I said in the Villareal thread that I don't like the team and I just don't believe winning the cup or doing anything worthwhile is what they deserve. How many of us were buzzing to see Milner lift the cup if we won it last night? How many people wanted to see that squad celebrated? Maybe about 5/6 players? We should've been 2-0 at half time with offside goal,mi believe a player was keeping Sturridge on. And there should've been a penalty, the officials I felt were quite bad, never wanted to be lenient. We had the header off the line and the one on one chances too, by half time we could've been out of sight. A Klopp team shouldn't be conceding a goal 18 seconds into the second half, no way Klopp would've gave a uninspiring speech or said 'job done boys just see it out.' After ten mins I said to a mate at the pub we need Lallana off and someone in the midfield immediately, the guy was woeful all match. Klopp needs to hold his hands up to making the wrong subs. I thought the starting line up was wrong, Milner should've been on the wing in place of Lallana with Allen in the midfield with Can. Second goal you could see from a mile off, someone had to foul as soon as they passed the ball around us but nothing came from it. Terrible second half performance but the team deserve nothing more, the fans do but not this team.
You won't give us sympathy for being set on by rival fans and getting our heads kicked in? Boo hoo, oh dear, how sad. We never got any 27 years ago either, and you can stick any 'good feeling' up your arse now, as we don't want nor need it this time too.
The one that stopped Studge's pass by crouching down like ET was ****ing comical. But Lovren's header was offside and their third goal wasn't. End of. More pissed about the fact that they responded to pressing by simply falling over and getting a foul. The ref, in that first half, obliged them every time they did that. And the booking of Origi was just farcical. Nevertheless, the underlying fact is this: we could have buried that game with another goal or two before half t ime We didn't, and credit to Sevilla that they came back off the floor and simply battered us. We could have seen off Ausburg in the first leg in Germany. We didn't but we got away with it. We could have slaughtered United at Anfield, even accounting for their wonder-keeper, and we didn't. we got away with it. Same with Dortmund in the first leg, and very much with Villarreal. The whole competition was about having to roll the dice again, thinking that it was always okay to lose an advantage because we're special and had the magic to keep coming back. Last night the wand broke. We need to change six of that starting line up as soon as possible. A 'new' team takes a season to bed in, minimum. I'm looking forward to the future, but let's not kid ourselves that 'next year is our year': is it ****.
I agree. first one with firmino.. ok i could understand it. the second was stone wall abysmall reffing. the offside was fine. sturrdige clearly went ofr it and as a result its offside. their goal was played by clyne onto coutinho who was asleep out of position as we was all game. I think yes they fell apart before HT and lost all shape. we didn't exploit it.. in fact we let them off.. we then fell apart and they scored 2 more t take game away.. thats the difference. when we lost shape they scored goals but when they fell apart we didnt. the sad truth is after a dodgy start we could have buried the game when they literally completely lost it when sturridge scored. lallana did his usual on one chance. sturrdige missed the ball from clyne, ref rightly waved one offside and then wrongly a pen.. 2-0? should have been 3 beofre HT. thats the difference. we needed to score that second. klopp was right after the game. with 44mins to go it was 1-1.. mingolet saved one but the heads were gone totally. they lost shape, didn't trust each other.. we saw cbs jumping into our CMs not trusting headers, we saw cms ball watch and not keep in front of CBs. we saw lallana and coutinho never help their full backs... we just lost it... klopp has to change that. In the end we knew going in in our hearts our team wasn't great but we had a great campaign and got beaten by the better outfit. The fact is we could have won it with a bit of composure is annoying but thats the way it goes. We have to take the lumps and move on. It wasn't a great feeling but I have to say some lads got a lash last night like sturridge when you could tell looking at him it wasn't lazy he just literally hadn't anything left. we tried, we failed, we get back up and try again.
shock he wasn't that bad bar the second pen shout... sadly we played a euro team in a euro comp and while the dived and rolled he didn't throw cards for nothing. Loverns for example.. nuts.
The last two sentences say it all, especially about Studge. Totally unfair to diss his efforts by some. He ran himself into the ground. Some of our players. like lallana especially, are just not class at this level. Not about effort - even Moreno tried his hardest: they're just not good enough. man-for-man Sevilla are a better team. So were Dortmund, but we got it into our heads we could continually beat the odds AND get by without taking our chances. There'd always be a cavalry charge at the end.
I should be gutted, but I'm not (OK, a bit..) But I have no issues with the result yesterday, the better team won.. Yes, we should have taken our chances or made more of them when on top in the first half.. Yes, we should have been switched at the start of the second half.. But ****e happens, we've had some great times during the run, and some not so, yesterday being one of those. Now the real work begins, the pruning of the team, keep players he can trust and get players in he can work with and build a better team with..
I'm more pissed because I've believed we were destined to win the EL from the very first game #belief
Not even Klopp can make silk purses out of sows ears like Moreno. It's no use trying but it hasn't worked so far. This side isn't ready for Europe; Leicester is. I don't care how much we spend to replace the tossers as long as we don't spend over the odds for more tossers, that's all I ask. I'm done on this forum until next season - apart from the Word Association thread - because I don't want to get involved in any more rows and wasting time on this bunch of losers. I've invested nine months on them already and I can't be arsed with any of them. They've let us all down. I'm spending the day with two bags of crisps and a bag of chocolate to lick my wounds.
I'm more gutted about the fact that we threw our chance of EL via the league in the last few weeks, to concentrate on a cup competition. This is madness, imo, and I've been saying it for weeks - not just with the benefit of hindsight over last night's result.
Why? He's done well with Origi, Lovren and Allen, but I can't say much for the rest of them, not really. Barely seen much of Coutinho, Sturridhge is hit and miss, Lallana is average...I could go on. Leicester won the title: the CL place is theirs by right, not that I'm saying they'll win it.
I think you'd have taken 2 finals in his first season when he arrived lads, so cheer up, it's football fellas. I thought you had it in the bag at HT and unfortunately so did your team. A second goal and it was game over. Contrary to some of the thoughts on here, I thought the ref had a good game, he was sensible and his calls were all right imo. If Morono does his job in the opening seconds of the 2nd half, I reckon you go on to win the thing. But that goal, coming so early after the break knocked the stuffing and belief out of your side and the fans inside the stadium. Sevilla grew in stature and it turned the game on it's head. Goals change games and all that. tbf to Sevilla they deserved to win for that 2nd half performance, I didn't think they had that in them, they were very good in that 45. The benefit of not having 2 games a week next season, might actually end up being a benefit when you look back on it at this point next year
