Popular Post StanSP Posted 13 February 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 13 February 2021 On 04/02/2021 at 15:53, Foxes96 said: I wonder how that compares to other teams during the same period? We must have been consistently a top 6 side on form for that entire period? Man U, Liverpool and Man City above us? Maybe Chelsea - not sure? Either way an incredible feat and relative consistency at the sharp end of the table. Since 26th Feb 2019, when he officially joined, this is the table: Incredible when you consider what other teams have spent, especially the top 2 who have been in imperious form for the best part of 3-4 years anyway. Maybe it's Pearson and Ranieri who built the foundations, but Rodgers is establishing us as a top 4/6 side. Or in the process of. 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Russell Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 21 minutes ago, StanSP said: Since 26th Feb 2019, when he officially joined, this is the table: Incredible when you consider what other teams have spent, especially the top 2 who have been in imperious form for the best part of 3-4 years anyway. Maybe it's Pearson and Ranieri who built the foundations, but Rodgers is establishing us as a top 4/6 side. Or in the process of. Not just what they spend on transfers but our wage bill is pretty modest compared to the bigger clubs. It tends to be playing staff gross salaries that has the biggest impact on the league table - as transfer expenditure is so high risk and the results are pretty volatile. Agains this metric Rodgers has taken a mid table budget and outperformed consistently - huge credit to him and his staff. I also think the way the club is run helps enormously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc987123 Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 Here’s hoping he can get us top four this season, he’s shown he’s more than capable, last season we only have ourselves to blame for missing out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post AjcW Posted 13 February 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 13 February 2021 What a brilliant brilliant tactical switch from Brendan. When Perez came on he told Barnes to go up top and run at the defence. **** me we haven’t half executed that to perfection! 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 A massive result for two reasons. There was, and still probably is, a perception that he's intimidated by Liverpool and Klopp so to beat them puts a temporary stop to that. Secondly, winning in a poor performance which we've not tended to do. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mike Oxlong Posted 13 February 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 13 February 2021 (edited) Edited 13 February 2021 by Mike Oxlong 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 28 minutes ago, AjcW said: What a brilliant brilliant tactical switch from Brendan. When Perez came on he told Barnes to go up top and run at the defence. **** me we haven’t half executed that to perfection! Worked even better when we equalised and their full-backs started to play as wide midfielders. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGibbo Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 I'm hoping this was a pivotal point in the evolution of Rodgers. He's got the Liverpool monkey off his back and will hopefully now accept that we're as good as them. Free your mind and the rest will follow... to quote En Vogue. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Tielemans63 Posted 13 February 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 13 February 2021 His management of this team, considering all the injuries, has been absolutely brilliant this season imho. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post StriderHiryu Posted 13 February 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 13 February 2021 Very interesting game. Despite the result I think Rodgers deep down won't be that happy with the game. I think tactically he might be happy, but not happy with the execution. We started off in a 4231 with Riccy P at Left Back. Actually I think this was OK, Ricardo did well and was clearly selected to deal with Salah. No doubt the original plan was to have JJ and Riccy P deal with Mane and Salah, with Salah taking precedent. Salah's goal was down to bad play from Tielemans so I think tactically the setup worked well. Amartey was selected for his physicality to deal with Mane and though Mane had him on toast a few times, overall I'd give Amartey a 7/10 and was solid. For the first 75 minutes our biggest issue was not being able to play out of the first press, losing the ball over and over again. Tactically we made chances against Liverpool and should have taken the lead with Vardy, so I feel Rodgers got the tactical gameplan right, but the team didn't execute. Perhaps Maddison was playing a bit too high up the pitch against a team as good as Liverpool. Second half Rodgers deserves respect for going for it. It felt like Perez was brought on to work hard so Barnes could have his shackles removed, and boy did he get going! So does that mean next time we play that we go to attack Liverpool? For me that's still a no because our pressing game is not as good as Man City's or Liverpool's. For me the best thing Rodgers has done this season is not try to match up with those teams but give them a different problem to solve, and that's why we have 6 points out of 9 against the too. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hankey Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 What a lengthy diatribe. Rodgers deserves all the respect, end of!! Remember, we've just beaten the current Chumpions. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Hankey Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 Liverpool & Klopp will realise after today's events a game is at least 90 minutes long. