Ancellotti can FO with his counter attacking football
Looked offside to me
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He did check his shoulder earlier, just didnât react to Vini, which is probably worse than not checking at all.
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Iâm not giving out Iâm just saying what the other poster is on about
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We only lost 4 matches (one was second leg knockout win). Won the League Cup. Won the FA cup while knocking out $hitty at Wembley.
Went on an absurd run to get back on the title race, amassing over 90 points, despite shenanigans such as the Harry ânever been sent off for 10 yearsâ Kane and Jota stopping so itâs not a penalty.
Got through the hardest CL group at a canter. Yesterdayâs final, we came up against a keeper making a couple of world class saves, and a Jose Mourinho classic of a non-football sucker punch, that on another day, weâd have won.
As Klopp said, weâre all disappointed, but weâll be ready again
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Just have time to post, really feel bad for the lads, they tried, but itâs hard to fault them when the other teamâs goalie puts on a red cape and go Superman. Tbh I felt worst on last Sunday when we loss the Prem to City by a point. Especially, when Villa gave us that hope. I think had one or two bounces went our way today, and we manage to go ahead first, we wouldâve won it. However, it wasnât to be tonight. I feel our boys played way too many games this season, and most of them were just mentally and physically fatigue. 2 out of 4 trophies is pretty good, I know itâs probably not as special as winning the Prem or Champs League, but itâs still an incredible season from our boys. Letâs all come out and celebrate with the lads tomorrow and give them a proper recognition they deserve.
The boss is here for another 4yrs, so thereâll be more finals to come, nobody likes to lose, but it is through losing finals that hardens you for future challenge.
I think we have a very capable group here, and like what the Gaffer said, itâs more optimistic this time around then 2018. With some new blood I think weâll be challenging on all front next season again. The boys really deserve a nice relaxing summer to recharge and come back strong for next yr.
By the way, what a complete shit show it was at the beginning for our fans. Unbelievable how our fans were treated, it couldâve been a very ugly situation if people started pushing and the pepper spray didnât help at all 
. Happy nobody got hurt.
Cheer in the boys tomorrow
YNWA
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Mo wanted revenge but failed to score with 5 attempts on target. 
In a football game, Midfield is where the battle is won and lost. Today, our midfield won in possession but failed very horribly in incisiveness.
We had literally no one who can bulldoze through their midfield and launch hard and accurate long shots. In our starting midfield, we have a great passer, a great defensive midfielder and a captain whose greatest attribute is hounding down the opposition.
On matches against teams that attacks us proactively, it works like a damn treat but it is utterly useless(and even possibly counter-productive) against low blocks.
Thiago has no chance against deep defences if the opposing defence is so deep that our forwards has no space to run into. The DM who is fabinho will not be able to join in the attack for the fear of a counter.
As for our captain, when he goes wide, he tends to cross but our forwards are short that negates the effects of his crosses if it hits anyone at all. When asked to break thruâ the middle and launch a long shot, he cannot do it due to the lack of technique and physical strength.
Letâs put it this way. If Henderson has 75%-85% of Adama Traoreâs upper body strength, this man would be a fucking beast. No one can stop him when he goes on that run in the middle and Casemiro will have a much harder time against him.
Now, letâs look at Naby Keita. Keita is slightly better than Hendo on this but has literally no upper body strength and a very poor long shot technique.
He is more of an agility player rather than a physical player offensively. The thing about agile players is that they can skip one or possibly two challenges and play the pass or go forward.
Playing the pass for our team is not possible for 90% of the time when the opposing defensive line is so deep that our attackers will run out of space before they can do anything.
That leaves us with going forward in the midfield. Keita can break thruâ the lines but when he gets pulled slightly from the back like how all shithouse teams do, his balance will fold due to a lack of upper body strength. When he does gets forward successfully without being shit-housed or being crowded out, he can only hit the target within the six yard box which is probably the case for any professional footballer.
