2019/20 Marco Silva

[matty1878]

Silva must keep making the team winning at home while he must change the way the team set-up away from home. If he did this all over again in the next away game we shall not expect a different result.

Agree matey

 

[4737carlin]

Do you think we´ll ever find a manager who´s that good? I´m convinced you could open up our manager thread on this forum in 5 years time and we´ll be having the exact same conversations as we are now.

Not that good, no chance, but better then this guy

 

[davek]

Siggy was not signed by brands and he is the major problem.

...he can replace him....

 

[Billysgingham.]

Why should we sack him? Coz we lost to villa and Bournemouth? it’s not a good enough reason

It's not a bad one.

 

[matty1878]

If that was adequate then we are in bad bad place.

I hated every minute of it.

We weren’t two weeks ago, it’s just we need to do this away from home and sort out some AWFUL defending

 

[brieverton]

Think we need more than a decent manager though. We need a manager who has us punching above our weight, one who unites the club and has a clear playing style. We spent well in the summer, have a decent squad yet here we are coming away from Villa and Bournemouth away with a -4 goal difference. Throwing on Theo Walcott in the 80th minute to try and get us back in the game.....what on earth.

I would agree with this. For me, over the first three away games against this level of opposition, 5 points would have been acceptable and 7 would be punching above our weight, given our beyond disgraceful record away from home.

It is precisely our away results that define each league season and ultimately what Silva will be judged on.

We have played three sides that we tend to almost universally turn up our noses at (without any justification) and come away with 1 point, 1 goal, and a -4 GD.

The thing is, when will things turn, and when will we get even a hint of consistency.

You have to say that based on this season and last, nothing fundamentally seems to have changed only a shift in personnel to no obvious positive effect.

Silva has to, and will, carry the can ultimately, but unfortunately it does seem that nothing has changed. I'd like to see a bit more anger from him in the wake of such a disappointment as today's result. I don't get the sense from anyone, him included, that this just isn't acceptable. All will be well if we win at GP next week, but despite our good home record, we are far more capable of dumbing down to the lowest common denominator at home than we are to rising to the task away.

 

[Billysgingham.]

...he can replace him....

Replace who?

 

[matty1878]

It's not a bad one.

It’s not a good enough one tho.

 

[davek]

The back 4 need more protection away from home. The two in the middle especially just aren´t good enough for this open game.

...yep, but I'd still hardly ever use 2 DMF against the likes of B'mouth.

 

[Toffeelover]

Player for player they are better than any squad we've had under since Moyes and that's facts.
They might not play better as a team but individually they are easily top 6 challenge worthy imo.

In which case it is down to the manager would you say?

 

[dannyboy]

Klopp’s made them into one of the best teams in Europe. They were bang average when he took over.

Their recruitment has been fantastic as well though. If Klopp took over our squad now, I think 4 years later most of them would´ve been moved on.

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Love how the echo care more about DCL getting off the mark than the fact we've just been handed our arse by Bournemouth.

Worst local paper in the country as its so pro LFC and cares nothing for us with wet wipe "EFC" journo's too scared to ask questions of the club.

 

[davek]

Replace who?

...Sigurdsson...and hasn't.

 

[ToffeeTim]

We weren’t two weeks ago, it’s just we need to do this away from home and sort out some AWFUL defending

We've defended dreadfully for 4 consecutive games.

Away from home we are a mess and do the same thing repeatedly. He seems to have no answers.

 

[Billysgingham.]

It’s not a good enough one tho.

I'm afraid it is.