Liverpool (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Klopp got the better of Pep again by playing to the strengths of his weakened team. Pep didn't counter their weaknesses.
Klopp made the right subs at the right time. Pep didn't.
We looked stationary as they sped around the pitch.

Nunez was the right sub . . . for us. Could have been 3 or 4 for them had that bonehead not been on.

 

[madloaf]

Under orders... surely

I'll never forgive Pep for the Porto final... Today felt the same, change the team for Liverpool.. All it did was send the message "we're scared of you"

You know you forgive him everytime we win the league because I do too. The porto final was a massive fuck up. Everyone knows this. Just like today he did it again but we'll forgive him coz he's not perfect and it wouldn't be fun if we were. We still play this incredible football because of him.

 

[bluemc1]

I’m currently not arsed about the “ they can win this we win the league “
This game now is like a derby, I fuckin hate the cunts and they keep fucking beating us and it’s really fuckin pissing me off

 

[dhruvblue]

That was by far and away the worst Liverpool team we have faced in the last 6 years. They were that shit we looked half arsed and were rushing everything.

Sadly a very poor performance emphasised by Joe Gomez / Milner being player of the match. Those two should have been targeted and shredded.

Just remember we made ashley Young look great.

 

[eastmanc]

Walker is great on the recovery but often these balls were to feet, head. We just needed defenders who could defend properly. Dias was all over the show as well today. Guys form has dropped of a cliff.

Cancelo needed to be alot stronger than he showed. I will praise him when he plays well but second half today his game just fell apart.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Pep must have had an unsettled night last night and decided at like 3am to play 3-4-3 out of nowhere. All on Pep today. Why can’t we just play our familiar way at Anfield? It would at least give us a chance to overcome VAR.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

What was Pep's approach / plan? I have no idea

Now I have to sit with SWMBO (dipper) and stay polite

The plan was to keep their left back and midfield struggling and pinned back and overloaded, and put our best crossers of the ball, KDB and Cancelo, in the space that would emerge because of it. Gundogan and Bernie in the middle could make runs into the box while their centre backs were occupied with Haaland.

 

[blue by birth]

Nothing dodgy about our disallowed goal. We need to stop with our victim mentality and grow a pair of bollocks. We got beat today because we are a bunch of shit bags at anfield

Bollocks

 

[danielwood5]

They didn’t outplay us but Klopp certainly outsmarted Pep today. I mean that in the sense that his tactical approach paid off and Pep’s didn’t.

Every man and his dog knows that Liverpool play the long ball, fast counter against us. Yet a situation panned out where a long ball put Salah in a one v one position with Cancelo. The whole situation was naive/amateurish play.

In fact, if Liverpool were more clinical they could have put 3 or 4 past us.

Outsmarted is a bit of a stretch. Liverpool played the way they always do against everyone, not just us. We played the way we normally do but were just a little off our normal levels.
There's things we could have done to stop their goal and didn't and they were lucky that Darren England was on VAR again to stop our goal. We had chances to go 2, 3 or 4 goals up but they just didn't go in as happens sometimes.
If we were more clinical we'd have put more than one past Liverpool and scored 4 or 5 if we're going down the could have done route.

 

[jimharri]

Well i don't think we should hide for anyone in relation to this one fixture. That's our problem at City. Too much cowering behind fears of Liverpool at Anfield. It reaches the players and management. The management have bought into the fear. Big difference between fear and respect. Today this was all too evident by the tactics particularly after they scored. Caution can work in a difficult situation but when you are losing something else has to be done. Pep doesn't react quickly and bravely so he doesnt change things up. His stubborn attitude can be indicative of fear. How many times did we hear that they were there for the taking.

Who said anything about hiding? I won't be hiding from anyone. Lots of Liverpool fans in work tomorrow, but I'll be in as usual. I just don't want to read the mass scouse love in that's on the way. As for Harris, Delaney, Panja etc etc, I can imagine what they're going to be like.

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

There was a clear case of starting him today but not to bring him on at all was criminal

He must of been hurt or something

 

[br88]

Not by beating Liverpool we haven't though. Semi final CL game this year, we play Liverpool, you'd groan at the thought.

