Liverpool FA Cup s/f (N) | Post Match Thread

SidJames said:
On Pep that defeat.

Better management on his part maybe we could have won that.

He had given up on this game, hence why there was only one belated Sub so late.

He makes Subs earlier and we go on to win, He then has to admit maybe i got it wrong to start with.

So he waits until come back looks virtually impossible before making a token Sub, unfortunately he scores more or less immediately.

Liverpool were there for the taking.

WTF is his problem with substitutions.

Same Man was begging the FA to make it 5 permissible Subs per game.
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You cant blame Pep for that second goal. Or the 3rd at the near post. Only when the season is over will we know if Pep made the right calls today.
 
Its as if we needed a world class striker to put those chances away. Good job then we decided to spend £100m last summer on a midfielder we didnt need. We should apologise to the world of football if our ineptitude in the transfer window gifts the dippers a quadruple.
 
- I like Steffen, I think he's about as good a backup as you can get who won't want to go elsewhere to start, but without Ederson it changes our entire game. The obvious fuckups notwithstanding, against Liverpool we need both the cool heads and extra pass to get out of their press, and without it it puts the rest of the team under pressure.

- Ake, and maybe Mahrez, was the only player to come out of that with an improved reputation.

- Every caveat accepted, that first half is as poor as I've seen us in I don't know how long. It wasn't our typical poor game either, our legs were gone but even more confusingly our shape was all over the place.

- Strikers sometimes miss sitters, but fuck me what I'd have given for Jesus to bury that big chance where he had time and the whole goal to aim for.

- Showed some fight in the second half at least. We played a weakened team against their best eleven, denied them a proper statement win, at least didn't let them to rest or coast through the game, I don't think that performance will fill them with confidence. Let's hope Chelsea turn up at the final with a point to prove.

- Brighton is now a big game, and let's hope Ronaldo the sex offender has one last big game in him.

- Can we lay off, just for a bit, all the "Pep cost us that game, he's a disgrace" stuff?
 
Looking back on it now, I think Pep surrendered the game before we even kicked off, considering the lineup and the lack of urgency shown by the players at 1-3.

Steffen was holding on to the ball like we were leading 3-1, not trailing by that score in a knock-out match. The only times we looked like we wanted to win the game were in the first couple of minutes of the second half and after Bernardo scored. The rest of the game, we strolled around as if we had all day, or we were being rushed and pressed off the ball by Littlewoods.

All in all, a very disappointing day. I just hope that we go on to win the title now.
 
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