Liverpool (H) | Post match thread

[blueballs84]

Don't want to be a downer but it felt like a missed opportunity today to kill the title race.

We were all over them in the first half and we should have been 3 up.

Anyway, on the bright side it's back in our hands now, so it's up to us to get the job done now.

Hopefully the performance was a confidence booster for the players and maybe we can win out from here.

Also mad that Thiago was still on the pitch at the end. 3 nailed on yellow cards in there.

 

[DMA's]

i think we will get all 9 pts but I dont see any of those teams getting anything of the scousers...Rags and Everton are two of the worst in the league..Newcaslte have improved BUT not that much!
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It’s more the timing of those games that give me hope. Yes United are shite but playing us next week then few days later United and Everton on the weekend that is a tough week. Newcastle away few days after Bayern (please get to the semi’s) is also extremely difficult

 

[No1 was Colin bell]

Am exhausted! Get strong sense Liverpool very disappointed. On balance I thought we actually deserved the win. To be so sleepy at start of second half was criminal but hey they are a very good team.

sky tried to say our run in harder but surely united will turn up at anfield and Everton also give it a go. basically, win every game and that has to be mentality.

can we have a draw (at least), then a win this coming week please city.

 

[blue44]

if only we had a fukin striker

so.fukin sick of missing chances

its criminal

 

[Blumers Bloomers]

Still waiting for Fabinhos tackle to replayed on Sky. Think I’ll be waiting a long time.
It was a terrible challenge, studs up …..and absokutely no reference to it

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Decent game.
Shame we had whale music and Horlicks at half-time, whilst they had The Sex Pistols and Red Bull.

 

[xgorton]

So they play rags at home next, night before we play don't hold your breath.

 

[alexmcity]

Table from the games between City, Liverpool and Chelsea:

City 8 pts
Liverpool 4 pts
Chelsea 2 pts

Liverpool and Chelsea combined have won fewer points from these games (6) than City (8).

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Don't be daft, they'll have Shearer or Murphy simply saying "VAR called it as offside and it's clearly the right decision, just about" or words to that effect.

Those is the issue there's was no ability to tell if they calculated it correctly. Just a released still. We should be seeing them work out the time frame to use which should be the moment it the player kicks the ball or just after if that doesn't exist. Then we should see the lines being drawn. What we get is hidden stuff that can be manipulated

 

[super_city_si]

I'm sorry, but Thiago and Fabinho should've been off for two yellows a piece IMHO.

Fabinho should have had a straight red. Var is a fucking joke.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Thiago should have had 2 yellow cards.

We were superb, can't fault us with fine margins such has hitting the post 3 times. Play like that in each of our last games and we win the league. Would have taken a point going in to thengame, feeling disappointed purely because we were ahead.

F*ck the scouse c*nts

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

whats your point? Does he support United then?
and if so is he for or against city/liverpool? make your mind up.

VAR also would have reviewed it (they review everything).

It's just what I call him.

How do you know they review everything?

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Good performance but a missed opportunity. Sterling first half, Mahrez second half and a couple of bad decisions to shoot instead of square it from Jesus.

Thought Thiago should have had at least 2 yellows TAA should have had a yellow for a pull back and I think Fabinho was a bit lucky on his Bernardo foul to only get a yellow, because that was high and nasty.

That said, WE GAVE THEM THE POINT!

Walker, for all his speed, has the brain of a newt! How he can allow Sané to get a run on him, inside or out, is simply ridiculous.

Sterling one on one should have buried it!

As for the offside call on his “goal,” I think they’ve chosen a very “LiVARpool friendly” freeze frame AFTER the ball has left his foot! A frame or two prior and he’d have been onside. Slotted home well, too!

We have nothing to fear from them at Wembley, as long as we play a good back line and every defender not only knows where his runner is, but has him covered.

Thought Stones & Laporte were excellent and Cancelo and Walker cost us.

Rodri & KDB we’re unflappable and unmanageable in the middle of the park, with Bernardo giving Rodri some solid assistance bringing the ball out and breaking up play.

Ederson is an enigma. Sometimes I wish he was just a keeper and not a keeper - sweeper, because his decision-making is looking ever more suspect. It’s almost like he just wants to be part of the action.

First half we should have been 2 or 3 up. Second half, they pressed us much harder and we had to be a bit more direct. However, apart from a late corner and an injury time free kick, I never felt like they had much chance to score.

Like I said at the outset, that felt like a missed opportunity to open up a gap, put one over on them for next weekend, and hammer home the point that we are a better team. We didn’t take it. Therefore, the result has disappointed me.

2-2 (A)
2-2 (H)
1 point between us, 7 games to go!

C’MON CITY!!!

 

[Bluemanc100]

Liverpool would rather be in City’s position.

True but we saw today the help they’re getting

 

[madloaf]

We deserved to edge that out i think. Both their goals came from us trying to keep the ball in play but it happens. Mahrez can fuck off for that shit to be honest.

 

[super_city_si]

So they play rags at home next, night before we play don't hold your breath.

They will score 5. Rags are horrendous

 

[skillman]

Amazed we’ve not won that game. So many missed chances but a brilliant match, the two best teams attacking each other. How it should be.

Play like that until the end of the season and it’s ours.

 

[moomba]

Any chance the Rags turning up at Anfield?

None at all.

 

[Bluemanc100]

thats what you get when your a top team and in 3 comps as the season draws to a close,would you prefer being mid table every year with no presure

Absolutely not…

 

[Gray]

I would have taken a draw beforehand, very hard to take it after that though. We should have won that game and taken the goal difference lead in doing so, that's how much better we were. However, you don't win games just by being the better team, that's a 6 point swing we've surrendered to them this season. That's going to be the telling thing if we fail to win the league from here. They were the team that needed to win yet they're celebrating the point at the end, they're catching their flights back to Norway puzzled how they've taken 2 points from us this season.

Pep got the team correct including the positions and got the tactics right too, no player had a bad game, everybody played well, very well in fact we just wasn't clinical when we had to be which sadly isnt new to us this season.

Ref failed to book a few of them which probably results in at least one red but concentrating on the officials after that game is wrong in my eyes, he wasn't the central figure to why we didn't win and shifting attention to him isn't neccesary.

Have to be perfect from here until the end now, very achievable 7 game winning run ahead of us, do it and we're champions, throw it away and we've only got ourselves to blame.

Get the result we need by any means in Madrid midweek then take any frustration at not winning that today out on them cunts next weekend and smack them.

Don't think Sterling had a good game at all.