TAW contributors with talking points straight from the ground after Liverpool’s 2-2 draw with Bournemouth.
Keeper To Blame
Mignolet is a fucking useless cunt. @RobGutmann
What. What. What. @PaulSenior1
That ‘punch’. @RobGutmann
He cleared the area. @PaulSenior1
That was an easy catch. Behave. It skimmed off his useless fist. @RobGutmann
Clutchin’. @PaulSenior1
I was in line with it. Easiest catch ever. Don’t defend that. It was dreadful. @RobGutmann
Bananas blaming the ‘keeper tonight. @johngibbonsblog
Fatigue
We needed legs there. They were dead on their feet. @RobGutmann
There were loads of tired lads who could have gone off for lads who could run around. @johngibbonsblog
Our lack of legs in the last 30 was why we didn’t win. He had to change it. Firmino was dead on his feet. @RobGutmann
Klopp To Cop For It
Manager needs to spend as long as I drank for after the Derby looking at himself in the mirror. @johngibbonsblog
Actually think Klopp is trying to be ‘cleverer’ and take the result but it obviously backfires when they score off something like their second real shot of note. He was trying to shut up shop, take what we had and look to Stoke. And we’re three or four minutes away from saying it was the right move. @robbohuyton
Feel a bit sorry for Klopp ‘cos these cunts can’t defend when he tries to keep doing what we normally do, so he changes it and them cunts can’t defend then either. Lack of reasonable options is the key. Kids or mings on the bench. @Benjanijohnson
Ragnar Klavan
Klavan is shite. @Benjanijohnson
Buying 31-year-old centre-halves who’ve never played in England for 4 million quid don’t often turn you into title contenders tbf. Proper FSG shite. @PaulSenior1
It’s not his fault. He’s just shite and shite for that goal. Bit unlucky as well. But mainly shite. @Benjanijohnson
Divock Origi
Origi was really good and definitely a positive. @PhilBlundell
Origi was great. Made up with him. Some fantastic touches. Reports of his uselessness greatly exaggerated etc. @robbohuyton
Showing why he’s worth a run of games. Either going to be a world beater in his career or a nearly man. Everything about him tonight showed, that he’s got the tools to be a top, top forward.
Sexton give Origi 6. Not quite that shite. @PaulSenior1
Just thought he took a beating from Francis and Cook all game which meant he couldn’t get much to go bar his goal and a few nice touches out wide but others seen it differently which is fair. @jsexton24
Scored yanno mate. Constantly helped us start attacks. Excellent work rate. Good touches. @PaulSenior1
I know but that was mostly Gini I thought. @jsexton24
Thought he was comfortably man of the match. @PaulSenior1
Origi a 6 for me. Quiet mostly. @johngibbonsblog
The Ref
Adam Melia shouted the following “eh Mason, lady legs shit ref” and I still can’t stop laughing. @Benjanijohnson
The Table
Was eyeing up second at one stage and now I’m looking at Arsenal again. Great. @PhilBlundell
Overall any point is a half decent point at this stage. We need four from Stoke and WBA to stay on course. We’re in poll position for third still. Only lack of bodies will stop us. @RobGutmann
The Conclusion
Performance I didn’t think was dreadful but it wasn’t good enough to cover our various failings. @PhilBlundell
Thought Ibe was shite. @PaulSenior1
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I’m no FSG fanboy in the slightest but how in the world is Klavan on them? By all accounts it was solely a Klopp decision to bring him in. Kill them for things they should be killed for, but this isn’t one of them.
I’m glad Jürgen held it in…I was not as fortunate. This kind of shit is going to land us in 5th. 1 point from these wasteoids this season…this has to be a joke.
good comments from @robbohuyton the rest sounded like me in the pub
We’re shite without Sadio aren’t we? Especially when Bobby moves out wide*. It doesn’t have to be like this. We don’t have to play 4-3-3 when Sadio’s out.
As for Origi, played well, strong, holds the ball up, but he slows us down. He’s playing a different game, so we need to play a different game if we’re going to get the best out of him.
Really, really frustrating night. Knew we’d concede: we’re not good enough to hold on to leads. On the manager tonight.
