Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread.

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Neville Kneville said:
There were a couple of incidents prior to that, where a Liverpool player was able to receive a hopeful pass, & had time to flick it over our cbs, & we just cleared it at full stretch.

They just weren't awake for some reason.
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Best defence in the league apparently. I've been slagged off for daring to question it.
 
Don Karleone said:
Didn't think there was much in that Firminho push tbf.
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They are given on a regular occurrence. Firminhos arm comes up so it wasn't a shoulder it was a push. Stones admittedly was weak but what outcome do you think would be if that was Aguero on Lovren?
 
franksinatra said:
Stones misjudged the weight of the pass. Went to intercept, and then realising it had more legs, went to maintain a goal side position from Firmino who held his ground and used his body strength to push him off. It was a Stones mistake not a refereeing one.
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Look at how much Stones protests. Not at all is the answer.
If people are seriously putting that defeat down to the referee, there’s no hope...
 
I was sure of a defeat today.the bin dippers biggest game of the season.all the press speculation beforehand,.just write it off as a bad day at the office and crack on with winning the league.Arsenal fans will be full of the invincible shit,But spent half that season just trying not to lose,not trying to win
 
not going to moan and liverpool was the right team to beat us at this stage and we even could have took a point away that's the mark of a great team we fight to the end never give up chase the impossible ask the question and if you lose ok its not our day and move on

its now what we all have been waiting for the question and all the media have been asking could city go unbeaten this season well pep did say nope we lose and maybe its today this city team is special and if this was a 2 leg semi final you take losing 4.3 that's the making of this team we will have to go to bigger places in the champions league and face better teams than liverpool and we can hurt teams and score goals when its not your day

i think pep is in the 2nd stage of the season and now the points we banked can be use to take away days like this and work on the little things yes we need another left wing back and another striker and this week should be pep getting them at the earliest monday night tuesday morning it need a fresh up and a couple of new faces to add something and send out a message saying to the others we have not stopped building and this is not the finished item we can and will get better

turning a bad day into something good is the best way to show people this is why manchester city is the place to come and play football we don't take 2nd best as a option we ask for your best and that's all and the best you give is the way forward
 
Dippers kick and rush style always causes us problems. Not sure why as it's easy to predict.
 
We lost a game to a good side, in decent form, at a ground where we have an awful record. No big deal.

It only becomes an issue if it affects us beyond today. If we beat Newcastle next week everything is fine. In fact, it might do us some good to realise we're not invincible, in a competition where we can afford to lose a game, rather than suffer a defeat in the Champions League or one of the domestic cups.
 
I think Pep will use this defeat to the-focus the team.

His message will carry greater weight on the back of such a defeat.

Expect to see a revitalised City next week

And hopefully Merlin back ;-)
 
scousemanc said:
Wow! We have to lose some time. So it goes. Reminds me of the 3-2 when Liverpool thought they had won the league. We weren't that great today, don't know why David didn't play but there you go. 15 points clear with 15 to play. I'm not crying.
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Got it in one pal.......suggest media blackout for the next week .
 
Some of the crap being spouted here screams of entitlement. Some questioning the character of a team which have came back and won games on at least 5 occasions this season. The character and mentality of a player who's goals, a few late as well has won the team the most amount of points and helped afford a 15 point lead. A team which played in a tough mid-week cup game where half the team played against a team that's had a 9 day rest. Its quite baffling

You can say sterling was poor which he was but it has nothing to do with any weak mentality or anfield. if that's the case then the whole team should never show up at anfield again seeing as they'd never won there for some time even before he was in the team.

You can also say the team as a whole was poor, late to every second ball, misplaced more passes than in any game this season, made a lot of unforced errors and conceded goals as as result of that and some poor defending, but again nothing to do with their quality, or character. It was just a bad day at the office nothing more nothing less. Even the great barca team of pep never went a season unbeaten so yes it was a poor performance, a bad day but that shouldn't put into question the quality or mentality of this team. This is a very special team and I'm almost certain days like this won't happen very often. 15 points clear, a semi final cup tie in which they have a lead, and favourable draws in the FA Cup and champions league. Pep, the staff and the players will dust themselves off and get back to it
 
Metalartin said:
They played well, pressed well but goals 3-4 were completely avoidable(poor choices to lead up to mistake and poor execution as they happened... in other words we've played out of much better presses than that we created those situations ourselves in my view) this was levels below the performance over in Napoli for instance if you can't see that I don't know what to tell you. That's not Liverpool's problem nor is the mistake from the ref to allow the foul by Firmino, they took their chances readily I will give them that but they did not beat a full strength in form City today.
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My argument is that mistakes are more likely to happen when under pressure, and we lost our composure at 2-1. When we beat teams, we take credit for applying the pressure that leads to mistakes, so by the same reckoning, we have to say Liverpool induced us into being 'rattled' and forced our mistakes.
I think we looked nervous from the start, and Liverpool looked hell bent on keeping the game at 100mph to keep us out of our comfort zone.
 
PW said:
The poor kid has suffered terrible abuse from a wide spectrum of supporters and to be honest I've no idea why. He has been billiant this season and anything but mentally weak. You look in the crowd at Klanfield and you can see the hatred and vitriol in the faces of those twats abusing him. Who knows whT they're shouting at him, but bear in mind some cretin attacked him the other week, so course it's going to effect him, he's a human being. I absolutely despise the rags, but I don't behave like that when we play them, as at the end of the day I have some self respect and would be an embarrassment to the club. Liverpool on the other hand seem to encourage this type of behaviour, with Bodger's ensuring that he left under a cloud with everyone hating him.

We need to get behind the lad and remind ourselves how young he is and what a great season he is having.
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Yes he has been brilliant but he just has a phycological block at Anfield. It doesn't help that all his passing options were shut down very quickly (as we're Sane's) - the difference between the two today was Sane stuck the afterburners on and occasionally beat a player down the flank. Sterling used to do that a lot for Liverpool but doesn't do it at all for us now. Must be Pep's instructions but there are times when he needs to do just that.
 
super_city_si said:
They are given on a regular occurrence. Firminhos arm comes up so it wasn't a shoulder it was a push. Stones admittedly was weak but what outcome do you think would be if that was Aguero on Lovren?
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It'd be a free kick to Liverpool. Wrongly, in my opinion. I'm one of the first people to say the ref got it wrong and he did today, a lot. Just don't think he did there.
 
Can’t believe so many are suggesting the push wasn’t a foul. Yes stones was weak and you look to your centre half to be stronger there but he’s entitled not to have to brace himself for a push in the back when defending, it caught him unexpectedly which is why it looked weak from him because it was a foul and gets given as a foul 99 times out of 100. That doesn’t excuse the result though there was 3 other goals of our own making.
 
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