Liverpool (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[Tolmie scores]

Pep's dipperphobia kicked in again today. Fucking psychological right now. We might need a shrink or something.

He is petrified of pace against us...without Kyle (when he's on form) makes defending very difficult, all forwards in prem have pace to burn.... we need a system away where we nulify this. Spurs will tear us a new one if we have this set up...Son s lightning and Kane plays those balls round the corner...Martinelli at Arsenal would fancy himself against us as well. I think we are a great team, we do have a great manager...but in 'cup tie' type games - we get it wrong quite a lot really...Champions League anybody?...probably not

 

[stan bowles]

phil wasn’t pocketed by Milner. It’s like with Jack, all comes from Pep and instructions. Shocking tactics and not the first time.

Maybe they both only look good with Cancelo overlapping them then ?

 

[bluemc1]

Liverpool fans only started singing en-masse when Salah scored.

You weren’t listening to the same match as me mate, not being funny but it might be your TV or something because that place was roaring from start to finish

 

[kippaxchris]

Not sure about that. Think Arsenal are genuine contenders. Don’t rule out Chelsea.

Exactly this, people said the same when Leicester was 1st.

 

[Gigant]

See the thread

Which post ..

 

[Zinchilla]

Probably didn’t deserve to lose, definitely didn’t deserve to win. Frustrating but somehow appropriate that their goal should come by way of a goalkeepers clearance, weak defending from Cancelo after an abysmal free kick from De Bruyne. Give Liverpool some credit, they got everyone back behind the ball extremely quickly, worked exceptionally hard and the long ball tactic worked when Joao switched off albeit quite what he was doing on his own remains a mystery. Wish I knew why we go there seemingly lacking in belief in our ability instead of just playing our own way and trusting the players. Milner mustn’t believe how easy his afternoon turned out to be.

Yep, they defended well, with Elliot protecting Milner in particular, and hoofed. With salah up front it will make our defenders twitch so it’s hard to work out when to step up. But I don’t think it down to a lack of belief, the way they played set the tone and it was hard to find the space - I thought the game was dull to watch for the most part. They’re like Burnley of old on speed and salbutamol.

A bizarre refereeing performance as well. He let it get out of control & I’m just glad we didn’t come away with any injuries on that pitch.

 

[Bluefen]

Not sure about that. Think Arsenal are genuine contenders. Don’t rule out Chelsea.

Arsenal will be at least 10 points behind us in May - the depth and no mentality when it comes to the crunch (as they proved last season)

Dippers will be our main rivals which is why today was so disappointing

 

[bluemc1]

They are better than us are they? 4 league titles to 1 in last 5 years says otherwise. Even the rags have beaten us regularly in the last 10 years but who is better over a season?

They might not be better than us over a season or able to break teams down as well, but saying that the difference twice has been a point
But head to head they are favourites when we play

 

[Bluefen]

Yep, they defended well, with Elliot protecting Milner in particular, and hoofed. With salah up front it will make our defenders twitch so it’s hard to work out when to step up. But I don’t think it down to a lack of belief, the way they played set the tone and it was hard to find the space - I thought the game was dull to watch for the most part. They’re like Burnley of old on speed and salbutamol.

A bizarre refereeing performance as well. He let it get out of control & I’m just glad we didn’t come away with any injuries on that pitch.

He totally lost it in the final 10!

Can’t believe he didn’t several fouls for both sides - Thiago one looked nasty in real time but I’ve not seen a replay yet

 

[argyle]

Can see the same happening at Arsenal and Spurs.

Pep just changes and experiments for the big games. Nothing we can do about it.

 

[levets]

Oh no, I think Haaland is brilliant, I was just answering a guy who said the team didn't give Haaland any chance. Haaland just as the rest of the team was poor today.

He still had 3 of our 6 on target attempts.

 

[Bluefen]

No sympathy for us today. De Bruyne disappeared most of the game. Cancelo was exposed several times. He can't defend for toffee. Haaland had an off day. Only Foden and Silva for me got decent pass marks. We got what we deserved.....nothing. We're far too soft at Anfield. We're beaten before a ball is kicked. Only win in 20 years was when there was not crowd and Liverpool were on a shocking home run. We have work to do now as the London clubs will be a real challenge this season. So disappointed we didn't kill Liverpool off. Big chance and we blew the audition.

