MY only real gripe with The Reds there is that they are too soft.
Marco Verratti, twat of a tackle, wants fucking bladdering and standing over. No one touches him. Neymar, flicking the ball over people’s heads, diving, cheating, moaning and no one lands a fucking glove on him. Need to learn how to be fucking horrible.
Alisson: 8
Should have just caught that Angel Di Maria one, shouldn’t he? Makes a belter save from the Thiago Silva offside/not offside one.
Absolute twat of a throw to Gini with his back to goal just after he’d been booked. But that said, made a few great saves second half. Our best player, by some distance.
Joe Gomez: 4
Anyone still laughing at our throw-in coach with his Liverpool duvet, yer? Joey Gomez will pick you up and lash you into the top bin. That said, he is fucking desperate for the first, and not too clever for the second. We need to be smarter. Neymar pops the ball past you in their half, fucking bump into him by accident on purpose. Don’t just run after the scruffy, horrible, wining twat. And if you are running after him, fucking sprint. He’s three quarter pace there, edge of the box when he slots that second.
Degsi Lovren: 6
Great interception there at the near post first 10 minutes. Thought he was our best defender thereafter which doesn’t say much for everyone else.
Virgil: 5
Poor clearance for the first but in fairness everyone just stands and looks at him holding their cocks. Couldn’t find a red shirt first 20. Makes his first meaningful contribution in the first few minutes of the second half with a belter front-front tackle. That was it, though. First poor performance for The Reds, pretty much. You get one Virgil but no more or we will have to disband the appreciation society and smelt your statue down and make watches out of it.
Andy Robbo: 6
Booted Neymar there in the last minute and simultaneously gets a point for doing it and loses a point for not straight legging the fucking twat.
Milner: 6
Absolutely hipped Di Maria there, didn’t he? Is right, lad. The best out of the midfield three, mainly because he kicked a few people, but I’m not having it that they are all this shite. This is a shape issue which is culminating in a midfield three who look like they have never played footy, and haven’t ran since last January, when they bought a gym membership in a fit of panic and then spewed it after half an hour on the bike. Blagging their birds they are still going. Just going the cafe and maybe having a steam room.
Henderson: 5
Gets popped off for the first there too easy, doesn’t he?
Made a note on 30 minutes that I’d take him off. He looks fucking miles off. Played a cracking ball to Salah for the half chance but I would say that might have been his entire contribution first half. If I’m in this midfield and I’m getting made a cunt of by our shape in general, I reckon I am knocking shite out of people at half time. Better second half, as was the whole midfield but still, the game’s fucking gone by then.
Gini:
I don’t know what to give him. I genuinely don’t know. What do you reckon. Might put some numbers, except 7, 8, 9,10 into a tombola and pull one out. Our midfield was shite.
Mo Salah: 6
Thought he actually looked pretty sharp first half. Fed scraps but ate a little. We might have to fuck that 4-3-3 off for a bit because it just leaves our forwards isolated.
Sadio: 7
Our best attacking player. Offered threat, great for the pen, got a pair of balls on him and a dose of nous to play the game.
Firmino: 5
Might have to play him centre mid for the rest of his life.
SUBS
Keita:
Looked sharp, mind you. Better than the other three.
Shaq:
Was shite.
Sturridge:
Did some actual fouls which was sound, but offered nothing the other way.
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Can’t argue with that. We were abysmal tonight ( again away in CL) and seen to have completely lost our spark in these games.
There is no hiding from the fact that although our league position is great we are not playing well.
Day of reckoning on Sunday? I really hope not!
Up to Klopp to put things right. Is the loss of Coutinho now starting to show? We certainly lack any creativity in midfield.Hoping for an immediate improvement
Howe bout giving Paris some credit here!
They went for our throats in the first 30 minutes and they got boss players. This is not a mediocre PL side we were playing here.
Liverpool are not the only ones who can blitz any team on their day. PSG did to us in the 1st half.
Overall, our attacking was not good enough to get something from the game.
How about you start questioning where Salah ishiding in these big games. But I am sure you will find the right excuse like the bald lad above did in his ratings.
Sorry but we were shocking… so no I am not giving PSG any credit. That was unbelievably poor showing for the first half and most of it all down to us.
