HORRIBLY, painfully predictable, absolutely fucking shambolic. Again.
If this is the reality then what’s the point?
Simon Mignolet: 3
Two decent stops at 0-0, the fact he had to make two stops against the absolute shite show that are Leicester shows how fucking abject we were.
Nathaniel Clyne: 3
If I had a pound for every time he hit the first man with a cross tonight, I’d have enough for a drink to numb the horror of that display.
Joel Matip: 3
Supposedly the leader of the back four, all over the shop tonight.
Lucas Leiva: 2
Love him, great fella, great servant but exposed horribly tonight after a tour de force against Spurs the other week.
James Milner: 3
Looks like a 31-year-old right-footed centre midfielder playing left-back.
Georginio Wijnaldum: 3
Said it before, say it again; looks great when we’re great, empty shirt when we aren’t.
Emre Can: 1
Speaking of empty shirts. The less said the better.
About that contract, la?
Adam Lallana: 3
Lightweight and way off what we’ve come to expect, seemed to lack his usual aggression that’s made him stand out.
Sadio Mane: 3
Got into a few dangerous positions but the link-up play was off, not for the first time. Struggles when he’s not got grass in front of him.
Roberto Firmino: 2
Shite, gets a bonus point for effort, that’s about it.
Awful.
Philippe Coutinho: 5
Best of a fucking awful bunch.
SUBS
Divock Origi: 5
Looked more aggressive in possession in the short time he was on the pitch than Firmino did the entire game.
Alberto Moreno: n/a
Ben Woodburn: n/a
Jürgen Klopp: 3
What’s the point of selling Christian Benteke and playing a nip-and-tuck front three if everyone is going to get fed up and wing it long to three forwards who are never going to win it in a battle with a gang of yard dogs?
Normally swerve the manager, but how many times is this going to happen?
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On the manage tonight. It’s as though we watched the City game and thought, ah. so what? Fuck me.
Spot on re Clyne: what were those subs about? If you’re going to 3 at the back then you need a better wing-back than Nate and wtf does Bobby F have not to do to get hooked? Mane and Lallana were way more threatening even though they weren’t at their best.
Migs deserves more than a 3.
Well done for getting this up after that shite.
Mignolet and Couts were the only ones that showed up, bit harsh on Migs there with a 3..
Seriously did anybody expect anything different tonight? We’ll put 4 past Arsenal just wait and see.
Thank fuck for you guys. Think I’d have lost the plot weeks ago without you. Watch us smash Arsenal on Saturday now. Bunch of bastards!
50 years ago today LFC signed Emlyn Hughes not the greatest footballer to wear the red shirt perhaps but the effort and determination he put into every game in comparison with present lot is monumental
Firmino couldn’t trap a bag of cement tonight, infact everyone’s first touch was piss poor.
Mane’s head fell off after Vardy did him early on, and why oh why do we punt crosses and long balls up to nobody.
How much longer do we have to watch this?
The only player that looked good Tonight was Jordan Henderson.
Can did ok at centre half, which is an idea because he is never a centre kid in a Liverpool side.
Fuming at these pricks tonight, absolutely shit themselves but it’s all on the manager, again.
Thought Mignolet did pretty well actually
Worried about Klopp though, seems to have same game plan against every team. Easily picked apart on the break. Sticks to Can and Lucas when he can.
Lost 2 finals and a semi and now 4th spot maybe gone, Everton team of the year so far, could catch us.
Very depressing
Maybe he needs a transfer window but that’s not his style
Phone back live
Well there’s a surprise no come back
To all my lfc family and mates forgive the following rant !
Whilst we do have players of great technical ability and stamina, we have no one who will actually get stuck in. An attribute no doubt in decline but absolutely necessary to win things
Milner , Lucas and Henderson the only ones who will put a foot in. Can is for me a massive disappointment looked like he could be the answer in midfield but is actually flatters to deceive
We have a solid forward line but it relies almost entirely on quick free flowing football and as soon as we get closed down or teams sit deep we have no answer
Klopp now needs to admit that his current squad is not up to playing his way or his way doesn’t work in England.
I still think he’s the man but he has to get FSG to dig deep and get a world class keeper , centre half and centre mid otherwise we will simply not progress.
Our net spend with the current yanks is fuck all and they are most definitely at the moment just lining their own pockets. Check the net spend out ! Anyone out there know a billionaire with deep pockets who loves lfc ?
