Man of the Match: Liverpool (A)

[db10_therza]

I thought this a little too, tbh.

Was still quality, but he should have trusted Saliba to mark the forward in the box and overcompensated due to it being Salah v Zinchenko.

Yeah we had rice back by then as well. And the thing is 9 times out of 10 gabi does that intervention, he’s very front footed usually. I mean he needs to be with that car crash next to him…

 

[db10_therza]

How’s Rice winning this thing?

He was decent but Saliba was the clear MOTM

They both did amazing.

Rice was under serious pressure the entire game and didn’t give the ball away once and won god knows how many duels.

Saliba was ace as well but Liverpool didn’t really press our back line that aggressively, they pressed our midfield. So for me, it goes to Rice. JUST.

 

[Riou]

Yeah we had rice back by then as well. And the thing is 9 times out of 10 gabi does that intervention, he’s very front footed usually. I mean he needs to be with that car crash next to him…

No excuse then really.

Liverpool bottled it when it was 4 v 1 against Rice, no chance they were scoring in a 2 v 2 with Dec and also Saliba!

 

[MartiSaka]

Has to be Gabriel

 

[MartiSaka]

Saliba / Gabriel. Went with Saliba.

Konate should be overall Motm imo. He's better than vvd now I guess.

Konate was good today, first time i have been impressed.

 

[albakos]

Another colossal performance by

 

[DJ_Markstar]

Saliba or Gabriel, we limited Liverpool to very little and that's down to the defensive triangle of Saliba, Gabriel and Rice.

 

[Sebastes]

But I am left with question marks after that. For the first time I really felt like we lacked quality out on the pitch and even more so off the bench.

We need a pace tricky attacker, a midfielder, a defender and as for Zinchenko…

Just commented similar in the match thread. For all of the depth we’ve supposedly added we’re suspiciously low in quality beyond our first eleven.

 

[Sebastes]

Rice was real quality today, but how does Saliba not get all votes after this game?

Gabriel good as well and I thought Ødegaard was quality too, but in a different way to what we usually think of when saying so.

Zinchenko needs to go

 

[Synical]

Erm, went to vote for Gabriel but my vote had already been done for Rice and I can't change it

 

[BergMan]

Gabriel. Great defensively but also scored the goal.

 

[africe]

Gabriel is really underappreciated now. Scored our only goal and put in a massive defensive performance while also having to cover for Zinchenko's clownshow on his side, definite MotM for me.

 

[sergio_giorgini]

Konate was good today, first time i have been impressed.

That donkey always seem to save his best games for us.

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

That donkey always seem to save his best games for us.

He’s not a donkey tho now is he

 

[Blankety Blank]

Just commented similar in the match thread. For all of the depth we’ve supposedly added we’re suspiciously low in quality beyond our first eleven.

Yeah I agree Liverpool had better depth from the bench.
Tbf we have a way better squad than this time last season. Don't forget we only added trossard & Jorgi last jan. It was pretty amazing we managed a tilt at the title last season with the squad we had imho.

Without injuries we have a pretty strong bench but could still do with a couple more maybe? Add Tomi, Timber & Partey tho & it looks pretty good imho.

 

[Sebastes]

Yeah I agree Liverpool had better depth from the bench.
Tbf we have a way better squad than this time last season. Don't forget we only added trossard & Jorgi last jan. It was pretty amazing we managed a tilt at the title last season with the squad we had imho.

Without injuries we have a pretty strong bench but could still do with a couple more maybe? Add Tomi, Timber & Partey tho & it looks pretty good imho.

Yep, agree but at the same time I’m torn. I think we did great work last January but as a whole we haven’t done enough. Admittedly, we were a far way off in terms of squad depth though, so it’s probably an issue of not having had enough time (and maybe to some extent not making perfect choices in summer).

 

[TonyBouldy]

Well it certainly wasn’t Martinelli .