Not worth backing us to win the CL as we will be favourites next season and rightly so.
Champions league final: post match thread
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Not worth backing us to win the CL as we will be favourites next season and rightly so.
What happened in the 6th game
We won it on a great defensive base. We were shite going forward Mane aside again in a CL final but who gives a fuck. We got no6 and that’s all that matters
Yup, don't think these are mere 'coincidences'.
[article]Tottenham may have had more possession in Saturday's final 65%-35%, but they were out-run by Liverpool - Spurs covered 64.2 miles to Reds' 65.3.[/article]
[article]Spurs completed over twice as many passes as the Reds, amassing 65 percent of the ball possession. However, so much of it was in safe areas from a Liverpool perspective that it didn’t matter.
The top seven combinations for most passes between two players all belonged to Tottenham, but six of them featured a pairing taken from the trio of Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Hugo Lloris.
So while Liverpool’s most frequent combinations saw Andy Robertson and Sadio Mané try to get something going on the left wing, Tottenham were knocking it around at the back.
An incredible 10 percent of Spurs’ total of successful passes were back to their goalkeeper. When you consider the average rate across the Premier League this season was 3.8 percent, you see that while Tottenham had the ball, they often had nowhere to go with it.
The number of passes completed in the final third is of far greater significance to the outcome of a match. Spurs may have been successful with 233 passes more than Liverpool across the whole pitch, but only by nine in the final third, and actually completed three fewer than the Reds in the opposition’s box. [/article]
[article]Pep Lijnders has lifted the lid on the attention to detail which helped Liverpool win the Champions League.
The Reds' assistant boss believes their meticulous preparations were crucial to Saturday's 2-0 win over Tottenham in Madrid.
Liverpool played Benfica B in a behind closed doors friendly during their training camp in Marbella a week before the final.
Benfica coach Renato Paiva agreed to the Reds' request to set his side up in a 4-2-3-1 formation and replicate the style and approach that Jurgen Klopp's side would face against Spurs. Tactically, it was the perfect rehearsal for the final.
Jurgen Klopp sends special message to departing Liverpool duo Daniel Sturridge and Alberto Moreno
“When you believe that the process is so important as the game, when you believe that something was meant to be, when you believe that all details count, you believe in us,” Lijnders told Liverpoolfc.com
“If you look at winners, you can be sure you are looking at a lot of detail behind. The Benfica B game is a very good example of this.
“We trained to have identity. When we have that, we know the players think similar at the same time.”
It was Liverpool's pressing in midfield which led to Jordan Henderson sending Sadio Mane scampering away down the left inside the opening 30 seconds. The Senegal international earned the penalty which Mohamed Salah converted.
Once in front, the Reds were rarely threatened before Spurs threw caution to the wind late on. Alisson Becker's heroics were followed by Divock Origi settling the contest with a clinical finish.
“I thought Liverpool was very tactical, very precise in all the things that they do in the game,” Paiva said.
“If I have to analyse, Liverpool were more brain and Tottenham were more heart. I think it was the victory of the brain in this game.”
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[article]Tottenham may have had more possession in Saturday's final 65%-35%, but they were out-run by Liverpool - Spurs covered 64.2 miles to Reds' 65.3.[/article]
[article]Spurs completed over twice as many passes as the Reds, amassing 65 percent of the ball possession. However, so much of it was in safe areas from a Liverpool perspective that it didn’t matter.
The top seven combinations for most passes between two players all belonged to Tottenham, but six of them featured a pairing taken from the trio of Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Hugo Lloris.
So while Liverpool’s most frequent combinations saw Andy Robertson and Sadio Mané try to get something going on the left wing, Tottenham were knocking it around at the back.
An incredible 10 percent of Spurs’ total of successful passes were back to their goalkeeper. When you consider the average rate across the Premier League this season was 3.8 percent, you see that while Tottenham had the ball, they often had nowhere to go with it.
The number of passes completed in the final third is of far greater significance to the outcome of a match. Spurs may have been successful with 233 passes more than Liverpool across the whole pitch, but only by nine in the final third, and actually completed three fewer than the Reds in the opposition’s box. [/article]
[article]Pep Lijnders has lifted the lid on the attention to detail which helped Liverpool win the Champions League.
The Reds' assistant boss believes their meticulous preparations were crucial to Saturday's 2-0 win over Tottenham in Madrid.
Liverpool played Benfica B in a behind closed doors friendly during their training camp in Marbella a week before the final.
Benfica coach Renato Paiva agreed to the Reds' request to set his side up in a 4-2-3-1 formation and replicate the style and approach that Jurgen Klopp's side would face against Spurs. Tactically, it was the perfect rehearsal for the final.
Jurgen Klopp sends special message to departing Liverpool duo Daniel Sturridge and Alberto Moreno
“When you believe that the process is so important as the game, when you believe that something was meant to be, when you believe that all details count, you believe in us,” Lijnders told Liverpoolfc.com
“If you look at winners, you can be sure you are looking at a lot of detail behind. The Benfica B game is a very good example of this.