Oh, and agree with Rob re Mignolet. The panic sets in when he starts dicking around in the first half. Wasn’t directly responsible for either goal, but unsettled the team and the crowd with his antics.
*I know Bobby’s popular in these parts, rightly so, but he’s had a lot of ineffective games since Christmas and only seems to be able to play one way. Gets a bit of a free pass at times, given the stick Sturridge got for only being able to play centrally.
no mate – we scored 2 goals without Mane. That’s enough for a routine 2 goal win, as it should have been against Swansea, sunderland, west ham, Bournemouth and whoever else we’ve scored more than 1 and still dropped points.
We missed Matip way more, and probably also more in January than people realize.
I think Matip is huge for us. Saw a stat yesterday that when him and Lovren have started together, we haven’t lost a game, and the only two of those games deemed ‘bad results’ were two clean sheets (Southampton & Man Utd). Unfortunately those games they get to play together are few and far between, so I’m a bit worried that him and Lovren are too injury prone to be a consistent centre back pairing.
Especially when their deputy is Ragnar ‘where did the ball go’ Klavan.
matip has played 20 league games this season – which if consider he missed 4 due to the ACN debacle, means his injury misses aren’t that bad really.
Of course we miss Matip.
We wouldn’t miss the weak and feeble Mignolet
need c/half.and a few more.but go with what we got.keep the faith,as i said support your team,instead saying shite.may be another team for you boys.
% drop off mentally for me, seen it all season in these games. The mistakes we make that have cost us about 20 points now and will probably cost us the top 4 spot. Winaldum doesn’t make that mistake against Utd, Chelsea etc because he’s on it, he isn’t even thinking about it.
it reminded me of the show about Ronnie Moran the other week when he was chasing Mark Wright down asking him why he did something and Wright said “I thought…..” and Moran butted in with “Exactly you thought about it”
And that for me was exactly the case with Winaldum last night, for 1/2 a second, that’s all, he thought about something instead of just clipping the ball around the corner out wide. Which is exactly what he would of done if it’d been a top 4 side, but because it’s Bournemouth I’ll take a touch, think about it and then fuck it up.
No fault from the keeper for me last night the back 4-6 are not up to it. Not sure if Klavan is still in the changies rooting round still looking for that ball. On the keeper tho that Cruyff turn that he’s started doing will probably cost us in a week or two when the forward just checks his run anticipating it.
Squad depth is a major problem, it only looks decent when no one is out, now it looks thin as fuck. I would of gone like for like with Phil last night. Understand the sub given Mane, Lallana, Henderson all out. But as soon as we went 5 at the back we dropped ten and invited them too much. At 65 thought we were in control of the game. Arnold would of been the legs outlet ball and given them something to think about.
Mentally seeing Phil go off and a CB come would of given them a lift instead of thinking Shit, this lads quick
as fuck. For me the sub gave them nothing to think about and allowed them to take ricks going forward.
I was in no way surprised by King’s equaliser. Not even remotely.
I was obviously fuming but to me it just confirms we cannot hold one goal leads. We just can’t do it. There’s a sense of inevitability which we always give in to.
We just need to keep attacking when we’re ahead. There can be no other way for us to secure victories.
Loved Wijnaldum’s work for Divock’s goal.
Joe Hart. We need Joe Hart.
The substitution changed the dynamic of the game. Despite the rubbish spouted by Klopp we ended up playing 5 across the back against Bournemouth! Dreadful.
Lads, no offence meant … you’re just not very good. It can’t have escaped your notice that your man, John, has an estimated worth of $2.3 billion. He’s not shy of shovelling that into the baseball. Time for some proven quality, eh?
he doesn’t shovel anything into baseball…the red sox are worth around double what Liverpool are.
I guess you see some lad get a $100m 10 year deal and wonder why we can’t do that? Well, that’s $10m a year or about 7m quid a year – or rather, a bit less than Phil Coutinho’s new deal….
Boston Red Sox broke the curse of the Bambino on the smell of an oily rag? No, they didn’t. We both know that it’s time for FSG to open the cheque book and get in some quality.