Libero
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Definitely agree with what some are saying in regards to getting use to seeing these sort of performances against teams that refuse to play. Last year was last year and this year we have had to adapt our style a bit to cater for teams refusing to play and set up defensively, especially when you take into account what we were doing to teams last year.
I think there will be glimpses of last season when teams do decide to come out against us, there was some of that against Cardiff. You just have to look back at that game against City to see how they played against us.
The difference for me is we still lack the quality to play possession based football, we keep the ball well enough we just don't have that bit of creativity required to always create clear cut chances. Shaqiri has been good, whilst I don't think he is the ultimate answer, we just lack the finesse and guile to open teams up, this was also a problem even with Coutinho in the side.
I think there will be glimpses of last season when teams do decide to come out against us, there was some of that against Cardiff. You just have to look back at that game against City to see how they played against us.
The difference for me is we still lack the quality to play possession based football, we keep the ball well enough we just don't have that bit of creativity required to always create clear cut chances. Shaqiri has been good, whilst I don't think he is the ultimate answer, we just lack the finesse and guile to open teams up, this was also a problem even with Coutinho in the side.