Batman
Head of the Wayne foundation for benching Nketiah
Country: USA
Player:Saliba
You don't win against Liverpool playing cautiously. You win against Liverpool playing intelligently. Parking the bus and inviting crosses when you aren't good at defending crosses is not cautious, it's foolish. Ignoring the fact that you're one of 2-3 teams in the league with the attacking talent to force Liverpool onto the back foot in favor of wishing and hoping your cowardly tactics will hold up for 90 minutes is ridiculous. Nobody is denying that they've got a better squad. They damn sure have a better manager. What he did today was ill conceived and if we're being honest, not out of character. He does this against relegation fodder, not just Liverpool.Emery knows his players are not up to Liverpool standard. Klopp got the best CB in the world, Emery got an ageing Chelsea reject. Liverpool has 3 quality experienced mids, Arsenal have two potential talents learning their trade. Pool has two top full backs, Arsenal has their two star full backs still in the gym
And any manager who knows the quality of his players are inferior always has two choices, go for it, or play defensively and hope for a breakaway. Wenger always went for it until the last couple of years. But when he lost 8-2 the mocking was unbearable. 9/10 managers take the cautious approach.