[Albion] Hughton - a positive & negative

brightn'ove said:

****ing Murray giving the ball away on the 6 yard line ... drop him

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Icy Gull said:

Strange to say but I actually enjoyed the game today. My biggest worry is that whenever teams press us we don’t seem able to pass the ball to our own players enough. City, Leicester, Stoke, Palace and now Liverpool have put us in panic mode on the ball. I thought Coutinho was the best player I have seen live for a long long time. So much time and skill on the ball and what a fabulous free kick for the free kick goal. A stuffing was always going to happen eventually, shame it had to be at home, and I thought the scorline flattered Liverpool. No way am I blaming CH for today, the gulf in class was too big on the day. Even if Murray had taken his chances I still think we would have lost.

Jose’s jinking run was the highlight of our day for me. We need to sign a big striker with pace to take the pressure off us. Murray in the first half was close on useless but much better in the second half but he hasn’t got the pace and three games in a week is too much for him at this level imo. Got into the right positions to have had a hatrick on another day though but we really do need some pace to be able to exploit long clearances.

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trueblue said:

At 3-1 we were still in the game. Murray should have made it 3-2.

Bizarre that Liverpool score a couple of blistering goals on the break and people still can’t see that attacking them from the off would be akin to footballing suicide.

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sheebo said:

Thought he got the formation wrong today at the start and Gross was too deep so we sat way too deep and didn’t pressure their makeshift and dodgy defence. To his credit, he seemed to give a clear message at halftime of ‘support Glenn more’ and as a team we started pushing them and were much, much better second half, after a poor first half.

Had them a little worried at 3-1 and Murray could have had 4 today. Not a 5-1 game, although you have to admire the quality of Liverpool - that’s the £s we’re up against. Keep the faith.

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PILTDOWN MAN said:

No we gave them the ball

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sheebo said:

Thought he got the formation wrong today at the start and Gross was too deep so we sat way too deep and didn’t pressure their makeshift and dodgy defence.

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Stat Brother said:

Losing 3-1 at home shouldn't be that entertaining.
Sure the last 10 minutes sucked the life out of me, but up until 4 & 5 I thought we played well.

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Billy the Fish said:

I agree with the sentiment, but for most of the first half our wingers were playing as fullbacks and our no10 was in midfield. Murray was our only outlet, if our players didn't hit him when we won the ball, we just gave the ball back to them. There's a balance between sitting back and being on the front foot, and in the first half I think we sat back and invited to much pressure.

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