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com Glass half-empty take on Liverpool When Liverpool scraped by Wolves a few days ago the consensus was the performance and marked lack of fluidity made the difference between top side in the league (us) and rock bottom (them) appear barely discernible. So heading into the Bologna match anticipating some kind of reaction, it was rather disappointing to witness only a short-lived one. Perhaps playing your same 9- or 10-odd of the XI each week out with nary any rotation will do that, but I suppose time tells.
The width of MacAllister’s grin after opening the scoring was matched only by the breadth of space he was gifted to tap in. For twenty minutes and 1-0 up it looked a question of win by how many as we played video game football, stringing together extraordinary passing sequences, some of which appeared almost arrogant in vision and execution. That is, until the script flipped with little warning and suddenly Bologna made themselves a menace, passing up numerous opportunities to level the terms.
Lucky for us. I don’t consistently watch enough other teams’ football to know if this is a general pattern or just one we appear to trademark, but it does seem we quite enjoy conceding an early goal to then be spared a blush by an offside flag before fully waking up. It’s like c.