“We trained to have identity. When we have that, we know the players think similar at the same time.”
It was Liverpool's pressing in midfield which led to Jordan Henderson sending Sadio Mane scampering away down the left inside the opening 30 seconds. The Senegal international earned the penalty which Mohamed Salah converted.
Once in front, the Reds were rarely threatened before Spurs threw caution to the wind late on. Alisson Becker's heroics were followed by Divock Origi settling the contest with a clinical finish.
“I thought Liverpool was very tactical, very precise in all the things that they do in the game,” Paiva said.
“If I have to analyse, Liverpool were more brain and Tottenham were more heart. I think it was the victory of the brain in this game.”
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9/1 third favourites. Man City are favourites at 11/2
[article]James Milner got Liverpool's open top bus to stop outside the house of a Hillsborough survivor so he could show him the European Cup.
The moving gesture by the club's vice-captain took place following the end of the Reds' victory parade around the city on Sunday which attracted a crowd in excess of 750,000.
The bus was heading back to Melwood just after 8pm when Milner requested that it stopped outside the south Liverpool home of Andrew Devine.
The 53-year-old has been confined to a wheelchair since the serious injuries he suffered at Hillsborough in 1989.
When the bus pulled up, Andrew was outside and Milner leant over the side of the bus to show him the gleaming trophy.
Andrew's mother Hilary told the ECHO: "It was a very kind gesture and it made Andrew's day."
The Liverpool midfielder had previously met Andrew during visits to the Melwood training ground.
It was a classy touch by Milner, who came off the bench in Madrid to help the Reds secure their sixth European crown with a 2-0 win over Tottenham.
Andrew was a devoted 22-year-old Liverpool fan from Mossley Hill, who was working for the Post Office, when he attended the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough back in 1989.
After his chest was crushed and his brain deprived of oxygen, he was put on a life support machine and wasn't expected to survive the day.
However, 30 years on he lives in the family home in Liverpool with devoted parents Stanley and Hilary with the help of 24-hour professional care.[/article]
The moving gesture by the club's vice-captain took place following the end of the Reds' victory parade around the city on Sunday which attracted a crowd in excess of 750,000.
The bus was heading back to Melwood just after 8pm when Milner requested that it stopped outside the south Liverpool home of Andrew Devine.
The 53-year-old has been confined to a wheelchair since the serious injuries he suffered at Hillsborough in 1989.
When the bus pulled up, Andrew was outside and Milner leant over the side of the bus to show him the gleaming trophy.
Andrew's mother Hilary told the ECHO: "It was a very kind gesture and it made Andrew's day."
The Liverpool midfielder had previously met Andrew during visits to the Melwood training ground.
It was a classy touch by Milner, who came off the bench in Madrid to help the Reds secure their sixth European crown with a 2-0 win over Tottenham.
Andrew was a devoted 22-year-old Liverpool fan from Mossley Hill, who was working for the Post Office, when he attended the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough back in 1989.
After his chest was crushed and his brain deprived of oxygen, he was put on a life support machine and wasn't expected to survive the day.
However, 30 years on he lives in the family home in Liverpool with devoted parents Stanley and Hilary with the help of 24-hour professional care.[/article]
We absolutely did have a pragmatic strategy. One that we've used before and has middling success against the absolute top teams (Spurs not being in that category).
We should have played more possession in certain situations instead of always countering, and our passing and movement were poor, even within a far less ambitious strategy. As klopp would say, we needed to play more football.
This team isn't quite there, as preposterous as that sounds. But it works so fucking hard and is so focused that it makes up for the small room for improvement. Doesnt mean we shouldn't fix that though.
We should have played more possession in certain situations instead of always countering, and our passing and movement were poor, even within a far less ambitious strategy. As klopp would say, we needed to play more football.
This team isn't quite there, as preposterous as that sounds. But it works so fucking hard and is so focused that it makes up for the small room for improvement. Doesnt mean we shouldn't fix that though.
Not sure if it's posted yet, but here's a clip from the Benfica game
How much did you win DB ?
No of course not, and as I've also said, we were poor in possession.
But it was also obvious that we wanted to score early, then sit back and let Tottenham have the ball, and restrict them to doing fuck all with it.
Which is exactly what happened.
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Klopp with Stevie and Gary Mac
So glad I popped in here to find people arguing after we’ve just won number six. Bunch of meffs.
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You do know we barely scraped out of the group stage ourselves right?
Damn, we need to sign up this kid straight away!
Lionel Messi reveals he is taunted by his own son who tells him 'I'm Liverpool'
Lionel Messi reveals he is taunted by his own son who tells him 'I'm Liverpool'
True but "this means more" lol, seriously you're right we had a tight scrape too but Napoli were at full strength.
Hahaha that's great. Fair play to the little bastard.
That's SOME list. Deschamps, Redondo, Maldini, Hierro, Effenberg, Xavi, Iniesta... Amazingly, Hendo joins a pantheon of legends.
I don't wish to sound all George Galloway, but that's a fucking massive nose on that lad. And his brother.
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