IT was a significantly weaker Liverpool 11 than expected.
It was a significantly stronger Liverpool performance than anticipated.
The Reds.
Mustard again.
For 10 minutes the Reds were abject. For 80 minutes the Reds were majestic.
The Reds were mustard again.
The Reds are hungry. Not for them shrinking when a harsh light is shined upon them. No backward steps when under examination. Instead a confidence in themselves and in one another. A confidence in front of goal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhUYiwDp-Q
This is important. Daniel Sturridge could go without saying. He is always confident in front of goal and yet he is not alone. Each of his teammates were unerring, each of his teammates were certain.
There was, at Southampton, a certainty, an economy, a quality. Balls struck hard and low and irresistible. Away from home in front of goal there is a sea-change from the Reds.
Daniel Sturridge, though, should not go without saying. Centre forwards define football teams. The balls from both Allen and Can were marvellous but he demands them, a centre fireworks on the move, play it, play it, play it, play it.
It gets played. Sturridge’s first goal suggested rust insofar as a goal can. His second certainty. What can we do with 20 league starts of this. What can’t we do.
But not just Sturridge. Origi asking for three. Ibe taking his one. Lallana bright as a button, Can and Allen constant, keep keeping on. Leiva the Captain. Our old man of the sea.
Randall gets his start, our manager ringing the changes. Looked edgy for 20. Looked the business for 70. Nothing creates the business like goals, but the players still all need to respond.
What strikes me is that Southampton have no answers, they have not even the hint of an answer. Normally there is a flurry, and yet they couldn’t flurry; normally there is a surge, and yet they couldn’t surge. Instead they bent to our will. Because why wouldn’t you?
The manager makes his changes. One eye on what matters in the season, one eye on the league game at Newcastle on Sunday and Liverpool undress the seventh or eighth best side in the country. The Reds concede a daft early goal and shrug it off. Go brush that shoulder off. Get that dirt off your shoulder. What can’t we do?
What can’t we do? The Reds are mustard and you dare hold me back. The Reds are mustard and you should strap yourself in. The Reds are mustard.
The Hungry Reds.
The Certain Reds.
The Reds.
What can’t we do?
We can do Stoke.
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What a difference a Sturridge makes. The sky is the limit chaps…
Boss, tha’
Ian Ayre book a month off for the January transfer window. Your services will not be required.
haha. a good one…:)
I was surprised that Randall, Sturridge, and Origi started. Surprised that Brad Smith was on the bench…
What a team performance…well done!!
How Chelsea and Man C fans must be envious of our manager who does not hesitate to use youth team.products for such big game!!…
Not just Ian Ayer, FSG can take the season off…let the Klopp auto pilot takes over..
I guess we’re not getting Timo Horn during the winter window if Klopp says he loves Migs. It will be interesting if we do anything during the winter window at all. Maybe Klopp likes the Academy guys so much that he won’t need to buy cover for Clyne.
Leiva should end his career at Anfield. He BELONGS. No player in the game is more honest and deserving of respect.
Allen was class
So strong, so many good players not even on the pitch! Felt like 13/14 again. Come on the Reds
Scary start but Jurgen my main man Kloppo’ YNWA – that was fantastic. Once we start playing at Anfield things will be very very interesting – One game at the time.
Astonishing. Absolutely astonishing. Jurgen Klopp. What a man!
Wow. how good was that. They like a boo those Southampton fans don’t they. What a way to shut the bastards up.
Look at Skrtel’s bake.
Where’s the mustard? I want the mustard! We are mustard indeed! Klopp … Bloody hell
Fuck me! Who’s gonna be first so say it then? Somebody say it
I’ll say it. WE’RE GONNA WIN THE LEAGUE!
Ha ha I love it Adam. I’ve calmed down a bit since last night though. Euphoria has waned a little like. Feel like a reet tool now.
where I live, the match was from 11:45pm till 1:45am..
so much excitement and adrenalin that I could not sleep till 7am…and just one hour sleep and got to work…
Klopp effect…bad for my health,maybe..
Ibe’s gonna be a great player (?)
