Liverpool (H) Post Match Thread

[Dax777]

Therein lies my point re VVD. He had to bail himself out numerous times, ad you point out. Hardly the stuff of the greatest CB in the world.

And where was this tiger like leadership he supposedly has? When the going got tough he shit himself and went missing. Contrast to our Vinny who was an absolute soldier last night.

And the GK should’ve saved both of our goals.

Over rated as fuck the pair of them.

I really don't understand what this means. Anyway, I'm not in the mood for defending Liverpool players. So I'll let things be.

 

[nmc]

Perusing the land of RAWK this morning highlights just how cultish the dippers are, they've turned on Lovren Milner and Henderson because they weren't good enough and Liverpool should have won the game easily. Yes they should have come to City and beat us easily.

Another defeat and they'll be asking for King Kenny back.

Can King Kenny the fraud buy Andy Carroll again and be followed by Roy Hodgson ?

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Great bit from the guardian on Stone's goal line clearance.



The world moves on. Technology develops and evolves. The aesthetics of the spectacle, perhaps, to our wearily nostalgic culture, have less to recommend them than they did, but accuracy at least is guaranteed. Where once epoch-defining line decisions were taken by Azerbaijani men with silver hair and splendid moustaches, now we watch a digital representation of a yellow circle landing on a white line across a green background. What Tofiq Bakhramov’s decisive nod was to the 1966 World Cup, so Goal Decision System may be to the 2018-19 Premier League.

Where the former remains contested (with good reason), there is no disputing what happened at the Etihad on Thursday. Or at least not beyond crazed conspiracists who within hours of the final whistle were already talking about shadows and angles and the grand anti-Liverpudlian plot that is geometry. Perhaps the technology isn’t perfect. Perhaps the reading that said the ball was 11.7 millimetres from completely crossing the line is affecting an impossible level of accuracy, but it is still much more likely to be right than a 41-year-old former footballer from Baku.

11.7 millimetres. It’s the length of a bluebottle, the thickness of a pocket diary, the width of the nail of a little finger. It is nothing on which to lose a football match, still less perhaps a championship. And there is a danger now that the measurement comes to haunt Liverpool as surely as Steven Gerrard’s “This does not slip” speech after another game against Manchester City, that when the history of this long title drought is written, the measurement 11.7 millimetres looms so large that every time Liverpool fans see a fly, check an appointment or catch a glimpse of their own hands they are reminded of defeat and failure.

A bluebottle he says, yet it’ll be The Reds that bottle!

 

[inchy14]

So, the game. Live, it was nerve wrecking. Watching us play, I thought we looked nervous, indecisive, Laporte misplacing passes, Sane doing my brain in. They seemed to have all passing options blocked off, and when they did have the ball running at our defence, the lines their forwards were running, and clever passing had me massively chewing at fingernails.
Anyway, two great goals, a host of missed chances and we see the game out for a massive victory.

We get home, still buzzing and can't sleep, so decide to watch it again on the box.

Now, a different game to the one I saw live. The composure of Stones, the commitment and leadership of Kompany, the pace of Aguero, Sane and Sterling had them in bits. The endeavour, skill and fighting qualities of Bernardo and Fernandinho, and the footballing brain of Danilo.

Upshot is, we schooled them. And they know it. Even if they win the league, they will know, we are a better team.

I was exactly the same mate, nervous as fuck watching it and thinking Stones was too casual and that we kept mis-placing easy passes, thinking we should have gone longer a lot more as there was plenty of space behind their fullbacks.
Get home and watch it again and realise how we were in almost total control we were.

Great night, need to carry the momentum forward now.

 

[oldtimerdiscopants]

Ever been on the Gundogan/Kolarov threads lol

One game though mate :)

They're even telling the world how shit Klippertys tactics are.

 

[kippax4ever]

The Hangover today was well worth it..

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

One game though mate :)

They're even telling the world how shit Klippertys tactics are.

I know mate tongue in cheek. No surprise when they turn on each other in the Kop when it really gets to them

 

[aguero93:20]

Perusing the land of RAWK this morning highlights just how cultish the dippers are, they've turned on Lovren Milner and Henderson because they weren't good enough and Liverpool should have won the game easily. Yes they should have come to City and beat us easily.

Another defeat and they'll be asking for King Kenny back.

Ah, but they would have come to City and beaten is easily, if they'd been good enough.

The problem as always for the bin dippers is that in reality, they aren't good enough.

 

[oldtimerdiscopants]

Ah, but they would have come to City and beaten is easily, if they'd been good enough.

The problem as always for the bin dippers is that in reality, they aren't good enough.

