It’s February 8th - welcome to the latest edition of the pod, after the Reds lost at Arsenal and now have a week together before Burnley show up at Anfield.. I’m Paul and I am joined by Sean and Daz. We’ll look at Arsenal and look ahead to Burnley at the weekend. We’ll also do some football finance chat
Part One - let’s tackle it head on:
Team selection - probably not many other options
Formation - could we have gone 3 at the back at least at the start to build from a solid base - twice in the last 3 seasons we played them in cup games, did not concede early and then opened them up in the second half
Poor first half - right side (usually a big strength) felt it lacked cohesion
Second half till the mix up, felt like we could take the initiative
After that, it felt like we didn’t get the subs into the game, the way we have done for much of this season
The refereeing? Typical Taylor - misses blatant shirt grabs on our players yet every Arsenal player went down at the slightest prompt (often acting like they’d been mortally wounded). Felt like this was intentional.
Konate red completely took it away from us, Thiago and Macca at center back!
Pearce, ‘He can have no complaints’. Jurgen points us to Gabriel.
Part Two - looking ahead:
15 games in the league. Win them all and the league is ours
Starts with Burnley at home. They do seem to have been improving - came back from 2-0 down to get a point against Fulham. Some suggestion they have modified their style to be less possession oriented.
Our formation - lot depends on injury news. If Darwin plays….
Predictions
Other chat:
BLUE CARD! yay/nay? Why?
Some chat about football finances and then there is Chelsea
We will be back after the next game against Burnley. We'll start with an AFCON review on Sunday. Thanks to Sean and Daz. And thank you dear listener for joining us.
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