Alan Hughes

The problem is we don’t have a balanced squad, the right mix of types of players, and characters. Too much of the same, nippy, skilful, but lightweight midfielders without an eye for goal. We should have signed Diego Costa just to give us something radically different. The transfer window was diabolical and Klopp and FSG should be hung out to…[Read more]

Yet again an example of where we are failing. Its that lack of quality in the final 3rd. Not saying our players are ‘poor’ but we have so much control, so many chances yet miss the target. If we were 3-4 nil up at half time, that would be a ‘fair’ scoreline considering the amount of possession and ‘opportunities’ (if the final ball was ‘better’ or…[Read more]

Well we have pace, skill and work rate in Salah, Coutinho and Firmino respectively BUT I am severely disappointed in our ‘firepower’ in terms of accuracy and efficiency.
Yes we are scoring goals but we created chances to have 35 shots against Burnley but only managed 1 goal. We obliterated Sevilla too in terms of pace, chances created and shots -…[Read more]

Not just finkshing – a really poor defence!

I know Burnley defended well but far too often, our great play that got into the final third was let down by poor finishing and poor final balls.
Against Sevilla for example, at one point we had well over 20 shots of which only 6 were on target. Compared to Sevilla’s 3 shots, 2 on target.
Against Burnley, we had 15+ shots in the first half alone…[Read more]