Sometimes when we win I feel great but a lot of that is knowing I don’t have to be miserable for the next few days. Sometimes I feel like I’m flying, like tonight. How good are we? It doesn’t actually matter what team we put out. They’re all fuckin brilliant to a man. I remember this giddiness from 13/14.
For the first 10 my head had gone a little. I’d been really looking forward to this and I got a familiar feeling. This is Klopp’s team though. The mindset is different. I’m coming around to it. I’d put my life in Klopp’s hands.
Is it any wonder we get angry when Sturridge gets injured. Fuckin hell! Unbelievable! I was made up when he got the first but when he got the second. Jesus! What a player he is. Felt gutted when he came off. He looked to the Liverpool end to see his reception. If only we had a song at that moment. At one point their keeper had it and the camera showed Sturridge on the floor. Was putting his boot on but I thought he was clutching his Achilles. The life drained out of me.
The crowd were good. Loved the Adam Lallana, he’s winning 5-1 chant. I love that spontaneity and the sticking up for our players. I wanted one for Lovren too. I loved seeing Moreno laughing on the bench. The players are clearly loving it. They’re all saying it. Klopp said ‘we’re all loving it here’. The tv showed their bench. Koeman sitting with Sammy Lee and someone else. A few people said we should get him. Then I saw Klopp, with the brains and the eyes and I felt really thankful. Loved his quote ‘was anyone still alive from when we last won the league cup’, haha. Sure it got lost in translation but who cares. He must be thinking his joke about the balls coming out 1,2,3,4 got lost too. The obvious thing to do was laugh but everyone went on the defensive and told him they were definitely shaken properly. Jesus! He must think we’re a right laugh here.
Made up for Origi. He walked off on his own and the crowd clapped him. He looked to see their reaction, looked away through modesty, then had another peep then looked away. 5 times he looked. He couldn’t stop himself he felt so proud. Never again will I say he’s wank. He’s a young lad and I’m fuckin delighted for him. Weird having a keeper in goal who catches shots. Genuinely looked odd. Like the 80’s. I like how strong Klopp is. In this day and age and the high pressure of winning matches if your best players are fit they play. Klopp resisted with Sturridge, he’s resisted with Henderson and he’s probably doing similar with Coutinho. Wenger played Sanchez on Sunday. That’s how it goes. Klopp’s bigger than that. I expected a weakened team (lol) tonight because I knew he’d realise that it’s not a game it’s a part of the season we have to navigate. He’s strong enough to do it. I’d have pushed one more midweek game out of Clyne. I’d have pushed Firmino one last time. I’d have played Coutinho but then I’d have got beat. Everyone fears us. Who would want to draw us in the cup? Who will be pleased they’re next league game is against us? Exactly!!
On Sturridge thought i heard a bit of a song starting up when he was high fiving everyone on the bench like Oh Daniel Sturridge la la la la la la la laaaa to a tune from the 60s that i cant work out the name of.
Come on mate, that’s one of the most recognisable songs of the 60’s. Manfred Mann innit, Do Wah Diddy. Didn’t hear it myself, it sounded quite quiet as he went off. Hope I’m wrong and you’re right. He deserves it.
Not sure what I think of that song. Better than nothing though. I just worry whether it has the potential to take off.
Loved your story about Origi taking a few peeks. Young pup as he is. Everyone fears us, you’re dead right Robin. I’d love to just erase the next few days and fast forward to Newcy kick off. Optimism is a great thing.
Hi Robin,
well written.as always…
and love the part you would now stop picking on Origi :). thanks you. ..because I have been defending this.kid …to leave him.alone…I like his movement since 2014 world cup…and especially under Kloop coaching, he will improve. be a big big asset for us..He has speed, power, control, etc…different from Ngog..
Loved that last goal. Reminded me of the classic Heighway to McDermott vs Spurs in that legendary 7-0
Must admit I looked at the team thinking – how’s he gonna make that work? Seriously, an unfit Sturridge and Origi with no Coutinho, Benteke, Clyne, Milner or Firmino?
First 20, fears look like being realised. But this is a Klopp team. And a Klopp team laughs in the face of an early goal conceded. A Klopp team draws strength from a raucous home crowd. A Klopp team makes the opponent do things it feels least confident doing. A Klopp team wins games of football.
