Post Match: Newcastle v Liverpool (EPL 23/8/26 4.30pm)

[Bekloppt]

@Limiescouse

Question, do you understand how photos work?

Isn’t it something to do with light, chemicals and special paper?

[Thomas1195]

Watching the match yesterday, I believe Hall is clearly the better LB, despite being 1 year younger.

[Thomas1195]

Recall that Newcastle successfully pulled off several long passes to bypass our midfield and put our defense into immense pressure several times.

It was once our trademark move, but it ceased to be so after Slot’s first season.

[MickyE]

Are the good old lets forget about the blatant untruth about him running 30 yards and deflect to something else.

[Notasuperfan]

https://x.com/Watch_LFC/status/2091886314454929800

This is just damning of Szobo playing as part of a midfield pivot…

This particular fan was furious at Szobo not taking direct vertical pass forward…

[Bekloppt]

This is the equivalent of that shouty bloke who sat next to you at the match coming round the next day and continuing his rant in your kitchen.

[Sportbilly1966]

That should go in the post of shame category, I could show you clips of players like De Bruyne doing the same.

[Lynch04]

@FGred

I have written quite a few posts moaning about the berating of Gakpo, if we had listened to some of our supporters and got rid of him we would have lost the game yesterday. What really heartened me was his willingness to accomodate his manager in playing out of position and making a difference, compare that to Rio who also played out of position but with far less experience was very uncomfortable.

I think you and I were within our rights to berate him. I have always tried to be balanced and I think that has been reflected across the Fan base in general.
In the end we were all frustrated last season and having two wide players, which included one of the best players in our Clubs history, doing the same thing game in game out was rightly (maybe at times unfairly) highlighted.
Don’t get me wrong, if you offered my Diaz I would trade straight away. However, the suggested replacement is Barcola for a stupidly high fee. I don’t see the value in this, if we were to sell Gapko then I would want a RW allowing Rio to play off the left and also accommodating Wirtz in games where we need more bodies in CM.

Who knows, I have already accepted that we are in for a frustrating Season. Infact, I have purchased a screen protector for my TV to preempt any potential damage from flying objects

[Lynch04]

@Sweeting

Yeah I agree and I said elsewhere that he was our best attacker in the 2nd half of last season - not even close for me.

I think it’s good for him at a young age to play on both flanks. It requires a different skillset and it was obviously uncomfortable for him. He kept having a go though, even when he couldn’t get any change out of Hall he kept attempting to run at him and go on the outside. Nothing wrong with a young player having a different look.

Clearly we are targetting some wide players to jump him and Gakpo in the pecking order. If we end up with something like Barcola, Minteh, Munoz and Ngumoha as our primary wide options I think we’d assume Ngumoha is 4th choice there and that probably suits him well for where he is in his development. Close enough to get a lot of minutes, far away enough to not have all the pressure on him to win games for us.

To note, I haven’t read through all the responses and my post is definitely not aimed at anyone in general.

It was definitely one of his least effective games and maybe we, myself included are already expecting too much from him. Hall is a very good LB and was supported well by Barnes/left sided CM. Even at his young age people are aware of the danger he possesses.
I felt our Right Side was a bit weak. Two fast, short in stature players, both lacking in physicality and short of understanding was in hindsight maybe a bad decision from the Management team.
I was from an early stage of the game calling for a back 3. With Araujo playing RCB, I think this is something we should look at considering we really don’t have a decent RB.

[Flobs]

@MickyE

Dom holds the man up

Your joking, right?
If Dom holds up the magpies player there I’d be better off with a length of string rather than a walking stick.

[Flobs]

Frimpong tucking in doesn’t inspire confidence, does it?

[Flobs]

On the Magpies first goal VVD was a mess. You could see Jaquet didn’t know what to do as Virg didn’t make a play to force an issue. It was awful defending.
I know the major error came from Szoboszlai but that’s going to happen all season an Virg needs to help his partner out when it comes to decision making.