re: OFFICIAL LFC 16/17 Season Long Thread - Piss off, Gunners!!

chill out, Man City...

Another grind it out performance against a physical opponent. We've won two of them 1-0 and dropped the other 2-1 in the last three games. There's growth there - its just frustatingly slow at times.

I think when Lallana came on, it was easy to see what we're missing when he's not in the team. He creates space - with the opposition reacting to him, his runs, and also his ability to change things and beat a man with his quick feet. No Mane, No Cou - so Lallana was instrumental to our win.

You saw today what happens when Can is not the deepest player. He made a few nice runs with the ball, was physical throughout, and his timing to make runs at the CBs was fantastic, and lead to our goal. Frankly - Can is a great option at starting in any of the midfield places, or providing depth for all three as well. We'd better sign him to that extension - and even if it ends up he's not in our first XI, he'll still play plenty backing everyone u through a long season.

Matip was fantastic as well - defended well (despite one mistake), make some great runs forward, etc.

I never - ever - want to see one CB cross the ball to the other in the opponents box when we're sitting on a 1 goal lead in the 90th minute - what the @#$@ are they doing that far forward? I don't care what the game situation is - both should be back.

Finally - how great was it to see Migs control that box yesterday? Possibly his best performance in Red against crosses, etc.

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Matip was fantastic as well - defended well (despite one mistake), make some great runs forward, etc.

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I wonder how he'd fare as a CDM... he looks the part on the ball...

Feel like king kenny has been 66 for 12 years

Well, with City's dominance today over CP (why couldn't we do that!), they are now firmly ahead of us in GD. And I don't see our anemic offense scoring 5 goals in a game to catch them. So we'd better just win each game and hope they drop some point somewhere.

At this point it's us and United.

I agree but I am in strictly Top 4 mode. I would love third place but I'll fourth.

We also should be very happy that Dortmund won today - and hope they keep winning.

There is a scenario that, due to our lower coefficient, we could be in the unseeded CL playoff group and have to play a dortmund/sevilla/Napoli etc. just to get into the CL. Having some of the big dogs finish 3rd in stead of 4th would help tremendously.

Alright boys, I'm at a month long stress fest school in Harpers Ferry doing spy shite. I'm at my brothers at USMC Base Quantico for the weekend. Let's get on this thing tomorrow to bring out Reds home. I'll see u guys at 0830 ET.

Origi is a mystery to me.