woof woof ! » Thu Sep 24, 2015 1:31 pm wrote:I'm no fan of Rodgers BUT with 60% of possession and 40 shots at goal for this game you could say he'd done his job
To only score just once you could say it's the players who didn't do theirs. :(
Not entirely accurate but I see where youre coming from. We started with 3 at the back when we really didnt need to. Emre Can was pushing forward as much as he was simply because we didnt need 3 at the back dealing with their 1 isolated forward.
Any decent manager would have realized that Carlisle wouldnt pose much of an attacking threat and would have started with 4 at the back rather than 3. Higher up, Milner and Allen offered very little in terms of creativity and quality on the ball and the change to introduce Coutinho took too long. We were taking long shots from the 1st minute and I have to think the manager either asked them to do so or never mentioned that they should stop doing it at any point.
If you look at the game, I dont think we created more than 3 or 4 good chances. The majority of the shots you refer to were aimless long hits from the likes of Can and Milner who were hitting it from 30 yards in hope more than anything.
Overall, the display was embarrassing and so was the result. Opposition sides dont come any worse than Carlisle and if they had won it they would have deserved to because individually and as a collective they battled, played close to their potential, and had a gameplan that worked.