Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 No idea why Jose went for the "safe" alternative and played Mikel. First thing, playing Mikel is never safe. It means limiting our attcking options whilst giving us one error prone player more. Just next to Ivanovic and Cahill. Secondly it is only Liverpool. Just a midtable team between swansea and West ham which is exactly where they belong and what they are. We pay those lots far too much respect. We made them strong by giving them so much space. They played a 3-6-1 so were always gonna exploit it any space we got them with continuous posession.We gave up our new-born identity of fast, intricate, technical and goal-bound combination play to play some dodgy 19th century farmers football. I am no idealist and i have no problem with parking the bus, but when you do it you should do it right. Our defence porous and our attempts to counter pathetic. We created almost no chances.Tbf Liverpool really worked hard and played their system perfectly. But we simply should not concede playing all defense against such a joke of a team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAB 1,030 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Also it's not that they didn't play well tbf. They've gained a lot of confidence the last couple of weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 A - José's negative tactics almost, almost cost us. They were there for the taking; their best performance of the season and they still couldn't beat us. He owes Courtois a fucking blow job for bailing him out tonight.B - besides Willian (who basically did Ivanovic's job for him tonight), Hazard (in the first-half he was great, poor after the break) and Thibaut, the whole team was poor. You'd have thought we'd lost 5-0, not won 5-0, on Saturday.C - what the fuck was the point of the 90th minute substitutions?! He must be planning on changing the whole fucking squad for Bradford now. Courtois, Ivanovic, Terry, Willian, Hazard, Costa, Fabregas, Matic all out - Cech, Azpi, Zouma, Schurrle, Salah, Remy, Ramires, Oscar in, you'd think.d - Cahill had a very good first half but was back to his usual tricks in the second. Consistently poor, week in week out.That would make a very good match report ,,, why waste your time on anything longer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,051 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Poor result, and a shocking performance. Mourinho made mistakes with his line up once again, that cost us to an extent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaden 16 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I think Cahil is getting a bad rap, Ivan is playing poorly defensviely and is asked to attack more this season. Cahil is having to almost play two positions because he is covering Ivan. I would not mind seeing an Azpi and Luis starting combination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vytis33 1,270 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Thibaut was fucking immense today...what a game from him. Nervy to watch with all those shots flying at our goal. So many bad passes and lost possession from us today. Ah well, let's take care of business at home and move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaynCFC 27 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Last season I was nervous before the matches against small sides. Now it is the greater sides that make me anxious Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlues 4,050 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 The way Jose coordinate his sub, everything is still under his plan.He will making immediate sub, if something he think is not right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLyon 9,359 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I completely understand why we went with this kind of approach, not much energy wasted and still took decent result. It was important game for team, its semifinal and Im sure Mou wants to win it, so it was clear that we will play deep against them.But do we realy have to play this kind of football against low team like Pool to get a point? It was terrible, we didnt even try to attack and Im sure Mou came there to keep clean sheet, well we conceded too so...Im just curious what kind of team we need to finaly play more attacking in such games (and playing against today liverpool isnt that big game afterall). Why do we have Hazard, Cesc, Costa if we dont even plan to use them properly in such games. Why would we need Reus then. For what? Parking bus? I understand why Mou likes Willian so much and doesnt want to improve our attack by signing a winger with more end product; because Willian is perfect to defend on wing.If you look Real vs Liverpool or Chelsea vs Liverpool, there is massive difference in quality. We might beat Real in two legs, but never in open attacking football. I wonder if Mou will ever try to play more attacking against such teams...and its quite sad if we cant win fucking liverpool by trying to play proper football, no we have to defend like we play vs Real or bayern. its just sad.Courtois was brilliant though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFC888 219 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Think we can all agree that it was a bad performance, and therefore a "good" result. Who cares, we will win at home and that will be that.Everyone suggesting mass overhauls and personnel clearouts or bagging Jose need to calm the fuck down. We're well positioned in all competitions, we're not in strife. Lighten up and show your team some respect. They can't win every game 5-0, and will naturally have games where they are tired and don't play as well.We got a good enough result, so no stress.Oh and Thibaut, that was some performance! Didn't miss a beat despite an injury lay-off. Superb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray 9,441 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Dude he's 24 not 5!He's almost a quarter of a century old!This is when he should be pulling up trees - he never went past the defence in the second half and that is unacceptable.He dithered around and lost the ball. LUIS was more of a threat Hazard played shit - just admit it and stop with the excuses. He has a couple of decent games and has been average the last couple I want to see 100% every game and I'm not, so I feel justified with my complaintI think you are very harsh tbh. He played an ok first half. Also, the guy just travelled to Belgium and back today to be present at his friend Malanda's funeral, which one might think leaves an emotional mark. He ran like hell the first time, but you could see mental-wise he wasn't that fit. So don't mercilessly burn him like that. Be human(e) plz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZOS 580 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Quite a while being 19 days?19 days ago Chelsea TRIED and scored, thrice. Aside from the result, that was a better performance imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bir_CFC 3,455 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Post match interview Hazard + MotM Courtoishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGT3WYDRlGkThibaut is an impressive man. Just 22 years old, yet plays and conducts himself like a 30 year old seasoned professional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmin 2,484 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I fucking hate the scouse basterds. Hope we destroy them next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmicway 1,333 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 With the premiership over, I am thinking of the Frenchies.Why bother with capital ?For FA maybe we should compete, if the queen is to attend the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Not to alarm any of you but whenever we draw there always seems to be a loss afterwards...Sunderland-NewcastleSouthampton-Tottenham... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS 382 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 I was worried about this game, and know I know why. Anytime we played well against an opposition and play within a couple of days, we plat like this. Its good, because at least now we have a lower level team and about four days to recover. I think the next game will be massive. We are playing at home and I think our boys will be massive and come through. I'm shocked about Cahill though, he is surely going through some funk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted January 21, 2015 Author Share Posted January 21, 2015 Not to alarm any of you but whenever we draw there always seems to be a loss afterwards...Sunderland-NewcastleSouthampton-Tottenham... After that 0-0 draw at Sunderland, we actually thrashed Spurs 3-0 before that loss at Newcastle.That Southampton-Tottenham sequence was the only time this season we drew a game and lost the one immediately after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 9,938 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 What!!!Liverpool were shite and we made them look even fucking better than they are Seriously enough of that bollox - Liverpool are average and we made them look massively good because we could not string two passes together I'm not having the overreaction - that was shite and people are rightly calling it.The Manager and Players need a long fucking hard look at themselvesMuzchap I normally agree with the majority of your posts but I'm going to put the past few showers of Shyte that you have written down to anger. It was a horrific performance yes. liverpool were at the races and we were not. I garuntee we will punish them at the Bridge. I'm predicting a 4-1 victory. You heard it here first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeleryFC 373 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Should have played for a win. With City following the second leg, it would have been nice to have a more relaxed game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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