That said player power is now so tangible probably best to make the captain the manger and be done with it
Rant over just so pissed off
Didn’t think I could feel worse than I did yesterday, thanks lads. No guts, no desire, no commitment to the cause. No desire to impose our will upon the opposition. Utter spineless display. We should be pulling ahead of teams who went into transition long after us. Instead, they’re winning trophies and we’re going backwards. Not good. It’s the overall approach to player acquisition based on a financial incentive. I don’t care who’s in the dugout with their cutting edge philosophies or their heart on a sleeve man management. This squad needs more old school graft and an ownership group humble and wise enough to change their approach when year after year it’s not working.
Grrrrrrhhhhhh, those long balls and crosses straight to their centre backs Every time! Love Lucas but Kane is a very different animal to Vardy. At least Klopp seems angry tonight but his decisions were baffling, as they have been lately to be fair. Last 10 matches, Won 2, Drawn 2, LOST SIX!!!! I want Klopp to stay 100%, but statistics like that are just soul destroying. Looked like BR’s ’14/’15 side tonight. Right, social media blackout for me – don’t envy you lot on the WRAP on days like this. Ps- Duncan Castles is a F**king C**t of the F**king Very First F**king ORDER. Off to bed, all the best lads.
Sad that the squad is so inept that even at 2 down looking at our options it looked dire. To be in the position we were in at the start and having had an option to strengthen in Jan and not having done so is a joke.
Clyne I’d give a 1, looks 1/10th the player Kyle Walker has become, rabbit caught in the headlights as soon as he’s in the oppositions half.
Klopp is talking to these guys in English right?
Ming’s just gets blasted by you every time. Which then makes a mockery of the total dross getting the same mark. He was fine. Every other coward and weakling deserves less than him. The players just could not be bothered. I hope they enjoyed their freebie holiday as they could not have cared less about the team or the supporters tonight.
I am beginning to think that the team does not “tick” without Henderson.
His willingness and ability to move the ball quickly and accurately was not on show from the middle.
Way too many loose passes.
But Leicester were up for it. Well up for it.
That Nivea advert is telling us something.
Cannot understand why we played so much of the game in the air when we are so bad at heading the ball.
Otherwise pretty much as Carra and Neville said- no energy in our display, and a reluctance from the manager to alter tactics to negate opposition strengths. Jurgen ought to be adding Carra to his coaching staff to get some decent defenders in and coach them properly.And we need proper cover for Henderson’s absences
Thought Mingulay did well but Clyne is a real problem in the final third for me.
I know that there were disciplinary issues with Sakho and we will probably never know the full details, but at what point can we stop pretending that we don’t miss him?
i cant have that. As much as we loved Sakho he is not the answer. For all his many qualities, IMO he had a mistake in him far too often.
So Jurgen we have a mid-season break.What would you like to do? I’ll take them away to prepare for the Leicester game.And what will you tell them?
Oh! I’ll tell them that Leicester are a one trick pony and they’ll just try and lump the ball into the box.And what about Vardy? Oh he can’t score anymore.
Will you formulate a plan to deal with them? No! I’ll be on the telly making funny jokes about Brexit,Trump and Ranieri! I’m quite funny Is?
Not any more Jurgen!
I make these ratings spot on, bar Klopp. If have him down as a 1. Starting to worry that the actual genius at Dortmund was Zorc, not Jurgen. Look at all the top European talent they’ve picked up since Klopp left them, compared to who we’ve signed. Surely we can pay much higher wages than them and match them for transfer fees? Alright they play in the Champs Leauge, but they’re not going to win it are they? Really really worried. As a life long fan of 30 years living up in Scotland finally coming to Anfield for first time next week. Hoping we can do better against Arsenal.
Gave up at half time, and watched “Housewives Of Beverly Hills” with the missus.
That foul by Vardy on Mané after 30 seconds was ominous. It showed they were up for it and we were about to roll over. We should be screaming at the ref for a red card or getting in Vardy’s face or leaving one on him next time the ball is near him. Or all three! Too nice. Too soft. Too easy to play against.
How predictable!
It’s the second international break and we are top of the league and boss, but then it starts to go wrong. Klopp doesn’t change it, we keep on doing the same, fair enough, but at this time we need to get Sturridge and Divvy in the team and scoring goals, we need to learn to score goals differently so other teams are kept on their toes, we have injuries and things don’t go our way, but we stopped asking questions, we became predictable and we have been found out, which is what happens when you have good solid players but not
worldies.
Every game we have a back 4 where 50% of them are playing out of position. You can get away with 1 out of position but not 2, not if you become predictable at the same time.
Our greatest strengths are our greatest weakness, we do well against the top six and shite against the bottom 7. We are great at world class goals against top opposition, but we never score from a free kick, corner or ricochet, we are not built that way and the other team are better at this type of football.
We have 11 good players against good teams but we need different players to take points off the bottom half and stop giving away soft goals. Not exactly a plan B but a variation of plan A with different players so nobody gets tired and so we keep on asking questions.
