Strange. The commentator and his sidekick on Radio 5 Extra have remarked a few times how well Mitchell has defended.

the boy Mitchell done good.

i mean, its only Salah he is marking.

slippery and difficult. Every defender's nightmare.

Edited by PalazioVecchio (23 May 2021 5.02pm)

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

dunno if you have watched this salah fella before...he seems to do this to pretty much every full back he plays against.

hardly a reason to slate tm.

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We are just being overrun.I cannot see us scoring at all.

We keep hitting long balls but with no Bentenke it just comes straight back. Kouyate playing like a centre-back, Jairo non-existent and McCarthy a great scrapper but that's about it. Ward is being constantly targeted and with no support from Townsend or the midfield he is looking so exposed. For the goal Mane actually pushes Ward (I think it was Ward) to create space, but it's only a small push so isn't really picked up.

On the plus side Mitchell is doing really well against Salah and it's only 1-0. Also, their defence looks very shaky if we can somehow get at them. He runs like a giraffe, but if we're going to keep going direct then we might as well switch Ayew for Mateta. If Schlupp isn't injured then I'd bring him on for one of the midfield trio because at least he carries an attacking threat.

I'd like to see the young lad Rak-Sakyi get some minutes just to give us something to look forward to for next season, espcially if the game starts to get away from us. It would be quite poetic for him to get his debut in Roy's final game.

COYP

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