Good to be back at Anfield with a win. Think we played well, albeit against a poor Brentford.
VvD MotM, very much back to his best. Mo and Nunez great in attack. Tsimikas much better than last time out
Midfield did well but honestly weren’t under much pressure, so difficult to judge. Whoever plays against City, will have to up his game at least a couple of notches
Still annoyed we left two points against Luton, which would have put us top of the table
Another difficult on paper home game won at a canter. Great to see Tsimikas and Endo respond so well to a lot of criticism.
Everyone put a decent shift in. Special mention to Tierney who got the crowd fired up which led to the first goal.
Just seen the highlights, decision to disallow Darwin’s 1st goal looked bullshit.
Much better performance today, pleasing to see Tsimi and Endo put in decent shifts after their last outings, hopefully it continues.
Virg turned in a good effort,MOTM for me.
The challenge is, of course Citeh in a couple of weeks,but given today,I feel more confident looking to that,
I thought most of them played well. The stats on Endo above aren’t necessarily great, but on the eyeball test he helped give the side some balance, as Szobo and Gakpo are pretty attacking.
Virg was very good and my lad said during the game he looked back to his best, even if athletically, with some added age and since the bad injury, he isn’t at his very peak any more. But three more years like that will be just the ticket.
Mo is a very reliable scorer of goals, 200, excellent! Darwin played well and was a real spearhead to the team, which helped the others do their thing.
I could keep going but I’ve nothing to add that others haven’t said!
We have a title challenge in us. What remains to be seen is whether we can keep pace when Man City start to go through the gears and put a winning run together. Ideally we beat them after the international break and keep going.
The ref wasn’t bad, a couple of strange decisions like the Matip yellow, but the big call with Endo he got right. A biased ref would surely have taken the opportunity to at least give a yellow there.
I thought it looked off in real-time. The feeze frame looked a toe over but it was on a bit of an angle on the live coverage, so difficult to tell by sight alone.
I saw the Endo challenge on MOTD last night.
From the descriptions on SKY etc I thought it was going to be vicious and a potential leg breaker… it was innocuous. MacAllister and Jones reds kept Tierney in check. A red there would have been questioned or overruled. He couldn’t be seen to be corrected.