LinekersLugs Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 What a manager to rally them and stitch them together and get that result is truly special stuff utter admiration for that man 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz93 Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 (edited) Really pleased for him tonight. Great set-up from the start, good substitutions and sorted out the set piece issues. Edited 28 December 2021 by Daz93 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinekersLugs Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 3 minutes ago, Corky said: Let's hope it's the start of a run of good performances and wins. We are capable, as is Brendan. He can turn this around. Turn what around ? It’s the toughest league on the planet and we struggled with Europe distractions as nearly every mid table club does ! We are where this squad possibly should be maybe one or two place lower than we should be in ! We have massively overachieved for 2 season this season was always coming, stick with him and stick with the players and we will do ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEGGSY Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 The song at the end went on forever. Glad he's being shown some appreciation, he's made his mistakes, but given the circumstances he got it absolutely spot on tonight. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tielemans63 Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Got his subs bang on today. Bang on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxfanazer Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Can't fault him tonight. Just a shame our injury crisis shows no sign of letting up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daggers Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Yep, hands up, I lost all faith in the man a while back. But - kinda in my defence - I know nothing about anything and am frequently full of shite. Hopefully others will follow my lead and stfu for the rest of the season. Yey Brendan. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HesNotGudjonsonn2 Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Did we seem to be doing more man to man when it came to corners? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanya Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 The changes when it comes to marking voters was particularly impressive. Well done to Brendan and the lads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collymore Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 7 minutes ago, Daz93 said: and sorted out the set piece issues. Yeah all sorted. Thank god eh? All sorted in one night of football.... Seriously though- they got their head on a lot of corners with Kasper doing his usual ghost impression. It needs a lot of work still. Great win though and will give confidence to the defence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Izzy Posted 28 December 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 28 December 2021 Thought he spoke really well on Amazon just now. And a nice touch giving Emma Hayes a shout out. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretPro Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Just now, Izzy said: Thought he spoke really well on Amazon just now. And a nice touch giving Emma Hayes a shout out. Yes, this was good. Keep it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 1 minute ago, Izzy said: Thought he spoke really well on Amazon just now. And a nice touch giving Emma Hayes a shout out. What did he say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
car1os Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 8 minutes ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said: Did we seem to be doing more man to man when it came to corners? We did - BR even said we were more “old school” with our man to man marking system for corners. On todays evidence we should continue that way and see how we get on for the next few games as the zonal marking system clearly wasn’t working Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Izzy Posted 28 December 2021 Popular Post Share Posted 28 December 2021 Just now, StanSP said: What did he say? Admitted to going 'old school' with defending corners (man for man, two men on the post etc) as zonal wasn't working. Mentioned we're at the bare bones and also losing players to AFCON but no excuses, just get on with it. Then made a point of congratulating Emma Hayes in the studio for the job she's done at Chelsea. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HesNotGudjonsonn2 Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Completely agree. The fact is we didn’t concede from so many corners. That is clearly an improvement. Finally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrington fox Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Prior to this game we conceded goals from just about every 3 corners. Tonight they got what, 12 corners and we kept em out. Fantastic. I hope that is the last time we see zonal marking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supergray22 Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 This. And putting men on posts when necessary. Much more solid. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cadno'r Cymoedd Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Thought he spoke much better this evening. Perhaps he is realising that he needed to adapt and has shown the humility needed. We rode our luck at times - I don't get all the plaudits in the studio over the set up - but churlish to criticise after such a result and plucky performance in adversity. So well done Brendan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daz93 Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 8 minutes ago, Collymore said: Yeah all sorted. Thank god eh? All sorted in one night of football.... Seriously though- they got their head on a lot of corners with Kasper doing his usual ghost impression. It needs a lot of work still. Great win though and will give confidence to the defence Don't really get why you're being so condescending - not sure where in my post I said it is all sorted after one game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Russell Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 I thought the starting XI and the subs were bang on tonight. Glad he didn’t go with 5 at the back. Big call to put Thomas against Salah in a back 4, but the gamble paid off. Lookman gave us a spark just when we were getting possession in their half. let’s not get carried away because we rode our luck, but to engineer a win tonight was a great achievement and over the last 3 games vs liv twice and Man City, I can see that the players are giving everything for him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfc_forever Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 12 minutes ago, Izzy said: Admitted to going 'old school' with defending corners (man for man, two men on the post etc) as zonal wasn't working. Mentioned we're at the bare bones and also losing players to AFCON but no excuses, just get on with it. Then made a point of congratulating Emma Hayes in the studio for the job she's done at Chelsea. Such class from Brendan. Emma Hayes is one of the best analysts as well, glad she got that appreciation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collymore Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 17 minutes ago, Daz93 said: Don't really get why you're being so condescending - not sure where in my post I said it is all sorted after one game? Just you said we had sorted out set piece defending solely on the notion we didn't concede one in the game. They were queueing up a times in the box on corners and we defended throwins like an U8 side. It was great though - Absolute heroic last ditch stuff at times and about time we got a bit of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickyblueeyes Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 He got it right today. ESPECIALLY on corners! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriderHiryu Posted 28 December 2021 Share Posted 28 December 2021 Playing a Diamond shape against Liverpool on paper sounds like madness, but it's worked against them 3 times in a row now. Sure we lost one game on penalties, but we've scored against them every other time so far. Brendan is a manager that learns from his mistakes, something I really rate. He's found a way for KDH to play in the team as a left Mezzala in either a 433 or Diamond and he's been a revelation for us. He's also changed up the set piece defending (finally) and also told Kasper to kick it long more often as we gave away too many goals arsing about at the back, whilst also playing through the lines at the right times. Overall the season has still been massively disappointing, but he's still proving himself to be a very good coach. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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