The Official Liverpool FC Thread [Vol 12]

[Pommygranite]

I usually like to be positive but...

any title chance gone

[Flip Martian]

My wife just came in to say she's made me home made pizza so at least I have that to look forward to.

Godawful way to start the weekend.

[phil_cardiff]

Let's be honest here, we were never in the title hunt. Not with the 5th/6th biggest wage bill. At least the title talk BS will end now I suppose.

[type-r]

Klopp got the tactics wrong today. You don't start a 3-man defensive midfield against a team 2nd bottom of the league. You make your intentions known from the start. You go out and play an attacking line-up. You start Sturridge and you drop Can, who has been rubbish these last few games.

The blame for this defeat lies squarely at Klopp IMO. Yes we started slowly but that was in part due to the line-up!

[Flip Martian]

phil_cardiff said:

Let's be honest here, we were never in the title hunt. Not with the 5th/6th biggest wage bill. At least the title talk BS will end now I suppose.

Exactly

[pinchmeimdreamin]

think I will avoid this thread for the rest of the day because I know exactly how it will go.

I'm still confident we will finish the season where we need to be

[Flip Martian]

Well done Swansea, they deserved that. I can guess at the amount of griping and negative crap on here for this weekend now so I'm going to have some lunch. Hopefully better in the next game.

[Type R Tom]

Getting bored of watching us play lower clubs with 11 men defences.

[Sargeant Orange]

type-r said:

Klopp got the tactics wrong today. You don't start a 3-man defensive midfield against a team 2nd bottom of the league. You make your intentions known from the start. You go out and play an attacking line-up. You start Sturridge and you drop Can, who has been rubbish these last few games.

The blame for this defeat lies squarely at Klopp IMO. Yes we started slowly but that was in part due to the line-up!

Absolutely spot on.

Can has been awful this season & has no place starting, especially at home against Swansea.

[Flip Martian]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

think I will avoid this thread for the rest of the day because I know exactly how it will go.

I'm still confident we will finish the season where we need to be

Likewise. Let's focus on that and leave the moaners to it.

Off to enjoy my weekend.

[wjb]

We weren't actually that bad today, seen us play a lot worse than that and win.

Swansea turned up second half to be fair, but we're relying on other "lower table" teams doing the same to the top sides over the rest of the season now, unlikely as it seems.

Hopefully that bloody nose will do us good going forward.

[anonymous-user]

Type R Tom said:

Getting bored of watching us play lower clubs with 11 men defences.

Who score 3.

[franki68]

phil_cardiff said:

Let's be honest here, we were never in the title hunt. Not with the 5th/6th biggest wage bill. At least the title talk BS will end now I suppose.

Where did Leicester figure in terms of wage bill last season ?

[RedTrident]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

think I will avoid this thread for the rest of the day because I know exactly how it will go.

I'm still confident we will finish the season where we need to be

Fighting it out for 6th and then using excuses like wage bill comparisons.

Today was Klopp's fault. Perhaps he should apologise to the fans. After all these things should be both ways.

A genuine midfield 3 of cowards led by Captain Coward.

If I was Coutinho I'd be looking to leave on the summer. Why give the best years of your career whilst waiting on Can to become Alonso and Henderson to grow a set and pass the ball forward.

[RedTrident]

Sargeant Orange said:

Absolute garbage.

At least this crap about Lovren & Klavan being decent is finally laid to rest

Only from the deluded. But I expect us to sell Sakho and try and blag Gomez us good enough.

[anonymous-user]

RedTrident said:

A genuine midfield 3 of cowards led by Captain Coward.

And here we go again.

Pathetic stuff RT, genuinely pathetic. You really are a disgrace.

[RedTrident]

desolate said:

RedTrident said:

A genuine midfield 3 of cowards led by Captain Coward.

And here we go again.

Pathetic stuff RT, genuinely pathetic. You really are a disgrace.

Midfield of cowards led by Captain Coward. What's a disgrace is deluded fans who think otherwise.

When he passed the ball back to Lovren in the first half and urged him to pass the ball forward. All because he was too cowardly to try.

And as for Can. Look at the first goal and you'll see before the corner a grown man busy rubbing his arms because he was cold. I never want to see him play for us again. Poor man's Jon Jo Shelvey.

[anonymous-user]

RedTrident said:

Usual stuff

On the plus side for you - at least you now have something to comment on.

You must be pleased to be back on the front foot.



ETA

cut out the name calling please.

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 21st January 14:50

Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 21st January 15:45

[Black can man]

RedTrident said:

Midf

And as for Can. Look at the first goal and you'll see before the corner a grown man busy rubbing his arms because he was cold. I never want to see him play for us again. Poor man's Jon Jo Shelvey.

[NRS]

Flip Martian said:

pinchmeimdreamin said:

think I will avoid this thread for the rest of the day because I know exactly how it will go.

I'm still confident we will finish the season where we need to be

Likewise. Let's focus on that and leave the moaners to it.

Off to enjoy my weekend.

It's very clear to see without Mane (or when he is playing poorly) we cannot do well over a season against teams sitting behind the ball as we are too slow. It's suicide to go at us when we are playing well, which is why teams don't bother. It's all very well to complain about them not playing football, but when it comes to it then winning is the important thing for clubs. So then it's up to our manager/ players and they either need to improve or change tactics to counter the 10 men defending and grab a few goals from our terrible defence.

Obviously if we finish top 4 we should be happy, but there is certainly some big issues needed. For all the WUMing it might be partly true that Klopp has been worked out. Obviously he is a decent manager and will adapt or buy new players, but it is very clear how you should play against us.