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I'm tiring of hearing about how disappointing he was against PSG. Their entire gameplan was built around nullifying him and leaving it to Herrera or someone else to create for our attackers. Not to mention we lost 2 of our 3 attackers before half and replaced them with dross. For me Herrera let us down much more than Pogba did considering he had 2 markers on him at all times, and Herrera was constantly afforded space to which he couldn't take advantage of. He's decent at arriving into the box but when given the ball in the final third and asked to attack he's mostly shocking nowadays. It's one of the sneakily weak parts of our squad that needs to be addressed since it seems Fred can't cut it at the moment.
So he wasn’t disappointing?
Mourinho would make a great politician. Top class divisive tactics! He managed to fool a lot of people into thinking Pogba was a big problem in the squad.
I hope they are were Jose is now, out....
They don't have anyone even close to Marquinhos to do that job. I think he'll do just fine.
Redcafe rating shouldn't be taken seriously. Most of the rating are done right after the match, so when we lose most of them gets shit ratings.
They have a very solid midfield and for sure can do a job on him if we dont play it smartly
Solid, but Marquinhos could actually physically match Pogba, whilst he also had players like Dani Alves coming at him as well. I very much doubt anyone in Liverpool's midfield can match Pogba physically.
I hope you are right but your take is a bit simplistic.
these feckers know who they are but are staying silent or arguing that that the earth is flat, that they were never wrong to begin with and have gone on to take the snobby high ground on other matters on the forum now
What is still missing are the long range crackers.
Don’t forget, even after Mourinho was sacked:
What were the contrasting stats between Liverpool and PSG earlier in the group?
5 is average. I've got him as a 6.8 with 9 MOTMs.
It's 10. Caf count is wrong or the place they fetch records from is wrong. All the other sits like official PL/CL one, whoscored.com, transfermarkt recorded 10 assists.
Liverpool ran 120 km vs City in the CL last season and City ran 120 km vs Spurs away this season. Running stats have little to to do with the difference between CL and PL but with the ability to press all over the pitch. It's not clear whether Liverpool are in top physical form now (they weren't vs Leicester and Wham) but if they are, it won't be a problem for them to press with greater intensity than PSG. PSG have relatively poor stats running wise and this might be a problem for them in the later stages.
I think it does. It certainly does for players who win penalties as Mata was given an assist for the penalty Pogba scored against Fulham.
@Damien can we clarify this? Winning penalties + free-kicks that are subsequently converted, as well as taking shots from which rebounds are scored, can be counted as assists depending on how you look at it. In Pogba’s case, is the Caf’s assist number based on that or is the ‘13 assists’ just completely wrong?
Just took 3 Liverpool games.
Yes he did.
I think it is counting them. @Niall is the only one who knows for sure.
Yes. So Pogba got assist for Martial goal vs Arsenal. Also Pogba won freekick vs Leicester and Juventus which was converted. I think that's why he has 3 more assists on CAF vs other sites.
Yeah. They should change it.
Fabinho maybe... well, we will see
Good point. Still, I think that Liverpool hit top physical form only in December and peaked vs City. In October they ran only 109 km against City vs 122 km in January. The run of the game and tactics play a role too. The game at Anfield was more tactical and positional, City were quite cautious in their approach. I think we were a bit too cautious against PSG too and didn't trouble their defence. But I wouldn't mind if we are cautious vs Liverpool as they are deadly on the counter.
