Liverpool (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[NoCompromise]

Good work.

I did a much simplified calculation,

Arse have 4 of the big 6 to play (Us, Rags, Spuds, Chelsea)

Dippers have 2 (Rags, Spuds) plus a Derby away.

We have 2 (Arse, Spuds)

Villa, Brighton and Wolves also feature heavily.

We'll win away at Spuds

 

[bluenova]

I did a little bit of daft analysis on each teams remaining fixtures

If you list all the teams City / Liverpool and Arsenal have to play and measure them based on league position - City have marginally the easier run in (based on todays league table)

City - 87
Liverpool - 85
Arsenal - 83
(Higher number indicates playing lower in the league opposition)

When you break that out between home and away - you get a really interesting thing

City have much harder home games (39) than away games (48)

Liverpool and Arsenal have much easier home games and much harder away games - Liverpools is 56H 29A arsenals is 51H 32A

It’s a fair assumption that City, Liverpool and Arsenal will drop relatively few points at home - the title is likely to be won/lost on Liverpool/Arsenals away form

I think this will be key.

All three of us have poorer away records than home records, so that's more likely to be where points are dropped.

 

[steviemc]

Absolute horse shit. Bullied and second best against the worst Liverpool side in years.

Needed to win this one because of the points we have thrown away this season, and put in a good effort first half. That 2nd half is the worst we have looked under Pep.
Nowhere near good enough.

Ederson is out of the team for me. Ortegas spot from now on. Inexusable to be that fucking dense after just getting away with it last week

Scott Sinclair seems to be your level. Thank fuck for the 'ignore' button. Free years supply of Tena Lady's is on it's way for the knicker wetter.

 

[Stephen230]

Murphy reckoned Haaland going past VVD was superb defending.
Pity Haaland didn't score.

I’m actually going to agree with him on that one, for a change.

Haaland would normally have just drawn the last defender, bulldozed his way past him and had a clear run on goal.

Whereas he left enough space between them so Haaland couldn’t knock the ball past him. Ushered him out wide and forced him into a low percentage shot from a tightish angle.

Of course, he is still well capable of scoring from there but I did at the time think it was good defending. Not seen a replay yet though.

 

[Bluefen]

I don’t get the take a draw before the game idea everyone is floating about. I certainly didn’t feel that way anyway. Normally that’d be acceptable but this was a very depleted Liverpool team. If we were any way on form today we should’ve blown that side away.

A real missed opportunity that could be hugely costly come the end of the season. We were clueless in that second half. They will be absolutely thrilled with how things worked out today.

I think the draw mindset before the game stems from the poor record - I think a defeat would have been very damaging but a draw is very much an acceptable result in that it would be terminal

On seeing the team sheet I thought they were there for the taking (dippers lost the Arsenal game because they had a very second string midfield) - that played out for the first 15

Credit to Liverpool for getting a grip of the game after the first 15 - they played well with a patched up side

 

[Bluefen]

Absolute horse shit. Bullied and second best against the worst Liverpool side in years.

Needed to win this one because of the points we have thrown away this season, and put in a good effort first half. That 2nd half is the worst we have looked under Pep.
Nowhere near good enough.

Ederson is out of the team for me. Ortegas spot from now on. Inexusable to be that fucking dense after just getting away with it last week

I suppose we should drop Ake too for horrendous back pass to Edersen in the first instance

 

[steviemc]

Lucky - I just don’t get why we as a team can’t match the opposing teams energy - pep needs to change the style and get some quicker players

Have you submitted you job application yet? FFS - get over yourself telling Pep what he should do. Just out of interest what have you won and what are your quals?

 

[mike1923]

I thought the same, Eddie never made contact but then how did he injury himself? The only thing I could think was it maybe looked like his knee locked backwards a touch.

Either way, we were just so poor today (bar the first 10 mins).
Hugey relived to have come away with a draw and I just hope we cam string some decent results together and beat Arsenal.

If they ever wrote a handbook on what is a penalty, this would be an example of what is a penalty.

 

[Bluefen]

I’m actually going to agree with him on that one, for a change.

Haaland would normally have just drawn the last defender, bulldozed his way past him and had a clear run on goal.

Whereas he left enough space between them so Haaland couldn’t knock the ball past him. Ushered him out wide and forced him into a low percentage shot from a tightish angle.

Of course, he is still well capable of scoring from there but I did at the time think it was good defending. Not seen a replay yet though.

