Youth Team/Cup

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3-3

another cross from the right, Mabaya attempts to clear but it is charged down into the corner of the net.

Three minutes to play in normal time.

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Chelsea head over in the 90th minute. Five minutes added.

[Allan]

Liverpool 3 Chelsea 4

 

The comeback is complete and it must be said that you could see that coming a mile away - We've been shocking since they scored their first.

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3-4

in the fourth minutes of injury time, a cross from the left is mis-kicked into the far corner. We manage one last free kick into their box in time added on, but nothing comes of it.

Full time.

Gut wrenching - the game turned on Lee Jonas getting hurt, and we never got our defence set after that.

[Supremolad]

Think that collapse was on the cards. Simply didnt manage the game well enough when 3-1 up. Guess the under 18s have been taking notes from the first team.

[Allan]

Fell to pieces after Chelsea got their first goal - Lucky deflection, but there was zero reaction to the goal from our lads and Chelsea were able to get the momentum. In the end, there was only going to be one winner.

 

Really missed Bajcetic in the closing stages, and with hindsight, the decision to move Mabaya from the middle of the park to right-back when Jonas came off completely backfired and allowed Chelsea to gain the foothold in midfield that they'd not really had up until that point.

[John102]

I thought the subs were poor.

[Allan]

33 minutes ago, John102 said:

I thought the subs were poor.

Again, it's easy to say in hindsight, but I don't understand making 4 changes to the formation for the sake of 1 sub.

 

With Jonas going off, instead of making a like for like change, we decide to bring on a central midfielder and then move Chambers, Davidson & Mabaya from the positions they'd been playing well in up to that point. Now you've got 4 players having to adjust at the same time when the opposition is just starting to pick up a head of steam after the deflected goal.

 

I get that the players that have been moved around have all previously played in the roles they were moved to and the staff trust them to play those roles, but I just don't get making such a big change to the roles at that moment in the game. I like James McConnell and think he's a talented player, but you can't be shifting that many players around for 1 sub. Poor game management from the staff, in my opinion.

 

Still, it's a learning curve for all of them at this level, so hopefully, this will give everyone a little perspective and they can use the last 15-20 minutes as an example to the lads of how games can turn on you if you switch off thinking the game is already won.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Mostly in the manager for me.

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[John102]

This must be the 10th time we have played Burnley this month.

 

Ready with my Mabaya scoring 5 comment.

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1-0 LFC

Blair cuts in off the left flank and smashes it into the far corner.

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Blair misses when through on goal, still 1-0.

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1-1

Burnley equalise in stoppage time in a crowded box off the inside of the post after we lose the ball trying to waste time.

 

Thats halftime, not a great performance, the central midfield hasn’t clicked as a unit and some players look uncomfortable in their allocated positions.

[DalyanPete]

On 29/01/2022 at 22:36, Dynamite said:

Lucky deflection,

Was Lampard playing?

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2-1 LFC

Cross from Scanlon to the near post, where Cannonier deflects it past their keeper.

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3-1 LFC

Blair (who has barely been in the game in the second half) runs down the left and crosses to the back post, where Mabaya comes round the back to finish from six yards out.

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McConnell curls a shot just over from 20 yards. Five minutes left.

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Clark shoots over from 15 yards out in the 90th minute.

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Frauendorf makes it 4-1 in stoppage time latching onto a loose ball in the box.

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Full time 4-1

Flattering score line, we only played well in the last ten minutes. Hopefully some of the missing players will be back before we play another league game.

[Bad Red Bull]

Blair's goal 

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Somehow we have found eleven players to make up an Under-23 team to play Leeds at Elland Road :-

 

 

 

[John102]

I forgot Fidel existed.

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Morton can't convert a clear chance in the box, his shot is blocked for a corner.