Liverpool - post match thread.

[nellyonthewing]

So wher did the mrs 2016 come from?

I apologise Happy New Year to you...

 

[cleavers]

I agree we weren't that bad but we weren't that good either. The first 30 minutes of the second half we were comfortably in control but we offered no threat. Yaya played facing his own goal much of the time, KDB was utterly wank, Fernandinho wasn't involved, Silva did what Silva does and pretended he was playing in a gentle training game instead of a top of the table clash.

Aguero can frankly fuck off for me. Shows no interest or positional awareness. In a game of few chances, he was offside whenever we built anything that looked promising. If he was needed in or around the 6-yard box he was outside the area and there was at least one opportunity where he should have been around the penalty spot but was on the edge of the 6-yard box. World class my arse. I'm sure he'll bully Burnley on Monday though.

Hard to disagree with any of that, our attacking players today were woeful, only Sterling tried, and he wasn't much better, but once again we've been beaten because of our own mistakes.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

No improvement on Pellegrini last season at the moment. Pathetic.

 

[flb]

5 year plans are just there to appease the masses if things start going pear shaped. The powers that be I doubt ever imagined we would be 10 pts off the top before the bells of new year. Khaldoon himself said as much in his end of season interview "4th is the bare minimum" for us. It hasn't been good so far no matter how some dress it up. If we continue in the same trend we will finish 6th and I wouldn't be remotely surprised if that was the case.

The Pep love brigade should digest this post .

Bang on.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I think it was a game where we saw the limitations of the current personnel.

 

[NorCalBlue]

You get everywhere. Happy New Year btw.

I haven't read the thread and doubt that I want to. I'm sure that I am out of step with a lot of people. I actually think you can see what Pep is trying to do take shape. Unfortunately, his players keep letting him down in decisive ways too frequently and results are worse than our overall performances. Today was a prime example, we restricted Liverpool to 5 shots at goal, 12 below their game average; whilst having almost twice as many shots as them and more than they allow on average but we allowed them to, sucker punch us and score with their only shot on target. They produced one bit of quality to score but we gifted them the ball cheaply and couldn't produce that necessary bit of quality at the other end despite our players' ability. People can blame the manager for all sorts of things but he set his team up well and was entitled to expect more from them.

If that's your opinion (which I pretty much agree with), you really don't want to read this thread (at least the first 5 pages - have to admit I skipped a lot after that as I couldn't take any more grief).

 

[Peggy's a blue]

I apologise Happy New Year to you...

No problem, your sign on makes me think about Neil young do you remember David Wagstaffe? Similar time loved him :-)

 

[OB1]

It's coming up to 11 in the morning on new year's day where I am and the wife is fast asleep. What can I do? :) Happy new year to you too mate.

You're spot on about Pep too!

I'd spotted you were in a different time zone :-)

Cheers. I am really optimistic about what Pep will do but goodness knows how many players he will have to turnover unless several of them produce that bit extra e.g. too often today our players were static when Liverpool's were not and I trust that Pep will not allow that to continue, we dominated the ball but he will want greater domination.

 

[flb]

Fuck me you are a stalwart, you mean like Pellegrini who inherited a better squad. We have lost a game by the narrowest of margins this was always going to be transitional have a bit of faith.

Steve coppell wtf you are struggling with that one pal, sounds to me like the short term thinking that has got us where we are, yes we should be better, but patience is required, this time last year klopp was celebrating an equaliser against West Brom, now he is a genius with this high press nonsense catch yourself on things will be better given time :-)

Klopp also got to two cup finals - with a squad nowhere near as good as ours.

He's a Better man manager - give him some credit- he also taught Pep a few lessons in the German league.

 

[Indaparkside]

Fuck city just got back shower change out for new year happy new year to my fellow blues in pep I trust