Can't say Sevilla didn't deserve that
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It was some half-time team talk.
"Spanish media say Eduardo Berizzo, who is suffering with prostate cancer, told his players at half-time in Tuesday's game at Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan"Last edited by Mumpo; 22-11-2017, 10:40.
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The blame for the result last night falls squarely on Klopp, I reckon.
All through the first half Sevilla had the bossing of midfield and made chances but didn't put them away. Liverpool's attacks came from fast breaks over the top, bypassing midfield almost entirely. But Henderson and Wynaldum were outnumbered 5 to 2 most of the time as Mane looked a bit leggy and Coutinho wasn't interested.
Sevilla were faster to the 2nd ball, had more men in midfield, were harder in the tackle and always had options.
3-0 at half time was a fucking gift of a score.
At half time Klopp should have taken off one of Mane or Salah and Coutinho and shut up shop in the midfield with Can and Milner straight away.
The second half was no different to the first except Liverpool didn't put their occasional chances away whereas Sevilla just carried on doing what they were doing.
Had Klopp shut up shop in the 2nd half and Liverpool had made it to 60-65 minutes without conceding, Sevilla would have started to panic. They were already on the shirt pulling\leaving the foot in stage at the end of the first half. 3-0 down with 25 to go and there was no way they were staying with 11 on the field.
Also at 3-0 down with 25 to go they'd have pushed up much higher leaving Salah and Firmino tons of space to run in behind, with the added comfort of Liverpool having 2 lines of players to get through instead of one.
I like Klopp, but last night was a masterclass in poor game management from one of the apparently elite managers. Can you imagine Benitez or Guardiola leaving the back gate open like that? I can't.
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Ipswich are playing Wednesday on Sky tonight. Fuck knows why they've chosen this, neither team is renowned for enterprising football and games between us tend to be dour tussles between poor sides. Assume Sky are trying to send the nation to sleep early so they don't watch the Ashes on BT.
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Underlining why we chose him to be at the centre of football's degrees of separation, Zlatan Ibrahimovic becomes the first player to appear in the Champions League for 7 (SEVEN) different clubs. Not sure whether this is an all-time record or merely post-rebrand, though.
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