Topic: Half time: West Brom 0-1 Liverpool

[liverpool185]

Pretty poor from us i thought and this back 5 doesn't suit us atall, but this is west brom so can't be too harsh, let's push on for the 2nd now.

[Motty]

How can people watch football and not know the off the foot only backpass rule

[JackWard33]

Our midfield and full backs with this line just aren't great passers - it's a real problem agaisnt a team dropping off

[jillcwhomever]

When that WBA player wrestled Lucas to the ground and then had the nerve to act all amazed when he got booked. 

We've been really patient, a good gameplan this. Let's not do anything stupid keep the ball, knacker them out. Then go for the kill their defence in vulnerable, we can crack this.

Oh and get lost Pulis.

[[new username under construction]]

Get Studge on for a 45 min run. He's certain to score against this lot!

[Rush 82]

That rustling you hear is the sound of hundreds of whiny, negative posts being deleted. 

[RedSince86]

To take a lead right on HT is utopia.

Have that Pulis you prehistoric dinosaur.

[ScubaSteve]

Why is Milner still taking the set pieces!? Must be someone better

[Upinsmoke]

Great time to score, great to score a set piece against these too.

Result more important than the performance here, need to see it out.

[Chakan]

Why is Milner still taking the set pieces!? Must be someone better

Well there's Coutinho but you want his either receiving the ball or in place for the 2nd ball.

[dave 5516]

How can people watch football and not know the off the foot only backpass rule

Hiya.  

[SquirrelandGman]

Why is Milner still taking the set pieces!? Must be someone better

Milners arguably our best crosser of the ball.

[lessthanmatt]

Matip having a field day. Waltzing forward every other attack

[RyanBabel19]

Convinced that set piece was a training ground routine

Seen it happen too many times in recent games for it to just be bad delivery

[elsewhere]

By the way why do we keep giving the ball away whenever we win throw in?
Our player throws the ball then we can't pass the ball back, it happened like 3 times in first 5 mins.
Let's be more careful, i dont want these shitheads winning those freebies in our half.

[Kenny's Jacket]

Boss assist.

[KillieRed]

After a cynical foul no less too. Have an irrationally large hatred of shirt pulling - would drive me mad as a player if I beat someone fair and square and they just grabbed my shirt to stop me breaking away.

What the  fuck were their fans booing about?  Foul and yellow all day in modern football.  West Brom fans not quite as bad as Stokes but the seem to take offence at refs daring to call fouls against them, no matter the level of assault.

Imagine being a STH there. The full gamut of shit, negative football :

-time wasting
-shirt pulling
-reliance on set pieces
-claiming for everything
-snide fouls.

[RK7]

Emre Can had a good half, I thought.

He's improved recently but has got to move the ball quicker with a bit more purpose, our midfield in general seem slow and ponderous on and off the ball, we lack fluidity which is needed to break these type of teams down.

[WorldChampions]

Johnny Evans is a right c*nt, would love to smash his face in.

[Red_Potato]

United at home for starters

Just checked. That one and Southampton away.

[TepidT2O]

Pretty poor from us i thought and this back 5 doesn't suit us atall, but this is west brom so can't be too harsh, let's push on for the 2nd now.

We are playing a back four.

Back five only on the odd occasion when Lucas drops into the back line when they have the chance to knock long diagonals...

[gjr1]

If West Brom fans have to watch that week in week out...

[Redsnappa]

That assist from Lucas though.

Was wonderful! Turned what looked like a shit free kick (though it could well have been planned with Lucas a good header of the ball) into a packed defence-beating surefire goal.

Fair play to Bobby for timing his run to perfection.

[ScubaSteve]

Milners arguably our best crosser of the ball.

If he is, then that's pretty shit! He struggles to clear the first man most of the time. He's been great in that position but we need to bring someone in next season

[Filler.]

@GlennPrice94
For those arsed, Lovren's thigh to Mignolet wasn't a back-pass. It's only a back-pass if it's from the foot. You can all continue now.


You could tell the comms were desperate to make a big deal of it, but realised they didn't actually know the rules, so several seconds of silence followed.

Absolutely . Was having a chuckle at the jeers from the stands too. Perfectly legal boys!

Ooh that poor finish from Robson Kanu. As poor an attempt as you'd wish to see.


Still much to do... next goal very important as ever.

[Caligula?]

Can we keep a lead? Time to brick it now

[bobadicious]

Matip has been getting  forward a lot in open play....

Yeah Lucas covering him and even so WBA have only 1 up top. Good to mix it up abit.

[Keita Success]

Clyne has to do more going forward

[Clint Eastwood]

Clyne needs to use his pace and strength more in attack. We don't create enough chances from our wingbacks bombing forward.

[sms1986]

Johnny Evans is a right c*nt, would love to smash his face in.

He's a rat-faced prick, hope he scores an own goal then gets sent off.

[Motty]

Hiya.  

Im disappointed in you Dave, I really am

[MinnyRed]

hahah I had the same thought...

Me too. Clearly it was a training ground play that didn't come off a minute earlier.  I was grumbling at Milner not clearing the first man. Sorry milly

[Fitzy.]

What were they booing about at the end? Are they seriously suggesting that shouldn't have been a free kick?

The goal. They were booing the goal. Today would have been Pulis' 48th consecutive stalemate and Bobby just ruined it.

[hesbighesred]

If he saw a group of carefree Brazilian lads playing barefoot on the beach he'd rush over, burst their football and begin teaching them the basics of man-to-man marking, shirt pulling, flooding the midfield and getting in a sly dig when the ref's not looking...

I actually like that about Pulis!

[scouseman]

have not seen the first half. Just glad to be leading. The result is all that counts. Lets us push on and get the second. Thanks to rush82 for keeping me up to speed with the first half.

[SquirrelandGman]

By the way why do we keep giving the ball away whenever we win throw in?
Our player throws the ball then we can't pass the ball back, it happened like 3 times in first 5 mins.
Let's be more careful, i dont want these shitheads winning those freebies in our half.

WBA players are physically stronger thats all.

Hard to control a ball in the air when you got a 180 pound buffoon pushing before you even throw the ball in.

[ScubaSteve]

Clyne has to do more going forward

He's had a dip in form of late!

[Sir Psycho Sexy]

How can people watch football and not know the off the foot only backpass rule

because it the ball being played off the thigh/knee barely ever happens

[Chakan]

Clyne has to do more going forward

One of the most timid fullbacks I've seen really.

[redforlife]

Just checked. That one and Southampton away.

Ah yes, true, as well as the Plymouth home game.