Match Thread | Liverpool vs. Manchester City (08/02/26)

[WesthoughtonJohn]

Haaland strikes me as just a little off the pace. More reactive than proactive; players are getting into good attacking positions but he’s not making the move until they’re already there.

Needs to go and sit down again.
No idea what the issue is but he's not there at all currently

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Cheating, scouse bastard.

is this about the match or a general observation on crime and benefit fraud?

 

[clarion]

Give your hand to VVD, Erling.
Have a little chat. Smile you donkey

 

[Invisible Man Fan]

Dias has a fight on his hands to get his place back in the team. Khunsanov is excellent, Guehi too

 

[Doc_Testosterone]

Semenyo looks like a championship player

I guess Savio is Non-League in that case

 

[lonestay]

So it's half time we all know what happens now !

 

[Nas_City]

Semenyo can't play in the Doku role, need him more forward to finish off chances.

 

[madloaf]

Tone of the match has been set early, three fouls on the left given for Liverpool, none for us until the Marmoush one and it looked like he had to think about giving that one.

Yep. Liverpool can foul without fear of bookings. That's the message.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Cherki on for Semenyo 2nd half, latter doing zip all so far

 

[01cravend]

Semenyo is really uncomfortable on the ball... Heavy touches and bad passes galore

 

[I'm Blue]

Forget Haaland scoring I want a 1-0 Bernardo winner in the dying seconds…….with a drinking a brew celebration.

 

[Ryan.98.]

How soft is haaland hahaahahhaahahahaha why is he shaking hands with van dijk AGAIN soft as fucking shit suppose he will shake his hand when he heads in a fucking corner in the second half.

 

[Goater=Legend]

That's the best we've played in a long time, just the final ball has let us down.

Now time for the second half collapse.

 

[Bluemoon115]

The beeb on the money as usual....

 

[Ajm1985]

I was absolutely fine with that half. Bit more composure & accuracy in the final third and we'd have got the rewarda we deserved

 

[King Jay]

Semenyo looks like a championship player

average comment in here weekly. We must be doing well for a club with a bunch of lower league players

 

[MCFC1993]

Excellent half, only disappointment is were not winning, Pep has nailed the setup.

Bernardo and Rodri, I don't know if they'll get the credit but those 2 have been superb. Liverpool have stopped pressing and tightened it up because of how good those 2 are on the ball.

 

[Bigg Bigg Blue]

Let's hope that we play this good in the second half for a change

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

He can finish, but Semenyo needs to work on his pushing the ball out in front of himself and running with it.

Good first half though. Need to keep it going and then some.

 

[noseve]

Don't know what is with the Haaland haters? He's missed ONE decent chance. Hardly the worst performance I have ever seen.

I agree - it's as though they haven't noticed that his body language has always been like this - looking disinterested when the ball isn't likely to reach him?