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Ha ha we pulled back a 2 point difference.
The last 30 mins at Burnley was the defining moment.
He is a huge loss but they are rattled now and void of confidence. They’ll get it back. We just need to pounce before they do
Me neither for the record.
I don’t think I could cope.
Cardboard paddy would have to attend drinkies even if it was won
I hope Bayern fucking tonk us.
You're flip flopping more than Oncy! We winning it or not!?
Is correct.
Sadly it’s about time Arsenal got a result at Anfield just in time to shake our confidence for City
Arsenal win
Ha we could have the league wrapped up by then and rest players.
We’ll batter Bayern
Wrong. When we drew with Arsenal they won that weekend and the gap was 4 points.
Since then we have won every single match they have lost 3 and drawn 1 to make it 7 points in our favour.
Eight straight wins and counting, including tough aways at Wolves and Watford plus wins against our two biggest rivals.
Its an astonishing run.
And if we win our next two.........
Means fuck all because you will cashout in April you fucking quim.
We are not winning it (winky face)
Outstanding stuff. I had forgotten that.
Our fear of collapse is preventing us from enjoying it and appreciating it as much as we should.
It’s arguably our greatest ever run of 19 games. Draws against 3 top 5 sides and 16 wins.
It’s not we even drew against a poor side. We’ve literally beaten everyone we should have. It’s insane.
Ha ha I’m taking the piss obviously. Betting size always relative. His 50 night dwarf mine.
Agreed about the fear of collapse.
I don't really fear a collapse. The attitude, focus, team spirit, and strategies all seem spot on.
In fact, for the first time in 25/30 years, our team is Mighty once again.
In fact, for the first time in 25/30 years, our team is Mighty once again.
I think it’s been useful that we’ve grown a 7 point gap in such a short space of time - City are in shock and the games are coming too thick and fast for them to regroup and assess. If we’d grown this lead over 7-8 games it might have gotten a lot more build up in the press but it has happened v quickly and during a very busy time in the football calendar.
Let’s leave this festive period 10 points clear of them!!
Let’s leave this festive period 10 points clear of them!!
Jürgen Klopp has just had the best Christmas imaginable. Not only are Liverpool six points clear at the top of the Premier League but Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is back in training. Yet, despite everything looking sunny at the halfway point of the season, the manager insists his side can improve.
“I don’t think we have been seen at our very best yet,” Klopp said before Saturday’s visit of Arsenal. “We have had very good moments but overall we have not been as spectacular as we were at times last season. We don’t concede as often but people ask what has happened to the free-flowing football. It’s like a kid getting a nice present for Christmas then asking where’s the other one. You can’t always have everything; sometimes it is best to be grateful for what you’ve got.
“People will always want more but we had to develop from last season, to step aside a little and start again. We had to score a lot of goals last season because we conceded so many but we have worked on our defending since and I am pleased with the result.
“I loved the way we played against PSG and Napoli, for example. Faced with strong opponents we still went for them. You cannot play like that against everybody – when we came to play Manchester City we had to be careful not to give anything away in case they hit us on the counter – but sometimes a team comes along, like Chelsea, and you know that both sides are going to go for it. That’s brilliant, I love games like that.”
Pep Guardiola has just suggested Liverpool will begin to feel more pressure now they are out in front but Klopp feels it is still too early in the season for mind games and league tables. “I have to say 51 points at the halfway stage is better than we expected but no one is celebrating yet,” the Liverpool manager said. “The players are mature enough to know that. The time to get excited over a six-point lead is when there are only four or five games left to play.
“I didn’t feel any different when I came in from the last game and someone told me the City result, and I certainly didn’t when I heard the Tottenham score. It is important to consider who is in the bunch of teams around you. We are in a good position but it’s silly to talk about points gained and lost when you have Arsenal next followed by City.”
Klopp’s caution is understandable, though in each of the past three seasons he has seen the eventual champions emerge early and build up an unassailable lead. “That is true but those champions never had City at their back or a Tottenham side growing stronger every year,” he said. “When I came to England Harry Kane was 21 or 22, Dele Alli was just a kid from the lower leagues. It was a completely different situation to the one at present.”
Even though City have lost three of their past four league matches and Tottenham have still to come to Anfield Klopp refuses to acknowledge that the title is Liverpool’s to lose – a footballing cliche he greets with a slight grimace – insisting instead that the best way for his side to keep up their unbeaten record is to keep concentrating on the next match.
“We are not the hunters who have turned into the hunted. We are just a football team trying to play the best season of our lives,” he said. “Although actually that was the plan last season as well. We have brought in some fantastic players and created an atmosphere here where we believe in our own ability. We can handle difficult situations. We learn and go again.
“We know if we only play an 80% game against Arsenal we will lose, so we must try to be ready for a tough match. We must also keep up our concentration, because Unai Emery will not be coming here looking at the points totals. He will be doing his best to win a game of football.
“I know some of his players very well indeed, particularly Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. He is an outstanding player and a proper goalscorer who can do a lot of damage. He has a pretty rare combination of speed and finishing skill, and on top of that he’s good at heading. It all adds up to a pretty nice package.”
But the prospect of meeting up with a former Borussia Dortmund player does not animate Klopp as much as the anticipated return of Oxlade-Chamberlain. The Liverpool manager was distraught when the midfielder damaged knee ligaments in last season’s Champions League semi-final and, though prepared to be without him for the whole of this season, is now being told the player could be ready in February or March.
