#254
Well-Known Member
From the comments of some of you guys, I think either you guys didn't catch Pool's first two fixtures or are just way too ignorant on your assesment of their game vs us.
Normally you'd expect the current Liverpool side to be a little bit too much for a lot of teams with their exquisite attack and impenetrable defence. But form matters a lot in this game and from the first two games albeit with them winning, I witnessed a Liverpool side that was not its usual self giving easy chances to Norwich and Southampton; two teams that are amongst the relegation favourites.
As such, one can only have hope that a team with the attacking quality of
Arsenal can at least, from an offensive point of view punish a Liverpool side that that allows an AXG of 1.89 against Southampton in a match preceeding a clash with a top four contender!
I think that just like in boxing, when your oppenent staggers, its time to go for the KO and that is exactly what we ought to have done. Instead we cowed, and like a frightened dog put our tails between our legs! Liverpool rearely concede the amount of chances they allowed vs Soton and Norwich and an astute manager would take that situation to their advantage.
Sometimes the most logical thing to do in a fight is to gather your courage and step up against your bully. Even if it means using all of your fear to punch them really hard, they could sometimes fear being on the recieving end of such a punch again and stay away or even if they win the war they will just slightly win it and will respect the challenge you can pose in the future and therefore find another target to bully. That is how I've been raised and thats what I believe. The advantage to this is that you send a message to anyone else that intended on bullying you that you are no push over.
Normally you'd expect the current Liverpool side to be a little bit too much for a lot of teams with their exquisite attack and impenetrable defence. But form matters a lot in this game and from the first two games albeit with them winning, I witnessed a Liverpool side that was not its usual self giving easy chances to Norwich and Southampton; two teams that are amongst the relegation favourites.
As such, one can only have hope that a team with the attacking quality of
Arsenal can at least, from an offensive point of view punish a Liverpool side that that allows an AXG of 1.89 against Southampton in a match preceeding a clash with a top four contender!
I think that just like in boxing, when your oppenent staggers, its time to go for the KO and that is exactly what we ought to have done. Instead we cowed, and like a frightened dog put our tails between our legs! Liverpool rearely concede the amount of chances they allowed vs Soton and Norwich and an astute manager would take that situation to their advantage.
Sometimes the most logical thing to do in a fight is to gather your courage and step up against your bully. Even if it means using all of your fear to punch them really hard, they could sometimes fear being on the recieving end of such a punch again and stay away or even if they win the war they will just slightly win it and will respect the challenge you can pose in the future and therefore find another target to bully. That is how I've been raised and thats what I believe. The advantage to this is that you send a message to anyone else that intended on bullying you that you are no push over.