We are in agreement. IF Lallana kept fouling in that dangerous area, he should be dropped. But he didn't and doesn't usually. This is NOT the first mistake by Karius and as he keeps making mistakes, then he should be dropped. I am not sure about this "dropping destroys his confidence" nonsense. Mignolet got dropped but he came back stronger
Goalkeeper's mistakes are often magnified by conceding goals, they are an easy target sometimes. I just hope Klopp shows patience with him
I agree that we are odds on to get top 4. But there is always a very small possibility that we could drop enough points for others to catch us. Fingers crossed you are right.
There is also a possibility we will be top again at some point in January.......who knows? #onegameatatime
Good points. We are hyper anxious because of what happened when we were challenging a few years ago. Only natural. I have the feeling that this is a critical period for us. If we recover and get the wins in the next matches to the New Year we'll be fine. The Boro match is now a must win for us.
If we're still within 3 points of you by the New Year I may start believing, but right now I'm looking at no more than a solid top four, with third being pretty good. We do have the easiest run in, but some people and journalists (they're not people) thought we'd have an easy run-up to the New year's game with City - hasn't turned out like that.
We need to get a three goal lead before we can relax. That's just not sustainable. I think a good, solid, boring 1-0 win where we don't give the opponents a sniff at goal all game would be more uplifting than a three or four goal thriller-winner atm. Won't happen though.
We're six pointsbehind Chelsea and seven points ahead of Uniturd. With that goalie that latter looks more likely than the former.
Bunch of ****s ... what a feckin disaster zone that was Can we not have just one season where everything works ?! If something isn't done about the obvious glaring deficiencies in the team in the next two windows (I'm not even gonna spell them out. Again) - THE SAME DEFICIENCIES WE'VE HAD FOR ABOUT TWELVTY HUNDRED YEARS NOW - I'm gonna, I'm gonna ... fly a banner over the stadium or something. Wouldn't that be a first as a form of protest.
We've also dropped five points out of a not too difficult six on offer. My glass if half empty (in fact five sixths empty) on this one.
And that says a lot about your thinking. All teams are capable of taking points off any other, if you look at a game as "not too difficult" then you are half way to dropping points.
Thanks for the pious lecture. Put it into context, I'm just saying that in comparison to other fixtures, these were supposed to be 'bankers' if we were a team serious for challenging for the title. We're not, and dropping those points prove it. That's all. Not having a blouse attack about it or decrying the opposition (I'd have bitten your hand off for a point against W Ham last season), but reality bites.
Hmmm. I'm not sure if I'm coming across that way, because it's certainly not how I feel. Rather, I don't want us to accept setbacks in a resigned way and, because of those years without success, look upon our current improvement as being enough. We can do better, and dissatisfaction is the route to further improvement.
