Temat: Piłka Nożna

Liverpool and Arsenal can forget about challenging for major silverware until they learn how to stop the opposition playing, according to Sky Sports pundit Gary Neville.
"People talk about encouragement for Liverpool but it depends what you’re encouraged by. I was not encouraged by yesterday’s game," Neville said.

"The make-up of these two teams is wrong. If we're talking about these two teams going up and challenging for Champions League titles and championships, it’s not going to happen. They're a long way away.

"We’ve danced around the issue that it's encouraging that both teams play decent football but neither understand how to stop goals going into the back of their own net. They do not understand how to defend their box and they do not understand how to stop people playing - and that is a massive problem.

"So the idea that these teams are playing nice football needs to be forgotten. It's a given that teams play nice football, that's what top teams should do, but they also have to stop the opposition playing at the other end and they're not doing that

"Arsenal were tactically all over the place on Sunday and in the big matches, teams slice through their midfield like a knife through butter. They have too many technical players who don't have bite.

"For as much as Liverpool outplayed them yesterday, Arsenal were terrible in midfield from a competitive point of view, and from stopping the opposition playing."

"Flamini throughout the game was a commentator, pointing and shouting at everybody," Neville added.

"He looks to do every other person's job for them but the one job he's there to do, stopping the ball getting played into midfield, he failed to do regularly. I don't think he's got the quality to look after everybody else's job and look after his own as well.

"Flamini neither screens nor presses. Top midfield players screen well and press well. No one appears to be listening to Flamini. I don't see anybody reacting to what he's saying.

"I left Anfield on Sunday immensely disappointed, as I have with many of the big games this season, because there isn't the intensity or the willingness to stop the opposition playing.

"I feel like we're being brainwashed into thinking teams have got to be either technical or horrible to play against. The best teams in the world are horrible to play against. You're not going to win the league or Champions League just by having technical players; you have to have a team of balance."

Don't you mean the gooners will not win anything they were pathetic against liverpool we get chec in January a marqie striker and we will be in a top 4 soon. y.n.w.a.