I don't think you did exploit us that much though, you didn't need to. 30% possession and fewer shots but you did more with the ball than we did. The main point of your game plan was to make sure we weren't able to settle in midfield and to limit space for our forward players to exploit, whilst ensuring that you made counter attacks and pushes forward count. Your possession was similar to Palace's last week.
Yes and no. We did them but Milner, Henderson and that scraggy kid have no business starting, they looked so lightweight. VVD looks off and Al-Arnold is a fraud of a defender.If Klopp's being absolutely honest with himself, he'll admit ETH did him tonight.
Many were surprised when Elanga started - myself included, but it was clearly done to exploit Liverpool's high backline, and it worked like a dream. That in combination with the high-intensity, high-press strategy that we managed to sustain for 80-odd minutes won the game for us. He'd be lying to the fans and himself if suggests anything to the contrary. And he absolutely will
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He was still the most likely to do anything. Salah and Firmino barely threatened for first 70 minutes and it all looked very pedestrian for Liverpool bar the odd move that came off.
So I was right about conceding first and no way would you have disagreed with the 5 the other way after your Brentford defeat.
Yep. But thats what makes it even funnier.
At least he knows that that's ridiculous.
Must be a German thing.
I'm worried he's losing it and might walk.
makes it sound like they were peppering our goal with shots that we just managed to clear with heroics... the biggest threat to our goal were our own players
You're not wrong. We've allowed the squad to get older without enough refreshing being done whilst that's happened. The midfield is a massive issue.
It was actually an Ole-esque performance from us to be honest.
They would have won if the pitch wasn't so averagely watered/dried.
I hope they did!I hope nobody booked those tickets
Don't worry, Gerrard might be available soon.I'm worried he's losing it and might walk.
They're really missing Jota badly, sort of player who is direct and can pop up with big goals while they transition their attack.
I've thought for a while that Firmino is done as far as this Liverpool team goes. He offers very little and we've moved away from the false 9 approach.
Agree. This is not on him, and I'm sure Liverpool will bounce soon, but he needs to be backed more. Liverpool need to add 2 or 3 quality players to refresh the team. Right now injuries set the team back big time.
I respect you Mr.Klopp but that is silly!
And twice they've gotten over 90 points which normally would be enough to walk the league. But they happen to be up against the best ever Premier League side who has heavily outspent them. I'm buzzing with today's win but there's no reason to use it to belittle Klopp's achievements at Liverpool, he's been outstanding and obviously has credit in the bank, as did Fergie (and no, I'm not saying he's on the same level as Fergie).
It reminded me a bit of the season you scraped top four (I think it was) where it seemed like all you did was have Alexander-Arnold and Robertson cross it but not much else. Most teams can handle that most of the time.
I think that was the season we won the league.
This is lame. Surely he said something juicier?
Well the challenge is to get over 90 as well? Maybe not be 14 points behind at Christmas like last season then blame it all on City being so good when they lose the title?