Without Danny Ings and being able to get Sturridge and Divvy integrated we don’t ask enough in attack and we don’t play more than 2 proper defenders, that’s a strategic problem which is the result of an abysmal transfer policy under FSG, our best transfer window was either when we signed Suarez and Carroll or Coutinho and Strurridge. FSG have sold Torres, Suarez, Sterling Kuyt and Maxi. We have also lost Gerrard, Carra, Agger, Skirtl and Glen Johnson (he was once good). None of these players have been replaced with like for like quality in the way that City, Chelsea and United try to do, they don’t always succeed (40-50% success) but at least they try and while Mane and Matip have been good we needed another two in addition, because you need two good new players every year when you are champions to keep it fresh, you need more if you are chasing and if one of our best players is injured or has an off night we have nobody that can change it or make a difference.
Klopp seems unable to do anything about this. And he asked us to believe. He needs to apologise for, then explain Leiva at the back and Moreno even travelling to Leicester.
This can’t continue
How easy are we to bully out of games! No fight, no scrapping for anything, just a load of really nice lads who are probably a right laugh off the pitch.
But would you look to them when you’re in a tight spot fighting for your life. Would you fuck.
We need some snide horrible bastards in the team, we’re far too nice.
Reruns of the same shit show.
We are so easy to play against in these sort of games.
I have a lot of faith in Klopp but it’s obvious to anyone that the squad is pretty average in a very competitive league. Champions league teams don’t play the likes of Lucas, Milner at the back. Yes you can get away with it when the team is flying but eventually it will catch up with you.
Each player put on the proper kit, and walked to the pitch.
Simon Mignolet: 1
Nathanial Clyne: 1
Joel Matip: 1
Lucas Leiva: 1
James Milner: 1
Georginio Wijnaldum: 1
Emre Can: 1
Adam Lallana: 1
Sadio Mane: 1
Roberto Firmino: 1
Phillipe Coutinho: 2 (Goal)
Subs: Who F***ing cares, none are ready to make a significant impact yet.
Mr. Oz, someone find these lads a heart.
ditto
no heart no bottle but what was Klopp thinking with his selections. Re Sakho the man has been punished at the expense of weakening the squad and that is just not good management – cutting off your nose etc
When you haven’t scored all year and your confidence is rock bottom how reassuring it must be to see a Klopp XI roll in to town. Big Lucas Love in post Spurs for the easily impressed now this.
What on earth was that
Abject nonsense
No heart
No bite
No fight
Ducking tackles
Hiding from headers
No idea
No balls
Not good enough
I’m not advocating breaking an opponent’s jaw, but could you imagine Souness standing for that humiliation last night? The whole 60s team, even Peter Thompson would have fought to the end last night, although they wouldn’t need to. This bunch of softies has no idea what we expect from the shirt, skill yes, but graft, commitment, never say die and getting the f*ck into the opposition. Klopp’s tactics are questionable, but the basics of fighting for the shirt, the supporters and the Club is missing and needs getting in. From Yeats to Agger to Suarez I have seen that desire – nobody in that team had it last night, have they got it at all?
There is so much that could be said, but for me the most damning indictment of all was the fact that any journalist could have written the match report for this game the moment Claudio Ranieri was sacked. It was excruciatingly obvious that Leicester would be super-charged for the game and keen to prove it wasn’t them at fault for Ranieri’s plight, even though it was. All they needed was a gutless, supine, obliging opponent to roll into town. Lo’ and behold, they got one.
I’m saying it, this is not a Liverpool team. There are no winners to be found here. These lads will let you down. Nothing can take away from the performances they have given us this season, I must stress that, but these are not trophy winning footballers. They can’t do it. Hendo is a winner but he wasn’t there last night. Lucas, Milner and Lallana are also capable of the necessary nastiness, but there’s not enough.
We have no inevitability about us. No Ibrahimovic at Wembley inevitability. There’s no snarl, nobody seems to give a fuck if we win or not. I’m not yet 30 but I have watched enough football to know what winning footballers look like. Carragher, Mascherano, Gerrard, Suarez etc, these footballers would do anything to win a game of football. Suarez would punch the ground in frustration at even missing a chance. I miss that.
Spice Boys II – they’ll play pretty football at times and sometimes hammer teams but theres no strength or solidity in the team. Over a 38 game season we’ll revert to our actual level of 6-8th. Finishing below the BS will be the final nice finish off to the season.
amazes me that lucas gets blamed for mangers awful tatics lovren klaven caragher none of them would have made any difference last nite . Players where shite manager was worse score of 0 for me . I always thought you could win league playing one way but not this way !