Well Sunday was a bit pants. Didn’t think we set up well with a narrow 4-4-2. Would rather we started Lacazette ahead of Willock and compressed to a 4-5-1 on defence. All of that is moot when Luiz gives away the penalty, we somehow let Matip score, and Luiz gets done for the final goal.
Hopefully it’s lessons learned for NLD on Sunday, big big game.
I personally think Emery had Arsenal setup perfectly for a game at Anfield. If Auba or Pepe (Pepe in particular) had taken their early chances the game would have changed and Emery would be hailed as a tactical genius. Outside of Luiz getting turned by Salah (which happened while Arsenal were chasing the game), Liverpool didn't even look like scoring from open play but they were having legitimate jitters when the ball was turned over. Probably the major criticism is not making changes earlier, Torreira had to come on at half time or earlier ideally, Ceballos was woefully ineffective at both the press and utilising the ball after a press had been won. Not used to the pace of a game like that.
Yea I was thinking the same. While I still think that Liverpool were the better team, we were unlucky not to make more of the game.
Agree on Ceballos, he got caught out early and then that made his head drop and you could see him struggling to look up and find players after that.
Still really impressed by Wilock. I didn't expect him to start in this game (or the other two), but he regularly was involved with linking and breaking up play. Hope he keeps it up.