Re: [LU] Burnley

2020-12-28 Thread Nicholas Armit via Leedslist
Definitely a penalty I thought. On Monday, December 28, 2020, 12:34:56 PM EST, Steve Gillen wrote: .”.maybe Burnley, knowing this, were doing a great job at covering every player in that area who was trying to get open.but the fact was that just about every one of his medium

Re: [LU] Burnley

2020-12-28 Thread Robert Heath
Could it be that our sudden failure to be able to work the ball "through the thirds" was connected to the absence of ("pedestrian, sideways-only passing") Kalvin Phillips as QB? Oh and just as an irrelevant counterpoint to the narrative that Burnley were robbed for that disallowed goalthe

Re: [LU] Burnley

2020-12-28 Thread Steve Gillen
.”.maybe Burnley, knowing this, were doing a great job at covering every player in that area who was trying to get open.but the fact was that just about every one of his medium to long passes went to them” Actually it seemed to me to be not just Meslier, too many cleared balls and often

Re: [LU] Burnley

2020-12-28 Thread Robert Heath
Hard to rate Meslier. He was certainly brave, mentally as well as physically, to keep coming for those crosses...and he dealt with them pretty well. And he made some good saves. But his distribution was very poor. I believe Bielsa's plan is that if the other team press high enough that he