Obviously disappointed with the result but I’m more concerned with the wider impact of what’s been going on over the last few weeks, and yesterday was the cherry on top. Confidence is shot, massive pressure on the lads and everyone is probably feeling well down.
Somehow we need to drag ourselves out of this, only question is how?
Well a wake up call isn’t going to o it, I think we have had that. so a good kick up the jacksy?
Dont think that works either as part of it is mental. They’re probably a bit broken.
Problem is the games are so thick and fast there’s barely enough time to recover physically but also mentally difficult to shake off one disappointment before you’re back into another game situation.
I suspect it might be something utterly ridiculous like a couple of flukey wins in a row that might do it.
I think the OPs original comment was aimed at Twitter freaks who will now turn round and say sell him he’s shit - waste of money etc…
Everyone has a bad game every now and then. Its just highlighted more when a keeper.
Next day perspective. We were well beat by a truly fantastic football team that have failed to beat us for a few years. Klopp is working with a complete out of shape team, ever since Everton, he’s had to cobble the side together against all his plans. Look at the players he’s put in place only to lose them to injury.
Try not to over think it, we lost a few games, in the circumstances, understandable. Things will get better again.
PS, just to add, this is sport. Some days are shit, if there were no shit days, it would just be going through the motions.
We have already had those, though I’m not sure about the flukey part.
I always feel that scoring is the answer, just keep scoring and the rest will follow. If you end up with a run where you don’t score believe wittles away. That for me is what started this ‘shit show’ we couldn’t even get shots on target let alone score (which probably came about from not beating opposition keepers often enough for our liking).
Don’t want to see any sport programmes today, don’t want to listen to any knowalls, don’t want to listen to any LFC doom and gloomers …coz of course they know it all…I’ll just scroll thru’ TAN and read what I want to…still hurts though…
Hear hear!!!
You are old
Get behind the lads. They won’t get to play as Champions in front of a full Anfield.
That’s what I keep saying.
and that’s the saddest part…
That is shit aint it.
Let’s hope that next season they’ll be able to play in front of a full Anfield in the champions league at least.
Please do not give that cheating club ANY praise on this or any other LFC forum. I for one will NEVER give them any kudos for anything that they achieve trophy-wise. They are simply a bunch of financial cheaters who cannot win fair and square. I do not for the life of me understand why they are not called out more by so-called professional media pundits for what they are. The very thought of their existence makes me physically sick. They and their ilk are unhealthy for the game of football. So in short, lay off the praise please because it’s totally undeserved.
I’d echo what Mascot and Quicksand said here but also add:
While Thiago’s early foul on Gundogan was indeed a foul what ensured it was a yellow was the rolling around and theatrics by him. Make no mistake that a key tactic of city is to ‘win the fouls’ so that they get opposition players carded early and ensure they kill as many attacks as possible without getting carded. They consistently kicked the ball away after fouling to ensure no quickly taken free kicks for instance, something that they wouldn’t have persisted with if we had theatrically made a deal about this. This is typical of man city under Pep, their noisy neighbours and several other teams and something we don’t do. What it does is put pressure on the refs early and, alongside regular complaining about every little 50-50 makes the refs much more likely to give them stuff. When our players are pulled etc we just get on with it but I feel that if Jurgen put as much time into cheating training and simulation that some other clubs did then some of the clear bias against us would at least be - partially - reduced. Of course that would be an anathema to Jurgen and his principles are a core part of what makes him such a brilliant man-manager and motivator but I do sometimes wish we had a few more ‘clever’ players who could give back some of crap.
In terms of the rest of the clear bias, I think that some clear strategising by FSG is required. There is no doubt that dossiers and blackmail on relevant referees is an approach that certain gulf owners would at least entertain and, even if we aren’t prepared to go that far, we should be open to encouraging it to be investigated. Ultimately when your opponents are actual murderers and crooks you can’t expect them to uphold fair play.
I don’t agree, it was 100% a yellow card.
This is why I keep repeating (and getting shit for it) this view that the game is bent against us is warping what I’d say are pretty cut and dry decisions into some sort of bias for other clubs.
He came through the back of him and fouled him, it’s a yellow card. The rolling around so what, the fundemental is it was a yellow. It was a stupid tackle to make, just like Fabinho’s was.
I have no issue with the refereeing yesterday, this desire to absolve our manager and team is admirable but missdirected for me.
Just to be clear Draexnael, I’m just using this as an example. I absolutely don’t think that the ref, on this occasion, was responsible for the result.
Thiago probably felt that the Ref wouldn’t card him in the first five minutes of a showcase televised fixture. And it’s not a mad thought, as they generally don’t.
However, you play for Liverpool now, son. Not Bayern Munich. Different rules apply. Don’t do silly tackle like that expecting to be able to play the percentages with a referee. It doesn’t work like that.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post, but not for your response which clearly shows you either didn’t comprehend what I actually wrote or you deliberately misinterpreted my post to “fit your narrative”.
Many thanks. I was four when I went to my first game.