"Good explanation of tactics from carra for the clueless noob fans who were asking why were we passive after scoring, we just sat back the whole game blah blah.In soccer its called COUNTER ATTACKING.And it worked great for an hour so well done BRENDAN RODGERS!Now lets get SOMETHING at city"
"For counter attacking, give the ball to Gerrard more. His skill is wasted playing short all the time. I didn't see him spraying the ball about too much this game. I'm still not really convinced about tiki-taka in our own half. It looks too precarious. Carragher's right, we were encamped for long periods. On occasion, longer balls can release this type of pressure."
"Glens duin a fantastic job covering on both sides wen called on its ill advised to start nocking him we have plenty of left back talent coming thru the ranks "
"why are we always playing bad againts the top team we are supposed to play our strength and that is passing game but from what i see againts arsenal we are struggled to keep possesion of the ball as we just waiting to be punished by them.....can't imagine how we'll play againts man city on this weekend hopefully god will be on our side..."
"No !!it does not depend on the next game.The matter is we were up by 2 and we were assaulted like mice by cats. All the time we could not handle them.That is it. No hard feelings we are not there yet.YNWA"
"Enrique is a player of quality, he needs to start on sunday with Jono at rb, We cant just go buy a player everytime it looks like we short. The backbone has always been and definatly needs to be a core of scousers born and bred with passion. buying player after player is exactly the thing me and many others criticised Chelsea and man city for. All that money for me is spoiling the game for me"
"we defended much better against crosses. I wouldn't say we counter-attacked really. We watered it down after initial pace/long ball with slow sideways/back passing."
""rajusa" thanks so much for your explanation, I had no idea was counter attacking was. At 35 years of age I only woke up this morning and decided to follow "soccer" and LFC. Oh, by the way is the emphasis of counter attacking football defence? Cause we did a great job of that, conceding 2 in minutes. Finally since when did Liverpool park the bus and counter attack?"
"Well said Jamie lad! It's all about city away now the Arsenal game has gone. Also I'd play Enrique now, wisdom doesn't offer much going forward, u can see he's a center back, but hes done ok up 2 now. I think when Kelly gets back he's No.2 after Johnson, he offers more going forward. YNWA"
"Very mixed comments here
You can only play what is front of you, Arsenal were poor in the first half and if we are all honest we should have been out of sight by half time. We sat back to far in the second half and gave then room to come at us. The answer is we would have taken a draw before the game.This is Liverpool but not as we know them.YNWA "
"Carra..Legend!!think for weekend we need enrique to start at left and usual strongest back line up of Agger sktrtl and Jono..defo need to look for someone in LB position after summer..its a pity we ever sold Risse for making an odd mistake yrs ago..would have loved to still play for the Pool.."
"wmraker, i disagree on the enrique quote !
When he's 100% fit he's the man for LB. He was outstanding in that posistion previousley its the manager who doesnt fancy him there n i cant see why !
I actually think Johnson could play r/midfield with Wisdom at R/B. N think that would work big time but just my opinion."
"Carra is going to make a great Liverpool Manager once BR has finished getting us back up where we belong. Our turn will come to knock Manure off their perch, and Jamie will be there I'm sure. Insightful comments from our No. 23"
"Reina must have taken the second goal. We need a top- class stopper as well as goalkeeper and things will eventually turn better and brighter. Sami. YNWA."
"That's the spirit. We did good in terms of team performance despite the draw. Yes we slipped & let them scored twice, but we're progressing. We're going in the right direction. And Carra is still rock solid after all these years. We still need him. Walk on mate!"
"It's true what wmraker mentioned. We need lots of improvement on LB. Whomever plays that position recently always seems forgotten about his LB position when we're attacked. C'mon you lads!"
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