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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 2h

I’m harshly judging anyone who “liked” this post

JustLubo @justlubomerkov.bsky.social · 7h

Seeing so many people post about tactical, lineup, set piece, pressing adjustments that Liverpool should make to win again, and I think they should just score more goals than the opponents in every match. Convince me I’m wrong.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 8h

I mean I hope it’s not

Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 8h

Look I’m honestly just of the hope that this is a team peaking too early and set piece reversion happens like it did last season. Arsenal’s struggles in open play at 0-0 can be an issue or can be the thing they fix when/of set pieces dry up.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 8h

I mean it’s just expensive Pulis ball but it works. No such thing as style points.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 8h

Still want Arteta to win nothing through his entire career. Really dislike the guy.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 8h

Removing randomness from football is hard. Arsenal do a good job at it.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t enjoy Arsenal’s style of play. It’s just terrible to watch and devoid of the reasons I like football. It’s also highly effective and they’ve nearly perfected their process.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 11h

There is little to indicate that they will as of this moment

Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 13h

That’s not meaningful is the point of my question. It’s not that I didn’t understand your point- it’s that these season on season comparisons mean so little and I reject it as having much value.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 15h

Because your original post reads as “this is just normative variance”, which it’s not. If that’s your pov plus taking a swipe at people’s concerns about this team, then I have problem with that.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 15h

I’m not insulting you, I’m asking you to tell me what do those numbers tell you about Liverpool’s process? What is Liverpool’s process and what do the underlying numbers tell you about how it’s being implemented.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 15h

Are you being intentionally obtuse?

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 15h

It’s not. The actual process needs to be fixed and make sense. The stats you’ve posted are surface level and ignore other things that surround this team which the eye test is telling you.

Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 15h

One loss would have been fine and not the end of the world. It’s four straight losses in a team that’s been ropey since March. And it’s ceding advantages in the title race to our opposition. Fake rationality is fake.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 15h

Lubo it’s a 9 point swing in three game weeks and we look like a team with a wholly broken process.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 15h

Points is fine but even then, season on season comparisons don’t tell you that we’ve had a 9 point swing in three game weeks and that quite easily clarifies why people think the sky is falling. 9 point swings in three weeks lose you leaguers.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 15h

This just kind of reveals that xG is an incomplete metric because Liverpool’s method of accumulation of xG, over the last three games in particular, is to put 6 attackers on the pitch to claw back bad game state.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s obvious we either profiled ball carriers or just don’t know what we’re doing.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 1d

He’s not replacing Tsimi, we can stop pretending that’s a thing.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I think he’s been fairly awful. We’re also exposing his worst flaws.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 1d

I’d think more of the continuity discussion if there was an apparent tactical plan and playing people on basis of meritocracy.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 1d

Sure but the point is flawed in that you can develop a succession plan proactively. The left back issue isn’t new.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 1d

What world class LB did we lost?

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

Decades after the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters, can politicians please not second-guess expert safety assessments for football stadiums.

Thank you.

An Aston Villa fan.

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Justin Wells @rollsonshabbos.bsky.social · 1d

Nope. Not good enough. You don’t spent what we did on top of a league title to win a a domestic cup comp. It’s one of the two big pots. That’s the good enough here.

JustLubo @justlubomerkov.bsky.social · 1d

I‘m basically at “this group is too talented to fail.” But my problem is that right now I have no idea what type of success we can/ should reasonably expect from them.

Maybe hope for Man City’s last season while actually winning the FA cup final? Might be good enough in a rebuild season.

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