That's an interesting perspective you have there, @Escher.People saying Poch's tactics almost worked, yeah ok that's 1 win in 16 games against Liverpool, 11 losses, many by just 1 goal margin, most of those games under Poch management (13 games, 8 defeats)
Still, his tactics almost worked...
Interesting watching motd highlights and the less Liverpool leaning commentary and punditry; gave me the feeling that we didn’t do too badly. All the same, dele wasn’t there at all today, and the same for Eriksen... not good enough..
I take it you disagreeSo why is your opinion more important than anyone elses? Are you the be and end all?
This year yes. In total not even close
It was embarrassing.
The scoreline wasn't.
We're on a run of our worst form in years, and they're on their best in their entire time in the PL.
Losing by one goal in the grand scheme of things is closer to "expected", and far off "embarrassing". Based on recent form, I reckon a fair few of us wouldn't have been shocked if they had a cricket score.
The last time our away form was this bad George Graham was manager.
Let the cards fall wherever you wish, but when Poch said we need to be competing against Liverpool, looking at the table the tonight he should concentrate on Sheffield United, Bournemouth, West Ham and Palace fist i think.
We are never in the same league as Liverpool, City and the like.
We were shit lucky it wasnt a cricket score.The scoreline wasn't.
We're on a run of our worst form in years, and they're on their best in their entire time in the PL.
Losing by one goal in the grand scheme of things is closer to "expected", and far off "embarrassing". Based on recent form, I reckon a fair few of us wouldn't have been shocked if they had a cricket score.
I'm not really sure how this relates to what I was saying, to be honest. Some posters are claiming we got embarrassed today, whereas some of us are explaining that the scoreline wasn't an embarrassment.
We were shit lucky it wasnt a cricket score.
I do think we put in effort today but whats really pissed me off and I think some others, isnt the result, as you say we were hardly expected to win, or even the performance, but that again despite that great result mid week after dropping those under performing want aways he once again made 4 bloody changes and brought them back in. Just how shit do they have to be before he can see they just arent performing.
This leads me to believe that the little bit of hope I naively let rise midweek, that we'd turned the corner is not going to come because he just refuses to see whats in front of his own eyes. Rose, Eriksen and Winks were bloody awful.
Our keeper made a PL season high twelve saves in a single game.
Call it what you want but the truth is that the league table and those keeper stats aren't opinions, just the facts .
Keeper stopped balls going in net, therefore scoreline wasn't an embarrassment.
Net result: Scoreline still wasn't an embarrassment
Our keeper made a PL season high twelve saves in a single game.
Call it what you want but the truth is that the league table and those keeper stats aren't opinions, just the facts .
The really sad thing is if you had said a 2-1 loss to me before the game I would have bit your hand off. Today's game was similar to the Man City game away. Just wave after wave of attacks deep in our territory which somehow the opposing team wasted. Did we even have a corner for Mr Eriksen to take? He must have been delighted.The scoreline wasn't.
We're on a run of our worst form in years, and they're on their best in their entire time in the PL.
Losing by one goal in the grand scheme of things is closer to "expected", and far off "embarrassing". Based on recent form, I reckon a fair few of us wouldn't have been shocked if they had a cricket score.
We totally amd utterly deserved to lose today.
That's the bottom point.
Anybody that disagrees with that is off their fucking rocker.
Damn, I am in the wrong job...I think it will be the same score as last season - 2-1 to Liverfool. We will give a good account of ourselves and a much better performance than recently in the Premiership but alas we will still lose narrowly.