Not sure what you want Salah to do? Yep didn’t have a great game, but was better than 7 players playing behind him and one who was next to him up top.
Would any top side go into that game with Henderson, Wjnaldum and Milner as the midfield? They proved once again that they are simply not good enough, it’s as though Kiev told us nothing. Jurgen made it quite clear by signing Naby and Fabihno and trying for Fekir that he knows the midfield is weak. It’s about time that we trusted Naby and Fabihno to show us what they can do. Shaqiri in there as well wouldn’t be bad thing either.
Fabinho of course.
Good call
Rorydelapping all throw ins around the box is giving away possession pretty much every fucking time. Any chance we could cement a bit of possession to foot and try and create something that way again.
Stop making excuses for Salah.
He either loses the ball or falls flat on his arse. That about sums up his contribution tonight. When was the last big away game where he procuded for us??
It all comes down to the same thing. The performance tonight was another piece of evidence that this team doesnt know how to win trophies. Well, how should they, of course? They showed again that they lack that nous, that experience to prevail at this tough away grounds. Especially in the last 10 minutes of the game there weree so many mad decisions made with and without the ball by the Reds.
We are on the brink of having to watch this supposedly improved side play Europa League in february. That would be an absolute disgrace!
Fans have to stop getting carried away with this team so often.
Best front three in Europe and stuff. Oh please, last season was last season. This season they havent stepped up enough. Simple as!
Might not even make the Europa. PSG don’t have to win their last game.
Midfield makes forwards look bad. Henderson is shot. He was a good player for us when we were upper mid table, he’s out of his depth at this level I’m afraid. Squad player
I fully concur. Him, Lallana, Sturridge, Matip, Migs, Moreno are all players we have to move on, as they are taken up a wage and also filling a space that could be used for players who can improve us.
Already fed up, now having to re-type everything again as it didn’t load up.
So tonight, where do we start with it all.
The ref. What an absolute disgusting cheat. A complete tool. Needs to be serious given a kicking. One absolute shocker and we, as a Club have to speak out about him, although nothing will be done by us about it or UEFA even if we did.
Klopp – This one tonight is all on him. Not sure what the is going on, but when I saw the line up tonight I already feared the worst and then it all unfolded as it did… and yet Klopp just did nothing to alter it. – Sorry but if is not working, then sort it out. – 3 away games in the CL this season and all of them shocking. So far the story reads the last 5 away from Anfield in Europe have all been defeats with 4 scored and 11 conceded. In fact tonight we registered one shot on target from a penalty, that was it. Naff all else. We had no shots in Napoli and it took until 71 mins in Belgrade to register a shot on target.
The defence or absolute lack of it tonight, once again it was all over the shop. It was offered no protection by what was in front of it, however it was non-existent for their goals, in fact it was actually to blame for their goals. Not sure how Ben you’ve given the self proclaimed best defender in the World a 6, you must be having a laugh, as he did nothing, other than stood around admiring PSG all night. Gomez was gash at RB and VvD had a mare. Robbo was the only one to come out with any credit.
The midfield or rather I should say that gap that was somewhere in the middle of the park, unbelievable. Worst of the lot was Henderson. He is now making Christian Poulsen, the human glacier look good when he played for Liverpool. Another shocker from Henderson. Did nothing against Watford other than get needlessly sent off. Tonight it would have mattered if the same had happened as he did even worse other and be given the run around. In fact most of the game he spent just standing and pointing. – I am now seriously glad he is not playing against Everton at the weekend, as we may now stand a chance. – It is also now starting to annoy me that we spent £100m on 2 midfielders in the summer for them to be invisible men. If what we saw instead of them tonight is the answer on the pitch, then we spunked this money down the drain. Personally I think Fabinho should have started tonight. He knows the French League having played their for a fair while. Seriously he couldn’t have been worse than the shop dummy that was no pace Henderson.
Front 3. Offered nothing, was given nothing to work with. They need to wake up and start turning up in games. Most feared strike force in the World… sorry, but not on this showing.
PSG – What horrible, cheating disgusting **** they are. Seriously are they happy with those antics. They are a disgrace, a absolute disgrace and so is their manager. What a t*sser. Needs to take a serious look at himself after tonight’s antics.
