The Official Liverpool FC Thread [Vol 9]

[Alfahorn]

Allyc85 said:

Entertaining as always between us lot! Gutted to concede so late, but considering how st Arsenal were its not a bad point.

It was inevitable. We stank, absolutely terrible. We are disorganised, we don't have any tactical awareness, leadership, we have nothing absolutely nothing. We were arguably worse than last year, the difference as has been said was the lack of a striker for Liverpool. We've played poorly in a big game again and made exactly the sake mistakes again.

Sorry Liverpool you should have beaten us out of sight today.

[Flip Martian]

Who really told Craig Bellamy he looked good in that suit...

[Adam B]

Alfahorn said:

It was inevitable. We stank, absolutely terrible. We are disorganised, we don't have any tactical awareness, leadership, we have nothing absolutely nothing. We were arguably worse than last year, the difference as has been said was the lack of a striker for Liverpool. We've played poorly in a big game again and made exactly the sake mistakes again.

Sorry Liverpool you should have beaten us out of sight today.

very fair of you

staggering stats

27 attempts v 7
10 on target v 3
65 / 35 possession - the lowest Arsenal number since Opta started in 2003

if we had a quality striker on it would have been brutal

[pinchmeimdreamin]

Adam B said:

Alfahorn said:

It was inevitable. We stank, absolutely terrible. We are disorganised, we don't have any tactical awareness, leadership, we have nothing absolutely nothing. We were arguably worse than last year, the difference as has been said was the lack of a striker for Liverpool. We've played poorly in a big game again and made exactly the sake mistakes again.

Sorry Liverpool you should have beaten us out of sight today.

very fair of you

staggering stats

27 attempts v 7
10 on target v 3
65 / 35 possession - the lowest Arsenal number since Opta started in 2003

if we had a (defence ) and quality striker on it would have been brutal

EFA

[KareemK]

jammy_basturd said:

pinchmeimdreamin said:

Sargeant Orange said:

Yep he's run out of ideas, Sterling left back, genius

And you would have done ?

Quite. We have literally every attacking option we have on the field and yet they're coming up short and all these armchair manager wkers can do is criticise the manager!

So let me get this right, you are calling a fellow LFC supporter, Sargent Orange, a wker?

What a thread!

[Alfahorn]

Adam B said:

very fair of you

staggering stats

27 attempts v 7
10 on target v 3
65 / 35 possession - the lowest Arsenal number since Opta started in 2003

if we had a quality striker on it would have been brutal

I don't know how we get rid of Wenger but conceding 10 would help, it would be very painful in the short term but anything, I'll almost accept anything to get rid of him I'm desperate to see the back of him.

[DuncanM]

Adam B said:

Alfahorn said:

It was inevitable. We stank, absolutely terrible. We are disorganised, we don't have any tactical awareness, leadership, we have nothing absolutely nothing. We were arguably worse than last year, the difference as has been said was the lack of a striker for Liverpool. We've played poorly in a big game again and made exactly the sake mistakes again.

Sorry Liverpool you should have beaten us out of sight today.

very fair of you

staggering stats

27 attempts v 7
10 on target v 3
65 / 35 possession - the lowest Arsenal number since Opta started in 2003

if we had a quality striker on it would have been brutal

It was a hell of a performance, I challenge anyone to say the players aren't 'playing' for their manager after that?

I love it! Just what football is all about, the drama at the end when Skrtel scored ha ha!

[Adam B]

Adam B said:

if we had a quality striker on it would have been 7 - 2

EFA then

[RedTrident]

jammy_basturd said:

Glenred said:

jammy_basturd said:

Martin fking Skrtel!!

Git.

Overall though I thought Skrtel was one of our worst players. Alongside Lucas - another very poor game from him.

I thought Lazar was one of our best players, along with Sterling. Though Jones again had a good game, not amazing but more confidence inspiring than Mignolet.

What game were you watching? Lucas played really well and their 2 goals came from the typical defensive stupidity and a crazy Hollywood pass from Gerrard that caught Henderson out of position.

You're just seeing what you want. Lazer did have a better game, it was night and day by his past performances but Lucas had at least a good game. Arsenal failed to carve us up once.

In the end a point isn't good enough, wasting your most talented player as a centre forward is stupid and the defence remains comedy. BWB is just making it up as he's going along and his inability to sort the defence out will cost him his job. The opposition team have a corner that might as well be the equivalent of a penalty.

