Post match: Luton v Liverpool (EPL 5/11/23 4.30pm)

Nasty result to wake up to.

I’m going back to bed :weary:

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In my opinion, I think that’s exactly what it is. They start the game over confident, no intensity, walking pace and sloppy passing.

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What? After the tragedy chanting? Stupid cunts.

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I said in the pre match, this wouldn’t be easy, but no - too many of you were giddy on how many we were going to rack up. The reality is that Luton have not been battered by anyone. They haven’t lost by more than a single goal at home, and they have missed out on points by small margins. This was always going to be tough.

Seems like quite a few of the players were guilty of the same complacency as a few of you here. I’d single out Van Dijk, Grav and Gomez as coming out with any credit. The rest were not willing to fight to play football, and I don’t care how many fucking world class players we can field, if they won’t fight at places like this, it will always be a struggle.

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Oh and by the way, why the fuck are we tapping the ball about our back line in the ninth minute of eight minutes injury time? What the actual fuck is that about?

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I saw Trent use the calming hands gesture late in injury time, so potentially they were happy to see out a draw and not risk another goal against??

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I didn’t hear those chants at the time.

I’d agree with you if we were back in the era of 79 points gives you the title but since era of hydrocarbon scum spending their way to 90 plus point hauls then this has no longer applied. If Chelsea and Cheaty and now Sandcastle had never have happened then these kinds of games would be part of what kept the PL interesting.

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It will be interesting to see how many points wins it this year. My suspicion is a few less than in recent seasons, as all the top teams are dropping a few here and there. Mind you, it won’t be anything as low as back in the day. My over/under guess at this stage is 90 points to win the title and we can’t afford to be dropping too many like this, but fortunately, no one is running away with it yet.

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Another season where our away form lets us down, formidable at home but just can’t travel well at all.

Chelsea was largely crap.
Wolves and Newcastle 1st halves were painfully crap.
Brighton was crap bar a little 10 minute spell.
Today was a heap of crap.
Then the 1 game where we played well and deserved more than what we got, we lost due to the crappiest of crap own goal you’ll ever see.

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TAA’s set-pieces this season has gone to shit. I cannot remember a good set-piece that resulted in an assist or goal from him this season so far…

Disappointing performance and result. It’s a tight narrow little pitch, no run off past the touchline, fans right on top of the players. Luton used it really well - 5 at the back, 4 deep midfielders and a single forward.

So full credit to Luton they played well on the night.

We were sloppy when we needed precision. Elliott added a bit more of that quality in and around the area - maybe bringing him in earlier would have been a good idea.

Anyway, poor result but at least we avoided the loss and glad Diaz got his moment.

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In three weeks we play Cheaty away, nice and early after an international break with our SA’s well rested after a short trip :see_no_evil:

Well there is plenty of time afterward to get hammered because I’m sure we will.

Disappointing!

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Konate has been all over the place in several games this season. I thought Klopp would have given Matip a run of games in the league after the derby, Konate could have played in the cups. We look more vulnerable with the Frenchman at the moment😏

Probably the “worst” game from our new midfield. Individually week performances from Macca and Szlobo, Gravenberch played a decent game.

I hope Klopp rests Szlobo and Gravenberch in EL so they are ready to go next Sunday. We need them at their best if we are going to beat Brentford. Can’t afford to lose points again next weekend

Although there were a few occasions where he was really on the front foot during the first half. The fact that Klopp had put Gomez, seemingly, in a LB slot indicates that he was trying something different. Either it didn’t work or he didn’t clearly communicate what the players were meant to do with it.

Even aside from the general discombobulation, if we had taken even half of the sitters that were created we would be discussing a routine victory.

It happens. I’m sure Klopp will be going over this with the players today.

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might be me but i thought Luton were abysmal. Yes they worked hard but they were worst team we will play this season by a mile…bar everton maybe haha

dont get Klopps obession with playing Mac at 6 when he bought Endo.
Its not helping Mac or the team,
Szbo was poor but hes beeb great so far so 1 game isnt anything to moan about but when the others in Midfield werent playing well in 1st half it hurt us.
We cant keep going to newly promoted teams and not performing. Its a simple as that

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There was nothing wrong with Mac Allister in the 6 role, it was his lack of quality in possession that was the problem.

It’s not just you, Luton were and are abysmal. They only scored because of our naivety, leaving ourselves vulnerable to a counter attack.

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