re: tOfficial Liverpool 2017/2018 Thread: “Upgrades Incoming Edition: A Great Season!”

Studge... so close...

5:00 extra?

Are you fricking kidding me?

How? Where?

I'll take it... they aren't easy

Whew! I'll take it.

Now the entire world can lecture Liverpool about their horrible defense again without consideration of the fact that the officials were carrying the LC floppers and divers on their shoulders.

Our defense is shaky enough without the other teams offense being given gifts.

I know it's early but that is a massive 3 points for our confidence going forward.

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Now the entire world can lecture Liverpool about their horrible defense again without consideration of the fact that the officials were carrying the LC floppers and divers on their shoulders.

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Yeah - I look forward to every single one of our goals allowed being over scrutinized for the entire season... Can't hardly wait...

On a positive note - as bad as the last week was... here we sit at 5th in the table and now we get Mane back... We will finally get to see out attacking front 4 playing together...

That first goal was a series of atrocious calls from the ref... should have never come to that..

On the second, they got a fortunate deflection IMO... these things happen and goals are scored...

Can we defend better? absolutely... Lovren looked like an amateur trying to play Vardy offside... nice save from Migs..

With Vardy back in, it would have been insane to not play a little more conservatively...

Sturridge has. I stick by my prediction at the beginning of the year that he won't miss more than 5 games in a row. He obviously doesn't have his pace, but you can still see his technical ability and pure ability of striking the ball. Just a great super sub to have on the bench

Pretty good article concerning Liverpool and how they play defense.

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/english-soccer/ken-early-strong-case-for-the-defence-of-jurgen-klopp-s-vision-1.3232398?mode=amp

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Yet those who claim that this proves Klopp can’t organise a defence have to explain how it is that such a poorly-organised team does such a good job of restricting their opponents’ opportunities to shoot at goal. Liverpool have allowed their opponents fewer shots than any other team except Manchester City.

That’s because Klopp, like Pep Guardiola, is one of those system managers who believes that the best way to defend is to play the game in the other team’s half, far away from your goal. And their systems appear to work, because City and Liverpool are also the two teams who have had most shots on their opponents’ goals.

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More at the link.