[type-r]

Ace1650cp said:

64% possession, 27 shots against a team who keep the ball well would say that from attacking/style of play pov brendan is adjusting to lack of strikers and developing a pretty reasonable way of playing - poor defence not withstanding.

I do agree. However what he and his coaching staff have failed to do is really coach the midfield in shooting practice, never mind coaching the defence. Couthinho, Henderson, Sterling etc all miss way too many chances blazing over the bar or firing wide. They did last season and nothing has changed this season. Really frustrating watching that these players haven't improved their striking. Improve the defence (inc. goalkeeper) and improve the scoring ability of the midfield and we will be a match for anyone. Throw in a quality striker and we would be near the top 3.

[Alfahorn]

Wenger just said this was a fair result,he truly is a fking idiot!

[jammy_basturd]

RedTrident said:

What game were you watching? Lucas played really well and their 2 goals came from the typical defensive stupidity and a crazy Hollywood pass from Gerrard that caught Henderson out of position.

You're just seeing what you want. Lazer did have a better game, it was night and day by his past performances but Lucas had at least a good game. Arsenal failed to carve us up once.

In the end a point isn't good enough, wasting your most talented player as a centre forward is stupid and the defence remains comedy. BWB is just making it up as he's going along and his inability to sort the defence out will cost him his job. The opposition team have a corner that might as well be the equivalent of a penalty.

Don't let the two runs/scuffed shots he had into their area mislead you.

He let a number of players just run past him or put in half-hearted tackles. He was one of the three players who were out-jumped for the three headers that led to their first goal. He was very weak on corners. His passing was also poor.

Gerrard wasn't great again. At times he was just as poor as Lucas, but at times he showed glimpses of how talented he was.

[RedTrident]

Well our idiot manager has just claimed we played better than the 5-1 last season, the pitch was poor and we got the result in the end. Outstanding he reckons. He's deluded.

[jammy_basturd]

I'd be inclined to agree that our performance was better. Last season we were a lot more clinical, but not so dominant. This afternoon we were utterly commanding.

Defence hasn't change though.

[RedTrident]

Sorry Jammy. I watched a different game from just above the centre circle. Lucas played well.

[jammy_basturd]

RedTrident said:

Sorry Jammy. I watched a different game from just above the centre circle. Lucas played well.

That's great. I watched on TV so have had the benefit of replays, different camera angles, etc. Let me know if you change your opinion once you watch MoTD.

[DuncanM]

type-r said:

Ace1650cp said:

64% possession, 27 shots against a team who keep the ball well would say that from attacking/style of play pov brendan is adjusting to lack of strikers and developing a pretty reasonable way of playing - poor defence not withstanding.

I do agree. However what he and his coaching staff have failed to do is really coach the midfield in shooting practice, never mind coaching the defence. Couthinho, Henderson, Sterling etc all miss way too many chances blazing over the bar or firing wide. They did last season and nothing has changed this season. Really frustrating watching that these players haven't improved their striking. Improve the defence (inc. goalkeeper) and improve the scoring ability of the midfield and we will be a match for anyone. Throw in a quality striker and we would be near the top 3.

I've been this the last 5 pages or so! Our attacking players are poor at finishing, really poor!

However, that performance really has made me smile I love football, and I think that was a great match!

RedTrident said:

Angry vitriol against BWB bla blah blah.... "The opposition team have a corner that might as well be the equivalent of a penalty."

Even when you're winding me up you do make me laugh ha ha!

[Alfahorn]

RedTrident said:

Well our idiot manager has just claimed we played better than the 5-1 last season, the pitch was poor and we got the result in the end. Outstanding he reckons. He's deluded.

Yes right. I can't believe you don't think your team were outstanding today.

[RedTrident]

I try not to judge players off MOTD highlights. That's how we ended up with the likes of Charlie Adam and Downing in our team.

I've also learned that there's more to a game than just following the ball. Lucas played well and he'd make my first 11 every game we set up playing 343.

[RedTrident]

Alfahorn said:

RedTrident said:

Well our idiot manager has just claimed we played better than the 5-1 last season, the pitch was poor and we got the result in the end. Outstanding he reckons. He's deluded.

Yes right. I can't believe you don't think your team were outstanding today.

Against an average Arsenal team. No we weren't outstanding. If we were we'd have won. Nor for 1 second does anyone really think today's performance was better than the 5-1 of last season.