Oh look, it’s the WUM.
It’s Tierney.
Very calm, I’m not the one insulting fellow reds.
Sloppy from the first minute. Yet still should have come away with an undeserved win with the set piece chances we had (first half Carvalho needed to take it with his left, and VVD to go for goal rather than look to assist).
Joe joe joe joe. Sloppy when he had two others around him for a simple pass rather than dally on the ball. Then tries to grab Awoniyi – yet after the first grab, he got himself into a position to have a foot race against him (with VVD for cover as well), but tries to have an inexplicable second grab. Goal then stemmed from that free kick. Later on, ball gets punted down the left channel, and Joe would be favouraite for it if he just ran, but he looks over his right shoulder to see where the payer is, which then gives momentum advantage to said player. Nice long throw a the end though.
Fabinho – poor most of the season, but today he offered nothing in defence and nothing further up. First half Curtis was the deep playmaker, and Fab positioned further up doing not much. Then in second, he kept making a mess of simple (for his usual standards) interceptions. It would not be hyperbole to say if he’d been sent off in the first minute, we would not have missed him in this game. If he is saving for Brazil, he needs dropping (but yeah, for who I hear you all shout).
Strange from Klopp – at Anfield, with short grass, Thiago playing, and watered pitch, we look to be more direct. Away, with longer grass not as watered, we try to play a passing game more suited to the Anfield pitch. The amount of short sloppy passes was ridiculous.
Elliot was lively (in the first half, the Forest lads kept leaving something in the challenges on Harvey and Calvalho), but I wanted to see more interplay between him and Salah (who only went out wide a couple of times). Our best play was when we worked smart passes to play the wide man in.
Ali made smart saves as usual, and Henderson with an excellent save late on off VVD. You make your own luck at times, and Forest seemed to get all the ricochets in their favour.
The Ox at least made a rare appearance to show he is still around. Naturally way short of match fitness.
Oh, he knew exactly what he was doing there.
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How Fabinho gets a 4 is baffling.
I thought so.
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Nothing to say, pointless moaning about it. Whole team was pathetic.
Our squad is miles better than it was back then and so is our manager. If we can somehow crawl to the World Cup still in contention for the European places then I’d back Jurgen to use that bit of a break to get them right for the remainder of the season.
Why resort to ad hominem insults? I’m entitled to be angry with that performance.
There’s struggling to stay competitive and there’s the absolute cack we just witnessed. We’ve looked pedestrian in most games from the off this season. This was just the nadir.
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Bad day. We did have chances to score, and better finishing might have even got us the three points, but in fairness, we didn’t really deserve that. We didn’t do enough.
Yes, we can all point to injuries, and the lack of match winners available.
But the simple fact is that if we approached that one with even half the intensity of the Man City game, we would have got the points.
I don’t want to go overboard and criticize all of them, but I will pick out two.
Joe Gomez. Brilliant against Man City. Crap today. Not good enough on the ball, and a big error to lead to their goal.
Mo Salah. Not having a good season. I don’t know how much we are paying him, but he hasn’t been value for it since he signed the new deal. When you are up against it, you need one of your big players to dig you out of a hole. With Diaz, Nunez and Jota all out, we needed Mo Salah to grab this one and stamp his class on the game, but he was peripheral.
On the Forest side they played better than they’ve shown so far this season. More compact, more committed. And so they plugged away and good for them for getting the win. It’s a shame that the work permit situation froze Awoniyi out here, as he might have been a decent squad man in an era after Origi.
On our side, bad day at the office.
After a couple of wins we all had the calculators out thinking about how we close the top four gap and start to look upwards, but this was a reality check.
We have been sub par this season, and we have not been good enough to win games while coasting.
They need a kick in the bollocks, the lot of them.
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Today i thought he gave us more the rub of green with free kicks.
The performance wasn’t that bad considering who was missing, who was playing and how brutal the schedule has been. However, If we could finish chances in a competent manner, everyone would be talking about a professional win and whatnot. Their goal was a gift too.
We brought it on ourselves and that’s what drives you up the wall. Alisson top class again along with Elliott from the outfield players. Pretty much everyone else way below par. Special mention to Van Dijk too for squandering the best chances and missing the ball for their goal. Although that was a collective fuckup starting from Gomez falling asleep with the ball again. There really isn’t a good way to lose games but this one is by far the shittiest.
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really? He was really poor and his looked really poor all season.
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Probably about right.
No shit nothing gets past you.
Think that was ok as a result. In the end the team that was out there was found wanting as a team and man for man.
My issue is with the team that was out there and the biggest gripe being that we were passive - we did not try win 50-50s and we strolled through thinking it would happen for us - which it obviously didn’t.
There are any number of things to whine about but as a team that Liverpool FC have put out, we were way, way (way) off.
Not good enough.
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Again, not sure why people are getting antsy/rude in this thread.
I thought he was poor yet some folk are genuinely defending the team, so I assumed you thought he’d been better than that.
Generous to everybody bar Milner and Ali.
Fabinho could have got L’Equiped with a 0 and it wouldn’t have been unfair.
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The lack of any kind of real threat in wide areas is so pervasive that I would not have minded seeing Ben Doak thrown in for the last five minutes.
We cannot keep with our minimalist approach to recruitment