Many other days that would be a foul. Today it wasn’t, that’s football.
There’s plenty of other reasons we lost the game that were in our control…midfield and wide forwards come to mind.
Makes me wonder why he plays him?
Exactly this. Totally onboard with the high tempo approach but, we need to slow ourselves down at vital moments, eg Son continually running offside instead of holding his run knowing he’s quicker than his marker…Get that bit right and we’ll be contenders...
He just has to remember what’s the point of the tackle; it’s not to injure the opposing player. Cut out the macho crap and concentrate on winning the ball.
Just a few thoughts about our inability to break them down.
Bissouma and Cuti continually slowed the play down in the centre of the goal allowing Liverpool to shuffle across. When the ball finally went wide, our wingers continually cut inside onto their favoured foot. This could have been sorted...
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