USA Tour Game 3 - Liverpool 2-4 Leeds United

[Cjay]

And people want 5 at the back and 3 up front...

We were nowhere that easy with this system last season.

Something has gone wrong somewhere their are gaps all over the place.

[Finnatic]

Liverpool meant the first goal judging by Kerkez’s reaction after flicking the ball on from the corner.
Having to watch it on LTV so they are showing replays.
Still poor by Leeds though.

[Johnthewhite]

You mean Sprake?

Might look it, but not old enough to have witnessed that in the flesh, newspaper cuttings only

[The Subhuman]

DCL for Nmecha
Leinou for Justin
Wilson for James
Ombang for Cairns

For me

Gnonto on around the 60 mark if we haven't got one back

[weasel]

Think you are being quite generous

We've looked worse than Liverpool both on and off the ball which given its their reserves isn't great.

I don't understand why we are having the gaps we seem to allow

Been the same every game, really really easy to get to our box whereas we struggle to create anything

Nmecha been our best player imo.

Yeah they spent £120m+ on Wirtz and Isak to bolster their squad. I would say they have as many that will start their first league match as we will have.

I don't think Stach, Ampadu and Tanaka works as a midfield unit.

[Cjay]

We should outnumber them in midfield but we don't and part of that is Ampadu keeps going walkies

[weasel]

We were nowhere that easy with this system last season.

Something has gone wrong somewhere their are gaps all over the place.

Miss Aaronsen's running. For me it is Aaronsen or Tanaka if we are trying to play this system but Aaronsen's pace and energy works better alongside the other midfielders we have.

[Cjay]

Yeah they spent £120m+ on Wirtz and Isak to bolster their squad. I would say they have as many that will start their first league match as we will have.

I don't think Stach, Ampadu and Tanaka works as a midfield unit.

They've 5 academy players in their team yet look a far better team than us atm.

[Cjay]

Miss Aaronsen's running. For me it is Aaronsen or Tanaka if we are trying to play this system but Aaronsen's pace and energy works better alongside the other midfielders we have.

Still think the issue is Amps he's so high at times and I've no idea why.

[1964white]

Watched it for a couple of seconds on Scouse TV, had to turn it off. No way could listen to that for a full match. Was bad enough with Michael Owen and Steve McMananabananamanaman commentating last season for American tv.

Me too!

Infact I have watched all our friendly games with the volume on mute.

[BlackHillsPaul]

Well, we've played poorly, and I don't think this squad is capable of playing in a 3-4-3 yet. Not against good teams anyway.

[The Subhuman]

Don't mind losing and it's expected with Cairns in goal because we were never going to keep a clean sheet but I think we should be learning something tactically. Hopefully it's don't play Ampadu as the box to box, we need two new keepers and we now need a left back probably

Mahady is an excellent shot stopper but he's small. Ombang is bigger...

[The Subhuman]

We're late out

[Cjay]

We're late out

Forfeit the game

[weasel]

They've 5 academy players in their team yet look a far better team than us atm.

Big difference is that their academy players are top level academy players or players poached from elsewhere such as Ngumoha. They have 6 players I reckon will start their first match (same as us) kerkex, Frimpong, Szbozli, Wirtz, Ngumoha and Isak. They also have a keeper that has played professionally above league 1 standard (okay I think Cairns made 1 appearance for us in the championship after Rachubka had a meltdown).

I don't know why you always seem to want to knock our club.

[John in Louisiana]

Forfeit the game

Thought we had done that already.

[weasel]

Still think the issue is Amps he's so high at times and I've no idea why.

Yeah like you say it seems Ampadu plays forwrad and Tanaka sits more whereas Ampadu sitting and Aaronsen box to box seems better.

[The Subhuman]

Few players missing from the subs who are out

[BlackHillsPaul]

I can't believe Farke has held them in the locker room for this long. Must be ripping them a new one...

[1964white]

Where is the Leeds team?