Craig Burley

I think from Anley Slott's point of view, just, you know, getting the three points, trying to get some consistency and performance, trying to defend better, trying to keep more clean sheets.

And just after that stupid question he was asked yesterday in the press conference about Xabi Alonso, you know, just to back that kind of nonsense away, when, you know, if you didn't see yesterday's show, he was asked if Xabi Alonso... Well, he was asked about Xabi Alonso being available, and then they asked him, has Xabi Alonso called you?

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I mean, at that point, they should have ran down and punched the journalist, right?

So he's going to have to deal with this kind of nonsense because, obviously, Alonso is there, he's available and he's hovering.

He's a former Liverpool player, he's a good coach who had a bad time at Real Madrid.

So if he doesn't get the results, then these silly questions will come along.

So all he can do is make sure he's getting the results, pushing Liverpool forward...

and keeping some of these questions away.

One of the things that was slightly frustrating watching Liverpool was the positions Vilske had in the first half in particular and was a little bit laboured in the final third, still expecting him to be a bit sharper.

There was one in particular, the ball dropped to him in the box, wasn't it, Stevie?

In the first half.

It was a bit slow, wasn't it?

Yeah, he was a bit slow and laboured.

I was expecting him, having watched him for a couple of years in Germany and whatnot, just to find the top corner, but he's just taken an extra touch

here and there, but that apart, it was a professional evening for Liverpool.

There's not a lot of brains in the coaching setting up there from Marseille, is there?

In what sense?

This is something we looked at back in the 90s, even when teams had walls, did they jump or did they not?

And obviously now the latest craze in the last, I don't know, two or three years is lying somebody behind the wall.