Our players should have come out like hyenas last night but it was like they felt sorry for Leicester. Lack of killer instinct.
Klopp hates It when teams have to play on 26th and 28th? Mentally set up your team to destroy Leicester by 5 or more goals and maybe the PL would have second thoughts for the coming years.
How early was the penalty? 15 minutes in? That wasnt even our first good opportunity to score.
Exactly we did start well, if we had scored that pen it was a proper smashing, yet we missed, shit the bed and lost. It’s a worrying trend and I have no idea how it’s fixed as that was mainly our strongest team.
I’m not sure I’m seeing what the trend is. I’d think most would agree that almost all of our dropped points were in games where we can feel like we threw the points away. I think maybe only Chelsea and, oddly, Brighton, were games where we weren’t good enough on the day and got only what we deserved. But most of those cases have been far more about not being solid enough defensively as they were about scoring goals or creating chances. I mean we’re on course for a 100 goal season and this is the first time all season in all competitions we’ve failed to score.
After our game the other day the US commentary made an allusion to this being like the Brentford game. How? A game in which we scored 3 and should have scored 9, but were equally open at the back? The only comparison is we dropped unexpected points
Brentford was poor defending from players coming back off long layoffs, this was a bit more like Brighton in the second half.
Anyhow it’s not over but it’s a tough ask, we just need to prevent this becoming what happened last year so that means a result on Sunday.
That’s actually kind of what I meant. I don’t think the effort levels were wanting from us, otherwise he’d have been quite irate about that. It’s more that nothing we were doing was right.
And like everyone else here…let’s get back to winning ways…run riot over the opponents…I suppose I’m used the winning score lines and the battering of the other team…fuming, peed off, moody Mary, confused, and want to put em in a bag n shake em up…that’s how I feel at the moment…pull your finger out,kick up the arse time…whatever it might be…but be ready for the plastics…and go for the jugular…pls…
No signs of mentality monsters anymore as far as I see.
When Mo missed that pen (can’t remember when was the last time he took it so poorly) the lads switched into some kind of shell-shocked/not this shit again mode. Every pass in the box was overthinked and I saw no confidence in those shots. No “subconscious automation” of what to do. Even when lads won one on one battles they were lacking any further ideas - “ummm… ammm… shall I shoot, no I’ll pass… no wait I’ll cross it, fuck it I’ll dribble some more… naaaah, sod it I’ll pass it back.”
And about that City : Leicester game couple of days ago. With this mental state right now I’m almost sure our boys would threw that lead away and draw it or even crumble all together and lost it. City fought back and killed them off as soon as it was possible.
Let’s hope it’s just a shitty patch (maybe even due to covid uncertainties) and we’ll be back stronger and melt this point deficit.
I don’t feel as though we threw away points against West Ham. Got what we deserved there. Other than that the only clear pattern there’s been this season has been throwing away leads. That didn’t apply last night. I thought we played OK up until the point we started making the subs, then it all started to fall apart. We made our first sub just after Mane missed his sitter and that was the last clear cut chance we created in the game. We were a mess after that. Players getting in each other’s way and a lot of confusion. JK’s been rightly critical of the players and there were many below par individual performances but he didn’t do so great himself with his in game changes.
Mane 808 minutes without a goal you could see why with the chance he snatched at.
Shame was minutes later he shot low for the goalie to make an easy save, shame they weren’t swapped.
Anyhow we go again, I’m just going try and enjoy the ride now like last season. Hopefully we avoid that collapse and go far in the cups.
We’ve just lost our 2nd game out of 37 competitive games played. We resemble United in no way whatsoever. What I, and probably most of us don’t understand, is how slow, lethargic and clueless we looked last night given the standards set over the last 3 years.
Still annoyed about the game having slept on it.
We were well below our usual level and still had plenty of chances to win it.
The league hasn’t gone, but the reality of playing Man City, under Pep, over the course of a season, with all their unchecked financial advantage, is this:
Margin. They have plenty to spare. We can compete, but our group will need to be closer to perfection to sustain a challenge. It’s not a fair fight. Them not getting done has helped to ruin the contest. No one is talking about it any more either. Which suits them, as on the back of selling a player who didn’t quite perform for them for treble the purchase price, to a club with no means (hmmm) they will probably scoop up Haaland in the summer and the British press will fawn over it all.
I’m pissed off on any number of levels, but one of them is a certain sadness for Klopp. In a fair fight he should be sweeping all before him in the Prem. The fact that he has us this competitive is impressive indeed.
Still, the Leicester game was poor from us.
Complacency it keeps creeping into our game and we stop doing what we do well.
This is the strangest I’ve seen us, 9 times out of 10 we are just unstoppable… the 1? It’s like watching another team, and it’s not a “bad day at the office”, it’s like watching someone like Everton we are that bad man for man.
What last night felt like to me was a throwback to the early years of Klopp when he hadn’t yet knocked out of this side the tendency to let adversity get on top of them and allow opposition to dictate the terms of a football match.
I’m sure it will be sorted.
We’re so used to us winning and winning by a long shot, that it makes u feel sick, annoyed, peed off when they lose…
Bar Jota and Kostas (who was the only player to look like he had some fight) it’s the same players who won the league no? Feels like your statement has been needed for the team too many times already this season.
Why so much discussion, Salah and Jota didn’t show up Schmichel did show up and we had a stinker.
So Brodgers is the master tactician again now. 
If we’d taken the chances we did create, his ‘Allardyce’ tactics wouldn’t have counted for anything. Mane, Jota and Salah were so wasteful.