Did anyone really think we were going to lose today, even when we went down 1-0? I didn’t!! Granted, I never would have thought we’d win 1-6. I just shook my head at the early Mane goal. Like Chelsea all over. Ha!
Well if we’d conceded that 2nd header I’m not sure we’d have been able to wrestle the initiative back if I’m honest. But they didn’t and once Sturridge scored everything changed.
Poetic. In every sense of it.
A wet, windy, mid-week away at Stoke? Bring it.
Almost hard to get your head around the swiftness of it all,
Taken the new manager “bounce” to a new level at this stage,
Loved hearing the Lucas song from a raucous away end,
The realisation that this is happening with some of the fringe players and suddenly you look to have depth all over the park,
The I’m not blowing millions on fullbacks/players in Jan if Randall and Smith can deputise ably attitude must be great for everyone
at the club,
We finished with a young 11 this evening,
Great stuff from the Reds.
We’ve become one of the great away sides and should look to play at Anfield as little as humanly possible. We’ll ease our way to Wembley with lads at full getting early yellows in the FA cup as long as we’re drawn away every round.
Bet you the blues are made up with the draw; win-win for them. A final or avoiding us. Not going Goodison next month has blighted my 2016 before it’s even got under way a bit. Pitch invasions aside, they’ve started to get a bit cocky again with how Lukaku and Deulofeu are coming on.
What do you mean? The final is at Wembley, right? Perfect for us since we play better away right now. It means we’ll smash the Toffees in the Final! ;-)
Another mass shooting here in LA. Always really depressing. Then I saw this… Thank you Reds. Thank you for sending a light into our world. Onwards and upwards.
We have the players to unlock teams that try to park the bus at Anfield.
Coutinho, Firmino, Benteke, Origi, Lallana, Ibe, and Sturridge.
We’ve got Klopp-tions. (sorry)
This is on.
It was just a few games ago when certain fans are proclaiming that Origi will never be good enough for Liverpool FC, Can is a waste of space.
Liverpool FC will never pay a boy of 19 years my lifetime earnings per month because he cannot play football. Our squad of young players are the pick of the crop of the world. None of them are duds.
Young boys need to be given patience, a lot of patience and support to learn and excel. Klopp provides that. We, as fans, must do the same.
When its all of us behind the team, who can’t we beat? (excluding Crystal Palace)
We were fucking Boss! Its time to start signing again!
The Klopp revolution is going places!
I refuse to be one of these liverpool fans who get carried away after one win and claim we’re gonna win the league…. But 6 wins outta 7 ..?
SO NOW YOU’RE GONNA BELIEVE USSSSSSSSSSS!!!!
correction, 7 wins out of 8, mate…cheers
WWWLWWWW …..(f…Palace!)
For as long as I can remember we’ve been referred to as “a one man team.” Not anymore. We really do have the best manager going who’s getting the best out of everyone. Players I would have driven to other clubs weeks ago now look like they could win the lot. I couldn’t really say who our best player is these days, each brings something different but so good to the table.
What I’m really enjoying seeing is the togetherness. The way we all celebrate as a team when we score, the way that we high five in the warm up, the way that they all seem made up for each other when something good comes off (origi & Ibe goals, smith cross, Loren tackle on the deck) and the way that if we make a mistake we don’t let it bother us. The way that we simply just take the piss. T rang out over and over last night but the moment “We are Liverpool” and this really is “Poetry in motion.”
Can’t wait for Sunday.
Klopp : To win this cup would be good as maybe not too many alive from when we last one I think. When was it?
Interviewer: 2012
Klopp: oh, maybe more than I though then…………HAHAHAHA
The guy is so natural its brilliant.
I love moments like this, not just in football but life as well. When some upstart comes along and thinks they’re better than you, and you put them right in their place!
Koeman was giving it the bigg’n before the match saying “we’re just as good as they are, in every department”
No Ronald. No you’re not
Up the Reds
There was a Southampton fan on the Coach Home podcast arguing that none of the LFC side would get in the current Southampton side…..wonder how he feels this morning
Sturridge is the man no doubt but what pleased me most about that performance was that we were without Hendo, Benteke, Coutinho, Firminho, Sakho with Flanno back in training!! Dare we dream??!! What a difference Klopp has made to Ibe as well…not jumping ahead of myself with Origi but well done me lad, you could see the confidence coursing through him in that 2nd half!! love his 2nd goal!! Onwards and upwards red machine..dare we dream, dare we dream!!
