Stoke City v Liverpool - EPL - Dec 26 [R]

You gotta be kidding me....

Stoke with the long ball, Skrtel slips. Stoke converts. 1-1

 

And Skrtel stumbles to give Walters a chance which he takes with aplomb. Effing 'hell.

 

Well, that's what we do with an early lead. Hell.

Agger flicks an aerial ball over his own head to an on-rushing Walters. AAAHHH!!

 

I'm officially on board for a 3-5-2. Skrtl and Agger are keystone cops at the best of times. Grr.

I've got to lay it on BR's feet. How is it that everyone in the team is instructed to pressure, step up, attack the man in possession EXCEPT for our CBs and FBs?

 

Such a typical Liverpool start nowadays isn't it?

 

It's the second ball syndrome, once again.

 

The gap between the mids and backs is acres way too often. Lucas can't cover all this by himself. And, our CBs struggle to consistently win the ball off of players.

 

We look pretty bad at the moment. Stoke is pressing and controlling the ball; they have us pinned back.

 

Our defending is still poor

 

We're ragged at the back and looking even worse. What a poor start.

 

Jones scores off a corner (after we give up corner after corner). Dreadful.

 

Defending is shit 2-1

 

Jones header goal off corner. WTF!

 

Agger got punked again. Stop getting tattoos and htfu.

 

Set piece defending......the one thing we have yet to improve

 

I wonder what we did to prepare the last few days

 

Unable to cope with Stoke's tactics. This one does sit at the feet of BR. How are we not more prepared to handle their style of play?

 

Cold night in Stoke, and our Spanish game is wilting.

WAKE UP!

 

Nothing that involved heading apparently.

 

Team looks shell shocked.

And the grass looks like is hasn't been cut in weeks.

 

Jeez, we look inept. Giving the ball away repeatedly.

 

Agger draws a lucky foul on an aerial challenge. My BP is sky-high right now.

Suarez is up for it, and leading by example. Is Gerrard playing?

 

The players need to be quicker with decision making. They're not going to have more than one second on the ball before some giant oaf comes in at full speed.