How about outside the six yard box? In all his games with us, I can only remember one goal from outside the six yard box and thatâs it. I cannot remember if he even has 10 long shots on target for one season at all. That is the reason why some teams shithouse us by being a low-block team because they know by screening Thiago and Fabinho throughly, our midfield is next to useless.
The only players that has perfected the craft of using agility to skip past those challenges and getting forward effectively to a great effect are Xavi, Iniesta, David Silva, Bernardo Silva and Lionel Messi. Honourable mentions goes out to Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Thiago Alcantara.
If we manage to find a midfielder that has strength and the ability to launch a thunder cunt from outside the box, teams will think twice about low-blocking us. I think we found that player but that cunt is going to the winner of the match tonight.
The morning after the night beforeâŚâŚ
Felt the whole team played ok but just lacked that bit of magic and extra 10% that you need to win a final.
No one was really poor but no one was really great.
Thought Konate had a good game (bar that 1st half fuck up with Ali)and I didnât really notice anyone else and I think that sums up our performance.
The goal is a scuffed shot that finds its way to the back post and people want to blame someone but I donât think you can. Itâs just one of those,
I thought our set pieces were really poor and the subs came on and couldnât get going. Nabby was his frustrating self.
I think this performance was just one too many after a long season. The quad quest has taken a lot out of us and in the last few games have been leggy.
Everyone (outside of Lfc ) moans that Jurgen never takes the league and fa cup seriously but you can see why as later on in the season it catches up. Weâve won those now and it was great as it completes the set but Iâd sacrifice those every year for the PL and CL from now on.
It was nice to win 2 but itâs cost us the 2 we really want every year.
Itâs only going to get harder next season with City spending money like confetti.
I think itâs time to have a squad revamp. We need a midfield shake up and maybe itâs time to break up the forward line who have been fantastic.
My mate said well you didnât win the quad (and although I never felt we would) I just said no, be we had a fucking good time trying to.
Enjoy the summer lads and recharge the batteries cos come the 6th of AugâŚâŚwe go againâŚâŚ
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Itâs reached the point now where the only way you expect him to score is with a tap-in. Letâs hope we see the old Mo back next season after a good rest.
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I donât get the Salah criticism. He forced two world class saves and was the most threatening player throughout. Itâs not as if he didnât show up. This was his best game in a good while.
Courtois just happen to have one of the best goalkeeping performances in the history of finals.
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Interview with RobboâŚlast nightâŚhis relation was in the âfake ticketâ crowdâŚbut the ticket came thruâ himâŚand it was an originalâŚso whose telling porkies then!!!
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Merseyside Police officers said, the fans behaviour was exemplary at the turnstiles, in shocking circumstances. The worst European match, they have worked or experienced and that the fans were not late.
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Iâm utterly gutted, thatâs not a good Real team at all, never seen a team walk so much⌠but when you see what happened before and after to our fans our performance pales into insignificanceâŚ
We regroup and go againâŚ
What a ride red menâŚ
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As everything is timed to perfection for our boysâŚeating ,sleeping, training, diet, warm up, warm downâŚand the fact that everything was disrupted before the gameâŚand the thought of family members caught up in the disgusting set up outside the stadiumâŚdoes anyone else think this may have disrupted our routines for our gameâŚ
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Thank you DerryRed for your kind words, means alot to me. 
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He has a point.
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Real Madrid took their chances, we didnât. I reckon if Mo or Sadio scored earlier, it would have changed the dynamics of the game. We would have won, i believe.
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Donât think we would have scored if the game was played for another 2 hours. Defensively they didnât give anything away, we had to work very hard for our chances. Maybe in hindsight we should have played them at there own game, dropped back and stopped trying to force the issue. Would have fancied our chances at pens. But thatâs not our way. What a season, one point and one goal away from immortality, thatâs pretty good.
Time to look at hotels in Istanbul thenâŚ
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How can you say that ? Only the brilliance of Courtois stopped us from winning by 2 or 3 goals. We were good enough against almost any other keeper in the world.
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