1. Christ…
I’d sort of forgotten what it was to feel like that, where you want to ferret around inside your own stomach and peel out your own bowels. Maybe spread them about in the garden so a big fat crow has got a nice tea.
Where do you start? Shocking. And not just the obvious individuals who had stinkers. The intensity was completely missing. As soon as our work rate is not right then the gaps are huge.
Have they all got COVID? Fucking hell.
2. It was fucking cruel to send Gomez out for the second half…
He was beyond shite first half, second guessing everything he was doing. Got inside his own head. Have some sympathy for him, though. Rory Smith wrote a cracking article on him the other day basically along the lines of teams constantly try and and expose him as they can’t get a sniff out of Virgil and it’s right.
That said, Jesus Christ.
3. I mean, there’s no point really analysing the keeper…
It’s like his legs aren’t his. For the love of fucking God, don’t twat one to him in the first five minutes that he has to chest to get under control.
4. The second half was like a simulation…
Whereby, we had run over 50 black cats, ran under 20 ladders, murdered the entire family of the fucker writing the code and half our team looked off their barnets on ket.
5. Honest to god I sent my man United mate this text at 5-1 today in their game. Blame me…
“Deano, this isn’t meant in any way to be inflammatory, you know that. Is there a score here where Ole has to go? We got beat by stoke 6-0 or 6-1 or something and I thought Rodgers should have gone on the spot. Granted, we didn’t get someone sent off, but still it was that bad. Is Ole on the ropes or is the feeling still very much it’s the club and the way it’s run?“
I mean, I’ve never in my life seen anything like this game. What the fuck is going on? Hahaha.
Imagine The Blues tonight. If they aren’t having a massive lock-in down County Road tonight, rule of six lashed firmly out the window, they are doing it very wrong.
I think you’ve said it the best.
Perfect Johno, you’ve almost made it feel a little bit better but then I look at the League and go ahhh FFS, give me the Derby on Wednesday night please , the worst part is stewing for 2 weeks whilst it’s the turn of Chilwell & Abraham to invite brasses to the Travel Lodge in fuckin Basildon or somewhere but we’re all pacing the floor like lunatics wanting Virgil to empty Calvert -Lewin first minute !!!!
We’ll destroy the Blueshite because we’re the Champions of England and silly things happen but we’ll bounce back
Adrian is dreadful with his feet, but something like this suggests that’s all that’s wrong.
What about letting through his hands straight at him vs Chelsea in the cup last season? What about two pathetic dives where basically just flops over for Atletico’s 2-1 (where he obviously more famously have the ball straight to them) and 2-2 goals as anfield? What about his clownish college coming for a cross vs Lincoln to give them a goal, and another absolutely embarrassing, laughable effort tonight giving them an open goal that they missed?
The guy is terrible. Absolutely woeful. Shite. Whatever you want to call it. Saying he’s bad because of his feet is like saying Hitler isn’t a great lad cos he had funny taste in moustaches. He’s terrible at everything. An absolute pub keeper who will give the opposition at least one goal and/or get away with one massively in every single game he plays. There’s shite reserves and then there’s this guy. Can’t fucking stand the sight of him.
100%
I can forgive any player who makes clownish errors because it happens to all of them. But when Adrian has a track record of costly and foolish errors that either a) cost LFC the game (think the Atletico return leg) or that set the tone for the match (i.e today) then it’s time to send him the way of Karius. Surely there is a more consistent keeper out somewhere out there in the UK- heck- the world- who might not be able to reach the levels of Allison but can at least be fairly relied upon not to have these costly brain-farts?
Surely…
Bit unfair on Adrian, Deco.
Remember he got us through last season when Ali was also crocked. 9 EPL games (all victories) and that Super Cup against Chelsea which we won. 10 solid games for us. Also came on on that cold Winter’s day when Ali got sent off against Brighton and did OK (that feels like it was a decade ago – 2020 has been a very long year). He was also in goal when we crushed the Blues 5-2 and was also there in the last game before the lockdown against Bournemouth when we won 2-1.
He did so a bad job against Atleti at Anfield but Ali also had a hard time in Madrid – they are just a horrible side to play against. He is not Ali but no one is not even Ederson.
I do think we need to change our strategy when he is in goal – no more 433 but maybe a deeper line 4231 with a double pivot for protection. That is Klopp’s responsibility. This match was kamikaze style playing – just madness by Liverpool and the manager should have done more at half time. If Klopp has one weakness it is that he trusts his players too much to work things out.
The team must improve but we should not be pointing fingers and throwing any one under the bus when the entire team and even Klopp was to blame.
Bad day at the office, learn from it, put it in the rearview mirror and carry on.
Get better, get angry and crush the Blues like the pretenders they are.
Up the Reds!
This 10 solid game thing isn’t true though. He was awful vs Southampton, giving them a goal, and we won in spite of him, not because of anything he did to help.
Everyone was too busy talking about what a heart-warming story it was that Adrian played and won the Super Cup to remember that he gave them a terrible, needless penalty to equalise.
Also had one awful moment that he got away with I remember in the game you mentioned vs Brighton.
The idea this guy was great last autumn is a myth. And he’s been absolutely embarrassingly brutal since.
Biggest blind spot in our fanbase and biggest problem by a mile in our squad.
Adrian was at fault for the first. That made it 1 0. Explain the other 6? Both Leeds and Villa ripped our RB/RCB position to pieces.
We might say they go that way because Van Dijk and Robbo are the other side, but it might be that they have identified a real weakness between Trent and Gomez.
@Keith Millard
Can’t understand this line of thinking. Perhaps you can argue that he was only directly at fault for the first goal, but do you not think the rest of the performance happens as a result of that error right at the start of the game? No arguments that others like Gomez had a nightmare, but the whole mess of a performance is a chain reaction that emanates from Adrian and his f***up. He rocked the whole side’s confidence and threw our plans out the window. It’s not just as simple as saying we can only blame for the goal he looked piss-poor for.
Ben, as usual a great piece! Between you and Neil A, you’ve both made today a whole lot more bearable! We go again!
@Deco
if our back line falls apart after 5 minutes due to a GK error then there is an issue there.
Go watch how lame Gomez was when that situation arose. We are fucking mentality monsters…so, no I am not having it that this was all down to a GK error inside 5 minutes.
The moment when he ran out to catch a cross that didn’t arrive (Watkins hit the bar with no one in goal) made me laugh out loud, an utter embarrasment and how we haven’t signed a keeper today is beyond me, should never wear the shirt again.