Maybe I watched the game but they 'dominated the game'? They did nothing really but hold the ball and their best chances - bar the wonder goal - came from mistakes (TAA pass). They didn't really threaten the team - and our defense, like every team that played this in the knockout stages bar PSG @ Madrid, looked comfortable. Ronaldo? Invisible. Benzema? Invisible. Isco? Bar the cross bar on TAA's mistake, invisible.
This is a tough loss because it feels like 2007 - we lost to a team we really should have beaten. This Madrid team, although identical to last year's team, is a few levels below them and needed a late penalty and plenty of goalkeeper errors to win. Stuff of proven winners I guess - and I'm sure some cunt will drive it home.
Other thoughts:
- Robbo - some fantastic stuff, some mistakes too. Really happy we have a LB for another 6-7 years.
- Lovren - some great stuff too. Are people happy with him as VvD's partner next year? Or do we need better?
- VvD - class. Wish he would have scored on that corner.
- TAA - Felt he wasn't at his best today in any category.
- Hendo - he wasn't bad, but we needed more from him today and he couldn't provide it.
- Milner - see above.
- Gini - see above.
- Salah - that was cruel, fucking cruel.
- bobby - really struggled once salah went off because we couldn't really press effectively.
- Mane - stud.
- Karius - wow. As a human being, I'm gutted for him as he just threw away his career here (how can the defense ever trust him?), if not his career at a top side for the next few years until he regains his confidence. As a Liverpool fan, I hope he is fucked off. I thought he was a capable #1 but if your #1 fucks up twice in our biggest game, he's finished. Fuck him off.
- Lallana - just wasn't ready for this game. He couldn't press well, he barely touched the ball.
- Klopp - I hope Dmish isn't right about him.
- Madrid are the biggest fucking cheating cunts. They went down non-stop - and that Ramos is a whooping thundercunt. He's got the last laugh again but he's a fucking cunt.
- It sucks to think Bob's record is now shared.
- Thought ref was a cunt. A yellow for Mane and nothing for Madrid despite similar fouls. Don't think he got any of the major calls wrong - but Madrid got a way with a lot of cheap fouls.
- Putting aside the result, I'm really proud of this team. We played with the 'best team in Europe' and mistakes gave it to them, not the supposed gulf in superiority or class. We are not that far off. We couldn't make up for losing Salah when we didn't have an Ox-like player in the middle. We need to buy well again - and we can do something.
- Lastly, this is the first final I watched with my boy, who's now 9.5. It was such an experience, bar the result. He's gutted, and being the only Liverpool fan in his school won't be easy tomorrow as most kids love Madrid or Barcelona, but take one on the chin son and we'll be back again ... We'll come out of this storm.
This is a tough loss because it feels like 2007 - we lost to a team we really should have beaten. This Madrid team, although identical to last year's team, is a few levels below them and needed a late penalty and plenty of goalkeeper errors to win. Stuff of proven winners I guess - and I'm sure some cunt will drive it home.
Other thoughts:
- Robbo - some fantastic stuff, some mistakes too. Really happy we have a LB for another 6-7 years.
- Lovren - some great stuff too. Are people happy with him as VvD's partner next year? Or do we need better?
- VvD - class. Wish he would have scored on that corner.
- TAA - Felt he wasn't at his best today in any category.
- Hendo - he wasn't bad, but we needed more from him today and he couldn't provide it.
- Milner - see above.
- Gini - see above.
- Salah - that was cruel, fucking cruel.
- bobby - really struggled once salah went off because we couldn't really press effectively.
- Mane - stud.
- Karius - wow. As a human being, I'm gutted for him as he just threw away his career here (how can the defense ever trust him?), if not his career at a top side for the next few years until he regains his confidence. As a Liverpool fan, I hope he is fucked off. I thought he was a capable #1 but if your #1 fucks up twice in our biggest game, he's finished. Fuck him off.
- Lallana - just wasn't ready for this game. He couldn't press well, he barely touched the ball.
- Klopp - I hope Dmish isn't right about him.
- Madrid are the biggest fucking cheating cunts. They went down non-stop - and that Ramos is a whooping thundercunt. He's got the last laugh again but he's a fucking cunt.
- It sucks to think Bob's record is now shared.
- Thought ref was a cunt. A yellow for Mane and nothing for Madrid despite similar fouls. Don't think he got any of the major calls wrong - but Madrid got a way with a lot of cheap fouls.
- Putting aside the result, I'm really proud of this team. We played with the 'best team in Europe' and mistakes gave it to them, not the supposed gulf in superiority or class. We are not that far off. We couldn't make up for losing Salah when we didn't have an Ox-like player in the middle. We need to buy well again - and we can do something.
- Lastly, this is the first final I watched with my boy, who's now 9.5. It was such an experience, bar the result. He's gutted, and being the only Liverpool fan in his school won't be easy tomorrow as most kids love Madrid or Barcelona, but take one on the chin son and we'll be back again ... We'll come out of this storm.