Weekend Football

[South Coast Royal]

Pleased they won though

They drew the game ...(.but won the trophy).
Palace showed in the second half of last season that they are a decent side and if they keep the current squad they will cause a few upsets (see Man City).

For a Charity Shield game it was quite entertaining but Liverpool were caught out by the new full-backs being unfamiliar with holding the back line.

A good wake-up call for Liverpool in a game that meant less to them than to the opposition with Slot taking off the two expensive signings when leading 2-1presumably to manage the minutes for some players ahead of the real thing that starts on Friday night.

BTW as we are talking about the weekend football, what a disjointed team Selles put out for Sheff Utd with so many attack-minded players and with no balanced structure to the line-up.
Poor Tyler Bindon and the other centre-back had no defensive back-up from midfield as Bristol City were just allowed to come at them through the middle time and again with the inevitable outcome.

[Sutekh]

Pleased they won though

They drew the game ...(.but won the trophy).
Palace showed in the second half of last season that they are a decent side and if they keep the current squad they will cause a few upsets (see Man City).

For a Charity Shield game it was quite entertaining but Liverpool were caught out by the new full-backs being unfamiliar with holding the back line.

A good wake-up call for Liverpool in a game that meant less to them than to the opposition with Slot taking off the two expensive signings when leading 2-1presumably to manage the minutes for some players ahead of the real thing that starts on Friday night.

BTW as we are talking about the weekend football, what a disjointed team Selles put out for Sheff Utd with so many attack-minded players and with no balanced structure to the line-up.
Poor Tyler Bindon and the other centre-back had no defensive back-up from midfield as Bristol City were just allowed to come at them through the middle time and again with the inevitable outcome.

Think the established “lesser” sides in the PL are closing the gap a little on the elite sides and those elite sides now have to try a lot harder to get the points off them even though many of them strip the lesser sides of their stars each season.

Really not convinced by Liverpool at the moment, they’ve improved the first team attacking quality immeasurably but defensively they’re still all over the place (think in virtually every game since February they’ve conceded at least 2 goals) and the general state of their overall squad is poor as there’s still no quality depth to it which has been a problem for them for years and why they haven’t won more. No doubt it will be rectified before the window closes but they desperately need 2 centre backs and still have need of the decent DM for which they have been looking for the last 5 years, as Gravenberch does get injured and suspended from time to time. Perhaps Bajcetic might be the answer there though - if he can ever stay fit long enough for someone to find out!