Academy v Liverpool

After a decent start it all went wrong for the young blues today.There always looked like goals in the game after a first 20 minutes where City were the more threatening side but then it all went wrong. Seemed to me that we just lost the ball far too easily and with 2 forward players contributing very little ( Henshall and Cole) Liverpool started to look the better side and got a goal before half time. All too easy as well and coming from some bad play from City to lose the ball.
That trend continued into the second half as almost had no midfield with Rusnak strangely playing as an extra striker. As he went out of the game alongside Cole and Henshall Liverpool just dominated much of the ball and it was no surprise they scored again.Time and again we gave the balla way and allowed them to run at us.We did get injuries as well to add to the problems as first Henshall ,then Coulson and finally Rusnak all limped off.Ruznak not long after he missed a penalty for hand ball. Somewhat bizzarely though.The ref had delayed the penalty to have words with some scouser who was complaing but then after he blew the whistle for the kick to be taken and Ruznak started to move forward the ref was again shouting at their player. Albert carried on and it was saved but for me it should have been taken again as the referee was quite likely putting Ruznak off.
Another give away goal made it 3.0 and then Hiwula scored after a very nice break down the left but overall it was a poor performance and for me a very weak tactical display.The 2 most advanced forwards we had were doing close to nothing after the initial minutes but we seemed to go closer to 4.2.4 which just gave the game away.The defence was asleep at times but won't push up enough (Meppen Walters is slow) and consequently it just seemed a matter of time before the scousers scored their goals.
That trend continued into the second half as almost had no midfield with Rusnak strangely playing as an extra striker. As he went out of the game alongside Cole and Henshall Liverpool just dominated much of the ball and it was no surprise they scored again.Time and again we gave the balla way and allowed them to run at us.We did get injuries as well to add to the problems as first Henshall ,then Coulson and finally Rusnak all limped off.Ruznak not long after he missed a penalty for hand ball. Somewhat bizzarely though.The ref had delayed the penalty to have words with some scouser who was complaing but then after he blew the whistle for the kick to be taken and Ruznak started to move forward the ref was again shouting at their player. Albert carried on and it was saved but for me it should have been taken again as the referee was quite likely putting Ruznak off.
Another give away goal made it 3.0 and then Hiwula scored after a very nice break down the left but overall it was a poor performance and for me a very weak tactical display.The 2 most advanced forwards we had were doing close to nothing after the initial minutes but we seemed to go closer to 4.2.4 which just gave the game away.The defence was asleep at times but won't push up enough (Meppen Walters is slow) and consequently it just seemed a matter of time before the scousers scored their goals.