What's people forget is that Liverpool are scared stiff about playing City. Our recent record against Liverpool away is won 1, drawn 1, lost1 and we have a very good home record against them.

 

[argyle]

Pep always tries to be counterintuitive.

They have their weakest squad out, especially at the fullback position so he stops us attacking their fullbacks and makes us go narrow.

Grealish been playing well and would have got at Milner, so he benches him.

Plays people out of postion too, KDB out right. Foden has been playing great on the right, so he moves him to the left and has him stopping and passing back. Cancelo been playing well on the left, so he puts him on the right.

Why, oh why, does he continually change winning formulas for the big games??

He seems to be so scared of the opposition rather than just believing in our own strengths.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Going off league position it would be akin to losing against any other team. It's not the loss it's the fact we can't seem to gain enough bottle to beat these fuckers at Anfield. You can win the league losing a few games but you won't ever win the CL if you can't get over this hurdle.

I'm not even sure what the CL has to do with today. Unless some of you guys are saying pep is the wrong manager for us...... which is bonkers tbh.

 

[franksinatra]

Who leaves a player like Salah marked one on one

Ask the captain. Understandable if its the last minute and were 1-0 down but that decision cost us the game. Cancelo probably got the job as Ake, Dias etc had been turned so often the passed the buck.

 

[Rammy Blue]

We played okay today; thought a draw would have been fair result. Not sure Pep changed much today. He definitely had blind spot in Porto v Chelsea and v Lyon but otherwise I think he’s got most matches pretty much bang on. We operate in very rarified fields these days so any defeat seems an aberration.

Didn’t change much??? Did you not watch the game, lol. 3 at the back and Cancelo and Foden wing backs with Kev pushed out wide inside right. Bizarre formation that didnt work one iota.

 

[madloaf]

I keep reading this but it simply isn’t true. He’s had one great game this season when he ran at defenders and terrorised then. In the next game he reverted to stop, turn and pass back.

If Foden wasn’t prepared to run at Milner it’s probably because he was under orders, the same orders Grealish would have been under.

Besides that, if you play Grealish who are you leaving out, Foden ? If you leave out Gundo or Bernie you completely change the setup.

I leave out Gundo. I love gundo, but i leave him out. We have to have 2 wide men. Its about the best system, the best team. Foden right, Grealish left. Bern, Kev, Rod.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

Its a bright thing in the sky that daft people look at. Clappers seem mesmerised by its mere presence no matter how old they are.

After all its the moon.

So the moon, in your view, is 4 out of 5 Premier League trophies?

 

[Mr HJ]

Hate, hate, hate losing to them but let's face it todays result was largely our own doing not them being great.

I don't believe Cancelo will ever play this bad again - it's one thing making a poor error but before & after it he literally couldn't do anything right. My only disappointment was that some players didn't have the fire that Bernardo showed, in other words we let them bully us. Erling is allowed a quiet game now and then. He actually showed some really good touches for the link up which added to his goal scoring feats is very positive.

Strange one was Eddie had a great game yet this season he seems reluctant to release attacks quickly - I can't tell if that is a direct instruction or just him not being as confident but he made some excellent saves.

I would have brought Jack on - yes a risk but this was a game he was made for - he would have had them trying to kick him all game and left space for others to exploit. Gundo was too passive and whereas I love the control he gives us I felt today there were times when the game was passing him by.

Bernardo squaring up to the entire Scouse team was a thing of beauty - but fellas get involved and stand by your teammate. Robertson and Fabinho are twats but I'm now adding Salah and the rest of them to the players I despise the most in the PL - horrible club, horrible fans, horrible manager end of.

Finally I'm not going to over react to one game and I do still think there is a gulf between us but we let Klopps mind games directly effect our way of playing. We were always going to lose a game but I fully expect this hurt them and our players to react perfectly.

BTW Pep is ace and I don't care who he picks we are the luckiest fans in football having him as our gaffer.

 

[danielwood5]

I disagree, foul all day for me. Fabinho had won the ball so of course it’s a free kick.

Fabinho had already pushed into Haaland who was off balance and grabbed at Fabinho. Do you think that goal would have been chalked off if Villa had scored it against Brentford?