Lyon (H) - Post Match Thread

[BlueAnorak]

Fekir was brilliant. Thank goodness Liverpool played silly buggers with the fee.
On a similar subject, not spending an extra £5m on Jorginho is going to cost us a lot this season. Fern has definately lost a smidgen if pace but against a team like Lyon it is telling.

 

[carlosthejackal]

Awful night in many ways , shite team selection, shite attendance, shite atmosphere, shite attitude on the pitch , no hunger or desire , needs sorting urgently.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

No use sticking the knife into individual players , i will use the player performance column for that :) Just a general malaise around the ground and the team tonight , nothing dropped for us in the penalty area , the ref gave us very little and Lyon pounced on our mistakes , just one of those nights and lets be honest since Pep arrived you can count performances like tonight on one hand. Annoying losing the game , but we have five more chances to put this right in the Champs league group stage , so not the end of the world.

 

[Metalartin]

Awful night in many ways , shite team selection, shite attendance, shite atmosphere, shite attitude on the pitch , no hunger or desire , needs sorting urgently.

Missed out shite ref. Not that a good one would have made much difference I guess.

 

[scousemanc]

Just got back. One word: shambles. Another one: Sane

 

[roy.or.r]

Sometimes i feel Pep tries to be too smart with formations without any apparent reason. Why was Sane dropped I have no idea. It seems like not buying a midfielder is already appearing to be a mistake when everyone knew it should have been our priority this season.

 

[marco]

And that in a nutshell is probably why we won't win this competition. If the fans don't give a fuck why the hell should the players

And that's not a criticism just the reality.

Liverpool do care about the competition and perform better in it than they do in the league.

The only thing is that Mansour wants to win it.

the fans are not on 250k per week the players are and that's why they should have the desire, 'me' well yes i gave tonight a miss as with ALL the chumps games,they are bent and corruption to the core,thanks but no thanks

 

[Goater=Legend]

The mentality just isn't there from the players and fans. We just don't have that belief, remember Pep touching on that

 

[SamBlue]

Only players should be blamed for this result, all eleven of them who played the first half. When Merlin is solid shit for 45 minutes, then something really went wrong on the night. I don't know if it is possible, but I would fine all of of them...and fine them heavily. If they wanted to show how pissed off they were, because Pep took their day off after the Saturday game, they've made the point tonight.

 

[hammersmithlad]

Surely this decides it. Bernardo is a central midfielder, not a winger.

Agree but I would put my house down on him starting in this position once again - very baffling.

People called it on the forum when the team sheet & formation was announced the balance didn't look right coupled with a poor & flat performance Lyon deserved to win tonight.

Got to give credit to Lyon & probably taken some tips off the Dippers on how to beat us by setting up traps high up the pitch & pounced on us when we either made miss placed passes or caught in possession.

Hopefully this result gives them a kick up the back side.