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If Argyle were playing that away FA cup game v Liverpool now

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Was thinking about this today - do you think we’d play it the same or would we take the game to them in the way we have in recent games? Would we do any better?
 
Jul 29, 2010
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Derek would not play the TLC as he does now, It'd be exactly the same way we played as before. It was spot on then and it would be spot on now.

That said if we met them again any time soon they would pay us the respect of putting out more of their stars... and Z1R is right, we would get stuffed.
 
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Sadly with the form Bradley is in, taking into consideration the pace of Salah, Mane and the form of Firmino plus the addition of VVD, argyle would get torn a proper one.

BUT Mr Adams wouldn’t set up in his current winning format, in my opinion
 

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If they scored eight there would still be little noise from the Kop.

Outsung big time by the GA.
 
Aug 5, 2016
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Some fans seem to buy the idea that Argyle lacked creativity and intent v Liverpool, seemingly buying into McManaman's nonsense.

We were one of only two sides that kept a clean sheet at Anfield that season and the other was Mourinho's Manchester United. A clean sheet was a tremendous achievement with Purrington, Bradley, Songo'o and Miller repelling everything that came near the box.
 

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The tactics we used at Anfield were perfect. We were tight & compact, we allowed Liverpool to have the ball in-front of us and because we were calm and didn't over commit ourselves to winning it back we didn't leave any gaps or allow any space in behind, sometimes having the ball against a team like Liverpool isn't actually the best thing, it leaves you open to mistakes, misplaced passes etc, the game plane was quite rightly all about discipline and shape. Great defensive performance, don't let Steve McMannaman get in your head, if a PL team go and do that at Anfield it's a masterclass, but if a league 2 team do it then it's unambitious, odd logic.
 
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Cobi Budge":3pwo43o1 said:
The tactics we used at Anfield were perfect. We were tight & compact, we allowed Liverpool to have the ball in-front of us and because we were calm and didn't over commit ourselves to winning it back we didn't leave any gaps or allow any space in behind, sometimes having the ball against a team like Liverpool isn't actually the best thing, it leaves you open to mistakes, misplaced passes etc, the game plane was quite rightly all about discipline and shape. Great defensive performance, don't let Steve McMannaman get in your head, if a PL team go and do that at Anfield it's a masterclass, but if a league 2 team do it then it's unambitious, odd logic.

To be fair premier league teams play the first team, we played the youth team.
 

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Green_Flash":12g6teve said:
Cobi Budge":12g6teve said:
The tactics we used at Anfield were perfect. We were tight & compact, we allowed Liverpool to have the ball in-front of us and because we were calm and didn't over commit ourselves to winning it back we didn't leave any gaps or allow any space in behind, sometimes having the ball against a team like Liverpool isn't actually the best thing, it leaves you open to mistakes, misplaced passes etc, the game plane was quite rightly all about discipline and shape. Great defensive performance, don't let Steve McMannaman get in your head, if a PL team go and do that at Anfield it's a masterclass, but if a league 2 team do it then it's unambitious, odd logic.

To be fair premier league teams play the first team, we played the youth team.

The combined worth of the team we played would still likely be well over 50 million or so, and that's not including Lallana, Firmino and Sturridge who all came on. Adams used what he had at his disposal superbly.
 
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I don’t criticise Adams tactics for a moment but it is disingenuous to compare the team we were playing with those premier league teams face
 
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Green_Flash":c9eoy36g said:
Cobi Budge":c9eoy36g said:
The tactics we used at Anfield were perfect. We were tight & compact, we allowed Liverpool to have the ball in-front of us and because we were calm and didn't over commit ourselves to winning it back we didn't leave any gaps or allow any space in behind, sometimes having the ball against a team like Liverpool isn't actually the best thing, it leaves you open to mistakes, misplaced passes etc, the game plane was quite rightly all about discipline and shape. Great defensive performance, don't let Steve McMannaman get in your head, if a PL team go and do that at Anfield it's a masterclass, but if a league 2 team do it then it's unambitious, odd logic.

To be fair premier league teams play the first team, we played the youth team.

Joe Gomez has gone on to play for England, Origi up front was a full Belgium international with goals in the World Cup qualifiers, Trent Alexander Arnold started at Old Trafford the week after he played Argyle, Woodburn has played and scored for Wales, Emre Can is a German international, Lucas is a Brazilian international, Karius is the current Liverpool goalkeeper and former Germany U21 international.

Not so much a youth team was it? We played Chelsea's U23 team and hadn't heard of any of them. Same with Manchester City's youth team.

Those sides also never had the luxury of bringing on Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Roberto Firminho when things weren't going their way. Two starting England internationals and the Brazil number 9.

A clean sheet at Anfield against that talent was a fantastic achievement. We were hardly outplayed in the replay either. To say we played a youth team is bizarre. Some of our players (Purrington, Smith, Tanner, Garita) were the same age as the opposition 'kids' but without the international caps on their mantelpieces.
 
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Knibbsworth":1jjwsvrp said:
Green_Flash":1jjwsvrp said:
Cobi Budge":1jjwsvrp said:
The tactics we used at Anfield were perfect. We were tight & compact, we allowed Liverpool to have the ball in-front of us and because we were calm and didn't over commit ourselves to winning it back we didn't leave any gaps or allow any space in behind, sometimes having the ball against a team like Liverpool isn't actually the best thing, it leaves you open to mistakes, misplaced passes etc, the game plane was quite rightly all about discipline and shape. Great defensive performance, don't let Steve McMannaman get in your head, if a PL team go and do that at Anfield it's a masterclass, but if a league 2 team do it then it's unambitious, odd logic.

To be fair premier league teams play the first team, we played the youth team.

Joe Gomez has gone on to play for England, Origi up front was a full Belgium international with goals in the World Cup qualifiers, Trent Alexander Arnold started at Old Trafford the week after he played Argyle, Woodburn has played and scored for Wales, Emre Can is a German international, Lucas is a Brazilian international, Karius is the current Liverpool goalkeeper and former Germany U21 international.

Not so much a youth team was it? We played Chelsea's U23 team and hadn't heard of any of them. Same with Manchester City's youth team.

Those sides also never had the luxury of bringing on Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Roberto Firminho when things weren't going their way. Two starting England internationals and the Brazil number 9.

A clean sheet at Anfield against that talent was a fantastic achievement. We were hardly outplayed in the replay either. To say we played a youth team is bizarre. Some of our players (Purrington, Smith, Tanner, Garita) were the same age as the opposition 'kids' but without the international caps on their mantelpieces.

Well said, agree totally with you.