Liverpool thread 2020/21

[stonerblue]

It just shows how a couple of injuries to key men can make all the difference. Now imagine VVD out for a few months? It could be carnage, Villa yesterday could have had at least ten, I couldn't believe what I was watching.

Make was always gonna be a big miss for them. He's been on fire lately and done the work of 3 players . Shame hell only miss 1 game

 

[stonerblue]

Both those wonderful results from yesterday have been coming for some time. The dippers and the rags have been riding their luck for a long time, and it was inevitable that sooner or later they'd take a pounding.
VAR has played such a significant part in their recent successes - asterisk league and CL qualification respectively, they probably thought this was how it was always going to be, in particular the rags when they got their obligatory penalty yesterday.
And the same could be said for the dippers, they've been buying into the media myth that Vain Dick is some kind of Colossus in the world of defenders - he isn't. He is a capable defender, no more. But with typical Scouse arrogance they won't see it.

So of the two, I think the rags are the least likely to be able to dust themselves off, get up, and have another go. The dippers arrogance will see them get over their mauling from yesterday, the rags are way too far below the mediocrity line to be able to just shrug their collective shoulders and try again.

Can't agree with your van dijk assessment but the rest is bang on

 

[andyhinch]

Breaking the rules again

 

[stonerblue]

The best thing about that game was the look on the faces of their players when the camera panned onto them after the 7th. They looked absolutely shell-shocked. They believed their own hype, which has been helped by every single portion of the media fawning over them for the last coue of years.
The reality is, like ourselves, when important players are out they are a shadow of themselves.
Other teams will look at last night and the fear factor will be gone. Attack their fullbacks and you soon realise that they aren't in fact the best in the world, just workhorses who can get forward brilliantly but look very average when having to defend.
I've not been impressed with them since lockdown and there first 3 games didn't alter that opinion even though they got the wins. They aren't as good as many on here like to tell us, they have strengths and weaknesses like everybody.

There was a rousing shout of FUCK OFF TWAT in our house when they put the camera on hemderson

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

In deference to the last handful of goalies following a Liverpool reverse, YNWA is being replaced as a club dirge, sorry, anthem. The Dippers will now tear arse onto the hallowed turf of Anfield to a rousing rendition by Bootle Brass Band of the title music track of that cowboy film Yul Brynner was in. What was it called? The Magnficent summat or other. I think it has a number in the title.

 

[stonerblue]

Imagine my surprise, yet it doesn't seem to get much of a mention...

Since Feb they have played 21 games in all competitions.

They have lost 9 and drawn 2 - the two draws came in a 0-0 at Everton and a fortunate 1-1 draw at home to Burnley.

They have won ten, including a late 3-2 win at home to a relegation threatened West Ham and an opening 4-3 at home to Leeds.

Hardly the stuff of legend.

And got twatted off us.

 

[stonerblue]

I'd swap Adrian for Pickford but you just know the **** would have a good game against us.

Weak link now at goodison

 

[peoffrey]

You wouldn’t though would you?

Oh yes I would. I could not play for U****d, Liverpool, Celtic and England.

 

[RyanP3609]

TAA was targeted all game by villa. Hes a shit defender who will probably play as a winger in the future. But yes there was a blueprint put out by villa last night of how to play and get at the scouse fukcs

Villa set out their plan and stuck to it, and on another day could (and should) have had 10. They were easily the better team and tore Liverpools defence apart.

But.. this was a very very rare day in which ref decisions went against the scousers. On a "normal day" that Salah dive would have been given as a pen, and at least one Villa goal (free kick one comes to mind) would have been flagged offside (incorrectly in my op as nowt was wrong with it). But given they've had favourable decisions for a while now, that would have put them at 1-1 (assuming they bag the pen) and could have pushed on from there.

We'll see if it continues but its the scouse Derby next and I'd be shocked if there were no debatable decisions that were beneficial to them (one game does not a season make)

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

Pundits on both sky and the bbc mentioned thay villa have shown how to nullify and attack the dippers...sit deep, block passing lanes and counter the high line with a high through ball played behind the supposef best back four in all of football

It was only a matter of time that klopp and his style would get found out. It was good to hear the pundits talk about that as well.

Even the villa players and manager stated they prepared well to both stop and attack liverpool

Lets now hope that the rest of the league do this.

As some of us mentioned towards the enf of last season, the scousers are going to have to face teams that will try harder against them & do what villa did last night

Fingers crossed