To sum up: He’s blaming luck again
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Wow, even Ubermick is name calling Slot. That’s not right. 
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One of those games where you refuse to believe we’re going to lose and that we will score in a minute and then all of a sudden 88 minutes have gone and it’s still 1-0 and a few minutes later we’ve lost.
Galatasary are fucking shit. Make no mistake about that. It fucking astounds me we’ve lost twice to this fucking garbage this season without scoring a goal.
Mama and Ekiteke my only votes for MOTM. Couple of decent saves from Mama and Ekiteke continued to toil up front on his own with a weak child on one side of him and and the thing that used to be Mo Salah on the other.
Despite everything I think we’ll beat them easily next week. Because they are fucking shit.
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Well, I didn’t see the second half so I won’t comment on the performance, but 1-0 away from home in Europe isn’t the end of the world.
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Woah hang on.
So after saying that you “couldn’t see Galatasaray stopping us from scoring”, you buggered off?
Mascot is my MotM
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0-1 at half time. That should do. Arne can now do his coaching.
Not the end of the world yet for us but the performance is poor…The midfield looks every bit as open as in the entire season. The defence had a nightmare..
There is a chance we might beat Gala at Anfield and go through to the next round. Next round is the winner of PSG vs Chelsea. It might get ugly if we meet PSG…
One.game.at.a.time.
I didn’t see the match but I wonder if we’d got a draw would people still be so pissed off at Slot?
I want Slot gone myself, but a 1-0 defeat away in Europe is not the end of the world. Of course the problem is believing that we can score two goals without reply in the second leg.
We’ve definitely gone from believers to doubters, and that includes me I’m afraid.
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Didn’t realise it was an early kick off, spent most of the afternoon at NRB getting pissed for free and slept through the game.
We’ll win the home leg.
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I normally never believe removing a Manager makes that much difference but sadly, I think the intensity we were famous for, has gone.
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We just seem to be going about our business, knowing we get paid regardless of the effort.
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We almost appear like employees in a government funded job. I hate to say this about LFC.
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Some of these players under Klopp would have been shipped out long ago.
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Liverpool wilt in Istanbul cauldron as Galatasaray seize advantage
Galatasaray 1 Liverpool 0: Arne Slot’s side have no answer to Turkish champions who control first leg after Mario Lemina’s early header in round-of-16 tie
Tuesday March 10 2026, 8.00pm GMT, The Times
Lemina condemns Liverpool to their second defeat by Galatasaray in the Champions League this term
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Galatasaray are unafraid of making big statements. This place — an intimidating cauldron of incessant noise — is likened to hell for its ferocity.
“You are alone in Sami Yen hell,” one banner read before kick-off, mocking Liverpool’s You’ll Never Walk Alone anthem. And as Mohamed Salah, Liverpool’s top scorer in the competition, trudged off the field on his own in the 60th minute, he — and Liverpool — looked a sad and faded force. The energy of last season has deserted them; the conviction to battle hard, too; and most depressingly of all, the imagination and creativity have gone.
Liverpool are playing purgatorial football, and their fans are condemned to watching the same insipid game week after week. The only question is whether there will be some sort of salvation after all this.
None looks forthcoming, not least because there were few, if any, redeeming features to this performance, beyond the single goal deficit that Liverpool must hope they can overturn in the second leg at Anfield.
In hostile conditions, Liverpool wilted. They had chances, but the Champions League necessitates playing with grit or verve, and Arne Slot’s team had neither. Just another uninspiring performance where — most damningly of all — it was hard to discern what their plan was.
Once Mario Lemina had scored in the seventh minute, Galatasaray controlled the game and made their opponents look ordinary as their supporters whistled ferociously throughout. The noise was brutal, but Liverpool looked as if they had lost all of their senses.
Lemina’s goal was his first for Galatasaray this season
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Slow starts and tired finishes have characterised Liverpool’s season, yet Slot’s team could not be accused of beginning poorly here.
They pressed viciously in the opening minutes, picking possession from Galatasaray with ease; they ripped the ball from their panicked opponents three times in the first three minutes, and Florian Wirtz should have done better from range after Lucas Torreira had hopelessly punted the ball to him, with Ugurcan Cakir off his line.
The home team were playing as if they had an extra half-second and their opponents — used to the pace of the Premier League and pressing man-to-man as Galatasaray attempted to casually build up from defence — had them rattled.
This was probably Liverpool’s best start to a match for some time, yet, once again, they found themselves trailing in the opening stages.
Supine defending of set pieces has plagued Liverpool’s domestic season, and Galatasaray ruthlessly exploited it with their first attempt. An outswinging delivery from the left allowed Victor Osimhen to isolate and bulldoze through Alexis Mac Allister at the back post, and head diagonally to Lemina, who converted from close range.
Galatasaray thought they had gone 2-0 ahead but Osimhen’s goal was disallowed for offside …
With that, the onus in the game and the tactical dynamic shifted: Galatasaray no longer needed to build, hence Liverpool had lost their opportunity to press. As Slot’s team attempted to reorganise amid the din, Galatasaray nearly scored again, but this time Osimhen headed wide of Giorgi Mamardashvili’s post. Then the Georgia goalkeeper, deputising for the injured Alisson Becker, was grateful that the striker and Davinson Sánchez were wasteful.
