Dejan Lovren

[Paco]

city persisted with dimichelis now they re crying out for him to play instead of mangala.

[Aldonose]

Any of our defenders would look better playing behind a midfield that offers more protection than ours. Saying that, I still think Lovrens dog shit.

[Paco]

quote this morning on motd 2 that we re not pressing teams at all now. our game was all about pressing win lose or draw.

 

why have we stopped doing this?

[thompsonsnose]

I think its hard to fairly judge any defender playing in a Brendan Rodgers side (other than Johnson) when he repeatedly fails to recognise CM as a MASSIVE weakness.

Zero protection offered by present incumbents.

We didn't control games last year, it was a complete white knuckle for virtually the whole season. Only we had a shit hot strike force which helped keep oppo attacks at bay as they were scared to commit too much.

None of that applies this season.

Pressing looks SO much easier when you have 2 lethal strikers, who can fuck you up if you get too ambitious.

 

Having said all that, Lovrens ball control, for one thing, is fucking terrible, whoever is in charge and whatever the "system".

[Aldonose]

Teams feared Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling. Our forward line this season doesn't instill the same fear. Teams are pressing us more, and at the same time are less fearful of us hurting them on the counter.

[thompsonsnose]

Teams feared Suarez, Sturridge and Sterling. Our forward line this season doesn't instill the same fear. Teams are pressing us more, and at the same time are less fearful of us hurting them on the counter.

I just said that.

[Mathewbet1]

Anyone notice we are not pressing teams as much as last season?

[Aldonose]

My fingers aren't that fast fella.

[Mook]

There's a lack of pressing from us, this season.

[Mathewbet1]

whens king Sakho back…time to give dj Lovren a 'rest' .

[Paco]

whens king Sakho back…time to give dj Lovren a 'rest' .

with the fishies

[Paulie Dangerously]

Watching him running through treacle and missing headers for 90 minutes is soul destroying

[Liverpool lad]

Apparently Dejan Lovren, Simon Mignolet and Mamadou Sakho all fuck stuff up.

Fixed

[Denny Crane]

This was quite funny, posted from someone on twitter, sad but true.

 

Brendan Rodgers says that our strikers are scoring lots of goals in training. That's not surprising. They're playing against our defence.

[TheHowieLama]

Heh - yeah we are unstoppable in training...

[DK Poetry]

A striker runs at Lovren, and Lovren starts to retreat

If Lovren goes back any further, he'll end up in a pitchside seat

He kicks with his left, He swings with his right,
But with each foot, he's equally shite
Lovren keeps getting picked, but he really is poor
It's a matter of time 'til the other team score
Now to his right right, is the useless Slovak,
He's been here a while, but I wish he'd go back.
We keep conceding, Gerrard wears a frown
He wanted to the title, but we look like going down.
I go to the game and the crowd are going mental,
I wouldn't trust Rodgers to shop at Radio Rental.
Who would have thought when so close to the dream?
That just a few months later we'd be such a shit team.
Yes the crowd did dream, when he spent that money,
But now we're just shite and it's not fucking funny.

 

*frowns and takes a swig from pint

[Aldonose]

Kolo's twice the defender. Another nail in the committee's coffin.

[Iceman]

I want to see him with some proper cover in front of him for at least 6 games before we throw him away. Confidence is a huge factor in footy and our whole team is over thinking it at times. Skrtel was shocking against Madrid on a few occasions but we know he can be decent when he gets some form. And I'm not really a Lovren fan but I do see some moments where he looks like he could be ok. (usually when he takes off the shirt and drives away from the ground but I'm keeping an open mind)

[Aldonose]

I know what you mean. He's being made to look worse than he is because of a lack of cover in front of him. He's not helping himself with the basics though. Toure showed qualities last night that we haven't seen from Lovren.

[Iceman]

And Kolo had cover in front of him. The cover is the important thing. Get the basics right and then specialize. We keep looking for specialists but we just need to keep it simple. Can is easily good enough so we should just go with him.

 

I feel like we should have done that with our 2 upfront as well. Our attack was all about speed so just go with our 2 quickest players which seemed to be Sterling and Ibe (in the absence of Sturridge), and then build on that. 

 

We had a fluid interchangeable and dynamic template last season. Should have just stuck to it and then worked out the problems as they showed themselves. 

[Brigant Moloch]

Kolo's twice the defender. Another nail in the committee's coffin.

 

He was Rodgers' FIRST CHOICE cb. Committee has nothing to do with him. Fallows & Hunter rejected him while at Man City. He's a lovechild of BR and Match of the Day. Educate yourself. Committee would have never allowed this transfer, all on Rodgers. Fact. 

 

Fucking hell I've been moaning about him and Rodgers whole Summer. Morons.

[Major Tom]

He was Rodgers' FIRST CHOICE cb. Committee has nothing to do with him. Fallows & Hunter rejected him while at Man City. He's a lovechild of BR and Match of the Day. Educate yourself. Committee would have never allowed this transfer, all on Rodgers. Fact. 

 

Fucking hell I've been moaning about him and Rodgers whole Summer. Morons.

 

Right.

 

And you know this, how?

[eeyore]

Come on lovren and lallana were brendans choices. Any fool can see that

[Major Tom]

Come on lovren and lallana were brendans choices. Any fool can see that

 

To be honest, Mark, I think that the buck for all transfers begins and ends with the manager. Regardless of how they came about.

 

But people presenting opinions as facts is complete nonsense. Unless those people are privy to more information than the rest of us. Which they won't be.

[Brigant Moloch]

Right.

 

And you know this, how?

 

doing some research, not reading club's media puppets and, you know, thinking helps a lot