Liverpool thread 2020/21

[bugsyblue]

I wish we had half the desire Liverpool has.

 

[bugsyblue]

7 goals from 8 shots on target. We almost had the same xg against West Brom as they had today.

We haven’t had as clear a chance as for Firmino had for their 3rd all season

 

[its grim up north]

We haven’t had as clear a chance as for Firmino had for their 3rd all season

Go on I'll bite. Gundog and Raz had point blank headers on Tuesday. Bernardo had two yesterday.

 

[Clercqs]

We haven’t had as clear a chance as for Firmino had for their 3rd all season

Bernardo had almost an identical chance yesterday but did try to walk it in instead?

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Go on I'll bite. Gundog and Raz had point blank headers on Tuesday. Bernardo had two yesterday.

What was most impressive about Liverpool was that most of their seven goals came from half chances. I can't remember City scoring many half chances this year, we always need to walk it into the net. Let's be honest Liverpool's strikers, especially Mane and Salah, are better than ours these days. If we had Mane we would be top of the league. That's the difference a great striker makes (and Sergio used to do it for us) Given the chances yesterday Liverpool would have beaten Southampton by at least four goals.
We won't improve if we keep deluding ourselves. The good news is we now have the best defence in the PL (better than Liverpool) and that's a good start.

 

[Beanhead]

What was most impressive about Liverpool was that most of their seven goals came from half chances. I can't remember City scoring many half chances this year, we always need to walk it into the net. Let's be honest Liverpool's strikers, especially Mane and Salah, are better than ours these days. If we had Mane we would be top of the league. That's the difference a great striker makes (and Sergio used to do it for us) Given the chances yesterday Liverpool would have beaten Southampton by at least four goals.
We won't improve if we keep deluding ourselves. The good news is we now have the best defence in the PL (better than Liverpool) and that's a good start.

Mane has scored exactly the same amount of club goals as Sterling this season although Manes include friendlies. Sterling has also scored in an international which Mane hasn’t.

He has also played less minutes than Mane. 78 less in the league.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Mane has scored exactly the same amount of club goals as Sterling this season although Manes include friendlies. Sterling has also scored in an international which Mane hasn’t

Surely thats the problem.
Sterling is the clubs top scorer and Mane is not Liverpools
Why would you even compare them.

 

[Beanhead]

What was most impressive about Liverpool was that most of their seven goals came from half chances. I can't remember City scoring many half chances this year, we always need to walk it into the net. Let's be honest Liverpool's strikers, especially Mane and Salah, are better than ours these days. If we had Mane we would be top of the league. That's the difference a great striker makes (and Sergio used to do it for us) Given the chances yesterday Liverpool would have beaten Southampton by at least four goals.
We won't improve if we keep deluding ourselves. The good news is we now have the best defence in the PL (better than Liverpool) and that's a good start.

Just checked Mane has scored more goals than Sterling once in the previous seasons. And despite being in rancid form Sterling is keeping pace with him this season..

 

[Beanhead]

Surely thats the problem.
Sterling is the clubs top scorer and Mane is not Liverpools
Why would you even compare them.

I would have thought that was quite obvious, he said “if we had Mane we would be top of the league.”

 

[King Jay]

Mane has scored exactly the same amount of club goals as Sterling this season although Manes include friendlies. Sterling has also scored in an international which Mane hasn’t.

He has also played less minutes than Mane. 78 less in the league.

So u wanna tell us That Sterling is as Good as Mané? You can’t be serious. Mané is literally better in all aspects. Sterlings goals are mostly tap-ins.
I prepare for incoming hate.

 

[decmancity]

So u wanna tell us That Sterling is as Good as Mané? You can’t be serious. Mané is literally better in all aspects. Sterlings goals are mostly tap-ins.
I prepare for incoming hate.

Do you get more points for non tap in goals?

 

[greasedupdeafguy]

Mane has scored exactly the same amount of club goals as Sterling this season although Manes include friendlies. Sterling has also scored in an international which Mane hasn’t.

He has also played less minutes than Mane. 78 less in the league.

Do you watch any games?

 

[Beanhead]

So u wanna tell us That Sterling is as Good as Mané? You can’t be serious. Mané is literally better in all aspects. Sterlings goals are mostly tap-ins.
I prepare for incoming hate.

In my eyes the previous three seasons.. yes Sterling was slightly better. This season he is not in form at all but neither is nearly the entire squad yet he’s on a par with Mane in terms of effectiveness.

Yes he always misses sitters and will most likely continue to do so but as for the tap in claim.. he’s simply better at putting himself in that position than anyone else in the league and has been for a few seasons. It’s a gift he has.. not a gift given to him.

Yesterdays winner was a prime example of this. Rewatch it.. and look at Sterlings movement.. three players in the box.. both Bernie and Torres do the obvious and try to get behind the Saints defenders.. Sterling reads the space, checks his run to create space... allowing Kev to cut back.

You are wrong mate. Once he gets over this bump in his career he will revert back to scoring one in two easy chances as opposed to one in 4 and will return to being one of the most effective forwards in Europe. He will never be a “just needs one chance” forwards like Aguero. He is what he is but his movement in the box is second to none.

 

[Beanhead]

Do you get more points for non tap in goals?

This. Tap in goals are easier. If you make your job easier.. you are bad at your job? It’s a bizarre mindset.

we used to laugh at Van Nistelrooy but take your blue specs of and he was a points machine.

 

[bugsyblue]

Go on I'll bite. Gundog and Raz had point blank headers on Tuesday. Bernardo had two yesterday.

I wouldn’t include the headers as it’s never as easy to score with your head as it is your foot.

Bernardo’s yesterday was the closest but if you look at it he didn’t quite have the space and time that Firmino had.

 

[bugsyblue]

Bernardo had almost an identical chance yesterday but did try to walk it in instead?

Yeah that’s true. it’s few and far between though isn’t it.

 

[Fordyboy46]

Surely thats the problem.
Sterling is the clubs top scorer and Mane is not Liverpools
Why would you even compare them.

So who would you have in your team out of Mane or Sterling, only one allowed?. Mane all day long for me

 

[Xhavenjoe]

So who would you have in your team out of Mane or Sterling, only one allowed?. Mane all day long for me

Mane.
Wouldn't even think twice.

 

[Shirley]

So who would you have in your team out of Mane or Sterling, only one allowed?. Mane all day long for me

Why don’t you set up a vote, Blue or red?

 

[Vienna_70]

@Grassland Blue There is an edit function.

;-)