Liverpool Post Match Thread

[jimmygrimblesboots]

I'm still fumming about yesterday. A poor team selection I can just about live with. But to not do anything about it for 40 mins is criminal ineptitude.

This all day long , every blue in the ground could see after 20 minutes we were getting mullered , and MP did f*ck all , how it wasnt 6-0 at half time was down to Joe Hart and the fact the dippers are an average team , Barca , Bayern or Real would have scored ten and declared after 45 minutes, even the rags would have been a 1-0 up :)

 

[cleavers]

Bad result, but win mid-week will see us top our group and then be able to target top of the league for Christmas/new year. Quite clearly we're concentrating finishing top of our CL group........with good reason!

I agree with that, however we could do that, AND win yesterday, if it was managed better, and the trouble is that next Saturday is now a bigger game than it needed to be, and Southampton are a decent side, who will play a lot like Liverpool did.

We clearly have too many average players in our squad, and if they're not at that "average" level, that can be the end result. Its frustrating because we all knew we had that performance in us, we've seen the same capitulation once before this season, in that last friendly in Stuttgart, hopefully we respond the same way we did after that.

We desperately need our best players back, and if they're not, then we shouldn't be resting our other best players, that was madness, even though that team selection yesterday 'on form' should still be able to compete with Liverpool, and yet they failed miserably to do so.

 

[stablemcfc]

Couple of games in a row where Pellegrini has made some poor choices with line ups & substitutes in my opinion.

But not all the blame can be on him, the defending was shambolic from Mangala & Demichelis, was worried when I saw the line up but didn't imagine they'd perform that badly together.

Was clearly our worst performance of the season by some distance & the first time I've doubted our capability to win the title, in points lost in other games there's been large chunks of bad luck playing part, today was just a shambles all over. Hopefully we turn it around sooner rather than later because it's going to be costly.

A win against Juve would do wonders to pick the confidence back up, so I'm hoping for a performance to be put in there.

 

[J_Bow]

Confidence went out of the window once I saw Otamendi and Fernandinho were dropped to the bench, two recent best performers. I don't like how Demichelis has started two league games and both have been 4-1 thrashings where our defence is at sea, he should be gone in the summer.

 

[citymad]

This all day long , every blue in the ground could see after 20 minutes we were getting mullered , and MP did f*ck all , how it wasnt 6-0 at half time was down to Joe Hart and the fact the dippers are an average team , Barca , Bayern or Real would have scored ten and declared after 45 minutes, even the rags would have been a 1-0 up :)

Sorry but dippers are far from average, I'd put money on them making a challenge for the title. The palace result was just a blip. Klopp deserves credit for getting max performance from his players.

 

[M18CTID]

Have to admit that I'd been worried about that fixture ever since Klopp became Liverpool manager. Our team often struggles to cope with a side that presses and Klopp is the master at it.

That said, I wasn't expecting a capitulation as bad as that and while I will always give the opposition credit - Liverpool were excellent yesterday - I do think we were the architects of our own downfall to a considerable extent. I've often defended Pellegrini on here but I'm not sure what that line up was all about yesterday. It smacked of either naivety or arrogance because I can't fathom why he didn't pick a formation that would've coped better with a side that was clearly going to come and press us.

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

Not sure what happened to our home form?

Under Mancini we were ruthless at home in the league, I can't remember where it all went wrong?

 

[Lkzerinho]

Confidence went out of the window once I saw Otamendi and Fernandinho were dropped to the bench, two recent best performers. I don't like how Demichelis has started two league games and both have been 4-1 thrashings where our defence is at sea, he should be gone in the summer.

send him out in january and bring back denayer

 

[M18CTID]

Sorry but dippers are far from average, I'd put money on them making a challenge for the title. The palace result was just a blip. Klopp deserves credit for getting max performance from his players.

Dark horses for a title tilt for me and that's all down to Klopp IMO. I say dark horses because the overall quality of their playing squad isn't as good as ours, Arsenal's, or United's, so I'd expect that to work against them over the course of a full season.

 

[Balti]

that result was less about Liverpool and more about Mangala and Demichelis not being good enough

get rid

Ota and Dinho should have started

Sterling - meh