Totally agree with you hereUp front has become a problem. Gakpo isn't good enough for a top team.
Totally agree with you hereUp front has become a problem. Gakpo isn't good enough for a top team.
well they better not be shopping in the pound shopEdwards and Hughes will be busy this summer
We let Dreamy start the thread for why?
I'm getting angrier with this one more and more over time.
We didn't even need to win this game.
We've been shipping big chances game after game after game. We've been doing it more and more as the games matter more and more. We've been missing big chances more and more as well. Our season is unravelling.
Our attack is incoherent and wasteful.
Our midfield is defined by the form of one player, while the rest just look jaded.
What most disgusts me though are the fullbacks. Our best overall team displays in recent memory are with a fullback playing at fullback as a fullback. All our best play under klopp is defined by this position. Instead we were treated to tsimikas looking like he was poorly acting like he was looking for his lost dog, when in reality he has taken his first forays into what will become a promising career in serial murder and his dog is in several ziplocks in a chest freezer.
Then on the other side. Gomez. Inverting. It's been fairly redundant when Trent has been up to it, but Trent has the technical ability to play a ball, join an attack, take a credible shot on goal, and in general play technical football. With Trent, even though it is less effective than everything he used to do, it's still a neat trick. Hes so good that we can still watch him be threatening from less threatening positions. Mind you, it's not fundamentally sound at all, but ooh diagonal pass, what were we talking about? Oh, gomez. Klopp really fucked this one up. He's looked tired and out of form. Should we let him do the basics for a game, or how about we unleash his incredible potential in the center of the pitch. He needs to invert so he can cover, but the fact that he offers very little playing off salah, means that when he ends up inside and high, we take the lung busting run risk we are meant to avoid from inversion, and we take it for nothing.
Remember when Gomez doing a Trent impression was just making shittier crosses from the overlap and being reasonably sound defensively? Could we try that again? He's a utility player. He isn't going to be part of any good complicated interplay with Salah on the right, he isn't who we want on the ball breaking the lines, and we have others who can do that.
Why, when we aren't playing well, and we have different lineups out of necessity, are we overcomplicating our tactics? It isn't making us harder to beat, it isn't making us control games. It's making limited players look fucking horrible and confused. This was a rare occasion where klopp got things badly wrong, at the first and second time of asking. We were better with kids because with kids he's asking players to do what they know, and he's asking them to do less. Can't we go back to doing that with the senior players a bit?
...and Macca too?Because secretly we need the misery, we feed of it - we aren’t happy unless we’re gurning about something, even when we win we need something to moan about.
Basically we’ve all become the moany gammon-faced old aged buggers that up until now we could only accuse @Judge Jules and @Portly of being.
We got twatted at home by 3 goals to nil, when we're were hoping for a reaction after the united gameJesus the knee jerk reaction in here is incredible.
Will we ever learn?
It's time @Dreambeliever took over match threads. His late intervention saw us almost grab top 4
Can people just not read? Is that what this post is? Like, an innate inability to use eyesIt's time @Dreambeliever took over match threads. His late intervention saw us almost grab top 4
I'm getting angrier with this one more and more over time.
We didn't even need to win this game.
We've been shipping big chances game after game after game. We've been doing it more and more as the games matter more and more. We've been missing big chances more and more as well. Our season is unravelling.
Our attack is incoherent and wasteful.
Our midfield is defined by the form of one player, while the rest just look jaded.
What most disgusts me though are the fullbacks. Our best overall team displays in recent memory are with a fullback playing at fullback as a fullback. All our best play under klopp is defined by this position. Instead we were treated to tsimikas looking like he was poorly acting like he was looking for his lost dog, when in reality he has taken his first forays into what will become a promising career in serial murder and his dog is in several ziplocks in a chest freezer.
