I would've assumed Liverpool had improved by more but then I'd have never guessed five in that Villa game. Once your team wins, you often forget the bad moments!
Hopefully further improvement will come purely by having played Slot-ball for longer. The set plays are a slight concern, I guess.
I'd be a bit concerned about links to Guehi in relation to our relative weakness at set pieces? He's not the strongest in the air at Palace iirc so Slots new man may have his work cut out for him.
Saying that, I was never overly concerned at set pieces last year
I think set pieces are maybe the biggest victim of confirmation bias. Everyone thinks their team is worse than they are! And probably the same at the back - Liverpool didn’t concede too many goals so we don’t remember. But the chances were there.
I would've assumed Liverpool had improved by more but then I'd have never guessed five in that Villa game. Once your team wins, you often forget the bad moments!
Hopefully further improvement will come purely by having played Slot-ball for longer. The set plays are a slight concern, I guess.
I would like to think we will tighten up at the back now we have slots specialist with us?
Possibly, though Arsenal have conceded loads from set plays so I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I'd be a bit concerned about links to Guehi in relation to our relative weakness at set pieces? He's not the strongest in the air at Palace iirc so Slots new man may have his work cut out for him.
Saying that, I was never overly concerned at set pieces last year
On Guehi: https://open.substack.com/pub/andrewbeasley/p/marc-guehi-the-aerial-question?r=t36r&utm_medium=ios 😉
I think set pieces are maybe the biggest victim of confirmation bias. Everyone thinks their team is worse than they are! And probably the same at the back - Liverpool didn’t concede too many goals so we don’t remember. But the chances were there.
Let’s see what happens today… chat thread later!
That's not reassuring, Andrew!😂
Ha!