Liverpool Post Match

[jimharri]

Abysmal performance. I expected us to go full pelt at them in the second half. It never happened. Second best throughout most of that game. 1 effort on target in the whole game tells a tale.

 

[kupest]

I really don't know how anyone can be surprised. The signs were there and the manager confirmed it all with his selection. Take out the Stoke game and we haven't been on it for ages (given a lesson by Arsenal, Mourinho played it safe, Newcastle very poor, Barca lesson.......etc etc). Mistakes by the manager, key players injured or not performing, no bottle, underestimating opponents...........the list is endless. Champions go and win in games like today. Not good enough. I won't say I told you so because I got banned for that last year after this same game, but I just knew this would happen, sorry.

Newcastle very poor? are you fucking high??!!!. The problem arose as soon as we took Dzeko out and went to 4-5-1.

We won it because Newcastle were poor, get with it.

If thats your reason for the 5-0 result against Newcastle you should just go watch the Rags. Sorry to hear that we were very poor that day and only won 5-0.

 

[Mancitybluemoon1]

Pelle still backing 4-4-2 in post match interview......what a joke! How can you defend that play when Liverpool had it so easy in midfield.....I always liked Pelle but he is clearly showing he cant change his style of play when needed......and also time of change in transfer window...forget extending contracts of older players we need to make changes or its going to get worse.....

 

[Armaan]

For Nasri we need a hard working player like Turan for Atletico. We also need a world class CDM with Yaya and possible a new guy in front. Some pace on the wings as well would help, maybe a replacement for Zaba bombing up and down? All That would give the team 100% better balance.

 

[whp.blue]

Did he bring on Fernando today and I missed this somehow?

He didn't. He wanted to bring him in at 1:1 but when they scored he introduced Bony.

I understand that - but blaming the guy for what he WANTED to do? I myself would have been more for going for it, but I can see the thought process for trying to get a point out of Klanfailed away at that point in the match.

He was more likely to have pushed Yaya up front and used Fernando as a holding player and gone or the win

 

[Damien10]

I don't get the Jovetic situation. If the club want to sell him then surely by playing him he would keep his value? And can someone tell me if it's in Lampard contract to play X amount of minutes...

Why else would you go for him ahead of Jovetic.

 

[Big Dave Watson]

Liverpool played a fine game but that shouldn't cover up how poor we were. I'm so disappointed in the players and the manager, and I really have no idea what is going on behind the scenes for us to have fallen this far. I don't know what the final stats were but at one point it flashed up that we'd had 40% possession and I could barely believe that a team with such top-class players, even against a possession-based system like Liverpool's, could not only have so little of the ball, but also do so little with it. We barely created anything, we get to the edge of the box and panic, we never play out from the back, we still seem to do no work whatsoever on set pieces in training, half of Hart's fucking kicks go out for throw ins, I just don't understand any of it..

There are some managers who say they watch replays of games dozens of times to figure out what went wrong, Pellers shouldn't even need to look at the tapes, the answers have been staring him in the face all season long and the guy (along with the backroom staff, apparently) still seems to think there's nowt wrong. The title is gone for me, of course it isn't technically gone and we've fought back before but I do think it has gone now. We'll probably win in mid-week and Chelsea will slip up at some point; they're not going to win every game but neither are we. I don't think the "Are we gonna make top 4?!" talk is warranted, Arsenal could give us a run for our money for 2nd but we're more than good enough to finish in the top 3 at the very least. Still.. after going out in both cups so disappointingly and facing a monumental task in the CL, it's virtually nailed-on to be one of the most disappointing seasons in a while.

We used to be a third-tier club, we have no God-given right to win every game, and there's nothing wrong with a big team having a bad season, it happens to the very best out there. That said, we still have a right to be disappointed and angry when it seems like so little is being done, both by the players and the staff, to improve in any way whatsoever or fix the problems that are staring us in the face. We used to be so solid at the back and now look desperate, our midfield used to dominate games and strike fear into any opponent and now they're hoofing it out for goal kicks, and Sergio is one of the finest players in the world but last season's mantra of "We can outscore anyone" is looking pretty grim when we barely create half a dozen half-chances in 90 minutes against any semi-decent team.

Still, I remain weirdly calm. At least until the summer. Maybe a right-off of a season (like last time after we won the league) is what the club needs, a good kick up the arse to instigate a proper bloody transfer window and a shift in philosophy. Players need to be moved on, youngsters need to be given a chance, and we need to start buying the sort of players we're always "linked" with but that somehow end up at Chelsea. We also need to start looking at other big clubs out there and realising that this mental notion of "Well, we've got Silva, Nasri, Touré, and Aguero on the pitch so surely we'll score!" is completely ridiculous and we actually need to sort out our sodding tactics. We need a system and for the life of me I can't work out what MP's is anymore! Chelsea have a defence made of steel and wreak havoc on the counter, Liverpool (as we saw today) press you back and back whenever you have the ball and aren't afraid of a long shot, Barca are Barca, Real are Real, etc. What are we? Knock it out right to Navas and hope one of his crosses gets through? Pass it around the edge of the box waiting for a moment of magic? Do sod all whenever we get a set piece? It has to stop, and if getting rid of Pellers and bringing in someone with more of a solid tactical mindset is the answer then so bloody be it.

Abso-fucking-lutely this. Spot on.

 

[Mancitybluemoon1]

Newcastle very poor? are you fucking high??!!!. The problem arose as soon as we took Dzeko out and went to 4-5-1.

We won it because Newcastle were poor, get with it.

If thats your reason for the 5-0 result against Newcastle you should just go watch the Rags. Sorry to hear that we were very poor that day and only won 5-0.

point was.....we won 5-0 because we were playing a poor Newcastle team and not because we turned a corner.....as the last couple of games have shown, we show class against the weaker teams but the stronger teams know how to beat us and have the players to show up those weaknesses.....

 

[burnley blue mcfc]

That 2nd half performance (or complete lack ov it) was fuckin disgracefull I feel fuckin sick,big clear out needed end ov season,manager included

 

[paulchapo]

Pellegrini's interview on the BBC.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "It was a close game but Liverpool won because they scored two beautiful goals. But in the first half we lost too many balls, especially in the first 15 minutes. After that we equalised and then hit the post through Aguero. But in the second half we didn't arrive in their box so we tried to change our style of play.
"Playing two up front at Anfield was the best decision. It was a close game and they won the game when we had one striker on. I'm concerned that we are losing the ball too much - pressure is a factor. There is much we must analyse to improve.

On falling five points behind Premier League leaders Chelsea: "It is three points less with one game less. Of course it is difficult to reach the top of table if you lose three points. But we must keep going and try to return to our normal performance and see where it takes us."