Chelsea v Liverpool Match Thread

[dantes]

This is getting way out of hand now we simply have to ban the jinx posters least a week ahead of the final. In fact why take a chance, everyone should be banned, I'll be happy to keep the forum ticking over talking to myself until the game is won.

 

[FoxForceFive]

It's a game of 2 halves.

We'll most likely only be good for the first fifteen minutes of the second half though. After that I suspect we'll have little left in the tank.

 

[Fabio]

Wijnaldum is literally the momentum killer

He's been absolutely fucking atrocious

 

[manwithnoname]

Firmino and Salah have been shite again. Mane the only threat.

 

[manwithnoname]

Urgh.

 

[hmmmmm1]

Stoke, West Brom and now today. Awful tepid performances

 

[Hansern]

Its gonna boil down to the Brighton game.
I can imagine us finishing 5th next Sunday.
What a depressing thought.

 

[Mystic]

It doesn't help that the one player who ought to be fresh and eager to impress - Clyne - is playing the most cautious, unimaginative and un-Klopp-like game possible. But we need livelier minds for the second half - Woodburn among them.

Yep, been thinking this all game, Clyne is such a poor footballer.

 

[tomasjj]

You can see that we are a bit tired. Sloppy touches all around, meaning the difference between a good chance or just about managing to keep the ball.

 

[Fabio]

Yep, been thinking this all game, Clyne is such a poor footballer.

I'm willing to give clyne slack, because he's nowhere near being on the same wavelength as others.

Wijnaldum I don't get, because he's only come in to the team more since oxos injury. Wijnaldum shouldn't be so shite

 

[LeTallecWiz]

Yep, been thinking this all game, Clyne is such a poor footballer.

Not poor - just lacking in attacking confidence, which in this system hurts the whole team as it doesn't allow it to push forward.
Very disappointing first half - though we should have a few more yellows!
I am worried for next week, but as I'll be there - and we haven't lost a league game I've been to, we'll be fine (cup games are another thing all together!)

 

[moron]

The back 4 apart from Lovren are just playing a game amongst themselves. Gini is too far away from them... needs to be a little ahead of them...Milner is the only player attacking from the middle. Firminio has signed a new contract giving him powers to be invisible at the moment.

 

[Athens]

It's obvious from this display that Klopp doesn't know what he's doing.

Need to get rid of him and bring in Rafa asap!

 

[Frogfish]

Before the game I forecast losing 3-1 due to general lack of mental acuity and physical fatigue, and that's looks exactly like what's going on.

 

[dantes]

At least this will be good practice in the unfortunate event of being a goal down in the final.

 

[Fabio]

Conte has dropped points from a winning position 7 times out of 51.

 

[Fabio]

Lovren rips hazards shirt, and still doesn't stop him

 

[gkmacca]

Woodburn's got fresh legs, he's bursting with enthusiasm and he's desperate to impress. Let's not mess about, bring him on, pronto.

 

[Fabio]

Woodburn's got fresh legs, he's bursting with enthusiasm and he's desperate to impress. Let's not mess about, bring him on, pronto.

Agree. He can't do much bloody worse

 

[LeTallecWiz]

This game feels like the 2-0 loss to Chelsea in 2013.
We play well, they get a goal and just let us shoot from outside the box ... it's really frustrating.

 

[Fabio]

This game feels like the 2-0 loss to Chelsea in 2013.
We play well, they get a goal and just let us shoot from outside the box ... it's really frustrating.

We haven't played well

 

[Red Mullet]

TAA with an awful cross.

 

[Fabio]

So far mane is the only one coming out of this with credit

 

[LeTallecWiz]

We haven't played well

yah i'm trying to find similarities.

 

[Athens]

So far mane is the only one coming out of this with credit

Like Wednesday night...

 

[Fabio]

Like Wednesday night...

Definitely

 

[mwake]

Weird game, we are being managed here, struggling to impose our game. For me when I see Liverpool playing like this its because we miss a playmaker in the midfield. Someone to pick up the ball from deep and break through the lines. Keita and Lemar types cant come soon enough.

 

[LeTallecWiz]

when bakayoko & moses look like good players ... yikes

 

[keniget]

This game feels like the 2-0 loss to Chelsea in 2013.
We play well, they get a goal and just let us shoot from outside the box ... it's really frustrating.

I was thinking the same. We have a lot of the ball and do nothing win it, they score and win.

 

[KopRed]

Weird game, we are being managed here, struggling to impose our game. For me when I see Liverpool playing like this its because we miss a playmaker in the midfield. Someone to pick up the ball from deep and break through the lines. Keita and Lemar types cant come soon enough.

We miss the Ox. We have little legs in midfield. It's all too static and predictable. Our forwards have little space to operate on.