Premier League Gameweek 23 (13th - 15th Jan 2018)

[Liver_bird]

Joe Gomez being caught out at the back for the 88848848484 time this season.
Top prospect but he's cost us a hell of a lot of goals this season. Clyne isn't the best going forward but defensively he's sound.

 

[ShadesOfTomato]

Really poor from Gomez and Karius for the goal. As usual, our general good play is undone by a moment of absolutely shiteness. Otherwise, was a really good first half. Oxlade-Chamberlain is a really good player.

 

[NoLogo]

Match Thread | Liverpool vs Manchester City (14/01/18)

how fecking paranoid. Claim TV turn the mic down to make atmosphere sound worse. Theyve posted that shit before.... they cannot be serious.. .right?

They also turn the cameras off so it looks like there are empty places, like. Obviously fact is obvious.

 

[padr81]

Liverpool the better team but the game is going better for us then I thought it would after the first few minutes.

60% of the ball for us means if the same again 2nd half, Liverpool should tire late on.
Only 2 shots on target each. Seems a more even game than most on here are suggesting.

Worries are Ederson is looking shaky today (might be better 2nd half with the wind on his back) as is Danilo and Stones so far. We're also 2nd to nearly every breaking ball.

For Liverpool that's a goal you should never be conceding but that's Liverpool all over.

Hopefully we LVG out the 2nd half and look for Pool to shoot themselves in the foot at some stage.

All in all the same as the first game before the sending off (and Liverpool scoring).

 

[walkinhop]

City's goal is so preventable...

 

[rique_don]

I hope people who slate Jose for demanding our attackers must always track back are watching this City side.

This isn't a novel concept nor earth-shattering. Didn't Giggs and Becks track back? Were we parking buses then? Jose doesn't allow his forward players enough freedom or guidance. Give Pep Martial and Rashford and they'd be better THAN Sane and Sterling.

 

[adexkola]

Not all of them but this one was. You can usually tell from a goalies reaction, he knows he should've kept that out.

I think any keeper looks dejected regardless of whether the goal was his fault or not

 

[matherto]

It's gonna be incredibly depressing when we play City and play the Mourinho way.

This should wake up everyone and show them the way to counter Pep's tactics but it won't.

I didn't think it would work but City haven't been great, Silva missing is massive in fairness and they've still scored though.

 

[iam_kramer]

Intriguing game, not many chances in it, Liverpool have had some good build-up but lack that finishing touch. I'd like a Liverpool win as awkward as that is to say, a draw is a good result for City and no good at all for us. League has probably gone anyway, but you know.

 

[Inigo Montoya]

That's brutal on Karius to blame it on him - Sane as in position to shoot at the entire net and he hit that ball with fecking venom, right inside the near post.

It was near post, went through him more than anything. He has to save it!

 

[JustFootballFan]

Sane was pretty close and it was a thunderbolt. Maybe you can argue about Karius positioning, so that the ball basically hits him (rather than actively saving it), but from the camera behind the goal it seems near impossible to get his hands there. Gomez shouldn´t have gone for the ball on the long cross and nothing happens. Then he spun around like a drunk bowling pin right before the goal-scoring shot, too. Gomez had two opportunities to clear the ball with better awareness and positioning.

 

[BeforeKeanetherewasRobson]

With their defence, Liverpool can have excellent attacking players but they're never going to win much.

Why is VD out?

 

[JeffBoomTetris]

So far, de Bruyne & Agüero have been poor af. Agüero getting outmuscled and KdB dilly dallying in the ball allowing the ball to be taken away.

 

[Android1974]

This is how you have to play vs City.

Is it? Napoli tried and got trashed in the end. Let's see if Liverpool do better.

 

[Android1974]

Pity Mané looks so out of form.

 

[bond19821982]

I like how Pep is going for diagonal balls where the space is. You know you cant outpass them in centre so you go for diagonal long balls.

Remember LVG talking about this. Old man was indeed right tactically in big games

 

[NoLogo]

I can't get over the fact that Ederson has a simly tattoo behind one ear. Did he lose a bet or is he just a massive tit?

 

[mu4c_20le]

The shot wasn't really that hard, just seemed so because there was no run up. Keeper should have 100% saved it, instead he opted for an awkward double fist lunge, and was also half a second late to react as well.

 

[adexkola]

Liverpool have been great but Salah and Firmino look somewhat muted. Sane has no joy on Walker's side, maybe he should switch to Danilo?

