Leverkusen at home and that gave me all of 10 seconds to think about
Milan away we were crap for about 15 mins but bossed that. That was 20 seconds.
Fact of the matter is all games will have that period so try and find 10 games in our title winning season we were complete in?
I keep mentioning February but it was vital to get through that ahead, we did so and extended our lead and if I’m honest probably deserved at least 2 more points.
Doesn’t matter we’ve lost 2 in 4. They looked for it something that wasn’t clear even in their cup game.
Yet we are 11 points clear at the top. This notion whats the definition of a complete performance.
Me clutching once again you get shown to making up bollox again but then have to change the narrative.
How do you arrive to that conclusion? Performances and results are 2 entirely separate discussion points.
The results in the league have been fantastic, I’m not going to lie to myself and say that’s been the same for the 100mins of football I sit through and watch every week, I’m not the odd one out here.
Whats convincing then defention then. Lets not mention the usual first half shite you spout because last time i checked game was 90 minutes.
Tad aggressive response!
There’s a week’s rest now between each fixture. I’ll be worried if we continue churning out sluggish performances and we don’t get 2 wins from 2 against West Ham and Leicester. The games after that are pretty tough.
It’s hard to say what’s the cause of our current rut. Is it fatigue? Is it Klopp legacy football that got us through first half of the season? Have teams figured us out? Contract situations for several players? Question marks over fair chunk of the squad? Is it a mix of several of these things?
The next two games can be a great indicator. Continue to play as we have been doing, and there’ll be more questions asked. Bag maximum points and play well, and we can point to fatigue.
In a single game, for sure. Over 30 odd games of a league season where we are at historical levels of superiority over the chasers, and a CL stage that saw us finish top of the table? No, that is just not reasonable to think we can sustain such over-achievement for such an extended period of time. When reality doesnt match your perception of what is going on the reasonable thing to do is put some time into self reflection on what a good performance actually looks like and what a realistic set of expectations for that are. Otherwise we’re left with comments like “when we thrashed Real Madrid was the only game we were perfect for the full 90 minutes and that isnt good enough.”
But even beyond that, had you have told me even during the periods when things were looking promising with Houllier or Rafa that at some not too distant point we would reclaim “our perch” to pull level on title with Utd I dont think I’d have believed you. We are about to do that and all some people can do is fucking mope around worrying about how big a rebuild we need for next year. Is the point of football just being fucking miserable? We’re not Everton fans FFS
For all the shit Owen got for his comments, his point was a reasonable one. We’ve just gone through a period of having to ramp ourselves up for a big challenge in the middle of a busy part of the season and we did not get the results we wanted. It does not diminish the importance of still being on course for a league winning season to acknowledge there is a natural disappointment the players have experienced. The players have had to pick themselves up from that, and the fact it was Everton up next probably did a lot of a job for us automatically. But in retrospect that likely deepened how far into our emotional resources we had to to dip to get through this period in the season, and in retrospect the game that followed was always likely to be a trap game where it caught up to us.
That’s exactly how some posters seem to see it.
We’ve celebrated one title in 35 years. Fans should be absolutely buzzing for another one. Everyone recognises there’s work to do in summer, but the entitlement in some of these posts is beyond belief. You’d think we’d won the league 5 years in a row and should now be expecting doubles or quadruples 
Why would you have believed that? They didn’t surpass us until Rafa left.
Because they looked like an upstoppable force who were sure to pass us and build up a big lead, and for our isolated periods of competitiveness always looked one disappointment from it all falling apart (as happened several times)
Damn it I can’t even make light of that post without you coming in all serious with your logic…
Yes, i think because he didnt work through his point properly so it was taken more as a criticism rather than recognition of just how high our level of performance had been that led to those high expectations forming in the first place.
Yeah, I didnt even take it as a “you’re not winning a treble now” sort of comment. You are in the CL to win it and we just went out in emotionally draining circumstances. The League Cup final coming right after that compounded that. You’ve now got to pick yourself up from the disappointment and get back to winning. How did you do that?
The biggest insult about it is a boring cliche presented as smart insight
Just popping in to say Arne Slot has been brilliant. First season here, and almost certainly we will win the league. Where did it all go wrong? 
Just brilliant from that fella, keep it up Arne.
Most of us can see that ideally the pool of players he regularly uses will grow a bit, so there can be a little more rotation. I think that will be addressed this summer. He won’t suddenly change his approach wholesale, as he does like to work with a tight group, but there’s room for a couple more that he will trust, and I think that’s what we will see.
Changes are coming, the defence and the attack will be overhauled, and we all have a combination of excitement and apprehension.
I can’t wait to see what Slot does. Top man.
There’s a modern fan mindset, probably due to social media, that you can’t be happy about anything or celebrate anything because someone will laugh at you eventually.
Like the Fulham game yesterday. There will be people absolutely furious at us losing that game, not because they genuinely think it lets Arsenal back in, but because they cannot stand that when they log into twitter today there will be a bunch of non-Liverpool fans laughing about it.
“Get this man out of my club” post with 1m likes said about a loyal player who mishit one pass
Tiredness and fatigue will most certainly be brought into focus for us next season… The way the games come at the players at a rate of knots, along with flying across continents for meaningless International friendlies, will be something AS will never have experienced before in the league he has managed a team in…
This might have a big bearing in how the recruitment is driven in the next couple of windows… Close knit squad for PL and CL… rotation coming into play for the domestic cup games