How about a 1 for Wijnaldum for putting his shirt on the right way or something?He was anonymous yet again in an away game,and was worse than Henderson.
They are always dangerous considering the players they’ve got,but we could have got a result if we’d just made use of the ball in good areas.Our crossing and passing when attacking were appalling.
Wijnaldum was absolutely was awesome when he was playing with Keita and Milner at the start of the season when Hendo was injured. He was similarly awesome for the national team. I think Klopp needs to play only one out of Gini and Hendo at the same time. Maybe its time to start Keita/Shaq, Milner/Fabinho, Gini/Hendo in that combination. Its worked very well for us so far. But please no Gini and Hendo together again.
Klopp will look like a right dickhead for throwing away a great start in the UCL. We beat PSG at home in a blinder of a game, and then he starts fucking about with his usual stubborness.
WTF was he thinking with that midfield trio of Henderson, Gini and Milner. Everyone and my grandmother have said and written that this trio has no creativity and has aged. Yet he persists with this three in midfield when you have such an explosive team like PSG.
Klopp also didn’t go with Gomez and VVD partnership, and doesn’t trust Trent to keep that fucking belly-flop Neymar at bay like he did in the home game.
Then his subs — what is with this fucking manager and his subs timing? He could have put on Keita and Shaq much earlier on. WTF has happened to Fabinho? He would have been right for this game as he has had some experience playing PSG.
Salah is useless when it comes to his right foot, now he is useless when it comes to his left foot and brain to add. Maybe give him another one of those mickey-mouse trophies they hand out every week for something or the other, and maybe he will score.
Mane was the only one I think who tried and at least won us the penalty.
Firmino needs to have a rest or play in the center. Again this is Klopp’s doing. The guy is off-form for a while, and best he gets some rest.
PSG were desperate to win and they did win, though with the fucking Ref missing. What did you expect?
Anyways Klopp better not fuck around in the EPL. We’ve come too far now to just piss it away.
Now bring on those dip-shits across town! Need to take out some of this frustration…
“We beat PSG in a cracker of a game…..” with the same midfield 3 as played last night on the pitch for the whole game.
Difference being was our midfield turned up for that game with desire, fight and hunger. This time they looked like Bambi in the head lights of a car and in Henderson, we had a player who was running in treacle all game (and unfortunately it has been the case far too often this season).
Klopp to blame.
Salah, firmino and mane are wank away from home in UCL.
Midfield were running in thick custard and the defence were horrific to.
We will struggle against Napoli at home because we have already underestimated them with klopps two line ups away in Europe.
Managers are all the same.
They think they are messiahs but they are fools
Gini is garbage. A passenger. And has been apart from about 3 games at the start of the season.
Very slow at building and reacting last night, our midfield and defence are on automatic to turn back and look for Alison instead of utilising the space in front of them. The 3 of them in midfield got the run around by Veratti. If the likes of Keita and Fabinho are not going to start any games and only being bought on with 10 minutes remaining how are they going to adapt. Blessing that Henderson is out of the derby. Give Keita, Fab and Shaq a go behind the front 3! The goals will come. Gomez is much better at CB as his crossing is not a strong point to his game but he has more pace than Lovren to offer in that position.
Am I hallucinating or was that the midfield three that took us to a Champions League final a few months ago?
Really the only difference to the squad has been Gomez for Trent and Alisson for Karius. Which, in theory, only makes us stronger. There has to be something more than “those boys are shite” for analysis. Because they weren’t then, but are doing a fair approximation now.
I agree, none of our players are shite and these players did indeed take us to the CL Final, but something is undeniably wrong with us of late and even Klopp was aware of this last season.
With Coutinho or more importantly Ox in the team, we had the right blend and that undoubtedly is missing in Europe this season and it is truly apparent.
Some may pick up on the Roma game as one whereby our midfield was the 3 you mentioned. At Anfield it wasn’t scintillating midfield performance that initially put us in the driving seat, it was by passing our MF with balls over the top and in behind Roma, who set up at the back cost them. That 30mins or 40mins spell was what got us through. Since then we conceded 12 goals way from home in Europe with this midfield while only scoring 4.
So whilst some of your statement is factual it does not look at what is a glaring issue and one that Klopp and Co tried to address in the summer. This 3 does not function well enough to compete against teams at the top end of the food chain.