Quote from: ciggiesnbeer on January 20, 2014, 03:17:27 AMAnyone else notice we played more like 4-3-1-2 with Weimann dropping deep almost midfield and tekkers as the big man linking with gabby? Was yet another change for Lambert. It worked well.I thought it worked poorly. We lost all the width which stretched Liverpool in the first half and bypassed all 4 1/2 midfielders, bunting it long to two Big Men and promptly losing it.
Anyone else notice we played more like 4-3-1-2 with Weimann dropping deep almost midfield and tekkers as the big man linking with gabby? Was yet another change for Lambert. It worked well.
Perhaps some won't give him credit but KEA was great in the first half, pressing unceasingly and making some good passes.Weimann did do well against Gerrard first half but the Holt-for-Gabby sub was a poor move. Not that Holt played badly, far from it, it just narrowed us and cramped us, and made us go long when all our best stuff had come about by passing through the midfield.
I love it when we are prepared to press the opposition in that way. For some reason, we have tended to sit back and let other teams have the ball a lot under Paul Lambert. That's fine, we are a good counter-attacking side, but defending is not our strength. When Vlaar was out injured it just looked so stupidto watch us invite so much pressure on ourselves. Vlaar has been my player of the season so far. He is so important to us.
as soon as Gabby went off Liverpool were able to push on to us as they knew we had no pace to hurt them, as I said on the post match thread bringing Holt on was a mistake and showed again Lamberts lack of tactical awareness.
It was 4312 from the start as shown on motd. Meant our strikers could get one on one with their centre backs, we had numbers in central midfield to outnumber them, and wrimann's bursts through the middle could exploit their lack of a holding midfielderSo he kept the same formation when holt came on. But it obviously meant a different approach and by that stage Liverpool had changed formation so I'd have thought albrighton would have been the Better bet
Quote from: ChicagoLion on January 20, 2014, 10:43:27 PMas soon as Gabby went off Liverpool were able to push on to us as they knew we had no pace to hurt them, as I said on the post match thread bringing Holt on was a mistake and showed again Lamberts lack of tactical awareness.I was screaming at the Tv saying the same. Should have been Albrighton which would have been virtual like for like with Gabby. It was as if he thought he had to make a point aout playing his old mate Holt and give credence to the signing. 'The Mighty Reds YNWA' were there for the taking and we and we missed out