Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread.

[Tim of the Oak]

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.

He wasn’t the right style of forward to be playing into the wind against giant defenders. Even the greats sometimes rely on good service.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Stones should have done better but he was barged in the back and however soft or hard that barge, it was clear and Firmino gained an advantage from it so that is a foul in my book. We don't know what Stones would have done if he had not been fouled.

I don't think we need a more physical presence at centre forward to hols up the ball, I believe both Aguero and Jesus should be able to do that when the ball is played into them. I think Aguero, loses the ball more than he should.

The ref didn’t give a foul and most officials have wouldn’t, where there is some contact but the defender is sleeping.

Jesus would have given us a bit more height and pace up front but the injury ruled him out. We didn’t get close enough to Aguero in the match defining 15 minutes to give him good enough balls to have a chance of holding on to possession.

 

[blue by birth]

That’s real blue eyed spectacle stuff in my opinion. At best it was finely poised. Personally I thought the dippers were the more dangerous of the two teams, maybe not up to the sending off, but certainly up to the point that Sergio put us ahead

Did I not say up to the Mane sending off...maybe being a blue means I might be a bit biased but to be honest we were better than them.
They had the Salah chance and we had already scored and missed a few by time Mane was sent off...ie we were the better team

 

[Indaparkside]

Can't we just agree they deserved there win and move on.

 

[mike1923]

Can't we just agree they deserved there win and move on.

This

Bad day at the office, they were ruthless in their finishing. We move on

 

[kwm1988]

This

Bad day at the office, they were ruthless in their finishing. We move on

Agreed

 

[mike1923]

Something that strikes me is that Pep has been outdone a number of times by Klopp, he is his nemesis, Klopps tactical skill in pressing the opposition is outdoing Peps skill in passing calmly and with purpose out from the back.

Pep needs to adapt to that, not sure how, but blindly sticking to "his style" isnt working in this case and tbh is a bit luddite approach. He needs to find a different way, maybe even play a little defensive :O

Peps approach will land him with a medal around his neck at the end of the season

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Something that strikes me is that Pep has been outdone a number of times by Klopp, he is his nemesis, Klopps tactical skill in pressing the opposition is outdoing Peps skill in passing calmly and with purpose out from the back.

Pep needs to adapt to that, not sure how, but blindly sticking to "his style" isnt working in this case and tbh is a bit luddite approach. He needs to find a different way, maybe even play a little defensive :O

Good God.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

We didn't win, we lost for the first time against English opposition in 30 matches. Only one side has gone through a domestic league season unbeaten and they had a fair number of draws as well. It isn't enough to be the best or most consistent team in the land, you have to be better than the opposition every time you take the field. Yesterday we took on a fired up, motivated eleven who played better than they have done, probably ever before and they got the better of us, deservedly so. We contributed to our downfall with a horror show ten minutes. But if people are interested in discussing which team will play at their best most often this season there is only one contender.

 

[SamBlue]

It is still shitty Monday, for some reason I cannot stop fuming about the nature of our loss yesterday. And then I went out for a lunch and discovered The Guardian moved to a new 'tabloid' format! Rubbish!