Match Thread | Liverpool vs. Man City (01/12/24)

[heslops barnet]

Not watching but reading Rico is shit/our best player…..which is it?

 

[pudge]

Akanji is miles off it currently. Seems so slow

Standard for him so, any more laid back and he'd still be in bed

 

[Solatron]

Ake, Dias Ortega superb today

Spot on. Doku since he's come at least having a go

 

[Wellsblue21]

Much better second half, this. A bit of confidence and authority in our play.

Not true, Liverpool are setting traps and pressing at the right time

Allowing us on to them we’ve created zilch

 

[lonestay]

Darwin Nunez coming on , not all is lost yet !!!!

 

[flb]

Some have mentioned how poor recruitment has been, and I largely ignored it and tried to stay positive and back the squad - injuries have hit us and our squad’s won 4 titles on the bounce, bound to happen I thought.

But I just had to pinch myself when I saw us with Nunes on the wing. And then with Savinho coming on. They’re not bad players - they’re very good. In fact, Nunes was great at Wolves; Savinho great at Girona. But that’s that - for a while we’ve been assembling a team of ‘big fish small pond’ players (e.g. Grealish) and whilst we got a lot of these decisions right, and I’m not sure there’s another way of sensibly building a squad in the financial fair play climate, we’ve reached a stage where I’m not actually confident looking at our lineup anymore.

I say this for two reasons:
(1) I’m persuaded we need to recruit aggressively.
(2) WHY CANT WE JUST PLAY FODEN / BERNARDO / GREALISH AS WINGERS. We won the Champions League that way. Nunes was never a winger, and Savinho’s best experience is bloody Girona!

It’s clear for all to see the clubs transfer policy is going to be different with the guy replacing Txiki , so obvious we have been saving a warchest for when he starts , great clubs / teams reinvent themselves and move on to more greatness , this was expected tbh , but maybe not as blunt and stark as this

 

[Ezy]

Lewis offers fuck all to this team

 

[Mr HJ]

He is better than Gundo currently

That is not a high bar - since I typed this he has lost possession cheaply again and failed to tackle their number 38 on what was yet anther great chance. Not his fault but he is not a central player fact.

 

[levets]

Would be beneficial if Akanji would stop giving the ball away....

So sloppy from him

 

[Brad mcfc]

Lewis and Bernardo are so sloppy

 

[Cheadle_hulmeBlue]

Lewis is dreadful

There have been plenty of games where he’s been class. He’s a right back for me thougg

 

[Kamaro011]

Contrary to popular belief, I think we've done OK for the last half hour.

Please don't comment like this until it's really over.

 

[WallyA]

Pep has to take Lewis off...

 

[HolisticJim]

Odd that he's not bringing on Kev, if only to play a defensive midfield role. Can't Kev even play thirty minutes or so? Why's he on the bench, then?

Exactly what I was saying earlier. What's the issue with KDB right now?

 

[Keeper!]

Dias has to be made captain immediately

 

[roach3]

Lewis has to come off he’s losing every duel

 

[ufo]

rico keep it simple ffs

 

[madloaf]

Not watching but reading Rico is shit/our best player…..which is it?

Neither. But the idea he's the issue is just laughable scapegoating by people who were clearly starved of oxygen as babies.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Still see them scoring one or two more. Their chances are much, much clearer than ours.

 

[Blu1]

Akanji has been shocking