Liverpool - post match thread.

Make no mistake; we're in for a real scrap to get a top 4 spot. Chelsea and Liverpool seemed to be nailed on for two of the spots, which leaves us, the vermin, Arsenal and Spurs competing for the final two spots. We need to reel off 5 or 6 wins on the bounce now to try to get a bit of momentum going.
 
Shite. We played a Liverpool back four with Milner and Klavan in it and had one shot on target.

Silva, KDB and Aguero go missing too easily.

Fullbacks are shit and have been for three years, no quality in CM, yet another neglected area.

But as long as we're overstocked in the attacking positions it doesn't matter.
 
CityFan94 said:
What a pathetic display.

Pep hasn't got a clue in the Premier League. Great coach in Spain, great coach in Germany, but he does not 'get' English football and isn't adapting. Whether Pep likes it or not, English football is extremely physical and direct and he must adapt. Conte has adapted very easily and is dominated the league.

Just look at Liverpool's goal. That free kick should go to the back post where our big players aim to win the header. A chipped pass out to the touch line - what on earth is that? No attempt to stop the cross from Zabaleta. Terrible defending at the back post from Kolarov. Basic, basic things for defenders in English football.

I'm not sure we'll finish top four with this group of players, United are three points behind and they'll get more points than us between now and the end of the season.

Our record in big games over the last 2 years is downright embarrassing when you consider the money spent.
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Liverpool played 'English' football tonight ?

That's what Klopp does ?

Bollocks.
 
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.
 
The all conquering dippers defended like fuck at home 10 men behind the ball, time wasting from 80 mins onwards. People already starting to fear us another summer window and we'll be good to go.

Not worried at all.

We've played all the top 6 Spurs, rags, Dippers away Arsenal & Chelsea at home Spurs looked the best side to me.
 
citymad said:
Toure looks like he's put his weight back on and slow as a donkey. Sterling was crap again and this tippy tappy shit were playing at the back is so awful to watch. Liverpool won this comfortably and they weren't that great. Looked like they were playing in second gear.
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Your usual over the top fucking shite.
 
If we really are serious about winning anything this season, we better be busy during the transfer window...We'll win nothing with Zab and Kolarov starting every week! All that spending in the summer and we still look toothless going forward....Happy New Year all!!
 
Chippy_boy said:
KDB was also absolutely woeful today. Should have been subbed for sure.
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I'd of subbed the whole lot if possible, but players like kdb and kun have to be better. Zero influence on the game and looked incredibly lackluster, God that was depressing.
 
the plasterer said:
pass sideways, pass sideways, pass sideways, pass sideways, pass back, pass sideways, pass sideways, pass sideways, pass sideways, pass back, pass sideways, pass to bravo, kick it out.......and repeat
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Once again it was this football what was ridiculed at the swamp and got LVG the sack.
Piss poor of an effort.
 
Losing 1-0 similar to Madrid last season. Come on lads loads of time left, not one shot at all in the last 35 minutes. Pitiful. We go down without a fight and it's very frustrating. It's all very well sticking to a philosophy but sometimes in the last 10 minutes you need to change it!

Dreadful goal to concede. Poor free kick, absolute crap from Kolorov, move it upfield and it's in our net 5 seconds later. They then just did what they had to do.

Boring game and we won the possession stats! Yippee!
 
We did lose, but we were not played off the park, and besides the goal we did keep them out.

Some of our play was wank and pep needs to sort out the confidence or stop playing this style that puts us under pressure.

Overall though I won't worried when Liverpool come to the etihad
 
Not many is agree with what is happening but the team is only going to play one way and we are not going to change. That was the best we had played in a long while at Anfield and I am not having it that they are streets ahead of us either (despite losing us losing).
 
Didn't build after we won the first title when Mancini wanted his players. Never built on the second title win with some very poor purchases. Now other teams have caught up. A very big question mark over Txixi, purchases have been shocking. Need to sort out the defence in January otherwise going to be a long season. Also convinced the champs league has been prioritised, but we are not as good as we think we are. Pep needs time but no excuse for the late substitutions today. Look at Kekechi's strike rate and he gets two minutes that is very odd.
 
Need new players in January. Aguero straight back in was a mistake, he rarely performs on his first game back. Worst substitution work I've ever seen, in a top three that's all Pep Guardiola. De Bruyne was abysmal. Kolarov costs us too many points. Wjinaldum genuinely has a psychological problem. Any idiot can see that we're far better with Nolito playing. Silva isn't a winger. Jesus needs to get here soon. Burnley in two days, we need to win, and comfortably. Title is very unlikely now. Will be impossible if we don't do something about our fullback situation. What the fuck must Fernando be thinking? Rewarded for a brilliant performance against a top 4 club with six minutes in the next two games? And please don't tell me a manager of Pep's calibre genuinely expected Iheanacho to be able to make a difference given five minutes.

Can't wait until tomorrow for the inevitable Crystal Palace and Watford 'roll over for the big scary team' displays that see us in fifth. All I care about is that we get through this season in a UCL spot so we can utilise the transfer window and be back at it next year.

The worst part is I've never, ever been less upset about a City loss because I never believed for a second that we were going to win.
 
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