Liverpool (H) - Carabao Cup 4th Round - Post-Match Thread

It was nice to hear Pep commenting on Rico. The lad is a special talent and was superb last night. Kevin motm and really excellent displays from Rodders, Gundo, Nathan.
I think Cole played a hell of a lot better than he did vs Girona but still a way to go with his decision making and Kev rightly gave him an earful. John boy steadied the defence when he came on. Akanji looks like he is carrying a bit of weight to me.
Anyway, great performance and result.
 
Klopp gets madder by the week. Apparently they lost because there was no VAR in the 6th minute for a POSSIBLE offside on Haaland, which led to nothing so VAR wouldn’t even have looked at it. Even by his standards that’s deluded, I can only assume he got struck on the head by a stray missile from SS3
 
All players in our youth team should look at Rico Lewis and how he got the attention of pep after one training session!

For me it’s the understanding of peps tactics and fulfilling those tactics to a tee is why you get peps attention!
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
One point about Liverpool's goals. They were the unnecessary ones! They were both about City's defenders simply being beaten for speed one on one at some point in the action. Knowing that they have speedy forwards (and that that is exactly what happened at Anfield this season), I find it odd that Pep doesn't take at least some account of it. I know he doesn't change his tactics, but it's just so obvious.
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What should he have done last night? Walker is not fit. Not play a high line? I’m not sure what he could have done differently without fundamentally changing the way we play. He maybe set up with the expectation that we would score more than them and that’s exactly what happened.
 
A few thoughts:
Pep and Bingo must have been pissed off with the number of passes to the opposition or into touch. - Rustiness after the break seems a bit of a lame excuse for top professional players.
We need to improve our finishing as we could have had at least another three or four. - At least our efforts were on target; one report said Nathan Ake had more attempts on target than the entire Liverpool team.
Rico looked good and Palmer put in a decent performance.
Ref made a couple of odd decisions, particularly relating to the advantage rule but his assistants seemed to think they were out for a jog rather than to raise their flags occasionally.
The north stand showed it is possible to stay past 80 minutes; perhaps they weren't regulars.
Too many dippers in the home section.
Bingo will have been very annoyed that a couple of his players fell over in their own penalty area rather than ours.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
What should he have done last night? Walker is not fit. Not play a high line? I’m not sure what he could have done differently without fundamentally changing the way we play. He maybe set up with the expectation that we would score more than them and that’s exactly what happened.
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Liverpool player think it was ox chamberlain had four players around him one of them should got tight and fouled him because he did really well with a bit of skill to make space for himself and pass it with a bit of pace and spin in front of Laporte and nunez who just had to much pace! Looking at it think maybe Ortega shouldn’t of come out that much and stayed in goal then he would had an easy save!
 
im well landed with our display last night, i thought the standard of some our play was incredible, when you factor in the gap between this and our last game. We were on it from the first whistle. Solid displays from everyone and we really should have scored a few more. thoroughly enjoyed the match and honestly i wasnt expecting such a great performance. I was worried we would be a bit rusty and scrappy, but fuck me we were fantastic for large periods.
Well done lads!
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Well, sorry, I must have seen a slightly different match to everybody else. Specifically, Kev. Kev did some brilliant things, that only he can do. The cross over for Nate Aké's goal was a piece of art. By the way, it wasn't bad marking by the Liverpool defence. Nate ghosted in brilliantly. Love that guy more and more.
But Kev was quite often wasteful, and a number of passes went astray. For me, it wasn't one of his vintage performances. He even looked annoyed with himself at times. What he did do was run around like a maniac. He was completely shagged out at the end.
I wouldn't have given him MOTM, though (and I didn't). Quietly, unspectacularly, Gundo was everywhere, building and starting movements from deep midfield. I love it that these guys, Kev and Gundo, have come back from a disappointment, and it's already completely behind them. Back to the real business for them.
One point about Liverpool's goals. They were the unnecessary ones! They were both about City's defenders simply being beaten for speed one on one at some point in the action. Knowing that they have speedy forwards (and that that is exactly what happened at Anfield this season), I find it odd that Pep doesn't take at least some account of it. I know he doesn't change his tactics, but it's just so obvious.
Anyway, not quibbling, buzzing about beating the World's Greatest Club Team yet again. I just feel that we were actually a fair bit better than them in all areas than that scoreline suggests. 3-1 or 2-0 would have been more in line with how the game played out.
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You do have a different view. KDB dropped a master class. His game is all about risk and reward. He will never end a game with 95% pass completion.
 
BringBackSwales said:
Klopp gets madder by the week. Apparently they lost because there was no VAR in the 6th minute for a POSSIBLE offside on Haaland, which led to nothing so VAR wouldn’t even have looked at it. Even by his standards that’s deluded, I can only assume he got struck on the head by a stray missile from SS3
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That is a bit odd. But he also highlighted a couple of decisions where he referenced the whole ground believing they were offside - which clearly refers to City fans.

To my eye, it looks like two of Nunez's big misses were offside, if pretty close, and I think these two are the ones he's referring to. At least all the goals were pretty clearly onside, so no major issues there.
 
bluenova said:
That is a bit odd. But he also highlighted a couple of decisions where he referenced the whole ground believing they were offside - which clearly refers to City fans.

To my eye, it looks like two of Nunez's big misses were offside, if pretty close, and I think these two are the ones he's referring to. At least all the goals were pretty clearly onside, so no major issues there.
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Nope I heard him, he specifically referred to a potential Haaland offside in the 6th minute, which apparently changed the whole game, even though VAR wouldn’t have been involved. He didn’t refer to any other VAR incident
 
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