Post Match: Liverpool v Wolves (EPL 16/2/25 2 pm)

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Jarell Quansah very important for Liverpool today.

  • 27/27 passes completed
  • 2 clearances
  • 2 interceptions
  • 32 touches
  • 100% accurate long balls

Great work in 45 minutes. :raised_hands:

Slot on Quansah:
“I see in training sessions he is back to being the same Jarell we saw in pre-season”.

Arne Slot: “Fatigue comes from running a lot and a bit of mental fatigue a lot. We were mentally tested today. We thought we’d scored a third and then a penalty for the third but both were correct from the referee. Maybe it did lead to us being a bit tired. I did see for the first time this season that players were more tired than they have been.” (Sky Sports)

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Endo and Bradley also

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Agreed. The question is if we can play to our best.

Apparently, we didn’t have time to get a replacement, nor did we want to disrupt the team.

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This is where you are misguided would be piss easy for Arsenal but they are all prime Barcelona for us.

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I’d say it was that we didn’t want to overpay in January for someone at short notice if we let Darwin go.

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Whats the fascination with playing to our best winning is what matters. Arsenal didn’t play to there best yesterday.

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Im not sure eho you would have replaced him with Durran not once he saw the Saudi money, Watkins is he the long term answer.

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That was a struggle.

Just about done enough. Way more difficult than it should have been.

Not always convincing and a dreadful second-half display from us.

But 7 points clear at the top of the Premier League!!

YNWA

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How do I vote for Jose Sa as man of the match for those two goals he gave us? :joy:

Anyway sloppy performance, I think the ease of the first half lulled us a bit.

Introducing Endo and Nunez to the game when we needed a bit of composure and control was the equivalent of defending your store from shoplifters by letting two raging bulls run loose but we got there in the end.

Onwards and upwards!

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To be fair to @RedWhippet it’s really hard to watch what doesn’t exist.

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It wasn’t a struggle.

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60 points from first 25 games 2nd only to Jose with 64 points absolutely terrible sack him now.

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Just realised what I wrote. In fairness, that’s what it felt like. It’s much easier to see out a game when you are two up.

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In all seriousness its possible that there is a bit of mental fatgue creeping in just with the players thinking about the league table. I know they pretend they don’t look at it but they do and they know they’re in a great position.

A tennis player will often find match point to be the hardest point of all, the knowledge that you’re so close can be a big obstacle itself. With everything going against us at Goodison and then having a goal and a penalty chaulked off here (correctly, awful dive by Jota hate to see it just fucking score) then there was probably a little thing in the back of their heads bordering on panic that it was slipping. But despite that we held it together and got through the game.

It’s not easy to win a league and I don’t think its going to get easier anytime soon.

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Scrappy was it was, it gets the job done. Eleven more wins does it, no style points involved.

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Less comfortable than it could have been. We survive and go forward. YNWA

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Ahh, finally :heart:

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Not sure if this holds over a longer period, but in the prem era no one has ever had a lead this big reined in with this few games left.

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