Most of PSG’s best chances started with throw-in’s around the edge of their own penalty box. That’s how fucking easy we are to play through.
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We’re all fucking mad.
Ok.
We’re all fucking dissapointed with another absolute cowardly shit show.
How we all wanted us to try to play? Like a fucking Liverpool team in a Champions League quarter final. PSG are a very good team, but we showed fuck all tonight
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Thank God they weren’t able to do so.
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Yeah those 17 shots on goal 7 on target must have never happened.
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It’s true. One in the first half required only about 2 passes to create a good chance. It was diabolical.
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These posts get funnier 17 shots and 7 on target isn’t a glowing indictment of the tactics.
The Dembele chance in the first half was worse from the goalkeeper having it on his 6 yard box they made 5 passes upto Georgie making the save. Defensively sound my arse.
So go and tell them ‘They are Liverpool’ and we spent 450m in the summer. Tell Dom to look at his big fucking Rolex and maybe that will help him remember his to pass the ball three yards to a red shirt.
Or maybe we can deal with the reality of where we are? Telling these lads they represent a club that is six times champions of Europe isn’t going help them grow a fucking spine.
We went to Paris massive underdogs, and if you want evidence of that have a look at the pre-match comments full of people predicting PSG would run up double figures against us. Laughing at how badly we were going to get dicked. We don’t get to take the piss and have a dark laugh at how out of our league PSG are now, and then fucking moan when we go there and play like underdogs.
The team’s plan was absolutely the right one. We can be pissed of that it’s come to that, but here we are. If we’d gone out there and attacked them, and pressed them we’d have been absolutely torn to shreds.
Right now the aim is to somehow get through the rest of the games we have, get into the champions league places, and then make the changes to the staffing we need to make to enable us to reset and rebuild for next year.
But please, spare us the We are Liverpool stuff. I know, I totally get it, but we haven’t been Liverpool all season, we’ve been a shadow of ourselves - for a variety of reasons - and that’s not changing before the summer.
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Ibou was abysmal. If the plan today was to hold our shape, defend deep, and not let PSG drag us out and hit the gaps, Ibou must have nodded off in the meeting.
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I’m repeating myself now, but who told Konate he could play football? I can’t believe we’re about to offer him an improved contract.
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Fulham play well at Anfield even when we have been at our best. Not a chance a win is a given.
I’m disappointed as well, and I really want to see us play like a Liverpool Team in a champions league quarter final, but in all seriousness are you seriously saying that with the state we’re in at the minute we should be going there and taking the game to them?
I’m not arguing that it was a good performance, or that there isn’t changes needed in the summer, but the reaction here to the tactics and set up seems like people just haven’t been watching us play football this season.
We are where we are. We are not a good team, and we’re certainly not at PSGs level (and I think they are probably the best team in the world right now).
We are all dissapointed, but the “you’re all fucking mad” comment that has you as the sole voice of reason is unfair. Its in the vein of your comment concerning Slot being manager next season, asking what we all will do then? As I answered you then, support Liverpool.
The dark humour of us getting pole axed is just humour. We all still hoped against hope for a performance. We didn’t get it.
In two matches that could have redeemed our season we played cowardly football. We never landed a punch on City or PSG. They are better teams at the moment, but you would hope/expect that we could raise our game to bring some fight to the match. We were out thought and outplayed, and we now need to address why the season has gone so badly.
Players, manager, signings, tragedy…all constituents of a malaise in varying measures.
We can only fix certain aspects though.
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Yep, I made that point several times over. They should have scored six. They were wasteful and Mama made some great saves.
So regardless of our system, they were much the better side and we are lucky it was only 2-0.
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Fair enough. I take that back - I’m being over the top.
But I do find it really surprising that people are criticising the approach tonight. Slot isn’t an idiot, despite what people say, and he can see how wide open and brittle we are - we can’t go into that like we played against City. We saw what they did with the gaps and space we left them, and they are nowhere near as good as this PSG team. We had to tighten up and play more of a low block. If we’d gone 433 and tried to take the game to them, it would have been 5-0 by thirty minutes.
I saw someone say that Chelsea laid a glove on them. They got done 8-2 on aggregate ffs
And what he absolutely can’t afford right now is for this side to be on the end of another twatting. Slot has got to think about the remaining games. The Champion’s League was always a long shot, and I can’t see us serving up a CL miracle, but if this team is going to rally and push for a top five finish in the league, we can’t be getting thumped again. I’ve seen plenty of teams come to Anfield when we’ve been at our best and shake hands on 2-0, because it’s hard to pick players up from a good hiding. It’s not nice to be on the end of that, but it’s where we are.
I like the fact that he went 3/5 at the back. At least it’s a reaction. I don’t like that he didn’t play it at the Etihad, because then it would have looked like something we actually worked on during the international break, rather than something thrown together for this game.
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My tuppence on the approach - it was the right approach, but it wasn’t executed especially well. Still, to get out of there at only 2-0 instead of a cricket score is something.
Bottom line for me is that regardless of approach, PSG are much the better team. Better coached. Better set up. Better on the ball throughout the team. They looked fitter, faster, sharper, stronger.
And so 2-0 is a minor miracle, on the balance of play.
We’re all gutted, and surely this is another data point on the road towards parting company with Slot.
At our best, with a balanced team that is fit and firing (we are miles off that) then it is touch and go whether or not we get the better of this PSG side as they are bloody good. But where we have to get back to, is to be a side that can threaten them and offer a realistic chance of winning, whether or not we get the rub of the green and the right result.
Right now we are miles off and a change is surely coming.
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We were taught a lesson by PSG in the first leg last year. By some miracle we came out of that game unscathed, but they were all over us, and the tie should have been over before the Anfield match. Slot seemed chastened, and it felt like we’d seen what we needed to do to get to that level. We were already a very good team and were cruising the PL. It looked like we just needed a few tweaks to get to CL winning levels.
What happened after that was that performances declined, the opportunity to freshen up the team in the summer was missed/bungled, and we end up in the same fixture looking a pale shadow of the team from our last Paris trip. It’s not only Slot, there have been failures across the club, but the buck stops at his door, fairly or not.
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We won VAR 1 - 0
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That’s what I’m trying to say.
We’re still a team that can’t get through 90mins without someone doing something daft. Tonight it’s Gravenberch (who I think had been ok, mostly, this year) letting a player run off him, although Ibou does his best. But it’s always someone switching off in a key moment.
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I think the business we did in the summer was fine. If you want to talk about a missed opportunity, the January window was an opportunity to freshen up this team and we chose to do nothing.
I still don’t understand why in September we have Mark Guehi in a Liverpool kit ready to be announced, but three months later - after we’ve lost one CB for the season, and another is in wretched form, we’ve decided actually we’re not that arsed
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