No goals conceded in the first half of any of our last 12 games. 
Yet , with one poster at least , he always seem to make it into his prospective XI. Go figure.
3 points is really all that matters . defensively they exposed us many times and we were lucky this a fact. offensively there was a huge element of selfishness which is understandable since 5 are fighting for 3 places but they are taking a bit too far and this is having and impact .
Diaz wow this guy looks un droppable in the form he is , not only what he offers going forward but his work rate to run back and help defensively.
I just hope this highline will not come back to bite us and cost us a game or 2 which we cant afford with Manchester city wining by hook or crook
It will at some point. Thatās guaranteed. At some point that run is going to be timed right.
On that day, the entirety of the football banterati will declare they were right all along completely ignoring that the line has been perfect for ages and itās won us far more points that it will ever cost us.
4 goals conceded in 12 games.
Reminds me about the whole brouhaha over Rafaās zonal defendingā¦
Micah Richards already did with the goal we conceded against Palace away
Klopp has evolved his tactics each season. Sometimes itās a tweak here and there, and at times, itās almost a revolution.
Over the last 6 months, we have turned the dial to the extreme with the high line and TAA coming infield. Weāre playing high risk high reward, and if you look at offside traps, weāre in a league of our own. No other team comes close. Klopp and his team, including the analytics guys, have studied the VAR/offside rules, and are living on the edge to exploit them to benefit the team.
Klopp, like all good leaders, delegates things around. So we have set piece coaches/phycologists, etc, to get that extra 1% advantage And, what do you know, weāre the deadliest team at corners/set pieces. Contrast this with the 1990s team where we would dominate games, then let in two headers from corners.
Of course, this means that when it goes wrong in a one off match, it can get ugly. Thatās what the media guys will pounce upon.
Whatās most pleasing for me, is that each game we can rotate two or three players, and have no drop in performance. Thatās key to challenging on all fronts.
Many neutrals watch us for the attacking display. Many haters watch us and love the times when we get sliced open from a simple direct ball. But then, when the ball ends up in the back of the net, they cry liVARpool when itās inevitably offside and the goal is chalked off.
Moyes crying that Jota should have been sent off seems to have forgotten Cresswell should have gone in reverse fixture a lot earlier in game.
Moyes trying to dream up a reason why they lost.
He is booked on the 90th minute, they did nothing in the resulting 7 minutes after and I doubt Jota going off would have changed that.
Effectively the chances they had they should have finished but our tracking back was brilliant especially in that second half.
Itās why I generally think we were better in the second than first but others havenāt seen it that way, so fair enough.
Our highline wasnāt as caught out either, I think I remember once in that second half, it was shakey first, not sure if anyone here attended but did the wind play a factor that first half.
What the fuck did Jota do wrong? I donāt really recall him doing much of anything.
He got a yellow in the 89th minute for a foul. Deserved, but Moyes think it should have been red and would have made a difference to the result.
It was clumsy. He tried to clip a heel and ended up riding the ankle after he did. Nothing in it. Fucking assaults on our players go unpunished with nary a murmur but think one thing like this from us gets harped on. Does my head in
Yeah, it was a naughty one from Jota. Quietly nasty you might say, looked fairly innocent in real time.
Edit: more clumsy than nasty, but I can see why West Ham would react to it.
To me it I saw it no worse than the one on the back of Mane in the first.
Which ironically makes it consistent isnāt that what we want as opposed to Kane getting a yellow and Robbo getting a red for challenges equally as bad.
Yeah it was just one of those you see every game to hold up a team on the break. You take the yellow instead of a goal. Theyād already done it to us at least twice in that game.
I was surprised that the Anfield crowd booed him rather than meowed him.
Impact injury to Bowen, but not significant.
If Moyes thinks that Red, heās got a fucking nerve after what Cresswell got away with doing to Hendo at the Olympic stadium.
Well quite but Iāll go on what happened in this match as I said no worse or better than what happened on Mane.