Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread.

[urban genie]

On soccer sat interview Klopp said the 5-0 hurt and he wanted revenge, they have been harbouring a sense of injustice since we beat them to the title.
Basically they wanted to beat us and played out of their skin, much like everton stepped up under moyes against us out of some form of need.

Their game seemed to rattle ferdy and otter in particular and we were sloppy at times.

I still think it was a foul on stones, but the 10 mins after when we lost our heads is poor from us, and despite scousers saying 4-3 flattered us, I don't think there was much in it.

We were architects of our own downfall, but liverpools game played a part in that

 

[cleavers]

Interesting that they seem to be able to chase around for 90 minutes with those energy levels when we looked tired.

We had played twice since they last played, so hardly surprising.

The second goal should never have happened anyway, as KdB was fouled in their half before the ball got anywhere near our goal, so instead of defending, we should have been taking a free kick towards their goal, and we were on top at that point, but once again a referee influenced the result, and there followed a period of madness which is hard to explain from our point of view.

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

Need to stop having 10 minute brain farts in games where we lose our composure and we'd have been fine.

 

[stonerblue]

Fuck me, i nip out for a fag and when i get back it's four bastard one..

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

they're always up for it, difficult places to go and we go there as both a scalp and beatable. Dipper players have a number of wins over us there so no matter how average their side is when it comes to our game they know and believe they can do us, regardless of the quality or superiority of our side. Meanwhile, we go there with a side that only has Delph in it with a win as a visiting player at Anfield in the league and with the weight of a record that says "this is really hard, and we don't win here and they'll be up for it".

We broke OT with the 6-1 and backed it up. We haven't had that moment at Anfield and the Dippers don't fear losing to us, they just pathologically love beating us. If we could have upset them when it really hurt it may have been different, but both in 13/14 and yesterday we capitulated and allowed them to keep their aura.

We've pretty much lost the psychological battle before we turn up, we need to get over that somehow but it's difficult to see what we change that will cope with the Anfield press and pressure that we continually falter under.

 

[cleavers]

I was chatting to some Liverpool fans after the game who felt Kun caused them quite a few problems.

They watched a different game to the one I did then, I thought he caused us more problems than he did them, for much of the second half he might as well have been on the bench for all he was adding for us.

 

[mancity1]

Keep calm and carry on, we lost a game, so what, it was bound to happen sooner or later, it will be a wake up call, nothing more, we will still be 12 clear once the rags take Stoke to the cleaners tonight...! The dippers had their cup final yesterday, nothing more nothing less, in the scheme of things, aside form giving those vile twats something to shout about, its a meaningless result.. Will we get a reaction against Newcastle, fuckin right we will, Come on City...!!!!

The sides below us have to do everything right from here on and we muck up a fair bit for us to open the door.

Neither of the above look like happening although the league is tough and you don't want to give anybody else a sniff if you can.

Worried about the injuries in defence now however and think we need some insurance in January or failing that in DM as if Ferny is off the boil we become more vulnerable and give oppositions of any quality more chances to score.

 

[Sky Blue]

We had played twice since they last played, so hardly surprising.

The second goal should never have happened anyway, as KdB was fouled in their half before the ball got anywhere near our goal, so instead of defending, we should have been taking a free kick towards their goal.

Thought the same.

 

[shevtheblue]

Thought we missed David quite a bit tbh, his ability to hold the ball past their press and to move their midfield about would have helped us a lot last night. Sergio was awful last night, constantly slowing down play but then trying to do too much with it and losing the ball, leaving us overloaded in defence. Luckily for us, we have a weeks rest and the next few games *on paper* aren't as difficult as they could be so we can get Jesus back and ready.

We had a 15 minute spell of losing the plot defensively, much like they did against us. But the one real positive for me was the drive we showed at the end, even though it was too late, we kept doing what Pep wants us to do and not just hoof it up top.

Bottom line is, we play risky football that has big rewards and those rewards have been constant this season, it was bound to fail at some point. But IIRC, the same thing happened for Bayern against Dortmund and they still had a good season so nothing to panic about.

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

I can take a defeat (especially when the first is middle of Jan with 15 point gap, 12 at worst by the end of today) and we did crumble a bit 2nd half. Most baffling thing was that D.Silva wasnt called upon because it was crying out for someone to steady the ship.