I'd settle for winning games regardless of what other sides do tbh.
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We actually need to win regardless of how our rivals our doing. But my point is that when we're already behind on points and chasing teams it might be helpful psychologically to catch up sooner rather than later.
Had we won yesterday and against Palace we would have been shared league leaders. I think..m
Well, it doesn't actually matter when you get the points, you just need to have more at the end of the season than everyone else.
But I suppose there is an extra psychological factor at play that can have an effect, "the gap narrowing" and all that.
Yeah, and the more they lose, the less we need to win. If they win more, we need to win more. Pretty simple.
For psychological reasons?
Often wondered if I'd prefer to start a season brilliantly and be miles ahead by Xmas/ Jan or play catch up and inexorably whittle a lead down.
I say "prefer", I meant which is more likely to result in winning the title.
Obviously everyone remembers Newcastle's capitulation, but is that an anomaly? If you build up a BIG lead (like Chelsea last season) you usually win it anyway?
It might be blessing we lost; 1) we won't take any team for granted 2) we won't get preemptive posts that we will smash a team 12 -0 3) fans will realise klopp is human and as such can and will make mistakes 4) klopp has learned a more from this lost and will be better prepared next 6) scm followers will stop posting jinxy shitty posts like we're gonna smash them 12-0
Hahahaha! I love the fact that a poster saying we'd win 12-0 is genuinely receiving abuse and blame for the result.
Yeah it's weird. I've noticed a lot of people trying to throw this loss in other people's faces as if it's something they deserve for getting ahead of themselves.
Did any respectable poster (not in jest) predict such an exaggerated scoreline? I remember saying we'd score three as it was away from home but not for a minute did I think a win was a formality. Predicting scores on a fan forum doesn't impact the game, it's only the internetz.
Did any respectable poster (not in jest) predict such an exaggerated scoreline? I remember saying we'd score three as it was away from home but not for a minute did I think a win was a formality. Predicting scores on a fan forum doesn't impact the game, it's only the internetz.
The issue with that is that if we don't score we hardly ever win.
every game in which we don't score we never win
The same poster said we'd smash Crystal Palace 10-0, 2 years back, when he gets this excited LFC only disappoint. Football superstition is legit modes operandi when it comes to Football.
Redninja put a post that we'd smash LVG's Man utd I think it was last season after we went on a 6 game winning spree. As soon as he posted it, we knew we were doomed. Redninja is still gets reminded of that post.
Dreamy hijack.
A few year back. there used to be the one where creating a thread on United losing would cause them to score twice, but that curse was destroyed by Moyes, so nobody needs to worry about that any more.
Or tactics. But as you say I doubt Klopp is one to stick to something (whether it be tactics, formation or a player) out of hubris or a need to prove oneself right.
And I was reading another report saying the identical thing about Firmino ... blaming Benteke. Both were shite and should have had enough common sense to realise that something more (effort, movement, accurate passing) was required.
Yeah, but it's easy to blame Benteke because of his price-tag, what he looks like and where he was signed from. Firmino is so obviously much easier for people to imagine being brilliant because he's from Brazil, can play as a "false 9", came from the Bundesliga, and his equally insane transfer fee is - unlike Benteke's - a sign of almost guaranteed quality.
But so far Benteke has been the more effective player, and Firmino has played well .....once. And only scored once too. But it was Benteke's fault that the quicksilver brain and clever movement of Firmino was wasted, notthing to do with Firmino playing shite. Again.
That was a load of old shite that.
Teams above and around us dropping points unexpectedly and we fail to capitalise against a Newcastle side in disarray. Piss poor.
Thought Clyne, Milner, Lucas, Firmino and Benteke were rotten. particular Firmino and Benteke who just went though the motions and didn't spark anything of note in the the final third. I like Benteke but he was a proper lazy cunt yesterday.
Like many have said, the team selection was baffling considering you'd have thought Sturridge would be good for 55-60 minutes and Lallana's best peformances generally come away from home. Could argue whatever the team we fielded should have been good enough to get the 3 points. Either way, what a massive disappointment and opportunity missed.
Teams above and around us dropping points unexpectedly and we fail to capitalise against a Newcastle side in disarray. Piss poor.
Thought Clyne, Milner, Lucas, Firmino and Benteke were rotten. particular Firmino and Benteke who just went though the motions and didn't spark anything of note in the the final third. I like Benteke but he was a proper lazy cunt yesterday.
Like many have said, the team selection was baffling considering you'd have thought Sturridge would be good for 55-60 minutes and Lallana's best peformances generally come away from home. Could argue whatever the team we fielded should have been good enough to get the 3 points. Either way, what a massive disappointment and opportunity missed.
wow you don't suffer fools do you?
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