Liverpool thread 2019/20

[Ric]

I suspect they won’t give a shit, tbf.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Which is partly related to another important difference: no significant injuries to their most important players. Take VVD out for 6 months and have Laporte fit for City in that period and all the analyses about Klopp and tactics change completely. Klopp has done a great job for them, no argument about that, but you need your best players and he has been quite lucky in this respect.

For me our VVD equivalent was Kompany and not so much Laporte. Last season we won every single match that Kompany started. Laporte, as good as he is, started every single one of the games we lost. Kompany brought so much more than defensive qualities. His leadership rubbed off on everyone else and brought about a sense of calm to our defense no matter who was partnering him.

 

[mixer]

Oh dear. I can see dropped points on the horizon.
Can you imagine the meltdown if they suddenly lost a few games and somehow we closed the gap to 6 points with us to play them?

I just had this overwhelming feeling of them celebrating way too soon, even we didn't start singing we're going to win the league in February and we was way ahead then.

But them singing they're gonna win the league in January....oh dear.

It's the hope that hurts the most

 

[manimanc]

It's the hope that hurts the most

Yeah mate the hope kills you, just wishful thinking on my part.
I certainly won't put myself through it but even if we closed the gap slightly them rats would start kekking it.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

It's the hope that hurts the most

Agreed. I was far more stressed about it all this time 12 months ago, than I am now.

 

[quiet_riot]

The FIFA Club World Cup we’ve already won.

 

[KS55]

For me our VVD equivalent was Kompany and not so much Laporte. Last season we won every single match that Kompany started. Laporte, as good as he is, started every single one of the games we lost. Kompany brought so much more than defensive qualities. His leadership rubbed off on everyone else and brought about a sense of calm to our defense no matter who was partnering him.

Laporte, then, should step up and command the defence. Such a commander makes all the difference: Kompany, Adams, Terry, etc.

 

[alexmcity]

For me our VVD equivalent was Kompany and not so much Laporte. Last season we won every single match that Kompany started. Laporte, as good as he is, started every single one of the games we lost. Kompany brought so much more than defensive qualities. His leadership rubbed off on everyone else and brought about a sense of calm to our defense no matter who was partnering him.

Kompany didn't play much in the first half of last season and we did pretty well. He barely played during our run of 18 consecutive wins in 17/18 when Otamendi was our best defender. Laporte is our best defender after Kompany's retirement anyway and widely recognised as one of the best left-footed CBs in the world, so the analogy with VVD is perfectly valid.

 

[grandsolo]

The FIFA Club World Cup we’ve already won.

You've won 1 trophy & 2 int'l Charity Shields. In a decade. Calm down

 

[bondsman]

If you heard the cheers at Anfield after Salah’s goal finished off United, you’d know that nobody there would give a toss about this.

Weird last year you only really cared about the CL. So you were there then?