Maybe Klopp did want to sign him for Dortmund
Recording Unwrapped yesterday (if you haven’t heard it, do. If you haven’t subscribed, do. It’s all good) and I had notes to hide the fact that I have a terrible memory. There was one note we didn’t get to, the one where I’d scrawled the words – need another top striker, Origi’s never going to be the answer. I am *such* a knobhead sometimes. Soz Divock.
Come off it mate, you weren’t alone and until last night hardly being unreasonable. Obviously, you were if we’re giving the young lads more than 90 mins to prove themselves but we don’t do that :)
I’ve saved unwrappped for tonight. Looking forward to it as usual.
Think about this for a second…….
After last nights performance it wouldn’t exactly be unusual for us to start Mignolet, Clyne, Hendo, Milner, Coutinho, Firmino AND Benteke on Sunday.
That’s SEVEN sets of fresh legs we could very well be starting with in our match on Sunday.
Starting to look like a proper squad now who can grind out win after win.
Still have Sakho and Flanno to come back in soon possibly.
Those two passes to Sturridge were pure 13/14 vintage. The only difference is that they weren’t from Coutinho and Henderson. They were Joe Allen and Emre Can.
Can you imagine what Coutinho and Henderson are thinking now? You’d think they’d fancy a chance to do a few more of those after a year of Balotelli and Lambert.
If we have four players in the midfield capable of creating those passes, two of those lads at times our *defensive* midfielder, mind, things could get interesting. Especially as Firmino will fancy getting on the end of some of those lovelies.
If Klopp is, as reported, telling the players to play without fear, it seems that passes curling behind the defense (and long-range through balls) could become a regular feature of our counter attacks.
As a final note, I love when Joe Allen does well. On all sorts of levels. Beyond proving his vocal doubters wrong, which I thoroughly enjoy, it just seems to open up seas of possibility.
Glad you mentioned Joe Allen. He looked a real player again last night. He can play a big part this season if he stays fit – nice hair and beard too!
Don’t forget Joe Allen started most of those games after Xmas 13/14.
I’ve been trying to tell everyone of Joe Allen’s qualities, on here, for too long now. When he plays we play better. Quicker tempo. I’ve made a pact to myself that the next person who says Allen just goes sideways and back is getting punched. Nice to see him get the assist last night. I see him as someone who gets the assist to the assist i.e. plays it to the person who provides the assist.
I can’t wait for everyone to catch up, haha, so we can lament his performances on here. Neil’s about the only one who understands. The rest #clueless, haha.
Sorry, this is the only thing I’ve ever got right (based on last night’s performance). It needs milking.
I’ve been on the Joe Allen train too. Made up for that little fella that he’s finding his role in a Klopp team.
A great read, really, really well written. I wish I could write like that. The biggest compliment I can offer is that most of the replies have all been in the same style. Great work.
And as for LFC… ‘And now you’re gonna believe us’
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
ha ha ha
But not six times…
One thing we didn’t really mention is last night formation by Klopp~~
call it 442 diamond. or variation.of 433. whatever. but his set up was super effective..
Possibly Koemen was expecting one striker like Big Ben to fight every ball till 60 mins mark and bring on Sturridge…but Klopp surprised all of us by starting Sturridge and Origi together..and the rest is history…
All credit to Joe Allen. He showed he can play back in 13/14 but has been on the end of a whole lot of stick for a long time. Great pass for the goal, was all over the midfield. Great game.
Nice to see Sturridge remind us how easy he finds scoring. Truly we’ve missed him.
“Adam Lallana he’s winning 6-1”, classic!
Big performance from Origi as well. If he’s turned a corner that would make things interesting. Pace, power and now goals.
You’ve got to fancy us over two legs against Stoke, and I can’t see this team, under Klopp, losing a final, can you? Ever like?
Magic that was, and without the little magician too.