Then on the other side. Gomez. Inverting. It's been fairly redundant when Trent has been up to it, but Trent has the technical ability to play a ball, join an attack, take a credible shot on goal, and in general play technical football. With Trent, even though it is less effective than everything he used to do, it's still a neat trick. Hes so good that we can still watch him be threatening from less threatening positions. Mind you, it's not fundamentally sound at all, but ooh diagonal pass, what were we talking about? Oh, gomez. Klopp really fucked this one up. He's looked tired and out of form. Should we let him do the basics for a game, or how about we unleash his incredible potential in the center of the pitch. He needs to invert so he can cover, but the fact that he offers very little playing off salah, means that when he ends up inside and high, we take the lung busting run risk we are meant to avoid from inversion, and we take it for nothing.
Remember when Gomez doing a Trent impression was just making shittier crosses from the overlap and being reasonably sound defensively? Could we try that again? He's a utility player. He isn't going to be part of any good complicated interplay with Salah on the right, he isn't who we want on the ball breaking the lines, and we have others who can do that.
Why, when we aren't playing well, and we have different lineups out of necessity, are we overcomplicating our tactics? It isn't making us harder to beat, it isn't making us control games. It's making limited players look fucking horrible and confused. This was a rare occasion where klopp got things badly wrong, at the first and second time of asking. We were better with kids because with kids he's asking players to do what they know, and he's asking them to do less. Can't we go back to doing that with the senior players a bit?
A confederacy of DuncesCan people just not read? Is that what this post is? Like, an innate inability to use eyes
It happens. Remember when Watford twatted us 3-0.We got twatted at home by 3 goals to nil, when we're were hoping for a reaction after the united game
There's no knee jerking. The same suspects were still shit
It happens. Remember when Watford twatted us 3-0.
Seriously - no petrol please, just lots of semi damp wood. Make this slow & lingeringHe did take over the match thread.
For Atlanta.
Someone should be lighting the kindling around the stake he should be tied to… @momoWASboss has turned up with some petrol to make sure there’s no mistake!!!
Haven’t you learned anything about baring your buttcheeks to the Jinxy Gods!
The man’s a living, breathing match thread catastrophe!!!!
When we were 20 points clear away from home at the start of a pandemicIt happens. Remember when Watford twatted us 3-0.
Phew. I and a few others held our collective breaths for a moment there. Though to be fair I mostly moan at other posters not the team (often).Because secretly we need the misery, we feed of it - we aren’t happy unless we’re gurning about something, even when we win we need something to moan about.
Basically we’ve all become the moany gammon-faced old aged buggers that up until now we could only accuse @Judge Jules and @Portly of being.
US teams are permitted to play in UEFA competitions now?He did take over the match thread.
For Atlanta.
Someone should be lighting the kindling around the stake he should be tied to… @momoWASboss has turned up with some petrol to make sure there’s no mistake!!!
Haven’t you learned anything about baring your buttcheeks to the Jinxy Gods!
The man’s a living, breathing match thread catastrophe!!!!
The EL has gone mate. You can talk all you like about winning by 4 over there but it's not happening. The 3rd goal saw to that.Lads, if there's one thing I know, it's that this will get fixed, and quickly.
Backbone lads. Backbone.
Top of the league (2nd on GD)
STILL in the EL.
We're having our shite patch of the season, and it's involved remaining top of the league AND we are still in the EL. It's not over yet.
This is not Brendan Rodgers team. It's a team that's had a BRILLIANT season so far.
There's definitely problems, but they are *very* fixable.
But if you need a moan, have a moan. But be done by Sat. As we are back in business Sunday.
Salzburg, PSG, Auxerre? Those were the daysThis match reminded me a bit of those European games back in the 90s. We used to get drawn against fairly average sides back then too and end up losing miserably at home.
Difference is that back then we were generally shit and never won anything anyway. We're supposed to be good now.
We were very impressive when we lost to Barca. That game defied reason. Other than the result, there's no equivalence.We turned it round against Barca, Origi sorted it.
Origi had three shots and scored three goals in the CL that season. Two against barca and one against Spurs in the final. So we can do it - but we need to create *checks notes* 75 chances for Nunez, per half
Instanbul Says hello...We were very impressive when we lost to Barca. That game defied reason. Other than the result, there's no equivalence.