Liverpool (N) | Community Shield | Post-Match

[laplandblue]

97mins of fitness work - job done now down to the real business.

Refs / VAR getting some great training in too and seem pretty much up to their normal levels already

Scousers handball - no pen ....... City handball - stonewall pen

In the City after match show we heard how these calls are " subjective" from what little I saw they didn't even mention the handball by LiVARpool in the box.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

Loosing community shield is a good omen in my book since 2011, exciting times ahead, Alvarez might be the biggest surprise package this season

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

, it is as a Cup to commence the season and is legitimate silverware.

No it isn’t. I’m more disappointed to lose because it’s the dippers, than say Leicester, but it’s not a trophy, it’s part of our pre-season.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

No it isn’t. I’m more disappointed to lose because it’s the dippers, than say Leicester, but it’s not a trophy, it’s part of our pre-season.

It is definitely a trophy, it’s recognised by UEFA as a legitimate trophy and every single club in Europe counts it or their equivalent in their honours lists.

That’s why we were the “Fourmidables” in 2018-19, because we are the only football team in English football history to win all four domestic trophies in one season.

Fans only say it’s not a trophy when they don’t win it. We were all laughing at Liverpool fans saying exactly that in 2019.

 

[The slaughtered lamb]

It is definitely a trophy, it’s recognised by UEFA as a legitimate trophy and every single club in Europe counts it or their equivalent in their honours lists.

They’re welcome to but it’s a one off game at the beginning of a season that’s used by teams for fitness. UEFA also think the international friendlies are a trophy now too.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Yesterday it was all:

Time to shut them up.
About time we dicked them.
Hope we play a strong team.
4-1 City!! Etc.
Klopp and his excuses already.

Today: Just a friendly. Even, a good omen.


Time will tell. But it's certainly put wind in their sails unfortunately.

 

[PragueBlue]

It's the sort of game that is nice if you win it but no big deal if you don't.

I thought it was a pretty even game overall and could have gone wither way. On this occasion it went their way.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Do they think they've just won the league? Bloody hell, I've never seen a player and fans celebrate a friendly win like that, genuinely embarrassing. Imagine being them. When's the parade? For contrast, leicester won it last year for only the second time in their history, first in 50 years, they acted accordingly, similar to any other pre-season game with a trophy attached, they didn't act like they've just won something significant. Make no mistake, they're celebrating this wildly because its City, they know deep down we're the best around, if any no mark scouser ever comes out with an oh so witty remark about not caring about City, no rivalry, our titles mean nothing etc, just point them towards their ridiculously over the top celebrations today and ask them to repeat that. We're deep under their skin.

They're so so desperate to compare Nunez with Haaland. Undeniably a good day for him but he missed a 1v1, had a free header that was off-target and fortunate to end with a penalty and then scored a tap in in the 97th minute after some truly dreadful marking from Dias, not exactly frightening if that's him "arrived".

I expected more from some of our players, especially going forward but overall it went largely as expected, we're severely undercooked. they looked on it, considerably ahead of us and fully deserved the win.

Doesn't matter for today but we're a week away from the first game and we're miles off it. Why did Phillips not get on? He should have started really but to not even get on is just weird, Rodri looked fucked for the last half an hour and Phillips needs minutes. I presume he's not injured as he wouldn't be on the bench so I can only imagine he's way off getting it if he's not even making an appearance.

Pleased for Alvarez getting his first goal. Energy he gives us is very foden-like. Its currently early foden but I expect him to improve quickly. I don't think we will see anywhere near his full potential for a while though until he's fully settled, scored a few and feels like a key player so getting his first goal should help push him on towards that. Haaland was encouraging despite 2 bad misses. great movement, a firing kdb picks him out a few times today, foden in instead of Grealish provides for him too. Still slightly fear we will be too heavily reliant on Foden and Mahrez this season out wide.

Not much to take from that for the established squad members, it's another 60-90 minutes for most of them and it's badly needed. The starting 11 today will be very similar to West ham next week I suspect, Just have to hope our superior quality can get us through the first few weeks with little damage in terms of dropped points before the fitness comes. I know it's worked for us in the past but it's still less than ideal playing just 3 friendlies and having. Shorter pre-season than others. the world cup is likely to destroy any benefit later in the season our usual late comeback and slow build up gives us, I also think there's less chance of putting one of our famous long runs together because of it too, so we need to be ready next week.

Also worth noting we completely outsung them until the last 10 minutes despite the fact we were never even leading that game. All you heard from them was a truly pathetic and disgraceful boo for the national anthem which should be talked about more in the media and then them celebrating the friendly win at the end like a first ever league title.

Good summary, and although I’m sure it’s been mentioned elsewhere too, but we only play league games on a weekend for the first few weeks of the season, that’ll definitely help in getting up to speed. We just somehow need to get the 3 points against the hammers and we will be laughing.

 

[TheThirdDeano]

Hey, on the brightside. If Haaland keeps missing chances like that Real Madrid won't be activating his release clause!

 

[richards30]

Fitness still looks an issue which is a concern and when Kev and Joao are bad they are BAD! Really needed that LB situation sorted sooner though, and wouldn’t mind another wide player but that’s obviously not going to happen. Also we just can’t beat them fuckers in a one off game can we!?