LCFC 3-1 Liverpool - Post Match Thread

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Mcmanaman nearly crying, klopp claiming offside. You just simply love to see the victims squirming looking for any excuse they can. Love it. 

[StanSP]

14 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Thoughts?

 

 

 

If we're all honest with ourselves, and Liverpool fans too, that's a free-kick 100% of the time for a late tackle on the defender. Gets given pretty much all of the time in any other scenario or match.

Edited 13 February 2021 by StanSP

[Nicolo Barella]

 

[Sooper Steve's shin]

Ndidi was immense, some of his tackles were mind-blowing. 
 

I was unsure about Ricky on the left and first 5 or 10 minutes he was worrying, but then got the measure of it (and Salah) for the rest of the game. He looked brilliant and could easily play there is Castagne prefers the right. 
 

Vardy got in some good positions, could have had three or four on another day with so many different chances - a header, a chip, a smash and a close range snatch. 
 

Soyuncu looked very good, Amartey pretty steady and Evans battled well to complete that second half. 

[Adster]

1 minute ago, Goober said:

They were the better side for the majority let's be real.

 

We created some big chances first half but they were playing the better football up until the equaliser

One would argue, what does "better football" merit though? Who cares about that?

[Spudulike]

8 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Thoughts?

 

 

 

Would've been harsh but as its Mane then deffo red card. 

[Ryy]

[Mike Oxlong]

I’d like to give a special mention to McAlisson 

[FoxFromCoalville]

Agent Alisson

Edited 13 February 2021 by FoxFromCoalville

[OntarioFox]

The Liverpool lot really love throwing a goalie under the bus, don't they? Allison pulled a howler, granted, but he also tipped Vards' chance for 3-1 onto the post.

 

The reality is that Klopp's constant Gegenpress tires the team out by the last 15 minutes when fitness levels aren't 100%. Huh. Who'd 'a thunk it?

But nah, Klopp's methods are undeniable and it's the players to blame, innit.

We're often critical of Rodgers' insistence on conserving our energy during matches against teams that play this way, but that last 20 minutes summed up exactly why he does it. It is a big risk when a team has the firepower that Liverpool posess, granted, but it's won us games against those sorts of teams on multiple occasions this season now. The only time it genuinely went tits-up was against Leeds at home, but I think we're allowed to write that one off as a bad day at the office now.

 

It's actually a mind-numbingly simple tactic. Doesn't take much thought - you just have to have confidence in your back line, and Brendan obviously does.

Ndidi and Soyuncu get the plaudits for me today. Both put in one hell of a shift to keep the scousers out for long enough to give us the chance to play a bit. 

 

46 points, up to second for now. Wow.

[Mike Oxlong]

10 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Thoughts?

 

 

 

Best commentary of the season  

[Guest SO1]

Hats off to the team. They played their asses off. Make no mistake about it Liverpool brought their 'A" game  to the King Power. Looked like a well oiled machine in the first half as we defended our asses off. Looked like more of the same until the goal but credit to us we kept working. After our first just kept shouting at the tv to work harder and go for it. Unbelievable the mentality and drive of this club and how its building stronger and stronger. Going to take me awhile to come down from this high. Europa League Knockout Thursday

LOVE IT!.....we torched em.

[StriderHiryu]

4 minutes ago, Ashley said:

Apprently.... according to Klopp. We were dominated. 

 

Now seriously dominated? Have all the possession you want. You had more corners. What else did you do? Firmino assist was filth but come on.... 😳

Klopp is a bad loser, but he is right on that IMO. I am loving the result, but every time we play Liverpool, their pressing game against us is INSANE. Against other teams it sometimes has bad days but against us for whatever reason, their pressing game is always first class. The first half we could not get out, and though by the end of the half we appeared to stabilise, in the second half they picked up right from where they left up and squeezed us even tighter.

 

I would agree that defensively they did not cause us a ton of problems, with Soyuncu and Ricardo brilliant at the back, with Evans and Amartey also doing a shift. Wilfred Ndidi also blatantly won us that game with a performance that makes peak Kante look poor by comparison.