Shrines would have been observed last night and sacrifices made to the Anfield gods, the painters will continue to airbrush the shiniest battle bus in preparation for the ceremony announcing the greatest team since 2014 to nearly win the league.

 

[dobingsdobber]

Is that the same cameraman who back heeled the ball away late in the second half? Legend.

He looks like Zabba!!

 

[Bill Walker]

Shrines would have been observed last night and sacrifices made to the Anfield gods, the painters will continue to airbrush the shiniest battle bus in preparation for the ceremony announcing the greatest team since 2014 to nearly win the league.

Serial Bottlers mate, when it counts they fuck it up, Klopps Flops are fucking hilarious

 

[OB1]

Magnificent.

The crowd.

The team.

The manager.

The intensity.

 

[TFC]

Its always a great read on there after they lose.

The thing about them is that Klopp must know how quickly they will turn on him if he doesn't win the league this season, it happened to Rogers. They lap it all up but when it goes wrong there it goes wrong very quickly. Similar thing happened to Klopp at Dortmund at the end, once the shine had gone from the early success, it went wrong in a big way. At Liverpool, they didn't even get that initial success phase.

Its going to be great when it happens again.

Unfortunately, when he does go, I think they'll land on their feet. Mourinho is free.

 

[Marvin]

At the game I wondered how on earth Aguero managed to beat Alisson on the post but the shot was savage. Lovren more to blame. That was vintage Aguero though and reward for relentless attacking by a whole series of City players.

The Sane goal though is a thing of beauty. Great run by Sterling and measured pass but Sane still had so much still to do. He could not have placed it better.

I was one of the City fans who thought we'd probably lose this game. There was huge pressure on City and we handled it magnificently. Huge heart from the players particularly Fernandinho, Bernardo and Sterling.

 

[Blue Smarties]

I can't say I've ever turned to VICE for my post-game reports, but this cropped up on my Twitter feed so I thought I'd leave it here.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/neppew/last-nights-barclays-showdown-managed-to-warp-time-itself

Given that most people have spent the last fortnight stumbling around in a haze asking each other what day it is, there was a reassuringly transgressive frisson to the way one of the most intense English football matches in living memory was able to break out on a Thursday, how an evening usually attuned to the dank traipse of the Europa League was hijacked for the night, like The One Showoverrun with a Gabba raver flashmob.

 

[OB1]

At the game I wondered how on earth Aguero managed to beat Alisson on the post but the shot was savage. Lovren more to blame. That was vintage Aguero though and reward for relentless attacking by a whole series of City players.

The Sane goal though is a thing of beauty. Great run by Sterling and measured pass but Sane still had so much still to do. He could not have placed it better.

I was one of the City fans who thought we'd probably lose this game. There was huge pressure on City and we handled it magnificently. Huge heart from the players particularly Fernandinho, Bernardo and Sterling.

Going into the ground last night I wasn't nervous and wasn't overly perturbed when they equalised (although very unhappy with the defending): I felt we would win. Last few minutes were a bit nervy with City failing to keep hold of the ball.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

Quite a turnaround from last season when the general consensus was that Klopp had got 'Pep's measure'. Both home and away this season we've looked a different team against them to my eyes, more determined, far more savvy physically, more disciplined and prepared to match their cynicism with a dose of our own.

in the last four league games we have taken seven points to their four. I wonder what the media make of that, apart from Allison Rudd, who thought we hustled like a small club in a cup game while Liverpool moved around the pitch like imperious champions.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Going into the ground last night I wasn't nervous and wasn't overly perturbed when they equalised (although very unhappy with the defending): I felt we would win. Last few minutes were a bit nervy with City failing to keep hold of the ball.

That last few minutes were very stressful!

Our defending for the goal was once again poor. The players really need to be doing more to stop these crosses coming in.

 

[GeorgeHeslop'sTackle.]

I read this on a LFC forum , did this scouser watch the same game ?



" ......game and perspective regarding this would have been very different if it ended 1-1 . Sane's goal was surely offside, which reminds me to mention that Ref. I couldn't believe what he was upto . Kompany's red, Fernandinho's murderous tackles and Sterling falling over and that Gini Yellow...Is this kindergarten ??"

Sterling falling over?....Talk about pot calling kettle. Every time we had possession, particularly in the first half at 0-0, one or more of victim pools side, particularly if the ball didn’t happen to be anywhere near them, would mysteriously drop to the as if shot by a sniper in a deliberate attempt to get our players booked or sent off to disrupt the play,

 

[mancityvstoke]

I lit a tea light for them