Todays game has worried me. We've played City, Southampton, Spurs before today, all teams that would have a go at us, fairly attacking teams. That leaves space in behind for players like Sturridge, Sterling, Markovic, Lallana, Balotelli to run in to, and have balls played in behind.
Today we faced our first team that are more happy to park the bus for 90mins, and we really really struggled, we missed a Suarez.
Against teams that want to play, we'll probably do alright. But there's a lot of teams in the league that will play like today, home and away. I'm not confident on the crop we've got being that great at breaking down well schooled defences that dont want to push out.
Todays game might have been completely different if we'd have gone 1-0 up from a counter (from one of their very rare attacks), but as the game went on, they looked more and more comfortable at shutting us out for me.
Today we faced our first team that are more happy to park the bus for 90mins, and we really really struggled, we missed a Suarez.
Against teams that want to play, we'll probably do alright. But there's a lot of teams in the league that will play like today, home and away. I'm not confident on the crop we've got being that great at breaking down well schooled defences that dont want to push out.
Todays game might have been completely different if we'd have gone 1-0 up from a counter (from one of their very rare attacks), but as the game went on, they looked more and more comfortable at shutting us out for me.