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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #600 on: February 16, 2014, 06:44:09 pm »
The away form is a genuine worry
It's hardly worse than any of our rivals actually.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #601 on: February 16, 2014, 06:44:09 pm »
Against a weak Arsenal team with us having basically the same team that smashed them at home last week we should of done better.

The away form is a genuine worry
a weak Arsenal team?

apart from Fabianski and Sanogo,they were virtually full strength

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #602 on: February 16, 2014, 06:44:19 pm »
Just thought there was an opportunity today to maybe of brought allen off with 10 or 15 to go and maybe put aspas on or something, you could even argue taking sturridge off because he's missed a few.

Thing is with Rodgers, its a dilemma because of how good suarez and sturridge have been, you can't really sub them because they can do something out of the blue, same with coutinho so even if we had a stronger bench i think he'd still struggle bringing one of those off. They've been so hot for us this season.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #603 on: February 16, 2014, 06:45:09 pm »
Fantastic so far. Could not ask for more from him.
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #604 on: February 16, 2014, 06:45:43 pm »
a weak Arsenal team?

apart from Fabianski and Sanogo,they were virtually full strength

Nah, Jenkinson, Monreal are both second choice too. Could argue about Oxlade Chamberlain too, either way wilshire would of replaced one of there midfielders as well.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #605 on: February 16, 2014, 06:46:42 pm »
I hope we play with that drive, energy and attacking mentality in all of our remaining away games because we will win more than we lose.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #606 on: February 16, 2014, 06:49:47 pm »
It's hardly worse than any of our rivals actually.

Exactly, but people keep coming up with that shit.  Man City and Chelsea both have away records that are not much better than ours and in Man Citys case they haven't played many of the tougher teams we have.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #607 on: February 16, 2014, 06:49:49 pm »
It's hardly worse than any of our rivals actually.

To be exact 6 points worse than our main rivals Spurs who are flying when it comes to away games at the moment
I'll bring out the stats and heat maps if we sign him.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #608 on: February 16, 2014, 06:49:59 pm »
Against a weak Arsenal team with us having basically the same team that smashed them at home last week we should of done better.

The away form is a genuine worry

oh fuck off, if that was a weak Arsenal Team, then it was a weak Liverpool team today and last week. How many kids we got on that pitch playing? quite a few.... Weak compared to what? compared to that being are strongest team or on paper and in comparison to what they got on the pitch.

Anyway bullshit, we played well, very well, were very unlucky, its away from home, check the match stats they don't lie.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26106019 its the beeb, they mean nothing, but away from home I watched it. better team lost by far.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #609 on: February 16, 2014, 06:51:07 pm »
Nah, Jenkinson, Monreal are both second choice too. Could argue about Oxlade Chamberlain too, either way wilshire would of replaced one of there midfielders as well.
but it wasnt a weak team though.


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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #610 on: February 16, 2014, 06:52:50 pm »
troll season has officially started on this thread... byeee

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #611 on: February 16, 2014, 06:55:14 pm »
troll season has officially started on this thread... byeee

Yeah, take it elsewhere. Such as the post match thread

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #612 on: February 16, 2014, 06:55:40 pm »
troll season has officially started on this thread... byeee

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #613 on: February 16, 2014, 06:56:02 pm »
To be exact 6 points worse than our main rivals Spurs who are flying when it comes to away games at the moment

I'm still waiting for you to explain (demonstrate, elucidate, not assert) how 57% possession and double the chances at the Emirates is 'showing too much respect'.
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #614 on: February 16, 2014, 06:56:42 pm »
To be exact 6 points worse than our main rivals Spurs who are flying when it comes to away games at the moment
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #615 on: February 16, 2014, 06:57:18 pm »
To be exact 6 points worse than our main rivals Spurs who are flying when it comes to away games at the moment

Stop being a muppet you muppet.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #616 on: February 16, 2014, 06:58:23 pm »
To be exact 6 points worse than our main rivals Spurs who are flying when it comes to away games at the moment
Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm talking about City, Arsenal and Chelsea. Talk about twisting things...

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #617 on: February 16, 2014, 06:58:39 pm »
I'm still waiting for you to explain (demonstrate, elucidate, not assert) how 57% possession and double the chances at the Emirates is 'showing too much respect'.

For 47 minutes we showed them too much respect and ended up being 2-0 down.........
I'll bring out the stats and heat maps if we sign him.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #618 on: February 16, 2014, 06:58:54 pm »
Yeah, take it elsewhere. Such as the post match thread

That's just as bad...
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #619 on: February 16, 2014, 07:00:04 pm »
For 47 minutes we showed them too much respect and ended up being 2-0 down.........
We came out flying and could have had 2 from Daniel.  They then dropped deep realizing we were getting in behind and took their chances.  Nothing about us having too much respect...
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #620 on: February 16, 2014, 07:01:18 pm »
For 47 minutes we showed them too much respect and ended up being 2-0 down.........

We didn't show them too much respect, you've said all this in the post-match thread so why bring it into this one?

You made your point first time round.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #621 on: February 16, 2014, 07:01:53 pm »
Yes, I'm aware of that. I'm talking about City, Arsenal and Chelsea. Talk about twisting things...

I compared us and Spurs because at the moment they're our main rivals challenging us for a Champions League spot.
I'll bring out the stats and heat maps if we sign him.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #622 on: February 16, 2014, 07:02:50 pm »
I compared us and Spurs because at the moment they're our main rivals challenging us for a Champions League spot.
You responded to my post which said rivals (plural) by narrowing it down to Spurs. Moving the goalposts...

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #623 on: February 16, 2014, 07:03:53 pm »
I compared us and Spurs because at the moment they're our main rivals challenging us for a Champions League spot.
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #624 on: February 16, 2014, 07:04:04 pm »
I wouldn't say we showed them too much respect for 47 minutes considering the opening 15 it was all Liverpool.

