THE SUNDAY KICKBACK: "By hook or by crook, Liverpool will get there no matter what" | Nottingham Forest 0-1 Liverpool | OFF THE BALL
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What are the initial reactions to Liverpool's performance against Nottingham Forest?
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Well, Keith, we had to wait a while. It was a slow burner. We got the drama at the end and massive three points for Liverpool because they weren't very good today, but they won't really care now.
I think Arnie Schlott might care, to be honest with you. I've been in games where, I wouldn't say Liverpool were battered from pillar to post, but they were second best for long, long periods against Nottingham Foreston. They kept playing out from the back. They kept just getting caught time after time after time. There was no real intelligent play. and yeah they go and win the game but if it are any slot if I was Mohamed Salah or even Alexis McAllister who pops up with the winner Cody Gakbo Eketike I'd be expecting a near fall after that game I know they've won and they've got the three points but a lot of the performances out there were nowhere near the standard required and I know it's been an underwhelming season for Liverpool but that 90 minutes in isolation again is nowhere near good enough the first half they had an XG of 0.06 which just goes to show you they had nothing in the attacking toward
Everything that went up to the front lads in the first half just bounced off them. They were all like trampolines. It was wave after wave of attack. Salah's reaction from me, just smiling. He'd lose a battle and he'd smile. The referee would give a foul against him and he'd smile. I'd like to see him get a little bit annoyed and start reacting to things. I'm not saying going over the top with things, but bite down on the gum shield and show you're up for it rather than laughing things off all the time. I don't think Arnie Schlott will be anywhere near happy. I'm sure he will be prepared to sweep it under the carpet and move on, but a couple of more performances like that. The bench was so poor that I think if he'd have had somebody at half-time to replace those front lads, he'd have done it an awful lot earlier.
Well, one of the players that did come on and created the chance for the first goal that went to VAR, which ended up being disallowed, was N'Gomoa. He found himself out on the right side and put in a lovely cross. And Eketike, it's an amazing save from Ortega, but Eketike should score. So Liverpool fans were excited by Ngamoa in pre-season. He was electric. Then he scored that goal against Newcastle as a 16-year-old. But we haven't seen much of him.
How did Nottingham Forest challenge Liverpool during the match?
I get it. You've been a young player in the Premier League. You know what it's like. You have to be protected. But when you see the impact, he didn't even have to do much to make an impact because of what you said before with some of the other players around him not doing very much.
Yeah, look, I understand. If you're Ernie Slotny, you're thinking, I want to change it. Me two wingers, Gakbo and Salah, haven't really been at the races. I might put N'Gomoa on. Oli Oyena is really aggressive when he's in 1v1 battles. As it was Nico Williams, he was much better than Salah in that battle. So you're probably thinking, I don't want to put the young lad on and take away and, you know, haunt his confidence a little bit. There will be times where he needs to be drip fed in. But that game for me was on an absolute knife edge and you're always a little bit standoffish in terms of putting younger kids on that don't have the Premier League experience. But he comes on in the end and the amount of times that Salah got the ball high on the right wing and you're thinking, check back, cross it with your left, run down the wing, do whatever you like, do something.
But he just took a touching pass to backwards.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What are the initial reactions to Liverpool's performance against Nottingham Forest?
0:00–2:42
2
How did Nottingham Forest challenge Liverpool during the match?
2:42–5:52
3
What were the standout moments from Liverpool's win?
5:52–8:33
4
How did Liverpool's tactics affect their game against Nottingham Forest?
8:33–9:58
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