Brendan Rodgers Discussion Thread

I’m hoping he does something different against Atalanta. I’m not expecting to beat them but we really need to avoid another cricket score being added to the growing portfolio.

As mentioned by others, it’s strange how we changed our approach from the Chelsea/City/Hun games.

 

I get why everyone is saying we should set up more defensively after we've just been beat 7-1. But just a couple of points - Dortmund's weakness is in their defence and their strength is their attack so why sit back and not attack their weak(ish) defence while allowing them to attack us at will with their strong attacking players when our weakness is also in defence. If we'd set up defensively I think we could have still lost heavily the only difference being we wouldn't have scored or created any chances - see Scotland v Germany (though they did get a lucky OG).
The only team to give us a game this season albeit against a weakened team was Falkirk who were applauded for coming out and attacking us unlike all the SPL teams who had been hammered when they played defensively (like everyone wants us to do).
AV didn't necessarily get a result against Bayern by playing defensively - they have players of a near similar level to Bayern so there's not that gulf in quality - it's possible they'd have won by more if they'd attacked them.
For the record, I do think we should try playing more defensively against Atalanta simply because we've got to try something different.