Liverpool Post Match Thread

Aston Villa's last 8 matches LLLLLLDL.

We were the draw anybody that couldn't see we had problems after that game must be blind.

Well beaten today and more to come when you play lazy midfielders and slow defenders.

As somebody else said we have not played well all season and the results have flattered us.

We are also getting far too many of our crucial players regularly injured.
 
selection was questionable before to many and in the end proved to be exactly that, no excuses can be made. We made an average mid table team look like a class top 4 team
 
Not posted for a while, but......

What i don't understand is most posters tonight, me included could see as soon as the line ups were revealed, that we would get over run in midfield with a 2 v 3. This made even worse when that 2 has limited mobility in Toure and Fernando. Why could Pellers not see that?

Additionally MDM is without doubt well past his best and Mangala (his mind might have not been on it), needs firm leadership to be part of a good CD partnership.

A few posters have had a go at Hart tonight, yes he came out rashly on a few occasions, but I think think that is driven by his lack of confidence in what is front of him. Without him, we could and probably should have conceded at least 2/3 more.

Anyhow, you think you have got it bad, my sister is a season ticket holder at Klanfield and all my family are candle worshippers. i have so far ignored her 6/7 texts as i probably should not call my sister a ****.

I had 30 years plus of taking shit from Dippers and the Rags and thought it was all over, oh well! :-(
 
FanchesterCity said:
Out paced all game - by a Liverpool team that were more than willing to work at winning. We weren't. We adopt a predictable 'steady pace' approach to games, regardless of the opposition, and we come unstuck far too often.

When Liverpool won the ball in midfield, their entire team knew the plan - break with pace. On the rare occasion we had the ball, we played a pedestrian game again - except Liverpool were on top of us so quickly, it forced countless errors from us.

The number of goal kicks and throw-ins when we are struggling to find a City player who wants the ball is worrying.

Yaya can do some amazing things, but those amazing moments are so few and far between, they are starting to come at the expense of a very weak midfield.

Liverpool were very very good today, and we can't take anything away from the job they did.

It's beginning to look like any team willing to put in a a real shift against us stands a chance of getting something from the game, and woe betide us if we are less than 100% - in that case, we stand to lose. All the skill and flair in the world will only get us so far. We're lacking in grit and guile.
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Agree with this and the worst of it all is that today never came as much of a surprise.

We could have been 2 or 3 down to Newcastle. We could have conceded more to Bournemouth. We could have been 2 or 3 down at home to Sevilla.

Winning those games, and in the end emphatically in the case of the league games, papered over huge cracks.

A better side than bournemouth and newcastle would have had us on a plate in each of the above games.

Tonight was much of the same only this time we did meet a better side in Liverpool and they well and truly took advantage.

As did Spurs at the lane.
 
Well Dave Ewing
All i can i say then is
City still never fail to amaze me
Winlose or draw
 
jimharri said:
Looking on the bright(ish) side; I have an excuse not to stay up to watch MOTD tonight. A cup of Horlicks, a quick half an hour on youporn ebay and then a good night's kip. Lovely. Thanks Manuel.
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Grow a pair and watch motd. Fuck me we can't have it all our own way. Win or lose have a booze remember? We got to embrace the defeats as well as the wins. Ducking away from the bad games isn't what we're about.
 
B\connellblue said:
Not much can be done either way at that stage. let's not fanny about and pull the trigger, something that should have been done at the end of last season.
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Indeed but we are stuck with him now so we have to hope that things start changing. Hopefully Silva will be fit some time soon and we might start keeping the ball a bit better. Our pass completion must have been dreadful today.
 
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader said:
That's what I thought. Two saves that should have been goals. Saved us from a potentially embarrassing scoreline but some very doubtful distribution, and we are getting a couple of shite clearances a game. But not only Hart! Too many of the starting eleven barely made a contribution today. And I include those sitting in the management seats.
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I expected him to take charge of that back four today. Knowing it was a new CB pairing he should have been talking non stop. He sees the pitch better than anyone and should be constantly telling his defenders where the gaps are appearing, where the runners are going (the same runs all game) and most importantly to know where your fellow teammate is.
That's before we get to his awful distribution, he was slowing the game down every single time he had a goal kick. He should be screaming at his full backs to give him width or be brave enough to pass it out to his CB's. Instead he threatens to, stops, looks about, waits for the moment to go and then kicks long.
Making world class saves has never been his problem. Unfortunately there's a lot more to goalkeeping than making saves. He's by no means to blame for the defeat, I'd just liked to have seen him step up and command his area today and he didn't.
 
Today is the first time I'm really questioning pellers. Shit team selection, no motivation and completely outplayed in every single aspect of the game.
 
only 28 pages...

6/7/8-1 wouldn't have been a disservice to Liverpool today.

Night summed up for me with City fans singing the Gerrard song at the end. Pellegrini's leverage, his crowning glory, grounded in another bloke's moment of misfortune.

Leicester City top after 13 games shows how Pellegrini has massively underperformed with the ammo he was given in the summer. I expect us to win in Turin because the club deems that more important.

Nice to see the players were so unaffected by their performance that they could embrace, hug and laugh with their conquerors tonight. Would be nice if they took being an elite team seriously.
 
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