Liverpool v Brighton & Hove Albion - Match Thread
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Back to the drawing board for Klopp and Linders then.
Yeah thats fair, and you can see how hes done that a number of times already. But I think his real value this season will be in the CL where teams dont drop as deep and he will have more time to pick his passes. It would help if he had Fabinho and Henderson beside him but thats probably not going to happen til Sept.
You're doing a terrible job at not caring mate.
You really can choose to change your expectations and level of emotional involvement if you want to. Forget about this silly passion of ours when we lose, enjoy the good moments more. Trust me, your life will be better off for it.
It's tough when your expectations are high ... and I still am so crazy about this team, that losing fucks up my evenings .. Got to bed pissed ... not healthy.
I don't know how you can control it so well ... I wish I could but don't know how (yet?)
I couldn't pinpoint the moment, but crazy salaries, over-commercialisation, VAR, Martin Tyler, years and years of boom bust cycles... they all slowly chipped away at my interest in the game. Going to Anfield and winning a title remained something I really desired through all of that.
Both things happened, and both brought me intense joy. It just feels ridiculous at this point to let myself get disappointed by anything this set of players, staff, and owners do.
I also never thought it's possible to win the league every single year. Every second year would be absolutely incredible right? How silly would it be if we went on to do that and yet still felt that half our lives were a disappointment?
You talk too much sense.
You're right re: disappointment (although it's clear I'm feeling it too much despite what they've given us the last two years).
You're right re: insanely high expectations
Worth trying ... good points as always.
Tough but will try ... (likely fail but if no try ... )
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Handshake !? He needs a damn good kick in the teeth for that virtual horror show that not even Hal's perpetual state of misery could offset.
It's crazy really. Just 8/9 points from that and we'd be neck and neck with them.
City have won 13 in a row. Hard to fight that consistency. Kinda came out of nowhere
Maybe Mbappe wants a bit of a challenge anyway
They've been the bookies' favourites all season, presumably because it's particularly hard to repeat a title win. The fact that they've gone and found a decent CB partnership just when we had ours wrecked by injury hasn't hurt their prospects either.
And they can smash the caffeine doping after they held off last year and while we’ve killed half the team this year.
It’s a wonder there’s any caffeine left in Manchester what with Ole’s mob snorting it like Al Pacino at the end of Scareface
Forget Mbappe. It's Neal Maupay we are after. We've just been hearing it wrong.
The condensed season with little break meant this was always going to be a league where the best squad won, rather than in previous years where the best First XI has been the main factor. We've had tons of injuries but our replacements are not the quality that other teams are getting. City and United are rotating a lot - City have about 15 defenders and they get quality from their replacement full backs and from their replacement CBs. United are getting output from their replacement attackers (with the help of Bruno being a game changer to their fortunes) like Greenwood, Cavani etc.
Over the course of the season, with more players back we should be fine but quite simply the quality drop off when we bring in Origi, Milner, Tsimikas, Neco, Shaq is just too much.
Over the course of the season, with more players back we should be fine but quite simply the quality drop off when we bring in Origi, Milner, Tsimikas, Neco, Shaq is just too much.
Maybe our ped dealer is being done
Jesus, I wish he would stay on his feet.
We do have to remember Ox and Shaq have come back from long lay offs. They need the game time. With a fully fit squad, both fit and firing are great back up to what we have, as proven in the past. Origi is just pure lazy and we knew that.
I think we have more to worry about than those two. But they will be exposed in that sort of game.
Shaq is an asset if we use him correctly - we saw that in his assist for Jota pre Christmas. He is a creative player who excels in tight spaces. Yesterday we put him in the front three to be the recipient of passes, not the creator of them. What a waste - he should be a bit deeper with another runner ahead of him... Or we should line up differently to the strengths of our team.
We are starting to look like a one trick pony, and the trick is shit when we don't have our first XI. Will Klopp try to adapt?
That’s the big problem with those two, the ratio of injured/ getting back to form/ playing well is heavily skewed towards the first two states. Not great to have your depth unready when needed.
Similar story with Keita and Matip except that they could be regular starters if injuries allowed it.
Too many can’t be relied on imo
Some of the players are mentally and physically knackerd as the Boss has indicated. And the injuries have just escalated the problem. The signing of Jota helped but
maybe the Boss should've brought another front man in to spread the load up top in the window. It's crisis point, if we continue to falter against teams we normally put to the sword, we won't even get top 4.
The City game won't really tell us if we're back on track because we can get up for the big games but it's the run of the mill, the bread and butter games that we are falling down on. The spark is missing in those games.
maybe the Boss should've brought another front man in to spread the load up top in the window. It's crisis point, if we continue to falter against teams we normally put to the sword, we won't even get top 4.
The City game won't really tell us if we're back on track because we can get up for the big games but it's the run of the mill, the bread and butter games that we are falling down on. The spark is missing in those games.
Could try something off the wall..a bit...after the Everton game on 20th...rest nearly the whole first team for the Sheff U game..21st Feb to 2st March...8/9 days rest...then back at it for 6th March home to Fulham. It's a risk, but carrying on with a half knackered squad without any serious down time could see us finish with sod all.
Send them off to Butlins for the week..
Send them off to Butlins for the week..
Ok..Ok..you don't like the Butlins idea...fair enough..what he does is this..get the squad together...."right if you lot don't get yer finger out and start feckin' playin'...next season..it's the dreaded Thursday League..day and half to get there..against some biscuit factory team..back of beyond...pitch full of holes and stones..hotel from hell..powdered egg and sausages a fortnight old...bog gets blocked up, showers don't work...feckin' day and a half to get back...It's your choice...."
Alisson.
Virgil.
Gomez.
Matip.
Trent.
Robbo.
Fabinho.
Hendo.
Thiago.
Mane.
Jota.
Milner.
Keita.
Shaq.
Ox.
The list of our players who have missed multiple games this season due to injury. Why are your expectations for this year still so high, mate?
Because ... WE ARE LIVERPOOL TRA LA LA LA ... and we're going to win the league.
I love you and your optimism, mate... But you're killing yourself here. The sooner that you accept that this year is fucked - has been since the everton match - and that anything we do in it is a bonus, the better for you, and all those around you.
Next year - if everybody is fit again - we'll win everything.
Sixteen games to go. Plenty to play for.
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