Agreed. It's high risk, high reward stuff and it really pays dividends. Not many teams have the quality to hurt them when they're vulnerable.
Premier League Gameweek 4 fixtures (1st - 2nd September 2018)
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
2-0 up at HT in LvG's first season.
Was just going to post the same thing. Some posters get a bit too carried away.Jamie Redknapp looks like he's just been freshly tugged off by Rachel Riley. The smug prick.
Yeah, I agree but it's just a little over exuberance with some at having a competent keeper, but I understand it. When we had Karius and Mignolet in nets, very often when teams got a cance against us theyd score, loads of times the past few seasons the opposition stats would read something like 3 shots on target & 3 goals. To be fair to Karius he seemed to stop that rot last season, until the champions league final of course
I think they are going to win it this season.
Lucky scouse feckers
Well I never called you that. Nor do I have blinkers on, I believe I’ve given a considered and complimentary take on Liverpool’s performance. I also believe that if we were beating Burnley at half time tomorrow after the exact same performance, people wouldn’t exactly be carried away. I think you’ve gone insanely over the top, mind bogglingly so. I also don’t think I saw ‘something special’ today or last week in the 1-0 win against Brighton. Your opinion and you’re entitled to it, and I’m entitled to disagree, you can call it an attack if you like. But it doesn’t make you right
Not really fortunate since Leicester weren’t good either and taking your chances is a quality like any other.
Should’ve had a penalty on VVD as well right before the second goal imo. Hopefully we get out of the dressing room concentrated and quickly bag another one to put the game to bed. Would be great to keep another clean sheet.
Mr Maguire is hardly having a blinder...
Missed the first 20mins but from what I saw after that looked like they are in cruise mode playing in 3rd gear, which seems a little different to me as normally I often find pool quite chaotic in what they do, it’s like 5th gear all the time. They just look more assured and confident in their ability to turn it on and off when needed here, which is probably scarier than seeing them just go full throttle at teams all the time.
How so? They could have scored 3 or 4 in the first 20 minutes. Leicester had one half chance in the entire first half. If anything, 2-0 flatters Leicester
tbh i'd be smug as well
When did we last sign a player that was as good a signing as Salah, Mane etc? Their big buys generally pay off. The last United one that did was probably RvP.
Veron is the only huge standout big investment failure I can think of from before 2013.
In the last few years we've had loads. Starting with Di Maria
Keita looks to be, to be fair
If we can keep a clean sheet today that would be grand.
Surely everyone can resign themselves to Liverpool winning the title at some point. It was bound to happenafter many years. Its not like we wont be back aswell. Just stop feeling pitiful and start facing it head on ffs its like half our fans would rather commit arson than Liverpool win the league.
I want to see Liverpool going through a crisis. Will be interesting to see how they cope if and when they hit a blip this season. They're a couple of injuries away from having to play the likes of Moreno and Lallana.
They have barely rotated this season - their first XI is solid.
They have barely rotated this season - their first XI is solid.
Indispensable.
They need to win it soon though, with players like Firmino, Salah, Mane all impressing its not long to the big Spanish clubs start sniffing. But yeah I agree they look a real force this year, lots of pressure on Klopp and the team to keep this up.
As they say 'football goes in cycles'. Maybe it is our turn to wait.
Its the media wankfest and gloating that will follow for the next 5-6 months that would be unbearable. Would rather City win the Quadruple tbh.
That being said, we are only 4 games in and to say Liverpool will win the title based on getting 12/12 points or our bad performances are a marker for the entire season is ridiculous.
Yep, we'd rely on it a hell of a lot under Fergie, and it's killing us now.
Comeback from leicester secong half. You read it here first.
The amount of flapping in here after 3.5 games is laughable.
You haven't been watching their previous games I imagine? There's a quality about them which troublingly reminiscent of United under the Sir Alex. There is an intensity in their football you can't get unless you're enjoying yourself and have a sense of self-confidence. They don't need to play well for 90 mins, they only need 40 or 30 minute spells to win. We did that, in the past. We also played expansive open football which means the other teams always had a chance to have a go at us based on the quality of their football.
There is no moaning here, just an observation. You see it this way because you're stressed, like all United fans on this message board. We're just at different stages in the hierarchy. You're either angry or defying while I'm in the acceptance stage.
Yep. And the only thing reigning in scouse smugness when they look alright is that they've never won it.
People can only go off what they are seeing, as much as it depresses me Liverpool are impressive. As @Judas says they aren't playing great football as yet but with such good finishers they are 2 nil up.
We’ve not been great in midfield. Wijnaldum really struggles when he’s playing with Milner as he’s plugging all the holes he leaves and neither Henderson and Milner are that comfortable when pressed. Means we’ve struggled to keep the ball.
Still think our first choice midfield will eventually be Fabinho Keita Wijnaldum/Lallana.
Still think our first choice midfield will eventually be Fabinho Keita Wijnaldum/Lallana.
After today Liverpool face Spurs, PSG, Chelsea x2, Napoli and City.
They do have Southampton after PSG but bar that game they could feasibly lose every single one of those games.
Edit - @InLevyITrust The same could be said of Spurs, who haven't played well but have also started unbeaten. Yet nobody here is crawling up the back of Spurs as they are with Liverpool, who haven't actually been tested as yet, unlike others.
They do have Southampton after PSG but bar that game they could feasibly lose every single one of those games.
Edit - @InLevyITrust The same could be said of Spurs, who haven't played well but have also started unbeaten. Yet nobody here is crawling up the back of Spurs as they are with Liverpool, who haven't actually been tested as yet, unlike others.
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.Thanks for the woefully amateur diagnosis. Personally I just don’t generally believe in extremes of opinion. I don’t believe we are shit. I don’t believe Liverpool are like the united of old. I don’t believe Man City put the premier league on the map as a sky sports commentator said today, I don’t belive Gabriel Jesus is the best young player since messi as Danny Murphy said on match of the day last year.
I just don’t get the hysterics in opinion. Liverpool play Chelsea twice, PSG, Tottenham and Man City in the next 5 weeks. I’d personally wait to pass judgement such as comparison with the greats of premier league football until sterner challenges are met. Is that anger? Or are Watford just a little like the arsenal of old these days?
Bear in mind the other competitions haven't started yet.
Liverpool's next fixtures are
Tottenham (a)- 15th September
PSG (h) 18th
Southampton (h) 22nd
Chelsea (h)- League Cup 25th
Chelsea (a)- 29th
Napoli (a) 3rd October
Man City (a) 7th October
Honestly winning games when you're under attack for the majority, but you win with a few clinical attacks are bloody lovely, it's an odd sense of glee that comes with it.
Now that is a tough set of fixtures.
Corner! Come on now!
Think they'll lose to Spurs but will win the rest.