I miss the top-knot
A lot of good points and agreed with all of it... so in a roundabout way we've agreed that average players CAN see 5 moves deep and still be average Slightly flippant of me, but the key is 'every now and then'. I don't count openings in this as most will have a good few moves learned, tried and tested etc, but a flurry of activity after the initial moves can be worked out and reasonably quickly. I play bullet/blitz chess (not the proper stuff) and I can see a couple of exchanges... a shift... 3 possible responses to that shift (1 being good, the other better for me and the last option losing), then a response to the good one, then the follow up no problem. That kind of thing... patches of play. It's being able to see the bigger picture that I'm pretty clueless at ... and as Sangria says above... learning how to play the endgame is probably vital in knowing how to go about your openings/middle game etc. This doesn't however mean that Bobby is average. The Firmino Bobby that is.Always up for a chat about chess Another key to having this skill up my sleeve is that it has no bearing whatsoever on whether I win the game or not (usually).
I don't get the NOTM awards... To me, a completely unbiased viewer, Dani Alves was the MOTM, Firmino came close with his work rate, assist and a goal, and they gave it to Jesus... I thought that even Coutinho did better than Jesus.
Bobby's gonna need to explain the lack of no-look finish last night.
That would free us up to sign Mbappe
It's true to say that if Shankly had told us to invade Poland we'd be queuing up 10 deep all the way from Anfield to the Pier Head.
Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino scored an audacious "no-look" goal as Brazil thrashed Peru in their final Copa America group game.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48723121
Yeah, but his no-look goal per game ratio is declining. Not good enough.
Sense a bit of professional jealousy here: https://twitter.com/Zizouology/status/1146404590675304449
Jesus having none of that idiot, good for him
Love it. Bobby makes him look like a school kid and draws that reaction.
Signed for us four years ago today did Bobby. Love the crazy fucker.Absolute main man, and can see him having a testimonial with us in the future.Glad to see that he’s tearing it up for Brazil too.
This football ego bullshit culture is nonsense and I'm glad it's nowhere near our team.