Ox is their best player today, not sure City have an answer for him.

 

[iam_kramer]

Walker has done a decent job on Mane too, whenever Mane has gotten into good positions he seems to have messed it up somehow.

 

[Cheech Wizard]

With their defence, Liverpool can have excellent attacking players but they're never going to win much.

Why is VD out?

Hamstring, didn't want to be risked.

 

[kouroux]

Sané went past Matip like he wasn't there for the goal.

 

[Kostur]

Liverpool have been great but Salah and Firmino look somewhat muted. Sane has no joy on Walker's side, maybe he should switch to Danilo?

Ox is their best player today, not sure City have an answer for him.

Hmmm...

 

[Tincanalley]

So far, de Bruyne & Agüero have been poor af. Agüero getting outmuscled and KdB dilly dallying in the ball allowing the ball to be taken away.

City at last looking leggy. Great. Fecking great. Better they lose today and get even more tired.

 

[Inigo Montoya]

Sané went past Matip like he wasn't there for the goal.

TBF most wingers could

 

[Classical Mechanic]

Every goal at the near post is not a feck up by the keeper. The power on it was insane.

Not all of them but this one was. You can usually tell from a goalies reaction, he knows he should've kept that out.

Shay Given says it was an error, technically his hands were too low and that hindered him in getting to the ball.

 

[NoLogo]

Sané somewhat remeinds me of a younger CR. The explosive movement, the hard shot.

 

[montpelier]

hit pretty hard tbf to the GK

where was Gomez going though? -

 

[J-Stander]

Mane has been gash. That touch when Firmino played him through earlier was something you’d see from Smalling.

 

[Inigo Montoya]

City at last looking leggy. Great. Fecking great. Better they lose today and get even more tired.

But we don’t want the scousers breathing down our necks. The league’s gone, let’s accept it and concentrate on second

 

[DomesticTadpole]

With their defence, Liverpool can have excellent attacking players but they're never going to win much.

Why is VD out?

Paddy Power have covered him in gold and left him mounted outside Anfield.

 

[PoTMS]

Liverpool the better team but the game is going better for us then I thought it would after the first few minutes.

60% of the ball for us means if the same again 2nd half, Liverpool should tire late on.
Only 2 shots on target each. Seems a more even game than most on here are suggesting.

Worries are Ederson is looking shaky today (might be better 2nd half with the wind on his back) as is Danilo and Stones so far. We're also 2nd to nearly every breaking ball.

For Liverpool that's a goal you should never be conceding but that's Liverpool all over.

Hopefully we LVG out the 2nd half and look for Pool to shoot themselves in the foot at some stage.

All in all the same as the first game before the sending off (and Liverpool scoring).

You can hardly call us biased. Liverpool have been much the better team.

 

[EyeInTheSky]

With two shots on target in the entire half?

Not just shots. What about the chances that were laid off for easy goals that Mane didn't go for and was on his heals. Schoolboy stuff.

They are the better team atm.

 

[Tincanalley]

But we don’t want the scousers breathing down our necks. The league’s gone, let’s accept it and concentrate on second

But ... but .... you are being logical.

 

[kouroux]

TBF most wingers could

Lol
The atmosphere at Anfield is overrated. They do a nice intro for the players with YAWN and the rest of the time it is okish

 

[TeddyBear]

Over the years, my hate for Man City has risen exponentially.

They are so fecking annoying like cockroaches, just couldn't get the feck out of here because they are funded by oil.

 

[adexkola]

You can hardly call us unbiased. Liverpool have been much the better team.

In what sense? Liverpool have looked great going forward, but City have pinned them back more as the game has progressed.

 

[LilyWhiteSpur]

It was nowhere near right in the corner.

It ended up right in the corner of the net, have another look.

 

[Rajma]

Why are folks bothered by City scoring? Surely, no one wants a Liverpool win?

Yeah I don't get it, also Sane scoring is a nice bonus, knowing Pep is reactionary prick it may have reduced a need for Sanchez in his eyes.

 

[Alvaro Maestre]

City at last looking leggy. Great. Fecking great. Better they lose today and get even more tired.

"Special" treatment coming right away from Spain.

 

[JeffBoomTetris]

City at last looking leggy. Great. Fecking great. Better they lose today and get even more tired.

They don't look that leggy really. Liverpool are probably the best team at counter-pressing aside from City themselves. So, the ball's getting snatched from them