 

For me this game reminded me a lot of when we capitulated against Bournemouth last season. We dominate the game and had it under control and then threw it away. For me Liverpool lost that game rather than us winning it, but who cares!? We have an injury ravaged squad too so will take that any day of the week.

[Crazy Kop Corner]

4 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

Mcmanaman nearly crying, klopp claiming offside. You just simply love to see the victims squirming looking for any excuse they can. Love it. 

The fact that it means more to them makes it even sweeter 

[Webbo]

I'm not going to criticise Klopp. He hates to lose, just like us, it means something to him. Fair play to him, I know how he feels.

[Ashley]

7 minutes ago, Goober said:

They were the better side for the majority let's be real.

 

We created some big chances first half but they were playing the better football up until the equaliser

 

6 minutes ago, SydenhamFox said:

We were dominated. Then we won. I’m still amazed we got anything out of that game. They imploded then overreached and we picked them off. 

Better side? Does possession make you a better side? 

 

We had the better chances up to the goal. Trent then hits the crossbar from a deflected free kick. Other than that what did they do? ..

[yorkie1999]

I thought Both half’s went the same way, they were dominant for 30 minutes, but faded when they ran out of ideas, and it looked like we were waiting for that to happen.

[Goober]

2 minutes ago, Adster said:

One would argue, what does "better football" merit though? Who cares about that?

Definitely not me, but I think if they'd blown the whistle on 75 minutes we'd have had zero complaints.

 

Any side who collapses like that though deserves **** all

[Jacnah]

Still not sure what happened there!

 

Thought Liverpool where much the better team for most of the game and i was disappointed in the way we played. We seemed to lack confidence and going forward was very poor...or so it seemed during the emotional roller coaster that is watching it in real time. However, when you look at the chances and not just the possession I feel a different picture emerges and one that provides evidence that, where it matters, the game was much more of a level affair.

 

 As we well know, possession alone doesn't win games or leagues

Edited 13 February 2021 by Jacnah

[Ian Nacho]

[WigstonWanderer]

Well, wasn’t expecting that 

 

Ndidi makes all the difference. Hope we can hang on to him for at least another season. He was magnificent today.

[ARTY_FOX]

5 minutes ago, StanSP said:

If we're all honest with ourselves, and Liverpool fans too, that's a free-kick 100% of the time for a late tackle on the defender. Gets given 99% of the time in any other scenario or match.

Not against Liverpool though. 

[Goober]

Just now, Ashley said:

 

Better side? Does possession make you a better side? 

 

We had the better chances up to the goal. Trent then hits the crossbar from a deflected free kick. Other than that what did they do? ..

We couldn't string a pass together for much of it. Salah and Mane got in behind us a couple of times and should've definitely got shots away.

 

Not complaining, just think they were far more 'on it' than us until their heads fell off

[Spudulike]

Biggest disappointment was the stadium being empty. It would've been bouncing (literally). 

 

The Wharf Wobble. 

[Alan Frost]

3 minutes ago, Heymister2015 said:

I see no reason to train this week! Now for me would be the time to rest the team and report back Wednesday. Your not going to get fitter from training until the trip to Prague. Rest would be handy 

Sort of agree . I thought there was quite a lot of evidence today they've been practicing headers but I 've seen that before occasionally and been wrong. Those that are fit should still be practising them. Ndidi ,Evans, Soyuncu and Vardy could be let off as a reward, they and probably a few I've forgotten are already reasonably good but are needed to help the others (and further improve themselves ).While I agree with BR's philosophy that the ball should be got onto the ground asap its to realise that in very important sections of play (corners and other set pieces) the ball pracically must be in the air. Then of course the other team will put it into the air of course , either deliberately or because they can't help it either. Cloughie , a good header in his playing career put it best as so often . He said something like " If you were meant to play it up there lad, God would have put grass up there.". But he knew you could n't ignore the ball being in the air.