2 debutants and Nyoni getting his second start not good enough? Also, I think our midfield averaged 19.3 years old?
The silver lining is that we no longer have to play all those extra games in search of the quadruple.
Who wants to make history anyway? 
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Shit performance, disappointing to go out so early against such opposition (credit to them).
No point for me trying to pretend otherwise, just to say yesterday was a bad day overall and hopefully it gives us extra motivation to put it right in the next big game.
Rotation was expected but always up for discussion (and not only among fans) how much was good for us. That bench was pretty weak.
I was hoping they would gas at a certain point, but we struggled to calm the game down and dominate, create clean sequences with the ball on the floor and chances.
Some players can’t moan too much that they don’t feature more often after some of the performances lately in games when we rotated. Not that we hear those moans anyway, so that’s still all good I think.
We’ll win the original treble another time hopefully, now let’s attack the league and at least that other cup final. In Europe it’s impossible to plan anything before you’re really close.
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I watched Arne’s post-match conference. It looks like things had gone wrong from the outset. Apparently, Curtis Jones had complained that he “felt something” during training and then Gomez went off with something that Slot seemed rather vague about (might be what Ian Doyle was hinting about). That immediately leaves the stem of the team hollowed out.
Having said that, far too many players who should be reliable didn’t perform. Endo and McConnell were acceptable given that they were out of position, and I don’t hold anything against the youngsters, but our forwards are all top tier players and they produced next to nothing: 4 shots on target, and one of those was from our goalkeeper!
I don’t think I would criticise Slot for leaving our starting eleven out of this. In theory the plan was sound but, as Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face."
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I think the players wanted to win but there were too many changes and nothing really on the bench from a creative point of view.
If you go out of a cup - go out early.
Its all about Wednesday. Win that and we have one hand on the trophy.
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Yep. Win Wednesday and all is forgotten.
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I guess that’s kind of the point that @Sportbilly1966 was making in Post Match: Plymouth Argyle v Liverpool (FAC 9/2/25 3pm - #121 by Sportbilly1966 though, that if your midfield isn’t able to support the forward line, they’re not going to be able to do much by themselves either, especially against such a parked bus.
I’m so bemused by the claims that Plymouth Argyle deserved to win this. No one would be saying that if, e.g. United parked the bus against us for an entire game and fluked/cheated a penalty (not saying the latter occurred here just to be clear).
Some of these claims are coming from the same people who would be complaining about commentators saying that in a league game, so why is it different here? Because they’re underdogs?
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Why? They did what they had to do: defend with their lives and frustrate us.
We didn’t.
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If we weren’t unlucky with the disruption to the team and Elliott’s giving away a penalty, would they have won it?
P,ymouth defended very well as a team and individuals, they also werebigger and stronger and won the physical battle.
We tried to play, but it was mostly around them and not through them, we had very few vertical passes through to midfielders or attackers and therefor made it easier for Plymouth.
It’s a pointless question. We were disrupted, but we still didn’t play well enough to break them down. And we did give away a very clear penalty.
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Let’s put it this way.
We didn’t deserve to win. The other team stuck in hard and got rewarded with a deserved penalty, don’t see anyone blaming the referee for that.
All that possession matters fuck all considering Plymouth scored and had 2 other very good chances (one which hit the post , don’t recall if it was offside).
The same Plymouth side saw off Brentford and that too away. And Brentford isn’t a bad PL team.
This is their club run. Let them have their due
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Not so sure after watching some of those challenges on our players.
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I’m like the guy caught in between.
I won’t feel glad for Plymouth. Especially the two CBs acting around like total bellends. But they did win , congratulations and fair due for that.
Now get fucked back into the national leagues , cunts. Your FA cup run isn’t going to help you one bit.
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Think I’m totally with you on that.
Listen, no season can be “perfect”. This quadruple quintuple sextuplet talk is just the usual media space filling bullshit. Just like every Salah goal is inevitably followed by “…available on a free transfer because he hasn’t signed a contact yet”. I think we got out early enough that it will keep the team fresh for the run in.
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It’s disappointing to go out at this stage of the competition, but then again, Slot made a clear choice, which is to keep his focus on the league, and to play a second string for this match. Obviously, there was still enough quality on the pitch to win it, at least in theory.
But I’m fully backing Slot’s decision to keep the big guns as fresh as possible for what will be an extenuating run of PL games in the next weeks: throughout the month of February, we’ll be playing a PL game every three-four days.
Everton will be tough as we know, but after the Wolves game at Anfield, we’ll successively go to Aston Villa, to the Abu Dhabi cheaters, before meeting Newcastle at Anfield.
This month will probably define how much of a chance we have to win the league. So, Slot made his decisions, we are out of the FA cup. It means lesser games down the road, and we’ll see how it impacts the rest of our season.
Well done Plymouth for taking their chance, all the best of luck to them.
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Maybe if we had gaps in our schedule that our team deserved due to qualifying for the last 16 of CL then perhaps we may have gone stronger here.
Thing is we’ve been here before twice and we ended up with 2 league cups and one FA cup.
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Exactly! Been there done that. Looks like the lesson has finally been learned.
Also, why is MucNumpty still gainfully employed? Just utter tripe. Journalism in general has taken such a nosedive.
Listen Phil, we collectively took a shit in your precious FA cup and handed it to ya. Go enjoy that.
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