Rodri had a decent game

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Nope. The truth. If you don't think one of his mandates was to win at least one CL with City then I don't know what to tell you. And what do you think the narrative will be if he doesn't win it with us? It will be dragged up time immemorial to tarnish his reputation.

He doesn't leave here a complete success if he doesn't win it at least once. He can't keep failing in Europe, and we, as fans, can't keep brushing it under the carpet as though it isn't a big deal. It's as simple as that.

Not sure you speak for all City fans.

 

[danielwood5]

Watched. You were the better team and created more chances. Liverpool crowd was up for it and things just rubbed there way today. It happens. You’ll win the league , they won’t

Did you think VAR was used correctly today? Was it used to correct and "clear and obvious" errors as required in the guidelines? Was it used to only correct any errors the referee had missed and not to re-referee an ongoing game?

 

[mick10]

Yup its not as life affecting for me. Titles at the end of the season are.

It’s not life affecting for anyone that includes leagues or we’d all be dead. The result matters to others and people calling other Fannie’s and so on because they don’t see it that way is pathetic. 3 points today would’ve been nice to assist your PL league trophy and been nice for all who simply want to stop this Klanfield hoodoo also. Anyway arsenal appear to be the contenders this season and Spurs ( they’ll drop I feel) slipping in quietly behind. The league is far from decided but it’s next season to put those bastards to the sword at that shithole. Wishful thoughts.

 

[Tolmie scores]

Nope. The truth. If you don't think one of his mandates was to win at least one CL with City then I don't know what to tell you. And what do you think the narrative will be if he doesn't win it with us? It will be dragged up time immemorial to tarnish his reputation.

He doesn't leave here a complete success if he doesn't win it at least once. He can't keep failing in Europe, and we, as fans, can't keep brushing it under the carpet as though it isn't a big deal. It's as simple as that.

I don't think we have the quality to win CL to be fair, we have a great technical team passing wise, and when KDB plays in correct position Haaland has a chance. Problem being we do have deficiencies n speed dep't and we set up in such an unnatural way to counteract speed, and it makes it worse. Id rather us stick it out and try and win these games 3 - 2 ...what he tried to do was block off all over laps to our detriment. When he found out Milner was playing sacrifice one of the players, get Grealish on and KDB playing deep centre, ok, extra cover on the Robertson side may be needed but to do nothing when Milner was playing = wasted opportunity. Got what we deserved today

 

[HarrytheBlue]

That’s why we will never win the CL. Pep always overthinks it. No clue why.

Wow, what a miserable attitude to our team. Yes, we had plenty of warnings with the endless stream of long balls and most teams would have had more of an insurance policy at the back as the game wore on, but I'm not going to blame our god of a coach. Shit happens and we hate it.

 

[Bluefen]

You weren’t listening to the same match as me mate, not being funny but it might be your TV or something because that place was roaring from start to finish

It certainly wasn’t - usual cult song at the beginning and they were quite until the city goal was disallowed… after that fair play the atmosphere was decent

 

[jrb]

You weren’t listening to the same match as me mate, not being funny but it might be your TV or something because that place was roaring from start to finish

I went! I didn't need to hear it on the TV.

No it wasn't from start to finish.

There were plenty of quiet periods during the match from Liverpool fans

The KOP did sing at times before Salah scored. Once Salah scored the whole ground joined in.

Did you hear City fans singing "where's your famous atmosphere?" And going ssssh?

 

[Tolmie scores]

It’s not life affecting for anyone that includes leagues or we’d all be dead. The result matters to others and people calling other Fannie’s and so on because they don’t see it that way is pathetic. 3 points today would’ve been nice to assist your PL league trophy and been nice for all who simply want to stop this Klanfield hoodoo also. Anyway arsenal appear to be the contenders this season and Spurs ( they’ll drop I feel) slipping in quietly behind. The league is far from decided but it’s next season to put those bastards to the sword at that shithole. Wishful thoughts.

Conte will not let Spurs drop - he is one top manager