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Panther7:
Liverpool is an attacking team yes but is it just me or their attacking isn't that fluid, they play way too many long balls, well that works for them cos they have runner but it's not pleasing to the eye.

CapitalCee:
Meanwhile Salah has scored another penalty now. That 4 out of his 8 this season. Thats half. Buh Buh buh Bruno is a useless player because half of his goals are penalties.

Karleb:
Just for the record, Leicester has gotten 8 penalties already.

KingAlabi:
Not entirely
For instance fred had a bad game against Arsenal because he was played as a DM rather than the box to box he is, and that is on the coach.

Will you blame martial inconsistencies on the coach.

afrodoc2:
They are not too old but Greenwood is younger than them by far and a more natural box player.

Leyqute:
Bruno’s first goal shows an intelligence that he hasn’t displayed before.

Look at how he saw the space in front of him, anticipated the cross falling in between the two defenders and then attacking it appropriately.

It’s the same ish with the second goal. Rashford also attacked the space between the two CBs, just that Bruno’s cross wasn’t very accurate and ended in the back of the net.

If Rashford had connected it would’ve been 3 headed goals in 2 games- which is a massive improvement from the last 100 games or so. The attackers need to make the right movements in the box and the crosses have to be accurate.

What changed between then and now? The arrival of Cavani. And maybe Telles. Those dudes are really learning from him, I think.

P.S: Luke Shaw has had 2 assists in his last 2 games. Both headers. Was still shitty for large parts of both games tho.

afrodoc2:
First of all even though Amaka's movement was good as a striker he was no Cavani. After yesterday/s game Michael Owen said Cavani had the best box movement he had seen in recent football. Players with lots of skill or lots of pace rarely develop such movement when they are young because they never needed it.

If you check the list of player with such movement you get Ruud, Inzaghi, Fowler, Crespo e.t.c None is similar to Rashford or Martial. I think Greenwood being younger and a more natural striker than those two has the best chance of learning from Cavani.

afrodoc2:
We can't get every player and we also can't predict how a player will integrate into a new league and culture but Ziyech so far has been good.

What we should focus on now is improving the players we have now and of course improving our squad with quality acquisitions going forward.

afrodoc2:
Also Ziyech's strongest point which is his long range crossing from deep might be wasted in this our team in which Cavani is the only striker who has box movement.

afrodoc2:
We were addressing larride who was not happy that we didn't look at Ziyech. You were the one who then connected it to Sancho.

What i am saying is that Sancho had nothing to do with us not signing Ziyech. By the time Chelshit signed Ziyech way back in February we were not in negotiation for Sancho and there weren't even any strong links.

We missed out on Ziyech because our board is too slow and clueless to sign players early. Woodward prefers to drag out transfer news for months and then sign players late. Hopefully with Amad Traore that will change.

afrodoc2:
Ziyech already agreed to join Chelshit in February long before the Sancho new gathered steam. It was less about Sancho and more about the propensity of our board to be slow in all things.

Chelshit signed players like Pulisic and Ziyech 6 months ahead of the season but our board prefers social media relevance and drawn out transfer hype so they can sign the player on deadline day and drag out a piano for him to play.

larride:
We no even look him side at all. That’s the annoying part for me.

afrodoc2:
The ref applied common sense. The Everton players were obviously trying to get him sent off.

If it was that dunderhead Atkinson he would have issued a second yellow.

chidexxy007:
Mehn, my heart skipped anytime i see him chasing the ball.

That was a big gamble that paid off at the end. Make Ole no shaa try am again.

KingTom:
Likeeeee he travelled all the way to La liga

BlackManta:
Bruno will probably have taken more penalties than Salah by the time the season ends, so wait.

No dey use 10 games conclude that one is a penalty merchant, Salah will probably score two dozens open play goals this season.

If you want to defend Bruno's love for penalties why not bring up Messi?

The alleged GOAT has scored 6 penalties and only 1 goal from open play....the ultimate penalty merchant of 20/21 season.

Leave Salah alone

BlackManta:
Why not his entire Liverpool career ??

Cuz it doesn't suit the narrative that Salah is a bigger pk merchant than Bruno huh?

BlackManta:
You are the one talking nonsense....

Bringing up Salah's name while talking Bruno's pk ratio as if half of Salah's goals are PKs like Bruno.

Salah has been playing for Liverpool since 2017 and only played 13 penalties in 3 years, while Bruno took nearly 10 in one year for Man Utd.

Open play goals aside, the penalty ratio of the two are way too different to be compared, so don't be bringing up Salah name while talking about Bruno pk ratio....it makes no sense.

kendrick9:
please don't compare Salah to Bruno...
Salah has scored just two pens In the pL this season.
No player takes as much pen as Bruno.
He's been average this season but Pens have masked that fact

kendrick9:
He plays further forward like a second striker...
Not sure i will compare him to midfielders

Melvyn11:
Have you been to the Chelsea thread lately as well?

larride:
Something is definitely wrong with Martial

afrodoc2:
Klopp, Tuchel, Nagelsmann, Rose, Hasenhuttl are all in one way or the other disciples of Rangnick.

We should get Rangnick as Sporting Director and one of them as manager. My preference would be Nagelsmann.

Players like Maguire, Mata, Matic, Pogba can’t function effectively in that system though.

2emotional:
If Oga Ephraim like make he dey dia for 600 years ole no dey go anywhere... I wish they win against Everton so that the porchettino rumor will settle down ;Dbefore international break.

airmark:
Eph12 taking up initiative in Benin. Man utd must bounce back.

GGMUMU.

Uniquisite:
Bros, the two i mentioned cant play Ghen Ghen.. I dont know Pogba of Juventus o but this Present pogba go collapse las las . Maguire wey him top speed be like jogging, how e go play ghen ghen high defense line?... Man Utd don suffer ooo

Uniquisite:
Una wan make Labile Pogba and Captain Maguire vomit them Intestine?

afrodoc2:
Matic should not have been there in the first place. If we take that corner 1000 times Matic should never be the last man. That is the job of Shaw and AWB or any other small and pacy player on the pitch at that time.

That 2nd goal just exposed the reactionary defending of our backline. None of them is a cerebral defender that can think 1 or 2 steps ahead, hence the Zebra crossing a.k.a Zombie defending.