Liverpool thread 2019/20

[sir baconface]

This thread.

1,000,000 reasons why a top team is actually a sack of shite.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Add in we wont be classed as a great side until we win it twice on the bounce. Forget the last 10 years and the almost constant success, no, we had to win it twice on the bounce or it simply wasn't anything special. Cue we won the lot domestically to which we got sportswashing and cheating allegations.

They haven't won it in 30 years and are already the greatest PL side ever lol.

Absofucklutely, its a fucking disgrace.

 

[blueinsa]

Absofucklutely, its a fucking disgrace.

Its laughable mate.

Our sports media, tv broadcasters and now VAR has just about finished my life long love of the game.

I will always love City but football in general does nothing for me anymore.

Id sooner go walk the dogs, spend the time playing board games with the kids than expose myself to the media/tv and cheating that is VAR.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Id sooner go walk the dogs, spend the time playing board games than expose myself

That’s good to know.

 

[Drubas]

It has been proably said already that the side Liverpool fielded against Everton had 7 players aged 22 or more. Hardly a team of kids this. Admittedly, Milner got injured, so another youngster was subbed in. But it wasn't a team of 18-19 y.o. that beat Everton, but a team with several youngsters. Pep fielded a team with several youngsters against Leicester away in December 2017, we won that game on penalties.

Edit: that team started with 5 U21 players, 2 of them U18, and Pep subbed in another 2 U18 players.

I think that the big thing in this particular game is the contrast between the Everton team and the Liverpool team. Liverpool had none of their top players (except maybe Gomez) starting, and several youngsters. Everton had their, arguably, best team. And the take away in Swedish media isn't necessity that Liverpool did anything special, but rather how a ~£300(?) team can be so poor and uninspired so that they get beat by these youngsters.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Its laughable mate.

Our sports media, tv broadcasters and now VAR has just about finished my life long love of the game.

I will always love City but football in general does nothing for me anymore.

Id sooner go walk the dogs, spend the time playing board games with the kids than expose myself to the media/tv and cheating that is VAR.

I can stop listening to the radio. I can turn the sound off on the TV. I can stop buying papers and reading shit on line. But in spite of VAR I will still go to watch City until it is physically impossible.

 

[alexmcity]

I think that the big thing in this particular game is the contrast between the Everton team and the Liverpool team. Liverpool had none of their top players (except maybe Gomez) starting, and several youngsters. Everton had their, arguably, best team. And the take away in Swedish media isn't necessity that Liverpool did anything special, but rather how a ~£300(?) team can be so poor and uninspired so that they get beat by these youngsters.

That's a fair point. Cup upsets happen all the time, e.g. Wigan against City in 2018. Wigan are worse than yesterday's Liverpool and City better than Everton. The weird part was that Everton were very poor in the 2nd half, not that they lost. They did fuck all in the 2nd half against a makeshift Liverpool defence. I guess it's a combination of the mental block Everton have at Anfield and tiredness from the Christmas schedule. Liverpool were fresh as most of the players didn't play around Christmas.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

That's a fair point. Cup upsets happen all the time, e.g. Wigan against City in 2018. Wigan are worse than yesterday's Liverpool and City better than Everton. The weird part was that Everton were very poor in the 2nd half, not that they lost. They did fuck all in the 2nd half against a makeshift Liverpool defence. I guess it's a combination of the mental block Everton have at Anfield and tiredness from the Christmas schedule. Liverpool were fresh as most of the players didn't play around Christmas.

There’s fuck all weird about an Everton team performing poorly at Anfield.

 

[blueinsa]

I think that the big thing in this particular game is the contrast between the Everton team and the Liverpool team. Liverpool had none of their top players (except maybe Gomez) starting, and several youngsters. Everton had their, arguably, best team. And the take away in Swedish media isn't necessity that Liverpool did anything special, but rather how a ~£300(?) team can be so poor and uninspired so that they get beat by these youngsters.

Which is correct.

Liverpool played really well but the story yesterday was a first eleven for Everton being so abject it was untrue yet our media and it is our media that is being discussed here instead want to go the other way and claim it as some sort of incredible Liverpool performance as if they where up against it for 90 mins.

We have obviously won plenty of cup ties the last few years on the way to winning comps and almost every time the narrative from the media has been "the opposition played poorly".

Its laughable.

 

[Drubas]

Which is correct.

Liverpool played really well but the story yesterday was a first eleven for Everton being so abject it was untrue yet our media and it is our media that is being discussed here instead want to go the other way and claim it as some sort of incredible Liverpool performance as if they where up against it for 90 mins.

We have obviously won plenty of cup ties the last few years on the way to winning comps and almost every time the narrative from the media has been "the opposition played poorly".

Its laughable.

You should move to Sweden. The pundits have a completely different view of Manchester City and their achievements. You would like it.