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackFox Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, StriderHiryu said: Very interesting game. Despite the result I think Rodgers deep down won't be that happy with the game. I think tactically he might be happy, but not happy with the execution. We started off in a 4231 with Riccy P at Left Back. Actually I think this was OK, Ricardo did well and was clearly selected to deal with Salah. No doubt the original plan was to have JJ and Riccy P deal with Mane and Salah, with Salah taking precedent. Salah's goal was down to bad play from Tielemans so I think tactically the setup worked well. Amartey was selected for his physicality to deal with Mane and though Mane had him on toast a few times, overall I'd give Amartey a 7/10 and was solid. For the first 75 minutes our biggest issue was not being able to play out of the first press, losing the ball over and over again. Tactically we made chances against Liverpool and should have taken the lead with Vardy, so I feel Rodgers got the tactical gameplan right, but the team didn't execute. Perhaps Maddison was playing a bit too high up the pitch against a team as good as Liverpool. Second half Rodgers deserves respect for going for it. It felt like Perez was brought on to work hard so Barnes could have his shackles removed, and boy did he get going! So does that mean next time we play that we go to attack Liverpool? For me that's still a no because our pressing game is not as good as Man City's or Liverpool's. For me the best thing Rodgers has done this season is not try to match up with those teams but give them a different problem to solve, and that's why we have 6 points out of 9 against the too. Not really. Any meaningful attempts that Mane did today, were made through the middle. In fact it was the other way around, Mane had trouble dealing with Amartey, and clearly needed the help of Robertson. Edited 13 February 2021 by BlackFox Grammar mistakes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchsntf Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 4 hours ago, lcfc987123 said: Here’s hoping he can get us top four this season, he’s shown he’s more than capable, last season we only have ourselves to blame for missing out You missed the injuries then.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuchsntf Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 34 minutes ago, Paddy. said: His management of this team, considering all the injuries, has been absolutely brilliant this season imho. & No whining & complaining every five minutes, unlike Pep,Mourhino,Klopp etc... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbertway Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 We were poor today and looked under massive pressure everytime we tried to pass out from the back 6 or 7 players are the only reason weve not been humiliated tiday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxTrott Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 If Spurs are to sack Mourinho, should we worry about them going after King Brendan? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhYesNdidi Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 (edited) 2 minutes ago, FoxTrott said: If Spurs are to sack Mourinho, should we worry about them going after King Brendan? Doesn’t he have a £20m release clause? + Spurs aren’t any better than us anyway & that’s with two world class footballers in Kane & Son who really should leave and join a big club if they want to win trophies. Edited 13 February 2021 by OhYesNdidi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Fox Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 1 minute ago, FoxTrott said: If Spurs are to sack Mourinho, should we worry about them going after King Brendan? Nope why would he go to Spurs? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hales Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 Brendan take a bow 👏👏👏👏 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxes_rule1978 Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 2 minutes ago, Happy Fox said: Nope why would he go to Spurs? No chance with levy has chairman, what is good about us is we allow the manager to do his thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dynamark Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 Ricardo bless him despite some chat here did the job on the Salah side after a few minutes and that was crucial .They are not as quick and crisp as they once were and average at the back .Good job now villa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
volpeazzurro Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 39 minutes ago, FoxTrott said: If Spurs are to sack Mourinho, should we worry about them going after King Brendan? Why on earth would he vaguely consider going there? We've far more potential with better owners. He knows which side his breads buttered. He'll only ever leave for a BIG club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Oxlong Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, David Hankey said: What a lengthy diatribe. Rodgers deserves all the respect, end of!! Remember, we've just beaten the current Chumpions. What a load of tosh ! Do you know what diatribe means ? You’re going to google it now aren’t you @StriderHiryuposts the best tactical analysis on this forum - end of ! Edited 13 February 2021 by Mike Oxlong 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionator Posted 13 February 2021 Share Posted 13 February 2021 1 hour ago, FoxTrott said: If Spurs are to sack Mourinho, should we worry about them going after King Brendan? He'll only go elsewhere if he feels he's taken us as far as he can take us. He's going to have a UCL season at least with us so no need to worry yet. He's clearly the real deal to turn it around again after the end of last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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