All manager have thier style mourinho won everything playing in this style against top teams i dont get why people don't like it. You can't go to Anfield Etihad play beautiful football and expect to destroy them that not going to happen.You realize there is an area in between the cowardice Emery set out today and what you're suggesting right? Unless you have one of these big physical teams like you see at the bottom of the table whose default tactic is to park the bus it is not a prudent idea to try to stay in a shell for 90 minutes with no outlet on the counter. We're weak defending set pieces and weak in the air and our tactic was to allow as many crosses as Liverpool wanted and concede a million corners when they've got Van Dijk. The only way to go and get a result against a team like Liverpool is to force them to alter their game and be brave enough to push their fullbacks back by giving them someone to mark. It's not Jordan Henderson or Fabinho or Wijnaldum who are shredding teams and springing that front 3. It's the fullbacks who are providing the service more often than not so to decide that the best course of action was to give those fullbacks free reign to do exactly that was shocking from Emery.
Emery gone with plan that is to stop Liverpool front 3 to move freely and its worked we had our chances we had 10 shoots today so let's not pretend we spent we done f**k all offensively it was up to pepe ane auba to be clinical and they didn't so that's not manager fault