Liverpool (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

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Totally overthought by Pep in a massive game again, really had the chance to kill their season off.

Lack of subs is pure petulance as well, Alvarez and or Grealish needed 20 minutes ideally when still 0-0.

Finally the state of our fucking corners and set piece in general today, was the worst I’ve seen in years corners and free kicks were schoolboy level.
 
Miles off it. We've had a really easy start to the season and we were clearly unprepared for the intensity of that match except maybe Bernardo. We never seem to get it right there for whatever reason and we allow ourselves to get dragged into a dogfight with them which suits them much more than us. De Bruyne was totally anonymous stuck out on the right and Haaland was wasteful with the chances he had. You can't legislate for the mistake Cancelo made when last man against Salah. Phil might want to reflect on why he's been pocketed by Milner and Ashley Young already this season. No complaints over the disallowed goal - clear pull on Fabinho.
 
GAZZA said:
I thought we were handicapped by thinking we had to pass it to Haaland every time we got into the box, sometimes another player was better positioned.
I thought KDB was poor, wasted position for him but he played it badly.
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Abso-bloody-exactly.
 
That result ws on the cards after the first 5 minutes...it was so clear what they were going to do and its the same as they always try and do...

Plan a is to try and over run us for the first 15 -20 mins.....if they score they then play on the break...
If they dont score they go to plan b...sit back, out fight us in the middle third and punce on any mistake...they were just waiting when we were playing it out from the back 4 into midfield for a loose touch or something like that..
As it happened it was route one from their keeper and a terrible defensive decision from Cancello

We have a few players who just dont ever have the intensity for this type of game...nothing to do with quality but everything to do with heart and ability to be that couple of per cent more intense in your game....Cancello, Ake are two prime for that (Mahrez is another but thankfully he didnt get anywhere near the pitch)....KDB does it as well.....not all the time but from time to time he disappears in games when people get in his face....

Bernardo and Foden were very good. .....Haaland had little to play with but did well when he could.....

We need to learn that as good as certain players are (and in some cases they are very good players) when its an intense match like that sometimes its better to play the ones who battle....Cancello has NEVER been that player. He is absolutel quality technically but he doesnt have fight in him...KDB does this disappearing act from time to time as well
 
madloaf said:
It was the worst possible performance at the worst possible game compounding by the unneccessary tinkering in a big game by pep. But it's still 10pts between us and them and I'll take that any day. However this idea that Arsenal are gonna bottle it isn't a brilliant take right now.
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We have to play Arsenal home and away. A draw there, and a win at ours, and we are fine. Just wish we'd taken one of our chances today, but we don't have to go back there till next year.
 
What a frustrating match to listen to over here in Oz.............we did more than enough to get some kind of result today, we just pick ourselves up and go again, and remember they just won their cup final..............
 
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