So the crowd was netvous 1st, tosh, the team performance defensively made the crowd nervous, everyone could see the gaps and were relatively easy to play through.
Really weird and interesting they had an higher XG than us, so they did create.
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Yes but they created 2 big chances and scored 2, we created 2 big chances and scored 5.
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I know wasn’t it wonderful, as Arne said, we have played better, created better chances and lost, for once it went our way, however, it still was nervous watching as we never had control, we were the better team though.
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I prefer a manager who tells the paying fans how to feel, like Klopp used to do.
Before the match, I made fun of my Man United-supporting mate and their counter-attacking and set-piece football getting them back into Champions League next season. Then we scored three set-pieces against West Ham at home, while playing counter-attacking football in between. I should learn to keep my mouth shut…
Obviously, I’m really pleased about scoring five goals in a game (especially when we need every point to get back into CL next season) but the periods between goals were worrying. West Ham are a resurgent side and it wasn’t a good time to play them but they really shouldn’t have been dominating possession or creating chances for large parts of the match at our ground.
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There was a sequence in the second half where we gave away the ball three times after the Hammers misplaced passes. I could hear multiple old voices in my section uttering “Keystone cops”.
We were very lucky to come out of that situation without conceding another goal.
And like I said in another post on the match thread, the Ibou passing out of defence problem, the Grav turn then shit pass problem are causing us not to be able to build smoothly from defence. We don’t have Trent any more and that’s the big problem that has caused.
Mo did great on the corners but other than that 
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Can’t we do a thing where we just bring him on for corners?
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Also we lost the ball multiple times (different players) while shielding it and waiting for certain teammates to get into position to receive the pass when there were obvious other free teammates in more advanced position who could have been passed to. The Anfield crowd got SUPER frustrated during those sequences.
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This irks me also. There is oftentimes a lack of situational fluidity and a rigid adherence to rigidity that is frustrating. However, the keyboard bashers have probably hammered out the ins and outs of the maths and suggest that this is the safest and long term way to maintain winning.
In a way, our position, as we approach the business end of things, speaks for itself - we are comfortably in the mix for a CL spot. So, on course and validation of the model.
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Please dont keep you mouth shut,
infact…
can you do this before every game till the end of the season?
thanks! 
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It’s par for the course this season ; Wolves , Burnley , Sunderland , Forest , Eindhoven …
If what’s been reported about Wirtz is true and it is a cramps type of issue then hopefully work on the treatment table and more rest will resolve.
Would be fantastic if he’s available for the Galatasary match, no point risking in either of the wolves games also. Probably say the same for Salah too, rotate the squad depth about a bit and then unleash an all out must win in Turkey.
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It does feel like we are playing with the handbrake on.
Truth of the matter is they had 4 shots on target. They scored all 4 they still wouldn’t win.
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I always make a similar point about England in '66. Even if Hurst’s second goal hadn’t been allowed, the final score would have still been 3-2.
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Arne Slot’s long-term position at Liverpool remains under review, and the turbulence of this season has delayed any discussions over a new contract.
Richard Hughes is leading a comprehensive analysis of the overall situation, weighing up team development, progression and performance data alongside the results.
[Dean Jones]
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There is something parallel to this that I struggle to get to grips with at my work. Key Performance Indicators - KPIs. In a way KPIs should be straight forward and a really useful tool to identify inefficiencies, track trends and maintain consistencies but you can also get lost in the minutiae and data and lose track of the final product.
It would be interesting to see what they would class as a KPI - beyond of course just winning and then how they have weighted them and over which timeframe. Some of the review would have nothing to do with Slot - merchandise, youth development, commercial aspects and so on. Nor possibly things like payer fitness, wages and even maybe players’ development. It could turn out that Slot is squeezed in or out on a completely unrelated (to the first team performance and output) KPI(s), if the club want a slightly different profile.
I saw this stat from Match Of The Day which seems quite telling. It’s the number of set-piece goals since we sacked Aaron Briggs:
I’m not sure if Briggs is entirely to blame for the poor run last year, and I am not sure it entirely exonerates Slot. It’s possible that he doesn’t get along with some people which is a problem going forward.
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I read an article in the Athletic this week on the change in fortunes in the set pieces. Apparently there have been some relatively minor tweaks made but the club’s view was that the poor returns on set pieces in the first half of the season, and the improvements during the second was more down to normal statistical variance, i.e we ran cold now are running hot as it were.
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Thats called luck 
Wish we could have some of that in regards to injuries.
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