I thought it was a fascinating duel

For me VVD played percentages - he knew Haaland was going to get a shot away, did what he could to influence that and relied on his keeper to do the rest - decent defending in my book

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Elliot’s piss would melt the testing cup… same for Diaz. They’re juiced out of their fucking minds them lot

Of course they are. Anyone thinking otherwise are equally off their tits

This Liverpool team is doped to fuck.

If it's sport, then doping is involved
.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

I don’t get the take a draw before the game idea everyone is floating about. I certainly didn’t feel that way anyway. Normally that’d be acceptable but this was a very depleted Liverpool team. If we were any way on form today we should’ve blown that side away.

A real missed opportunity that could be hugely costly come the end of the season. We were clueless in that second half. They will be absolutely thrilled with how things worked out today.

And you probably think we should have "blown away" crystal Palace and Spurs" at home??

Believe you me. Today is a good point. The point in itself might not look good. But we stopped the bin dipping cunts pulling away.

 

[Metalartin]

Disappointed with that performance overall, we were our own worst enemies as a team in that game. Gifting possession needlessly all over the pitch, especially at the back, basically offering the opposition players and the crowd all the encouragement they needed in that second half to stay on us(though their players must have expended a ton of energy). The final ball was always well off it too, so frustrating when you know they are capable of doing so much better in those situations.

 

[marco]

some of the posts on this thread are a disgrace, infact that bad i check the post count to make sure its not there first which would indicate they have nipped over from sad cafe, to see posts counts of 9k 10k plus from these people makes me sad so instead of moaning GET BEHIND YOUR FUCKING TEAM

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Think their lads will be more disappointed they didn’t win than ours will.
To get a point was lucky and now the title is out of our hands.

Not that it’s over yet, not by a long shot. But fuck me we don’t make it easy for ourselves do we?

 

[Longballutd]

Have you submitted you job application yet? FFS - get over yourself telling Pep what he should do. Just out of interest what have you won and what are your quals?

He’s entitled to his opinion mate. Don’t think he needs to get over himself or give details of what he’s won or what his qualifications are lol. Why couldn’t we match their energy is a good question. Why are you being so defensive of a frankly embarrassing afternoon for us.

 

[Metalartin]

We stole that second half, we were dogshit and gave the VAR an opportunity to screw us, which miraculously they opted not to do. More solid going forward, please

That's kind of how I saw it too. Had he not got the ball first, then it would have been a stonewall pen but since he did, it's a 50/50 that could have gone either way. I'd rather he would have been braver and stuck his head on it, then we don't have to have the conversation though. I'm sure he will be told that.

How any blue is trying to say that's a stonewall I don't know though. Maybe it's because they were expecting it to be given, because all the 50/50 big calls normally are at Anfield? It was obvious Sky were hoping one would be given but it's no more controversial of a call than Alison being bailed out by the ref in the reverse fixture.

 

[steviemc]

Definitely a point gained. Not sure what it is about that ground but when we concede we seem to lose all our composure

Ask all the other teams managers that get nothing there. Some grounds are like that - it's not rocket science. We don't like to admit it, but sometimes the ground and fanbase do make it difficult to believe you can get a win. Do you think for one minute that every manager goes there and asks his team to play poorly or not get a result? Really? Some grounds are like that. As much as I hate to admit it, the rags had a ground like this for many many years. The crowd being the '12th man' isn't folklore you know. To ignore that is just to pretend that every other team is just 'unlucky'. Life doesn't run that way (unless you believe in voodoo, curses or are just simply insane).

 

[Kippax1973]

He’s entitled to his opinion mate. Don’t think he needs to get over himself or give details of what he’s won or what his qualifications are lol. Why couldn’t we match their energy is a good question. Why are you being so defensive of a frankly embarrassing afternoon for us.

Totally agree,, they were a make shift team,, let's be honest here really honest, we had about 10-15 good minutes in that match,, they were far better far far better than us FACT,, and others believing they wernt are quite frankly deluded

 

[Metalartin]

As for Anfield, I think it's less about the crowd for our players than it is about the record City have there, being a mental block. Even I was thinking, 'same old same old' as soon as Ake made that mistake at the back. We've managed to make Spurs away a big thing, probably the only big 6 club other than arsenal that sees that fixture the same way. One of these days City will win at anfield in the league and hopefully build the belief from there for the next season.

 

[Kippax1973]

some of the posts on this thread are a disgrace, infact that bad i check the post count to make sure its not there first which would indicate they have nipped over from sad cafe, to see posts counts of 9k 10k plus from these people makes me sad so instead of moaning GET BEHIND YOUR FUCKING TEAM

So you think city were top draw do yer,,, I've news for you , they wernt In fact for most of the game they were fking shite, that's the truth,,