He's building this team into something very, very special I think. The way we play, especially at home, is particularly pleasing. He's already overseen some of the best football I've ever seen us play and you know there's more to come. Once we get back into the CL I think you'll see us really kick on. BR will be the man that brings the title home.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #625 on: February 16, 2014, 07:04:33 pm »
I compared us and Spurs because at the moment they're our main rivals challenging us for a Champions League spot.
Right now we're 4 points of the top, with 2 of the top 3 still to play at home and just obliterated the 3rd at home.  Spurs isn't our only rival...
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #626 on: February 16, 2014, 07:04:39 pm »
Early on, I was sceptical. There were so much talk about the possession game. We passed it around, but not for much gain. It's the kind of approach, to keep the ball, that I prefer, but it was just too much talk. Now thongs are different. We are getting stronger and stronger. Overall. What has really impressed me with Rodgers is how he's adapted. It's best seen with Suarez. He re-invented his goalscoring ability and over the summer Rodgers won the battle when he didn't sell. And now, Suarez is as good as last season, but we are also less dependent on him since Sturridge has taken a step forward. We are showing a lot of positive signs and Rodgers deserves lots of credit for that. Lots.

a weak Arsenal team?

apart from Fabianski and Sanogo,they were virtually full strength

Wouldn't make too much of it. We had a couple of players out as well.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #627 on: February 16, 2014, 07:04:55 pm »
We came out flying and could have had 2 from Daniel.  They then dropped deep realizing we were getting in behind and took their chances.  Nothing about us having too much respect...

On another day the second chance goes in and we go on to batter them. I thought he did as well as he could with the first chance.

Combination of shitty luck, tiredness and a shit ref did for us today.

I don't think we were great, but to go there and make Arsenal look like the away side whilst being nowhere near our best shows how far we have come.

That I am slightly disappointed with how we played shows how far BR has brought us.
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #628 on: February 16, 2014, 07:05:47 pm »
For 47 minutes we showed them too much respect and ended up being 2-0 down.........

Do you know the meaning of any of the words I used?
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #629 on: February 16, 2014, 07:05:52 pm »
For 47 minutes we showed them too much respect and ended up being 2-0 down.........

Yup, creating two huge opportunities in the first 4 minutes is definitely showing too much respect to the opposition.
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #630 on: February 16, 2014, 07:06:33 pm »
Brendan really needs to sort out the away form. Sure teams traditionally have better home form but how much our performances deteriorate away from home is a huge worry.

Today was one of the better performances really, but then again, we were always going to press after going 2-0 down.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #631 on: February 16, 2014, 07:06:37 pm »
To be exact 6 points worse than our main rivals Spurs who are flying when it comes to away games at the moment
how are Spurs our main rivals?

Spurs are 3 points behind but if you count goal difference then its technically 4,we are actually closer to Arsena(3 behind with a much better goal difference)l than Spurs are to us.


Think Brendan Rodgers is doing a brilliant job myself,and if we carry on the way we are,we will be challenging for the tilte next season(think the way City and Chelsea are playing its to much of a jump.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #632 on: February 16, 2014, 07:07:17 pm »
Brendan really needs to sort out the away form. Sure teams traditionally have better home form but how much our performances deteriorate away from home is a huge worry.
Please read and then post eh.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #633 on: February 16, 2014, 07:08:51 pm »
Please read and then post eh.
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« Reply #634 on: February 16, 2014, 07:10:55 pm »
Like the positive, attacking substitutions. If we're to finish up as losers, we go down fighting.
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« Reply #635 on: February 16, 2014, 07:15:02 pm »
Like the positive, attacking substitutions. If we're to finish up as losers, we go down fighting.

Nice to see something constructive and relevant, and I agree. Thought the substitution was exactly as needed, and glad to see that he didn't change his mind given that we'd just scored as he was planning it. Unfortunately we faded regardless - so we could have potentially done with another - but you never really want to take Coutinho or Sterling off.
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« Reply #636 on: February 16, 2014, 07:15:28 pm »
Incredible!! Are people complaining after that performance? We've had way worse away shows than that this season. Sturridge could've easily had a hat trick had he brought his shooting boots on and that is ignoring a farcical refereeing performance from that twat Webb. This was one of our best performances at the Emirates in quite a few years. People moaning at Rodgers for this need to have a word with themselves.

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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #637 on: February 16, 2014, 07:15:39 pm »
Needed to start with Hendo. Allen got bullied in the first half.
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #638 on: February 16, 2014, 07:17:38 pm »
Arsenal's got the depth of a team that can't even remember the last time they weren't in the Champions League. They can rest players and still field a strong side. It's about to be strongly tested, but this is the front side of their difficult stretch.

As for the away form worry, I wouldn't put that down as what happened today. Put it this way... We lost by one goal to the second place team at their place. Sturridge "should have" scored three. Agger nearly scored at the end. We also should have had at least one other penalty, probably two.

There are problems, and there are bad days at the office. We came to play, I don't fault our performance.

We can shore up our away form, but it requires defensive solidarity. In this case we're incredibly fortunate that by the time we go to Southampton, probably our most difficult away game left along with Old Trafford, we will probably have Glen Johnson and Lucas back, possibly Sakho and Enrique too, in addition to Agger settling in again. 
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Re: Brendan Rodgers - Liverpool Manager
« Reply #639 on: February 16, 2014, 07:20:01 pm »
Brendan really needs to sort out the away form. Sure teams traditionally have better home form but how much our performances deteriorate away from home is a huge worry.
We have the sixth best away record in the league and we have been to all of the top teams already. It's not much of a concern.