devaney » Fri May 03, 2019 12:54 pm wrote:Yes but his team selection and tactics backfired big time fivecups.
It reminded me of panic tactics because we were playing at the daunting nou camp.
Sorry RR but I think you are talking rubbish. Your answer was to play Shaquiri or Origi and neither of them have done anything particularly impressive when they have been given the opportunity. It wasn’t tactics or team selection that lost us the game it was bad luck, missed opportunities and brilliance by Barca. Messi’s free kick was something very special and most of the time would never have resulted in a goal. Their first goal wether you like it or not was downright impressive. Prior to them scoring in the second half we were by far the better team. On another day the same team could have easily won. I think the loss of Keita also had an affect.
Let’s leave team selection and tactics to Klopp. He done very well so far this season.[/quote]
Klopp fvcked up imo, playing Wijnaldum up front clearly didn't work, he did ***** all all game apart from forlornly chase their keeper around, playing Milner on such a big pitch wasn't the best idea either, he was awful on the night.
The Gomez one didn't work either but I'll cut him a bit of slack on that one because Trent has been getting caught out in recent weeks so I can see why he did it but ***** me Joe has had something like 15 minutes of competitive football in about 4 or 5 months, that was a big call and unfortunately for us it didn't pay off.
It wasn't all down to poor team selection, luck had a big say in what happened on the night and not just in terms of their goals and our misses, even things like Keita going off leaving us with Milner, Henderson and Wijnaldum all on the pitch at the same time didn't help.
Jurgen is a great manager but he over thought it on Wednesday night imo. This Barca team isnt that good, he should have just went for them.
All in all it's been a great season and I doubt any other manager in world football could have got as much out of this group of players as Jurgen has.
Btw I've still got a sneaky feeling that we could do it on Tuesday, as I said this Barca team aren't that good and on European nights anything can happen at our gaff particularly if the fans start to believe.