Liverpool, whose midfield pressing traps were made redundant by Galatasaray’s direct passes into Osimhen, needed smarter football. A slick passing combination instigated by Dominik Szoboszlai, and involving a passing chain featuring Hugo Ekitike, Salah and Mac Allister, ended with Wirtz inside the area but he struck his shot at Cakir.
Joe Gomez, playing at right back, inverted into midfield when Liverpool held possession, leaving Salah one-on-one with Ismail Jakobs. However, Salah is wasted out on the touchline, and was largely peripheral. Interestingly, Noa Lang, the Galatasaray left winger, posed problems for Gomez, Salah and Szoboszlai by drifting into their zones. He prompted one of them to man-mark him before pulling toward another, daring them to follow him into areas where they were uncomfortable, and leaving Liverpool’s centre backs with less cover to cope with the excellent Osimhen.
… then eight minutes later Liverpool had a goal ruled out themselves, for handball by Konaté, right
Mac Allister spurned a chance at the start of the second half when Gomez’s long throw fell to him in the centre of the area, but the fact Liverpool were reduced to hurling the ball towards their centre backs in the opposition penalty area instead of establishing tactical superiority or demonstrating their considerable technical talent reflected poorly on them, and underscored how Galatasaray were setting the terms of this contest even without the ball.
A generous interpretation of the offside law spared Ibrahima Konaté extreme embarrassment after Osimhen had tucked away when the defender failed to clear on two occasions. He was also judged to have handled from a corner, depriving Liverpool of an equaliser.
Ekitike capitalised on a loose pass, and skinned Sánchez before closing in on goal, but Cakir saved well. That Liverpool’s best chances came from their opponents’ mistakes said it all.
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everyone and their grandma is asking the same fucking question; “WHAT IS THE FUCKIN PLAN”… WE DONT FUCKIN KNOW EITHER LAD
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No, it is not. No one serious (some would, but they would be emotional and not necessarily serious) would have been up in arms if this was not a constant trend. But it is a horrible trend, which again makes it unacceptable and another nail in the coffin. Galatasaray, while often inferior, had much more energy and a higher to tempo, which is damning considering how much we needed a postive result.
I find your defense slightly perplexing now. In the beginning it was very understandable, now it is a bit clichè, mate. No offence at all intended, but I think you need a dose of realism and not just search high and low for something positive to say.
Because we don’t lose in an entertaining way. If you listen to Arne (yes, I did), he is praying we can score on a setpiece on Anfield. He repeated this thrice. Not from open play, from set piece. Because we are unable to rely on scoring from open play. Is this not something that worries you ?
I am tired of this football. But sure, it is not the end of the world, Much more than a 1000 people die every day in Ukraine, right now hundreds die every day in Iran. Hundreds in Lebanon too.
But this is not really important stuff, just football and the mental wellbeing and pride of fans.
And yet the money involved is so astronomical, so perhaps we should then also have some respect for the ludicrous amount of money our manager and team is wasting this season. Because these high numbers of cash we have thrown away is borderline unethical.
These results and performances, when in a trend, is not okay. Throwing millions of pounds away without changing evident failure because of love for Slot due to last season, not okay because it is simply too selfish and unethical givent the amount of cash involved.
The latter part of my post, isn’t really aimed at you, Mascot. I am just frustrated, so sharing some of my thoughts on the ethics of this and my frustration with the effort. I am frustrated that there is so much money in it, while noting that we have spent and lost enormous sums already this season. We spent after all truly disgusting sums in the summer, more is to be expected then. Liverpool isn’t Bodø/Glimt with miniscule finances, our finances are top, we are super rich. This isn’t ok. In the short term, it is totally fine. Long term, which this is, not fine at all.
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i think you misunderstood him.
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Maybe. Probably. I don’t know.
I am just a bit frustrated. Nothing more, nothing less. Note that I wrote that the last segment wasn’t aimed at him as such, just me going on writing my exasperation.
We all, I think want the same main goal. We are all frustrated. I probably misunderstood. I hope I didn’t say anything offensive at least (certainly not what I intended). I am tired of the trajectory and the status quo.
@Mascot I apologice if you think I was unfair. Maybe I am. Most of what I wrote after the beginning, wasn’t reallty a comment to you in any case. Tired of this, not tired of you.
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i dont think it was offensive.
Mascott has tried up until very recently to remain as objective (not even positive) as possible and has gotten pelters for it.
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I am pretty sure that a Klopp side playing high-paced pressing game would have murdered Galatasaray.
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Yet another match that we should have done better in,this has been around for a year now,and whenever we look like we are getting there,the shit hits the fan again.
We have a problem and most know what it is,and this needs to be rectified in the summer,this is deeper than some players having the odd off day,we all do that!
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Speaking of Trent, we missed his passing as there were numerous occasions, especially 1st half that Kerkez was on for a quick switch and our players never saw the pass or don’t have the quality to hit the pass
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