AFTER Liverpool’s terrific 2-1 home victory against Manchester City a somewhat hoarse Neil Atkinson is joined on this week’s podcast by Steve Graves, Jay McKenna and Phil Blundell to talk about how good Joe Allen was and how odd Manchester City are.
Further, they get into fictional pub-crawls, how Emre Can was great for Burscough and some serious maths.
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Nice to have this up on a Sunday lads. Sure beats Top Gear.
Enjoyed that, always do when you all get a bit carried away.
There was plenty in that performance to get carried away about.
I was really encouraged to see us able to dominate the champions with a couple of our Opta heroes missing. A couple of weeks ago, Lucas seemed to be the key and everyone was tweeting the change in win ratio with him in the team. Then Sakho was the key, Opta stats were tweeted, and his injury triggered much wailing about the disaster that would surely follow the return of Lovren. Amazingly the run continues.
Allen and Coutinho were rightly getting lots of credit after the game. Besides them, the performance I was most encouraged by was Lallana. He covered the ground for the full 90 despite the fatigue you would expect to be in his legs after Thursday. His skill was there to see and he was getting in positions to score. At the start of the season concerns were expressed about his ability to last the full 90, (he was often subbed off at Southampton) and his lack of pace. Well, he didn’t look lacking in either of these areas against City, still able to make great recovery runs at left WB late in the game. Lallana’s transfer fee will remain a stick to beat him with if he puts in a couple of poor performances, but on that showing he certainly looks a £25m+ player to me.
Thought the comment about us making the pitch really big was a good one
Having effectively two blokes behind the front man one left one right, in addition to two wide players really stretch the entire length of the pitch, last season we had two great front men doing incredible work so even when we played a bit narrow it was fine. Atm we are making use of every blade of the grass atm
In nor particular order:
Diego Costa
Sanchez
Falco
Rooney
Di Maria
Hazard
Ozil
Silva
Aguero
Yaya Toure
Probably the ten ‘biggest names’ playing in the EPL, and not one LFC player from yesterday in the list (or frankly very close to it). And yet we’re currently the best team in the land.
That’s *team*.
Mark Falco?
Do you not see the irony in your post, Brownie.
I was thinking of the Rock Me Amadeus geezer.
Sheesh. Falcao.
I think I know what you’re getting at with your irony remark, but note how I explicitly made the comparison to the Liverpool team that played *yesterday*, as opposed to the Liverpool squad generally.
You really think that was accidental? :-)
What a contrast from Turkey. Citeh gave us space to play which we love same as against Swansea.
Most teams won’t do that, we’ll have to find other ways of winning.
Phew, can still fret about the future!
I stopped in my tracks today while listening today. I then did the maths. Maths don’t lie.
We’re better when teams come at us, Swansea, Southampton, Spurs and Citeh. But many teams will have seen that now and do an Everton, 11 behind the ball.
This is a win win though, teams that just want to sit back and defend will be where Sturridge picks up goals, and those teams like Arsenal and Man Utd who’ll try to go toe to toe, will open up the lines between midfield and defense allowing Coutinho and Lallana the space to work.
I can’t stop thinking about this team, I can’t remember a time quite like it, and I’m 54, its maybe due to Sky Sports, whether at home or in the pub, the excitment is unparalleled.
It is also due to TAW, which bridges the days between games with terrific insighted, comment and well written articles, as well as just listening to blokes discussing the match on the podcast, pointing out stuff I’d seen but not been able to analyse…. Top stuff gents keep it up please.
Get through the next 2 ‘winnable’ games ( fingers crossed) and we’ve 8 days to recover.
What am I gonna do during those 8 days ????
Look at the league table. A lot. :-)