Liverpool - post match thread.

[steviemc]

Neither team showed the slightest reason that they should be contesting for top spot. Passing was atrocious, and only Sterling seemed to be prepared to put in a shift for the whole game.

Most frustrating things for me today were:

1. Once again, high possession and passing stats yet hardly any shots on goal.
2. The way we can turn a supposed advantagious situation into a disadvantage. We win free kicks near the halway line and rather than making life difficult for the opposition, we send the ball sideways, sideways again and then backwards towards our own goal, thereby giving the opposition bags of time to reorganise. I'm beginning to hate us winning free kicks as we more often than not end up in a weaker position.
3. Failing to take advantage of a Pool side that looked really ordinary today.

 

[PaulMoulden'sRecord]

Garbage. The defence is a shambles. Kolarov, Otamendi and the clown in goal should not be at the club

You can't expect to get a result at a place like Anfield when KDB, Aguero and Yaya don't even get off the coach

Sorry to say but Pep is the right man at the wrong time. He's only here for 3 seasons and that is nowhere near enough time to build the team he wants

The shambolic defence who restricted Liverpool to one shot on target, at anfield? Kolarov is a shambolic footballer and as long as he plays we'll have a weakness......I agree we looked toothless going forward, this was as much to do with Liverpool setting up like a relegation team though. We're at a junction at present, the style of football is on the cusp. On or two new arrivals and these days will be a distant memory.

 

[Andy Morrisons jock strap]

Liverpool did not play that well and did not have to, quite honestly we are entitled to feel disappointed with how it has gone since Pep arrived, 10 points off the top spot and now back in a fight for a top 4 finish....after the start we had, with the supposed best manager in the world arriving and £150m sent in the summer? I could make myself look like the big sensible/reasoned City fan here and go down the "we're just building" route but honestly, I don't feel like that at all at the moment.
That performance today was really rather insipid, we created very little up front, Sterling to me looked like someone who had an agenda today, tried to show the Kop what they were missing and placed that above trying to help his team, the amount of times he took the flashy option today, trying to beat another defender instead of getting the ball in the box.
Disappointing from KDB, Sterling, Toure, Kun, Fernandinho.....good from Stones, Otamendi (mostly), Silva worked very hard in the 2nd half. Too many of our supposed big players are only turning in big performances every 3/4 games these days.
Crap end to a pretty poor year.

Well said totally agree im trying to keep positive but its hard to see how this improvement will come for a good while yet 5 or 6 players at least is needed for that to happen, and god forgive me for saying this but Sergio seems to have really lost a yard maybe its a lack of sharpness due to suspension but i thought he would be fresh and bouncing today

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Celtic would have given them a better game I feel.

 

[Big Yaya Wilko 12]

Absolutely awful.

Title went as soon as KDB brain farted against Chelsea.

Dull football, bad defending and bad management.

The worst part is that we wasted 3 years for this dross.

 

[deano ou812]

2017 beckons and I'm pissed off and fed up,honestly not looking forward to the burnley game,just feel it will be the same old same old..

 

[CatMan]

PEP is a complete myth.

Best players are still those of 2012. To think Mancini was ousted with the long term plan of this guff. Truly shocking.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Let Pep get the type of fullbacks he needs, we will be much better.

I wouldn't count on it. He knew he was coming to City for over a year and obviously did nothing to address that dreadful situation we are in, especially on the left

 

[blue ranger]

We are half a season in now and I have to say out of the teams that replaced their managers in the summer (United, Chelsea) we are the only team playing in last seasons style. Having said that I actually think we are worse considering that at least last season we looked like scoring.

I'm not getting Pep and this tippy tappy bollocks. Pass, pass, pass and yet we create fuck all. Sagna is our best right back but he picks zaba whose legs have gone. Clichy is our best left back but he picks that waste of space kolarov.

We have signed a goal keeper that not only wastes an overseas player spot, but is a significant downgrade. Our midfield is slow and lumbersome and his substitutions were a disgrace. Kelechi getting 4 minutes just wasn't right, especially when players like KDB and Aguero certainly weren't putting a shift in.

 

[Frank76]

This Jesus better be decent cos that was shite. Sorry but given investment and team inherited third isn't acceptable. Look at Conte. He inherited a squad in disarray!