Other than that though, not much to worry about.
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yep.
to stop this kind of rubbish they should be forced to go off the park for treatment.
maybe even an independant doctor at every fixture
so it goes club doctor, then indepedant doctor, then you can become avaliable to get back on the park at the refs discretion
see how quickly this malarky stops then
its an entertainment business and looking at a grown man lying on the park in feined agony is embarrassing for everyone involved.
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Yeah sure, so you’re basically saying that Alisson did a great job (positioning), which lowered their xG.
I take all of these stats with a huge grain of salt, they’re not worth much without context. But I’d still like to know what people are actually talking about when these numbers are thrown around all the time.
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xG is one of those that I have always had my doubts about, because it only seems to make sense over a season for a particular player.
Hence you would see that Harry Kane would exceed his xG for the season and Joe Gomez wouldn’t. That just tells you that Harry Kane is an exceptional striker and Joe Gomez isn’t.
Within a single game, it just looks like statistical noise.
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Beats me why we would buy players without knowing how they are going to fit into the team or how the team is going to adapt to their style of play.
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Arne Sloth.
This is my question as well
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This argument falls flat on it’s face when you factor in we’ve been generally shite for 9 months.
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I remember winning the league a few months ago and that was pretty good.
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Yeah we really played well between March and May didn’t we? We were a fucking shambles for the most part but put enough points on the table in the first half of the season to give us a big enough cushion.
Outplayed by dross like Wolves and West Ham at Anfield. Over-run by Newcastle at Wembley, out-classed by PSG. The Fulham debacle. A scabby win at Leicester. The only game we looked decent in was against Spurs who were the equivalent of a down-and -out at that point.
The end of last season was as unprofessional as anything I can remember at this club in over 50 years and left a bad taste for a lot of us. A couldn’t be arsed attitude we haven’t shaken off.
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This is the definition of a self supporting hindsight argument.
We won loads of games in the second half of the season and won the league in April by ten points. But any points we dropped on the way to winning the league are evidence that we were shite, and any of the teams we beat can be disregarded as shit teams we padded the points tally with.
I’m used to hearing Mancs shit talking our league win, but isn’t great coming from Liverpool fans.
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Complete revisionist nonsense. Yes, we may have taken our foot off the gas a touch but last 12 league games we won seven and drew two. We won against City and Newcastle, beat Everton in the derby and smashed spurs. We drew with Arsenal who finished second.
Yes, we played badly at Fulham. We lost to Chelsea the week after we won the title and to a late winner at Brighton. Did they take their eye off the ball a little? Maybe. Is it fair and understandable to see why they might have done so? Absolutely.
Does it have anything to do with not being arsed or come close to the levels of unprofessionalism we saw in the 90s? Not even close.
There’s a fair argument to be made about our performances and form but that kind of hyperbole is just utter rubbish and detracts from whatever point is trying to be made.
Also, it would have been Jota’s birthday today. Don’t doubt for a second that all those players knew that last night and most would have at least had a part of their mind on that.
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Yes, but those seven games we won were all against shit teams and therefore don’t count. Keep up.
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Buckle your seatbelt, mate.
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It’s not revisioist if it was being said at the time, which it was.
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Surprised how? Has he not watched any of our games this season? Bournemouth in the very first game had the freedom of the park ffs. A player can run the length of the pitch with the ball unchallenged whilst we have Endo, Gomez and Robbo all ahead of the ball, before sitting our CBs down on their arse and scoring. We’re a fucking laughing stock.
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Maybe it was drowned out by all those title celebrations but I certainly don’t remember many complaints about lack of effort or unprofessionalism.
What talk there was focussed on the tension of being so close and the tiredness from playing the same 14 players all season.
As I said, complete revisionism now to fit a narrative.
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