Pre Match
THERE’S you there, just lashed your phone on the deck ’cause Jürgs is playing all the boys.
I think it is safe to say that he thinks we are all bellends, and in fairness he is bang on the money. That said, I can’t wait until we get beat here and everyone moans like fuck that he should have played the team that started the derby.
Post Match
Fucking hell. I mean fucking hell, for fuck’s sake.
Larius: 8
Extra two points on top of his score. One for putting up with the mental Kop screaming at him for not kicking it onto the moon in the first half, and one for having that pony tail/top knot/hairdo and not looking like a sex person. It takes some doing that.
Made a mad save second half where he might have gone temporarily blind until the ball was about to hit his nose, and followed it up with a good one. Aside from that, he was one of them passengers.
Trent: 6
Did alright. Attacked the ball well first half, looked tired second half. Tried a bit of jiggery dribbling first half but fell over the ball which was a shame.
Degsi: 6
Played well, lost a point for acting the goat on Sunday. In fairness, Salomon Rondon was like a big massive Alan Shearer head, as opposed to a pudding, so did well enough to keep him contained.
Klav: 6
Was fine. Like a bowl of soup for your dinner when you really feel like a boss butty. Nothing wrong with him, just not as good as a boss butty.
Robertson: 6
Not as good as everyone thought after his first game, probably a bit better than Jürgen thought after his second game. Decent enough.
Emre Can: 5
I hope Serie A is slow, because this fella could chew the hind leg off an Italian Donkey. Loves six touches when one will do. Shite tonight. Slow, stupid in the tackle, nowhere near as good as Jordan Henderson.
Gini: 5
Looked to be playing off-ground tick as he was nowhere else to be seen whenever we had the ball. One of them games where you wonder what the point in him is. Will score on Sunday or next week and we will all be made up with him and his song. I’d quite like some better centre midfielders all told, but that’s not Gini’s fault. I get the feeling he would too.
Mo Salah: 7
Could have scored a couple. Didn’t score a couple but is probably mates with their big massive centre half, who is well better than Virgil van Dijk. Unlucky with the header, one of them days, weren’t it?
Sadio Mane: 4
Shite today. Tried his best in fairness, but thinking about everything, second guessing himself all day. Needs to realise he is better than 98 per cent of the world’s population that ever played footie. He will be sound in a few games. Hopefully someone can dig us out till then.
Phil Coutinho: 6
Tried and tried. Moved the ball as well as he could but in a game of hard lines he had some hard lines to get past. Tried to get The Reds playing, but it wasn’t to be today.
Roberto Firmino: 6
Like the rest of the forward line it wasn’t his day. Worked his plums off, tried his best, but missed the pivotal chance of the game that would have powered us on to a 4-0 win.
SUBS
Chambo:
Was sound when he came on there.
Solanke:
Had absolutely hard lines — the referee was a fat little dollop.
Joe Gomez:
Can’t wait till Nathaniel Clyne gets fit so he can be our best centre half.
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Cheers Ben, successfully lightened my mood again. Pissed myself laughing at the Can one despite every bit of it being true.
Thought Gini & Can were everything Milner & Henderson aren’t last Wednesday, then absolutely awful tonight. Thought Klavan was our best player on the night, some good tackles & interceptions against Rondon, says it all really.
Spot on as usual had me screaming in frustration and that makes me look a complete twat at my age! What ‘s wrong with Mane, Solanke adds nothing, Can just lost a race against a snail both in thought and action and who thought we would miss Moreno and Hendo! Oh well was forever thus.
PS was in Main Stand level with Kop goal and it looked like hand ball to us, sorry.
Surprised you didn’t rate the ref. Although the scale probably doesn’t go that low.
Only one team have more draws than us in the league so far this season… and unfortunately it’s West Brom. That’s just not good enough. Focusing on this game it really was dreadful and brought back memories of and fears of a repeat of January last season. We really just needed to somehow win 1-0 (same as the derby) and I’m inclined to say that I blame the ref a lot for this tonight. We weren’t great, far from it, but that’s the type of game Man United win playing at half pelt and just about getting the job done. We’d have done that tonight and on Sunday if not for the referees as there is no chance we’d have conceded in either game. A scrappy 1-0 keeps morale up, momentum going and also says to these teams that these tactics won’t work as we WILL find a way. Instead the blueprint for “success” (point at Anfield, big deal, you’re still shit) against us has been laid out these last two games and we all know what the majority of teams will default to now. Hopefully Bournemouth at least give us a game but we’ve got to do something ourselves to bring these teams out of their shells at Anfield. Would help if we all actually believed we could score past the 77th minute like. Bit of a worry if your plan is to grind these teams down through physical exhaustion until you score a late winner when that’s not been happening for us all season.
What I would love to know though is where were all these bus parkers when Ferguson was in charge at United? It felt to me like teams used to turn up there and roll over from minute 1. I know it’s up to us to break them down but as an openly blinkered red I feel like we really get the worst of the bus parkers. I see Burnley in the top 4 and I ask who’s parking the bus against them? The same happened when Leicester won the league with the same bloody tactics with Vardy every single game and nobody dropped deep to stop them. Listen to me, I’m like a bitter blue.
I was closer to the action than usual, seemed to me Lovren was having a torrid time on a few occasions with their fella upfront.
Can – analysis spot on. So, so slow on the ball it’s unbelievable.
Thought Salah had to do better with that header. Where I was sat it looked one of them that he knew little about and was taken by surprise. In fact the replay showed he had enough time to bury it.
Flat as fuck today. Jurgen in the post match interview mentioned about needing luck when you’re playing shite, and he was right. The one were Foster had a mad brain fart was the point I knew we weren’t scoring, and that was on 65. He flapped at the high ball, almost fell to Gini but instead to their man, jammy twat.
Can and Robertson analysis — spot on.
Made Hendo and Albie look like StevieG and Carlos.
Come on be fair, and give Robertson a break for fuck sake. Plays in a side which currently has an identity crisis. How good is the lad supposed to play. The lad did alright.
Bad thought: Swansea beat these. Klopp needs to show that the League is his priority because its the everyday media that’ll grind his gears.
Rational thought: It’s a point for some momentum in a thankless schedule of teams that can’t/ don’t want to entertain. COYR.
Makes me laugh every time……which helps when were shite and the kop dead heads have burnt my head out!
Generous on Phil’s rating m8. Thought he was dismal.
TAA a 6?