Cool. Let's just wait and see what happens when he goes.
Champions League Semi Finals (26th Apr - 4th May)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
How many games did it take us to score one past these feckers?
Can't remember the last time they made a bad signing I miss the sight of Karius throwing the ball into his own net.
They were saying in the league cup final one of the first things Klopp did was get a mentality expert to work with the players. We need to find this man and pay him all the lazy players wages for as long as it takes to get him to work with what will hopefully be the select few who remain after what will hopefully be a huge cull
Where are our Robertson/Jota/ Diaz type signings?
They were saying in the league cup final one of the first things Klopp did was get a mentality expert to work with the players. We need to find this man and pay him all the lazy players wages for as long as it takes to get him to work with what will hopefully be the select few who remain after what will hopefully be a huge cull
Where are our Robertson/Jota/ Diaz type signings?
Utterly dominant by Liverpool. At least its only 2-0 and they'll have to go full strength in Spain.
It was the most unnecessary CL exit I can remember of. Total bottle job that came out of nowhere.
Can’t complain but we could’ve won by a goal or two more I guess. We should be ok in the second leg. Completely dominated that game.
Tie as good as over after the first leg. Typical Liverpool to get the rub on the green on both goals.
Villarreal will have to take more risks in the 2nd leg and that will allow Liverpool in for more goals.
Villarreal will have to take more risks in the 2nd leg and that will allow Liverpool in for more goals.
Don’t think the result would have been different had it been Bayern today. They are not Flick‘s 1st season Bayern.
This is the only positive
How fecking sad!
Funny how no pundit queries their energy levels ever, just always say how amazing it is.
Uh oh. Guess we are not the only asthmatic team in Europe.
What do you expect them too say???
“They are so fit they must be doping”…????
So this proves that Villarreal are on more drugs.
Haha, I’d be asking how they continue to perform at these levels full pelt, with generally the same core players non stop.
Have to take the small victories. Newcastle might only have to face Jota, Salah and Firmino instead of Mane, Diaz and Salah.
Liverpool and city obsviously play the best football in the world right now/
Villarreal ran more
Funny how no pundit queries Villarreal either.
You forget their second against Utd? One of the best goals I’ve seen for a long time. Their biggest advantage is their variety of goals. Hoofball, corners, counter attacks, rapid ball movement, cut backs. They score them all.
It's not the same core players any more. We've rotated a lot this season.
13 years later from the Great pep Barca team and people still haven’t figured out this whole pressing thing, you pressure less or in isolated periods because you keep the ball more.
You've been sharing out the inhalers.
I'm stil sticking to City winning one and Liverpool winning the other with the Premier League and Champions League. Another great year.
I’m not talking about 1 game.
Also Im not a member of the ‘doping’ conspiracy club, I just think more should be talked about how they think they do it. Same with City to an extent. Unless every other team in the league has lazy players who can’t be arsed to put the same effort it.
Pretty sure if this was an American sport the analysis of it all would be very interesting.
I think they just time their runs and rest a bit in possession. It's integral to a pressing game. It's intelligent use of their energy. They looked more intense on the night but actually ran less.
Also they're cnuts.
Just win all your games, then we won’t be taking about these small victories!
So LFC ran nearly as much as Villareal despite having 73% possession to 27%. That is a bit impressive to be honest.
They’re conditioning regime or whatever you’d call it must be insane, they‘ll play like that on Saturday morning as well, I get bored of the usual post match pundit crap. Give me and hour dissecting how they continue to do it game after game compared to other teams any day.
If it’s a Liverpool v City final why is it easier to stomach city winning it for United fans ? baffles me
Yeah, it's both fascinating and fecking annoying.
And all thanks to our brilliant owners, the Glazers, who enabled this situation to happen. Direct vitriol towards them. Grasping, football club destroying bastards.
You only play what is in front of you. Yes, Liverpool's route to the semis (and probably to the finals) was relatively "easy", but they only got luck in the sense that the good teams that ought to have been in their path either didn't make it out of the group stages (e.g. Barcelona for Benfica), or got knocked out unexpectedly (Bayern for Villareal).
The bottom line is Liverpool's path looks easy in retrospect, and yes, there are easier games on the CL, but pretty much all teams in the semis (aside from Villareal) had that sort of luck.
Agreed. Never seen anything like it. Wanna know how they do it.
It most certainly is!!
It’s not just about how much a team runs. It’s the speed, power and focus maintained during the match that is significant.
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Just goes to show though that the luck is still on liverpools side. They got the easiest route to the final ever.
Yes. For being shit.
Yep.
Can't find an up to date version but this is from earlier in the season:
People massively overestimate how much City & Liverpool run and press because they control the game in such a way as to maximise their efficiency in that regard.