Gab & Juls Show: Should Salah continue to start for Liverpool?
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Gab, he's Jules. Great skies over West London, but it's okay because we're here to brighten things up because it's the Champions League. We're getting down to the business end. Plenty going on. Real Madrid, a huge, huge victory. Barcelona win too, but they concede too. Yeah, again. Manchester City up in the Arctic. Not good. Not good. But let's start with the game you were at. Yeah. Marseille against Liverpool at the Velodrome. Mohamed Salah's return. Yeah. On the surface, Liverpool preying on Marseille mistakes, Marseille disappointing.
Yeah, far too comfortable for Liverpool, to be fair. I'm not sure exactly what Roberto deserved to try to do tactically in this game. I don't think the back five was a good idea at all. I'm not sure. his midfield worked either. And certainly every time Gravenberg was on the ball or McAllister or Wierz or Soboslai, it was just far too easy for them. There was not enough pressure, not enough intensity from Marseille, despite the atmosphere being incredible at the Velodrome, as we expected, because it was a big game. Had Marseille won on Wednesday night, they would have qualified already, which is not the case now. They're going to go to Bruges next week under massive pressure. Did they get past... Mr. Champions League, Hans Van Aken, he's going to give the Zerbi nightmares.
Yeah, absolutely. So really, really bad night for Marseille.
What were the highlights of Liverpool's win over Marseille?
And really, I think more importantly, not really understood what they're trying to do. And after the game, the Zerbi said, well, it's a shame my players could not read the game. Because if they had read the game better, we would have been in a better position. I was like, hang on, you saw the game too. You could have said from the touchline, hey, let's go to a back four. Let's make sure we've got an extra man in midfield, things like that. But he never created anything. He even played with a back five until the end, which was crazy.
It looked to me like what he was trying to do. And maybe I'm completely, I'm watching on television on one screen. You're there in person. But it looked to me like he was trying to out-football Liverpool. because even with the back five, obviously, this is wingbacks we're supposed to push up. But look, that's admirable if you want to do that. But I don't think, I mean, Liverpool will punish you. They're organized. I don't know if he looked and said like, oh, look, Liverpool's recent run of form, not great, notwithstanding what Burnley, you know, the Burnley game at the weekend. And he really paid it. Is that reading correct? Because you would know better than me.
Yeah, no, no. I don't think they tried to outplay them because they didn't put any rhythm into the game either. They didn't keep the ball well. They... didn't create much apart from Greenwood on his own, whether it was a shot or then the cross he had for Traore in the second half and the ball he gave Aubameyang at the end.
There was a greedy chance too, no?
There was a greedy chance on the second phase of set-piece, but that was just a shot that I think Alisson made a good save, but not more than that. But in the game itself... it was very difficult for them to do anything. And I just, I'm just not sure really with all the options and there are different options. You might not like Vermeer and you might not like Obama Young too much or Riley, those kinds of guys. But I think there was a lot of other things he could have done. And maybe more importantly, the fact that he recognized himself that he didn't read the game properly, that he didn't change anything at halftime or even halfway through the first half when it clearly was obvious to see that they were going to struggle.
All right, let's talk Liverpool. On the surface, you know, that sneaky free kick. I feel like everybody puts... a player down behind it. I thought everybody did, yeah? I don't know. Because I think he clearly, I would need to look. I should describe it for people who are just listening on the podcast and haven't seen the highlights, although you really should. Dominic Sabaslai takes a free kick.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–1:28
2
What were the highlights of Liverpool's win over Marseille?
1:28–10:54
3
What tactical decisions did Marseille make against Liverpool?
10:54–14:49
4
How did Mohamed Salah perform in his return to the lineup?
14:49–54:12
5
What happened in Real Madrid's match against Monaco?
54:12–55:43
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