Liverpool (H) | Post match thread

[bluethrunthru]

I did think Colin from Gosport was in fact the character from Talking Heads on Twitter - I expected him to sign off "love to the family " lol

He just called in and said he had missed the game as his mum had been taken to hospital - Savage said " oh sorry to hear that Colin - I'll let you get off - love to the family - I think it may have been the actor who plays him and Ian Fiveankles and they had bubbled him"

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Fantastic game, fantastic performance, absolutely horrendously criminally shite finishing!

Didn’t lose, still top! Only 1 defeat in the last 9 games against them now.

On the piss…

 

[The perfect fumble]

Where are all the doomsayers from the Matchday thread who just knew that the dippers were going to win?

They don't hang about......

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Just in, what an incredible advert of how the game should be played…

they’ve nicked 4pts off us this year, should of been out of sight in both games.. sterling, I have no words

 

[failsworthblueboy]

Thought we we're exceptional, we finish the game in a stronger position than we started it, 7 games, 7 finals, COME ON CITY!!!!

 

[Zinchilla]

Atletico is perfect for Gundogan, Mahrez and Grealish to come in.

Keep the ball, defend from their box and keep probing for a second goal. Make them chase the game.

That front 3 and midfield today needs to start in the cup, it had Liverpool on toast. Outfought them, outpaced them, outskilled them.

Agree. That’s also given Klopp something to think about tactically for the semi. Fine margins. Life’s a game of inches as Al Pacino once said.

the only thing that was a bit puzzling for me was the Sterling Grealish switch. So hard for a newcomer like Grealish to get into the pace of that kind of game with 10 minutes to play. But I suppose pep is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t with subs.

im pissed off at what might have been, but positive. Their front 3 are quality, but we knew that and we are the better team. So proud to be a blue!

 

[come-on-barney]

Just in, what an incredible advert of how the game should be played…

they’ve nicked 4pts off us this year, should of been out of sight in both games.. sterling, I have no words

Mistake taking him off.

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

Title is out of their hands, they are relying on us to fuck up whilst still having to win all their games. They will drop more points.

We battered them again and they will know they have been lucky again. One day we will convert those chances and be four up before they have a chance.

if anyone ever calls us out for tactical fouling ever again I give you Fabinho and Tiago. I would have said Henderson as well but he never got near anyone.

They are utter gash and just rely on constant long ball bombardment, a modern day Stoke on steroids.

As for the ref / VAR they did well protecting the product and keeping the race exciting. How they finished with 11 is beyond me. Even Tiago thought he was a goner.

 

[vmsuhail]

The number of times Thiago Alcantara has been booked this season - 2

 

[M Gaudino]

Which ref, Altrincham Taylor or the VAR?

whats your point? Does he support United then?
and if so is he for or against city/liverpool? make your mind up.

VAR also would have reviewed it (they review everything).

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

I thought the game reflected the season. They are clinical and can stay in games even when they're not at their best, we dominated but wasted chances. In our hands, and I fancy us - I think we are in a good place and have key players hitting form where some of their key players look like they are starting to look tired.

 

[ninjamonkey]

I would have taken a draw beforehand, very hard to take it after that though. We should have won that game and taken the goal difference lead in doing so, that's how much better we were. However, you don't win games just by being the better team, that's a 6 point swing we've surrendered to them this season. That's going to be the telling thing if we fail to win the league from here. They were the team that needed to win yet they're celebrating the point at the end, they're catching their flights back to Norway puzzled how they've taken 2 points from us this season.

Pep got the team correct including the positions and got the tactics right too, no player had a bad game, everybody played well, very well in fact we just wasn't clinical when we had to be which sadly isnt new to us this season.

Ref failed to book a few of them which probably results in at least one red but concentrating on the officials after that game is wrong in my eyes, he wasn't the central figure to why we didn't win and shifting attention to him isn't neccesary.

Have to be perfect from here until the end now, very achievable 7 game winning run ahead of us, do it and we're champions, throw it away and we've only got ourselves to blame.

Get the result we need by any means in Madrid midweek then take any frustration at not winning that today out on them cunts next weekend and smack them.

 

[cityblue123]

We were the better team. Should have won. Missing to many easy chances. Sterling being the culprit more often than not and Mahrez at the end. Could have played foden in!! Not clinical enough! Saying that, didnt we play some good footy!!!

 

[bennyboy]

Typical City.
Missed chances again spoiling a great display.

 

[bluethrunthru]

They have done loads of this its piss funny

 

[The perfect fumble]

We need not worry chaps, Rags playing for the badge in their true derby next week. We’ll be fine

Yeah, no worries, Ralf's at the wheel....

 

[Winchester]

Agree. That’s also given Klopp something to think about tactically for the semi. Fine margins. Life’s a game of inches as Al Pacino once said.

the only thing that was a bit puzzling for me was the Sterling Grealish switch. So hard for a newcomer like Grealish to get into the pace of that kind of game with 10 minutes to play. But I suppose pep is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t with subs.

im pissed off at what might have been, but positive. Their front 3 are quality, but we knew that and we are the better team. So proud to be a blue!

Inches?
Oo err dont tell my wife that!

 

[Manx Blue]

The referee got pretty much everything right and if you dont agree I cannot indulge your mental health issues

I'm sorry, but Thiago and Fabinho should've been off for two yellows a piece IMHO.

 

[Vester]

For the second time this season against Liverpool, we deserved to win but have to settle with 1 point. A win would have been great, but if anyone would have given me these conditions with 7 games left before the season I would have taken it, at least this keeps us in the driving seat.

No surprise the ref was abysmal (as usual when we face Liverpool). If they are not getting cheap pens, its impossible for them to get a man sent off, or we get perfectly fine goals ruled out because of made up offsides. Why VAR choose to draw the offside line on a frame when the ball has already left KDBs foot and is almost 2 feet infront of it can only be explained by that on the previous frame Sterling wasnt offside. Paul Tierney single-handedly keeping Liverpool in the title race this season, closed down what should have been a 6 point gap between us by himself.

 

[chaddblue]

Unlikely that us or them were gonna win both games between each other this week. That rarely happens and pep implied that pre match as well

With that in mind I’d have taken a draw today and a win at Wembley

Liverpool really needed the 3 points today. A draw is so much better for us than them

Before the game it was in both teams hands. Now it’s out of theirs and entirely up to us