game. He has no confidence in himself at all. In the first half a cross came into the box, he stayed rooted to the spot and the defender behind him cleared it away with ease. He made 0 effort to attack that ball.

B. I'm not sure what McBurnie brings to the team. He doesn't look like linking up with the midfield or his partner, and he only looks a threat at set pieces, which is few and far between given the poor deliveries overall. So we take him out of the game ourselves.

C. The flat three midfield makes us defensively soild but disjointed going forward. Wilder needs to start Luke Freeman behind the front two or Didsy. We look defensively solid but are no threat going forward, and again, set pieces are our best chance to score and they're poor overall.

It's early doors but these are my stand out concerns so far from what I've seen this season. We're doing amazingly well, but winning games on merit through being defensively solid won't last. When you invite that much pressure and allow the opposition that much possession all game, mistakes are going to happen. We need to be creating more and better chances.

We're doing better than we all probably expected, but we could be doing even better with a bit more belief going forward, and the formation is one of the reasons we're seeing so few genuine chances on goal.

Overall I can't be too unhappy with today and deep down we all know it should have been 0-0. But the score doesn't lie.

On to Watford next week.
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Really ?
 



FlamingLip said:
Virgil is class
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Yeah, one thing i've noticed in the Premier League games I've watched (all our games, plus Liv v Nor, Nor v Man C and New v Bri) is that defensively there is always a weakness to be exploited.

Liverpool seem to be so strong at the back and they will take some beating with Virgil back there
 
SwissBlade said:
On another day we'd have had Billy in the team, taking chances that Robbo wasn't
On another day Hendo would catch that cleanly.
On another day...

Personally i didn't think we were at our best today, but looked the better side for spells in the game. That Virgil is one hell of a defender.
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No, on future days we will have Mousset starting and then some he’s going to be Billy with legs that lad
 
BiggerBladeThanThou said:
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Nahhhhh just supporting our team who were in LG1 3 years ago against the European Champions. Cunt.
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What VAR decisions is he on about? How about Mane charging into the back of Fleck, or was it Baldock ten minutes from the end, then rolling on the floor trying to con the referee into a free kick? Or do we not mention that?
 
Been looking on some of their forums and while most are complimentary about us (not that it makes me feel much better right now), there are a few grade A bellends among them who really, really don't like us. Unless they have traumatic memories of walking in on some bloke in blade top banging their mrs, I'm going to guess a few of them are the type who hate any team (especially an upstart newly promoted one) who dare show them up.

Think Liverpool were made to look decidedly mortal today.
 
You could tell by the silence of their fans that the Liverpool players were clearly worried and frustrated.They had run out of ideas on how to break down the fluid wall.
It was only after the gift goal that they lifted and gained the confidence that they could pull off a win. To the Blades it was like VAR taking away a goal after celebrating.
 
We were medicore?
Christ, we've come on a bit from the days of St John's ambulance brigade 😂
 
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