I wouldn't go that far, certainly in the first half we had them, they tried to play and couldnt cope, if and as always its a big if salah had popped the chance away I reckon they would of panicked. Second half, they where happy to sit camped in there own area and see what we'd got, unfortunately this season the answer is not enough.
You certainly did, his passing into midfield was very good, fast accurate and with purpose I didn't see him hitting it long often at all, he didn't miss many tonight and also broke up the play well. Like I said he's been shocking at times and I'm fully aware he's not the required standard but tonight he played very well.
Not really. You can't take chances unless you create them. I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make here, so I'm putting it down to frustration.
Agreed. To be fair we finished poorly but the football to that point was better than we’ve seen recently.
My point was that for all the chances created by our approach play we scored only 3. And some of that 3 were from set pieces! Yes, I am frustrated because the main objective of the front men is to score. And to miss such clear cut chances tonight is unforgivable. I am not saying we would have gone through if we had scored but at least we would had a chance. No score, the game just fizzled out.
no chance. Doesn’t needs rebuild just need freshening up. Jota will have a season behind him and freshen up that front line which is starting to get stale in parts. Hopefully Jones will have a big impact next year in replace of gini. Fab Hendo Thiago is a good midfield 3. Prob could do with a different type of central striker to give firm a bit of a kick and give us a plan b though. At the moment but too predictable and still suffering by not being able to press as intensely up top. Hopefully be more fresher next year, have Gomez and vvd back to help push us up the pitch, Hendo back covering that right hand side to allow TAA to push on further up the field as well. we’ve not been great and yes it’s been said a lot but we’ve had injuries to key personnel. Not just in terms of footballing ability but the drive from the captain abs vocal players. Can’t underestimate how much we’ve missed the leadership of Hendo and vvd in talking and pushing the team on instead of letting standards drop slightly.
it wasn’t just the forwards, Gini was guilty too. Totally understand your frustration but for me, the bigger picture is that we played with a bit of gusto.....we will need that if we want top four this year
you can play well and not score. In same way you can play **** and then score from 3 corners. If you want to judge football only on goals scored you might as well not watch and just check the goal highlights after the game.
yeah I saw a clip of Zidane pre game giving his team talk. He just said to his team just let them get into the box and have all the shots in the world guys cos they’ve scored 3 from 139 shots so they def won’t score... seems likely
Still think that we need a proper #9. I can see why we were linked with Raul Jimenez. Someone like him would be an upgrade on Bobby...although I still think that Bobby can play a role for us.
Id be happy to keep kabak. Feel he’s grown into that position and alongside vvd would only improve. Especially taking into account his age.
Perhaps we're talking at cross-purposes. You said approach play was irrelevant and I said you can't score otherwise. Perhaps you mean that no amount of good approach play matters if you don't convert the chances?
I think my big frustration will be if we revert back to a lacklustre performance again on the weekend.
Frustrating night. We created a lot of chances but couldn't finish (some absolute shockers in there too!). Should have been three or four up by half time. Mane played well on the left tonight and was causing lots of problems but for some crazy reason Klopp moved him to the right and put Jota left. Why not just put Jota up top? Glad Fabinho is back in midfield but it's starting to irritate me that Klopp keeps taking Kabak off and moving him to CB. Oh, and Salah was ****e; couldn't score in a ****ing brothel tonight
What’s wrong with scoring goals from corners? I accept that there was a lot of effort especially in the first half. We had chances which should have been converted. But our poor conversion rate means that all the good stuff that is created amounts to nothing. How many times have we seen the Real midfielders not bothering to support their attack and let us repossess the ball and come up to the edge of the penalty area? For us to applaud this as a great game is strange. But this is now gone. We just need to focus on top 4. But unless our conversion rate improves significantly we are in big trouble.
God we've missed Henderson, for all the **** I've given that lad down the years I'd quite happily apologise to his face and admit I know **** all. We all love fab, vvd ,salah etc but **** me that boy makes us tick, he drives us forward and shores up the defence. He may not have the individual talent of one if the Liverpool greats but he definitely up there in my opinion of the unsung heroes