To start with, will LFC progress to the knockout stages, given how our form looks like now?
i think we will struggle until we have everyone back in midfield and actually see what we have
Give us another 10 minutes and we will not be scoring anything.
Are you not watching the match? We get out fought, out hussled, out desired… That’s the basic demand on every single player, especially in the Derby. It’s pathetic to watch our lack of heart.
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The reds ah got naaa money but we’ll still make top 4…
i don’t think so. Thinking Everton can out-hustle us with more time played is foolishness.
The starting lineup was already a huge mismatch in the middle of the park.
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hope so mate… maybe not making top four will give fsg the impetus to spend a little
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At least I can go out for a pint tonight 
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Lackluster display from certain players, baffling substitutions, and tactical ineptitude cost us the win today.
I agreed with the lineup, the problem is we didn’t have the tactical set up to make it work. We spent the majority of the first half punting it long and into the channels, rather than getting it into the feet of Elliot and Carvalho… whats the point in playing small and technical midfielders then spend the half kicking it over their heads and asking them to fight for the 2nd ball?
Not for the first time this season Klopp doesn’t change his set up based on the players on the pitch.
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this PL race might be over before the world cup break
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I thought that we were playing better until the change to RB and LB. After TAA (had an awful game TBH) and Tsimi went off the pitch. We completely lost the way, total chaos afterwards.
Is there a post match thread? (I have not read anything in this thread, and probably best to stay away from the post match as well.) 
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Chill Jabu, Even 20 years ago Arsenal hadn’t run away with it by November.
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We will. I have faith. We are too good a team not to.
I’m just unhappy that the transfer team didn’t bring reinforcements in midfield at the beginning of summer window. They knew Keita, Thiago, Hendo, Ox, Curtis are all injury prone and yet they stood still. We have wasted another season competing for the league title.
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The fact is we got out-hustled by them for the whole 95 minutes is telling!
Looks like the only way we will qualify for next season
I was watching the match, and I don’t think we got “out fought, out hussled, out desired” nor did we have a “lack of heart”.
Think you’re forgetting that (a) this is Everton’s cup final, and that (b), we had a much longer season than they did. What I saw was a team that’s trying to play within whatever abilities and freshness they still had.
What you saw as a lack of desire, I saw more as us not having the extra spark of energy that we had before, which given the 60+ games we played last season, is thoroughly unsurprising. Where we fell short compared to previous seasons is more that our fatigue shows up in our passing, in our running, in our reactions. It’ll be a long season yet, and to think that City will definitely hold up over the long season better than a team that has just been there and done that is folly.
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They will definitely implode but they have the cup break to help them out and they will be so far ahead it will be hard to catch em
Think the sooner we accept this might be a transitional year the better. Our midfield is threadbare, as a result it’s thrown off the whole team (kind of like 2 years ago with our CBs out throwing off the balance). We are also far too predictable: we could get through pretty much any low block in 18-19 and 19-20 but you can only be remotely unpredictable doing the same thing for so long. I don’t question the hunger per se, even if the workrate is off they played on Wednesday night and again today, but we are ill-equipped to actually challenge for the title this year IMHO.
Unlucky today in hitting the woodwork/goalkeeper who has never won a trophy, but also fortunate that Coady was offside and we can enjoy the schadenfreude because apparently the volume could be heard for miles around. 
I also feel like Mane is a bigger loss than we might have anticipated given how well we’ve handled big departures in the past (Coutinho). It doesn’t mean Nunez and Diaz won’t come good but these things take time. Perhaps the whole Salah contract saga made Mane feel disaffected or maybe he really did just want a new challenge; chicken and egg things.
If we get Bellingham next summer, I think we can start our next cycle next season. That doesn’t mean we don’t go for everything this year, but we might have to accept that the squad evolution is in a different place than the last time we finished second by a point (and were 5 points clear in September).
Also, FSG: y’all made a bet and it DID NOT pay off.
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