Why are you battling against relegation?! Absolutely tore us to pieces today. You fully deserved your victory and probably should have got a couple more goals. Which, as a Liverpool fan, is depressing... Felt the game was a mixture of yourselves playing very well and Liverpool playing not so well. We were completely overran in midfield throughout the first half and you took full advantage of that. Pressed us well when we had the ball and we couldn't cope with that. Also though some of your passing and general play in and around our 18 yard box was very good and took our defenders out of the passage of play in an instant. Good luck for the rest of the season though if you put in a couple of performances like today, you won't need much luck!
Thing is your fans seem to think your season is over because you lost to rubbish little Southampton. We've been playing like this for a lot of the season, our defence has just let us down at times, which is why we are where we are in the league and why teams feels embarrassed to lose to us. We should be mid table.
Cheers Chris. Appreciate the well wishes. Liverpool look like they should be able to, this game aside, go on and finish the season strongly. We haven't actually had too many games where we haven't turned up. Our League position is mainly down to defensive/goalkeeping errors (particularly in the first half of the season) and failing to score when dominating matches or periods of play. We tend to either create a lot of good chances and spurn most of them, or have a lot of possession but fail to create much. Hopefully this result is what we needed to push on to safety now.
Despite the fact we won today, the reason we are down there was there for all to see, we don't convert enough of our chances! Still a cracking result though
Thank you Chris. There are various reasons why Saints are where they are in the table. 1] I wouldn't have wished our initial fixtures on any team, let alone a promoted one. 2] Our defence went into shock mode on the back of the defeats we suffered as the realisation of the quality of the PL took its toll. 3] In my opinion, Saints weren't quite ready for the PL, in terms of personnel, and have been playing a quality catch up ever since. 4] Saints are an unequal and incomplete side, but they've come up through the divisions together, changing where they have been able, when it has been necessary, and playing good football when they can. Yes, the club have made a few mistakes along the way. One could make an argument that Saints came upto the PL one season too early, because it has made the adjustment harder, but it is being made. The ambition coming out of the club, led by the Chairman is leaving many of our supporters gasping, and so its not surprising that rival clubs fans are either completely unaware of what Saints are trying to do, or laugh it off as mickey mouse. Make no mistake though, Saints are coming.
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Good game by you boys today, and the scoreline could have been even mor lopsided. Extremely gutting from the point of view of a Liverpool fan, we played badly, were set up wrong. Not good when we would have done things almost perfectly to have got a result today. Feel certain you will be in the Prem next season and of that im glad! Good luck for the rest of the season
Too many defensive errors, especially early in the season. First 10+ games were entirely without Cork and Shaw. Our turnaround in November started with those two coming in/back. A very, very tough fixture list to start with. Poor finishing far too often. Young players getting to grips with PL football for the first time. ...But when we click, yes we are too good to be talked about as a bottom three team. It is a pleasure to watch us when we're on our game, even more so these days with our high pressing game of Poch's. That Carroll guy over on your board is clueless, saying that you've lost to a team who don't deserve/aren't good enough to be in the PL.
Well if luck evens out then that green slice needs to get bigger in the next 8 games! That said I'd rather it was all blue.
We were great, and Lallana absolutely ripped up the left wing. Although it probably helped that Glen Johnson played worse than I've ever seen him play. Clyne impressed me (which he doesn't always do) far more than Johnson
Excellent coach and some good players that the team as a unit make even better as individuals collectively, fantastic attitude and good initiative, worked hard to support each other and were very disciplined in executing the managers plan. I think we played into your manager's hands by trying to be expansive and I also think that the first 20 minutes rattled us so badly we felt we had no time to pick passes and were afraid to try retain the ball in tight areas. In short our nerves were shot by that first great quarter of the game and our defenders were afraid the rest of the game. Made Skrtel look like he was made by Chivers, not that the first 25 were the end all, great performance over 90 and 110% an earned win, not deserved only but totally earned and saw through More like that and relegation will be all but a distant worry and I get the distinct impression neither your manager nor players will be resting on their laurels after this, they know there is a job to do and I find it hard to think you'll not manage it with some to spare. This is not the first performance like that this season against one of the top half sides by a long shot. Good luck although luck has nothing to do with it, well earned Ye suffer as we do, not getting results your play earned, but those individual fkups will become less and less the longer this brew ferments
We've improved steadily all season, after a cruel start.We were in front against Man Utd and Man City during our first run of games, and couldn't hold the lead. In fact we lost both matches. We then went to Arsenal and got torn to bits, something Arsenal can do to anyone on their day. All that took a bit of recovering from, and put us on the back foot for the rest of the season. Yesterday was the first time all season that we had a full squad to chose from. And despite playing as well as we've done all season, the goal we conceded gives some insight into the defensive problems we still haven't eradicated. When that went in, you could almost hear the whole of Saint Mary's thinking " here we go again."
That's just not true though, we've scored the 8th most goals in the League, we have however conceded the 3rd most. Despite tightening up dramatically since the early part of the season, we still ship a ridiculous amount of soft goals. Who was at all surprised when we conceded on the stroke of half time yesterday, not many I bet. Schad's diagram sums it up perfectly, a long diagonal ball over the top to a pacy forward is what wakes our CBs up screaming in the night!
Don't think JRod read the script...he went bugger this for a game of soldiers and just charged at the goal and carried on when initially repelled.
