On our game, awful, just awful. Chelsea hardly even played to their potential, but still looked far the better side. We looked mightily clueless and confused when Gerrard was pressed effectively by Oscar and Costa. Think Rodgers has Lovren's nudes, because I can't think of a solitary reason to start him over Kolo who arguably forced Ronaldo to submission midweek, and had him in his back pocket.
Coutinho looked completely out of sorts at the start of the season, but looks the real deal at the moment. To bench him on the hour mark citing "we weren't creating enough, hence I took him off" is the equivalent of suggesting "We weren't scoring enough hence I took Suarez off and put Lambert on."
Also think we might have hit the jackpot with Emre Can. Makes the rest of our midfielders look so ordinary. Really excited over how he pans out.
Worrying times for Brendan. Looks so out of depth tactically; abandoned his good old possession style of football to play Hodgeball these days; said we weren't doing a Spurs at the start of the season, only to fare significantly worse. Said he was looking to sign "quality, not quanity" earlier this summer, only to sign 9 fresh faces - 3 absolute frauds from Southampton. His post match quotes of late have made my eyes bleed as well. Like the decision to take Coutinho off, as cited above, and saying "we deserved a point for our attitude" against Real at the Bernabeu, etc..
We'll do well to finish 6th at this rate.
I think this by far has been one of our best preformances in this season if not the best.
I'd like some of the pot you're smoking mate
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