Media Thread 2017/18

[Leto]

Bit like us with Wigan!

Liverpool played WBA three times this season and we only played Wigan once.

 

[Blue Mist]

They’re the jammiest cnuts going. Spartak, Seville, Maribo, Porto, City and Roma. We’re the only decent team they’ve faced, and the way we play just happens to perfectly suit them. Plus the list of huge refereeing decisions that have gone their way in the process unfurls like the fucking Magna Carta. I hope Madrid absolutely batter them

How very dare you suggest Seville are a poor team, they put out the greatest club in the Universe don't you know.

 

[Blue Mist]

Liverpool played WBA three times this season and we only played Wigan once.

Yes but the Wigan pitch was very wet, well damp, mildly moist perhaps.

 

[city saint]

just looked at the player ratings in the mirror and loads of 8 out of 10s for ateam beaten 4 2 when we smashed Liverpool I think we only got 2 players 8

 

[The blue phantom]

I didn’t say that and I don’t agree that it is the weakest ever anymore than you do. We’re just miles better than everyone else is the reality. The reason Liverpool are in the CL final though is not because the PL is strong, rather just that they have enjoyed the most incredible luck with draws and officials

Are you saying we were unlucky to go out against them over two legs?

I know we had a couple of dodgy decisions but we were pretty awful in these two games.

 

[inchy14]

Are you saying we were unlucky to go out against them over two legs?

I know we had a couple of dodgy decisions but we were pretty awful in these two games.

Haha. We bossed second half at anfield and first half at ours. We’d be through easily if ref had done his job.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Yes but the Wigan pitch was very wet, well damp, mildly moist perhaps.

And the biggest Whistling Wanker in the history of football had the whistle.

 

[The blue phantom]

Haha. We bossed second half at anfield and first half at ours. We’d be through easily if ref had done his job.

Bossed?
Only game in two years we've not had a shot on goal.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Bossed?
Only game in two years we've not had a shot on goal.

Yeah, I didn't think we created much in the second half. Liverpool's plan looked clear to me - drop deep, pack the middle so they can't go through, and show them down the flanks when any cross goes into a mass of people with no tall targets. It worked very well.

25 minutes of disorganisation cost the tie.

 

[chesterbells]

Yeah, I didn't think we created much in the second half. Liverpool's plan looked clear to me - drop deep, pack the middle so they can't go through, and show them down the flanks when any cross goes into a mass of people with no tall targets. It worked very well.

25 minutes of disorganisation cost the tie.

But will we have learnt our lesson, that's the acid test?

Did we modify sufficiently from the league defeat their to the Euro game there?

 

[The perfect fumble]

Apart from West Brom.

And Swansea.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

But will we have learnt our lesson, that's the acid test?

Did we modify sufficiently from the league defeat their to the Euro game there?

Indeed. We didn't really have them sorted in the home match until the sending off. 1-0 up, yes, but they'd had a few chances down the vacant leftback channel (Mendy leaving Otamendi with too much space to cover).
The away match seemed to turn when Delph was injured.
In the CL first leg, Laporte twice showed Salah onto his good foot and two goals were scored - I find that strange, although he was probably hoping for some midfield cover inside.

All of those were exploiting the City left.

 

[Airbags Optional]

Haha. We bossed second half at anfield and first half at ours. We’d be through easily if ref had done his job.

Totally and if their first not given, the whole tie changes as we were in control. After that and our own goal disallowed in the 2nd half all they needed to do in the 2nd leg was try and stop us scoring enough, which they somehow did in the first half (the disallowed goal at home killed us that night). They then went ultra counter attack and picked us off, but would not have been in that position if we were not robbed in the first leg and first half

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Are you saying we were unlucky to go out against them over two legs?

I know we had a couple of dodgy decisions but we were pretty awful in these two games.

Pep got the 1st leg disastrously wrong certainly, but I wouldn’t say we were awful in the 2nd leg, and indeed we were superb in the 1st half of that game. Had we not been robbed of Sane’s goal, who knows what impetus we would have gained. As it was Salah’s equaliser killed everything stone dead.

 

[FrankSwift1]

Pep got the 1st leg disastrously wrong certainly, but I wouldn’t say we were awful in the 2nd leg, and indeed we were superb in the 1st half of that game. Had we not been robbed of Sane’s goal, who knows what impetus we would have gained. As it was Salah’s equaliser killed everything stone dead.

Agree. Also if refs did their job. Not subjective decisions like penalties but did their job properly then at half time in the second leg the score would have been 2-2 with all to play for.

 

[chesterbells]

Indeed. We didn't really have them sorted in the home match until the sending off. 1-0 up, yes, but they'd had a few chances down the vacant leftback channel (Mendy leaving Otamendi with too much space to cover).
The away match seemed to turn when Delph was injured.
In the CL first leg, Laporte twice showed Salah onto his good foot and two goals were scored - I find that strange, although he was probably hoping for some midfield cover inside.

All of those were exploiting the City left.

Good points, well made - agree with you/
To my mind, a micro-level forensic scrutiny of how teams have successfully played Salah this year, yes even including united, needs to be a number one priority for us doesnt it?

 

[franksinatra]

Indeed. We didn't really have them sorted in the home match until the sending off. 1-0 up, yes, but they'd had a few chances down the vacant leftback channel (Mendy leaving Otamendi with too much space to cover).
The away match seemed to turn when Delph was injured.
In the CL first leg, Laporte twice showed Salah onto his good foot and two goals were scored - I find that strange, although he was probably hoping for some midfield cover inside.

All of those were exploiting the City left.

Delph was on the bench it was a tactical decision with Laporte.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Pep got the 1st leg disastrously wrong certainly, but I wouldn’t say we were awful in th.e 2nd leg, and indeed we were superb in the 1st half of that game. Had we not been robbed of Sane’s goal, who knows what impetus we would have gained. As it was Salah’s equaliser killed everything stone dead.

I agree with that

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Delph was on the bench it was a tactical decision with Laporte.

Possible misunderstanding. I don't think there was anything wrong in picking Laporte. I find it strange that he showed Salah onto his left foot (strange as in it's a big mistake, rather than anything more sinister).

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Good points, well made - agree with you/
To my mind, a micro-level forensic scrutiny of how teams have successfully played Salah this year, yes even including united, needs to be a number one priority for us doesnt it?

Amongst other things, yes. I don't for a minute think they won't.

This seems to have strayed from media!