dontpassback
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Perhaps Mr tisdale isn't a tactical genius after all ! Mcmanaman and James could not believe the line up and they only repeated what a lot of city fans were thinking.
Stroudy, you're one of the most reasoned posters on here, but think about this. You want an apology from Tisdale for a 3-0 away defeat at Liverpool, in which we only conceded the 2nd goal after 74 minutes?I've long been a fan of Tisdale but no doubt he got it seriously wrong last night. I can understand playing the old feckers against less mobile and skilful L2 opposition, but by doing so last night he simply conceded the tie, which considering what the fans had to go through to get there IMO requires an apology.
Nobody wants an apology for losing 3-0 to Liverpool. I never really thought we had much chance of winning and couldn't really care less that we lost and would guess that most of the posters on here this morning feel the same, we all know they're much better players. Its the lack of any real memories that his dull as dishwater approach to a nothing to lose game delivered. The players who played in the first match served up a hugely entertaining, all action spectacle and thats what I'd hoped for. I couldn't care less about the result really!Stroudy, you're one of the most reasoned posters on here, but think about this. You want an apology from Tisdale for a 3-0 away defeat at Liverpool, in which we only conceded the 2nd goal after 74 minutes?
Come on mate, get real.
I said above that I think we kept it to 1-0 for song long more by luck than judgement, but what do you expect away to a Premiership team? The finishing wasn't too shoddy for the last two goals.It was due to bad finishing rather than good tactics that it was only 1-0 after 74 minutes big banker - if it had been 4 or 5 by then nobody could of questioned it
We weren't playing much better players last night - we allowed them to be much better playersPeople seem to be forgetting that we were playing against much, much better players last night. As we were in the first game at SJP. The difference last night is that Liverpool reserves HAD played together before, were playing on a pitch that was less forgiving (anyone who's ever played football against a much better team knows how much this affects things, regardless of your own style of play) and Klopp had clearly managed to motivate and organise them in a much more effective way than he did in the first game, no surprise considering that at the time of the SJP match he'd never even seen some of them play.
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Stroudy does.Nobody wants an apology for losing 3-0 to Liverpool.
It wouldn't have been dull as dishwater if at 0-0 or 1-0, which it was for the majority of the match, we'd have scored a goal. Any goal. Deflection, straight in from a corner, Mignolet own goal. It didn't happen, there was no 'big' memory. Deal with it, it's football. A League 2 side away at a Premier League side. Surprise, surprise, we struggled to get into the game.I never really thought we had much chance of winning and couldn't really care less that we lost and would guess that most of the posters on here this morning feel the same, we all know they're much better players. Its the lack of any real memories that his dull as dishwater approach to a nothing to lose game delivered. The players who played in the first match served up a hugely entertaining, all action spectacle and thats what I'd hoped for. I couldn't care less about the result really!
Have a word with yourself.We weren't playing much better players last night - we allowed them to be much better players
think your missing my point - your original post said "we were playing against much, much better players last night. As we were in the first game at SJP." Since the team was, bar a couple of (still reserves) exceptions, the same. Therefore I do not agree that we were playing much better players THAN AT SJP cause effectively it was almost the same team. We were playing the SAME players. The reason as a unit they PLAYED better against us than at SJP was because we allowed them to. Subtle difference I know - but think it through.Have a word with yourself.
Of course they are better players. Would you swap Ojo for Oakley/Noble/Tillson? Flanagan for Riberio?
If the answer is no, you're watching the wrong sport.