Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread.

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Liverpool away is always the toughest fixture on the calendar in my mind. They have real quality in attack and are always fired up for the occassion, so I didn’t expect much before hand. Very frustrating to give away such soft goals and the predictability of Sterlings display was also annoying but we can take positives from the fight back at the end and we do also have the small matter of that 15 point cushion to fall back on. Couple of signings to keep things fresh would be great and its still going to be a glorious season despite todays game.
 
FanchesterCity said:
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.
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I don't think goals 3-4 were down to their pressing though was my point, as I said in my last post we responded so poorly to the goal, as if it was injury time, taking silly risks, trying to make passes that weren't on, playing each other in to trouble when they weren't in enough space... there was loads of time left a pass back to the keeper or switching flanks rather than trying to play through a crowd would have been better until we found our rythm. Their pressing was good I'm not saying it wasn't part of it but not as much as you are giving credit for and that's not sour grapes me saying that(we really have seen better and coped with it), as I said Liverpool did what they needed to, took advantage of our mistakes rather than forcing them outright(we made it easier for them to do their pressing game in a lot of situations). I'd even say Bristol pressed much better than Liverpool and literally forced us into mistakes moreso than us playing ourselves into the situations by not taking a safer option while we settled after going behind.
 
franksinatra said:
None at all. Sometimes you just have to put your hands up and say we dropped a clanger and a very decent Pool side took advantage. Some people may genuinely believe its a foul and I accept that as its a game of opinions but others cannot leave there bias to one side.
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Agree with all of that.
 
kismet said:
Fern is the key position for us and today he had an off day. His replacement in the future will be key. Gundogan is a good squad player and not the ideal replacement.

At the highest level I don’t think our centre backs will be enough and we really need a key performer in that position.
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To be fair he was outnumbered two to one ALL the time.Peps insistence on a single DM cost us I'm afraid.
 
fergal_oc said:
To give credit where it’s due, they pressured us in to making mistakes which against 95% of teams never get punished.

The comeback was fantastic and had Sergio left the ball, dinho and gundogan were waiting to put it in.

Chin up and let’s go unbeaten all the way through to next seasons league title!
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Fernandinho was also offside. I think Gundogan too. Our whole line was in hurry to get the equaliser.
 
Not too fussed about the performance and result , we were off our game big time today so hopefully the monkey is off the back and we can hit back hard at home.

The loss of Delph for a considerable period of time is the very disappointing news from today's game.
 
simon23 said:
we always tend to have the wrong midfield combo there....Pelllers did it consistently playing Yaya in a two there....used to drive me crazy as everyone could predict what happened...

Today maybe we didnt have much choice with David Silva being injured but our ball retention would have been much better with him on the pitch rather than Ilky.... we just gave it away too much and KDB was crowded out centrally as it was any him in there looking to find the spaces...Ilky was too static in that respect and this had a knock on effect of our defence holding the ball too long and getting caught with stray passes
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Agreed, Bernardo would have been a better option.
 
simon23 said:
that 15 pt lead could well be 12 by tomorrow.....another slip and it could be 9 and the vulchers will be circling....

The league is far from over.
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We have got Newcastle and West Brom next...lose them two and we will deserve the vulchers. IMO they are two of the best games we could have hoped for to bounce right back. Let's fucking maul them
 
bondsman said:
I’m obviously biased but I didn’t see you play any football. You worked very hard and capitalised on mistakes that we haven’t made all year. We played poorly and scored 3. From the reaction of your fans and sky you played the game of your lives and hung on to win by one in the end.
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Perhaps we did we have a very very poor defence but we also made some very bad defensive howlers just like yourselves.

As has already been pointed out we have beaten your lot stopped you from you going all season unbeaten but it still amounts to nothing cause we aren't going to contest the league never mind win it.

I don't think we robbed you cause at the end off play I think we deserved the win we did play football we did probe your defence so it's not like we sat back for 90 minutes and hoofed the ball up the pitch every time we got it.
 
I'm not too disappointed. Re- focus now, that was our hardest game of the season, I would say onwards and upwards but we are already up at the top. Still great to be blue.
 
The silver lining is that it wasn’t a game we had to win, I’d rather lose that and have something Guardiola can use with the players than for that to happen in the CL.

Ideally we would have had Silva and Jesus both playing today and controlling the midfield would have been much easier.
 
SAXON_GB said:
Perhaps we did we have a very very poor defence but we also made some very bad defensive howlers just like yourselves.

As has already been pointed out we have beaten your lot stopped you from you going all season unbeaten but it still amounts to nothing cause we aren't going to contest the league never mind win it.

I don't think we robbed you cause at the end off play I think we deserved the win we did play football we did probe your defence so it's not like we sat back for 90 minutes and hoofed the ball up the pitch every time we got it.
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Liverpool deserved the win. No doubt about that.
 
Off the pace from the start. it was clear.

4 players were dogshite Aguero Sterling Gundogan and stones.

Sterling like Nasri at Arsenal and Barry at Villa had again a shit game he should have the balls to step up and put in a good performance or be honest and tell Guardiola no i can’t play could have started with Bernardo Silva.

Some changes were needed after the first half don’t know why guardiola was just watching

again due a loss Liverpool (with the all the hype will get nothing with that team they still average )

Still improvement in the squad with more composure and belief it could have ended 4-4
 
2bluejacko said:
It was a little nudge and stones should have been clever and done a didi hamann, Master of falling over and getting a free kick when nudged
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It was a push I've watched it back numerous times... the only reason he lost balance was the push... that was also the only reason Firmino gets the ball. That post with the rules highlighted I made(knocking someone off balance is enough) along with the replay someone else posted should make that clear to you now. It happens though, no team always gets the right decision for them and we should have responded better.
 
SAXON_GB said:
Perhaps we did we have a very very poor defence but we also made some very bad defensive howlers just like yourselves.

As has already been pointed out we have beaten your lot stopped you from you going all season unbeaten but it still amounts to nothing cause we aren't going to contest the league never mind win it.

I don't think we robbed you cause at the end off play I think we deserved the win we did play football we did probe your defence so it's not like we sat back for 90 minutes and hoofed the ball up the pitch every time we got it.
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You were the better team and deserved the win. I'd be asking questions of your manager and players though how on earth do you turn into world beaters when we rock up and utter shit the next week. I'd be fuming
 
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