“That would be the best, best news,” Klopp said. “He started back and from the first step he took it looked completely normal. Right away it looked like Ox and that was really nice. Then we had to wait for the reaction – and there was no reaction, which is even nicer.
“I don’t want to pre-empt the medical department but we now have hope he will be back this season. It actually looks like he could play tomorrow, though of course we will not be doing that. There is a long way to go but it looks good. It is a boost for the whole dressing room because Ox is such an important part of that and it’s great to have him around with a smile on his face.”
“I don’t think we have been seen at our very best yet,” Klopp said before Saturday’s visit of Arsenal. “We have had very good moments but overall we have not been as spectacular as we were at times last season. We don’t concede as often but people ask what has happened to the free-flowing football. It’s like a kid getting a nice present for Christmas then asking where’s the other one. You can’t always have everything; sometimes it is best to be grateful for what you’ve got.
“People will always want more but we had to develop from last season, to step aside a little and start again. We had to score a lot of goals last season because we conceded so many but we have worked on our defending since and I am pleased with the result.
“I loved the way we played against PSG and Napoli, for example. Faced with strong opponents we still went for them. You cannot play like that against everybody – when we came to play Manchester City we had to be careful not to give anything away in case they hit us on the counter – but sometimes a team comes along, like Chelsea, and you know that both sides are going to go for it. That’s brilliant, I love games like that.”
Pep Guardiola has just suggested Liverpool will begin to feel more pressure now they are out in front but Klopp feels it is still too early in the season for mind games and league tables. “I have to say 51 points at the halfway stage is better than we expected but no one is celebrating yet,” the Liverpool manager said. “The players are mature enough to know that. The time to get excited over a six-point lead is when there are only four or five games left to play.
“I didn’t feel any different when I came in from the last game and someone told me the City result, and I certainly didn’t when I heard the Tottenham score. It is important to consider who is in the bunch of teams around you. We are in a good position but it’s silly to talk about points gained and lost when you have Arsenal next followed by City.”
Klopp’s caution is understandable, though in each of the past three seasons he has seen the eventual champions emerge early and build up an unassailable lead. “That is true but those champions never had City at their back or a Tottenham side growing stronger every year,” he said. “When I came to England Harry Kane was 21 or 22, Dele Alli was just a kid from the lower leagues. It was a completely different situation to the one at present.”
Even though City have lost three of their past four league matches and Tottenham have still to come to Anfield Klopp refuses to acknowledge that the title is Liverpool’s to lose – a footballing cliche he greets with a slight grimace – insisting instead that the best way for his side to keep up their unbeaten record is to keep concentrating on the next match.
“We are not the hunters who have turned into the hunted. We are just a football team trying to play the best season of our lives,” he said. “Although actually that was the plan last season as well. We have brought in some fantastic players and created an atmosphere here where we believe in our own ability. We can handle difficult situations. We learn and go again.
“We know if we only play an 80% game against Arsenal we will lose, so we must try to be ready for a tough match. We must also keep up our concentration, because Unai Emery will not be coming here looking at the points totals. He will be doing his best to win a game of football.
“I know some of his players very well indeed, particularly Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang. He is an outstanding player and a proper goalscorer who can do a lot of damage. He has a pretty rare combination of speed and finishing skill, and on top of that he’s good at heading. It all adds up to a pretty nice package.”
But the prospect of meeting up with a former Borussia Dortmund player does not animate Klopp as much as the anticipated return of Oxlade-Chamberlain. The Liverpool manager was distraught when the midfielder damaged knee ligaments in last season’s Champions League semi-final and, though prepared to be without him for the whole of this season, is now being told the player could be ready in February or March.
“That would be the best, best news,” Klopp said. “He started back and from the first step he took it looked completely normal. Right away it looked like Ox and that was really nice. Then we had to wait for the reaction – and there was no reaction, which is even nicer.
“I don’t want to pre-empt the medical department but we now have hope he will be back this season. It actually looks like he could play tomorrow, though of course we will not be doing that. There is a long way to go but it looks good. It is a boost for the whole dressing room because Ox is such an important part of that and it’s great to have him around with a smile on his face.”
Liverpool conceded 7 all season. Everton conceded six while I was having a shit
I love this bit .... Ox was saying that's what he really misses, training with the full team.
Totally agree. It speaks to the camaraderie which, by all appearances, runs through the squad and the club, and that is going to be very important indeed.
Bottleham Hotspur.
16 wins to go
What's the most points a team has led the league by and not won it? People talk about our "collapse" in 13/14, but we went on an outrageous run to even be in with a shout, and we were never this far ahead, were we? In 08/09, United always had games in hand.
I remember the year City won it on goal difference, they closed a big gap on United. 8 points was it? Were Newcastle 12 points ahead of United before that infamous collapse?
What I'm trying to say is that this is going to be the biggest collapse by a frontrunner ever.
I remember the year City won it on goal difference, they closed a big gap on United. 8 points was it? Were Newcastle 12 points ahead of United before that infamous collapse?
What I'm trying to say is that this is going to be the biggest collapse by a frontrunner ever.
The unfortunate Anecdote to that is that Liverpool always fail in spectacular fashion, it's our curse.
After today's game, I'm going with the following for title favorites:
1. Spurs
2. City
3. Liverpool
We're closing the gap on those fuckers mind you.
1. Spurs
2. City
3. Liverpool
We're closing the gap on those fuckers mind you.
Fuck the FA cup off and play the kids in that...
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