tiggsywiggsywoo
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One bloody game, jeeeeez!!!
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Motivation for next season or collective blow to the team's psyche? Time will tell.
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It was a surprise, but not hugely. Sterling has played very poorly at Anfield in the past. Ironically he was probably our best playerI think the biggest potential problem is that Pep didn't trust the team that has us on the brink of the PL title.
Bringing in Gundo who has been a reserve, fill in player all season was a really strange thing to do.
TheRemainsOfTheDave
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This. Although we played really poorly, many key decisions went against us and even 3-1 would have kept the game alive.I think the rub of the green had a greater impact on the scoreline than our players' performances - one Dipper offside goal given, one onside City goal disallowed, and a stoner on Sterling not given. Had we scored the latter then it finishes all square at 2-2 and we have two away goals! There are too many variables in football to fasten onto any one cause for an outcome but we are just a whisker or two between 3-0 and 2-2! We might even have benefitted from VAR!
blueparrot
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The way to beat us is playing the way Klopp teams play. We have to find a way of playing through their pressing and being calmer and it should be easier on our bigger pitch. But very few teams play like Klopp teams and we can't change the way we play that works 99% of the time just for the usually 1 game a year at Anfield. Maybe 3 at the back would work next season when we have a left wing back
If Aguero plays think we'll score 3 next week.Whether we go through will depend on a clean sheet.
If Aguero plays think we'll score 3 next week.Whether we go through will depend on a clean sheet.
It's not rocket science. We must train against this very training session. But it's like practising penalty shoot outs. Part of top sport is producing it when it matters. We know we can deal with the press in routine games, but go a goal down, facing Champions League elimination in the face you have to still be able to play your football.The way to beat us is playing the way Klopp teams play. We have to find a way of playing through their pressing and being calmer and it should be easier on our bigger pitch. But very few teams play like Klopp teams and we can't change the way we play that works 99% of the time just for the usually 1 game a year at Anfield.
blueparrot
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But it's the way Liverpool train and play all the time Klopp is the biggest exponent of it. No matter how we train for it it will never be at the intensity Liverpool do it at Anfield. Don't forget Pep has struggled against Klopp teams in Germany too.It's not rocket science. We must train against this very training session. But it's like practising penalty shoot outs. Part of top sport is producing it when it matters. We know we can deal with the press in routine games, but go a goal down, facing Champions League elimination in the face you have to still be able to play your football.
dave_blue12
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It was a surprise, but not hugely. Sterling has played very poorly at Anfield in the past. Ironically he was probably our best player
It wasn't a surprise that Sterling was benched but to be replaced by Gundo was a cowardly act by Pep. Bernardo should have played if Sterling wasn't trusted.
Perhaps this is part of it.It wasn't a surprise that Sterling was benched but to be replaced by Gundo was a cowardly act by Pep. Bernardo should have played if Sterling wasn't trusted.