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Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2018 (MOD NOTE: POST #2805)
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just to wax lyrical about that performance last night, because, y'know, I'm a little bored...
firstly, the bus thing. not ideal. the few hooligans didn't do anyone else any favours. but Pep can fúck off with any hint of this damaging our 'prestige'. while it wasn't great, and I'd have preferred it not to happen, man up. you're in a bus, that is probably reinforced. nothing happened to the players, nor was ever going to happen. they were completely protected, and as Gundogan said afterwards, it's categorically had no impact on the match, and in fact, it would've spurred the City players on, if anything. Those players will have seen and experienced far worse than that. They're not snowflakes.
so the bus thing needs to be forgotten about. Liverpool have rightly apologised. That's it.
The game was incredible to watch. I thought we started poorly enough. Salah lost the ball every time he got it in the first 10 minutes. We couldn't get a grip of the ball, or the game in general, and it seemed as though Pep's tactical play of packing midfield with the addition of Gundogan, seemed to be working. a lot of the possession, however, was slow, ponderous and predictable. They were trying to hammer our left side, assuming that Sané would destroy TAA. however, with Mané and Henderson being disciplined in their defending, and TAA having a coming-of-age performance, Sané and Pep were metaphorically told to fúck off with that plan. and they had no plan B.
or at least it was too late before they could implement a plan B, because we gloriously blitzed them in half an hour, and could've had more. City were quickly in a position where they didn't know if they should keep attacking (risking letting in more), or sit in and go into a period of damage limitation, because KDB and Silva were being overrun. it was a sight to behold. they looked old and slow - the two of them. one of the best moments of the half was when Silva was about 25 yards out. he was taking his time picking a pass (because I'd say he's so used to teams just sitting on the edge of their box waiting for him to pull the trigger), and Milner comes in from behind, takes the ball aggressively and cleanly, and you can see Silva throw his arms up in frustration.
glorious. absolutely fúcking glorious.
Salah is a machine. makes goalscoring look so frighteningly easy. the ball is a magnet to him in the box. he has this weird inate ability to arrive where the ball is going to drop. City should be ashamed of that first goal though. Otamendi selling himself in the box. Walker dithering. Awful. They looked like mugs. and it was glorious. absolutely fúcking glorious.
the second goal was pure Kloppball. harass the fúck out of them. be aggressive. be there for the second ball. Ox with a dream of a first touch, and a shot borrowed from Stevie G's top drawer.
the third came as we continued with the momentum, but Laporte's defending was utterly laughable. it's like the back 4 are not actually coached to defend. they're coached to press, anticipate and pass. but when the back 4 is actually being attacked, it's amateurish. Salah was shown onto his best foot, TWICE. and when he crossed the second time, i'm pretty sure 2 or 3 of our players could've scored. hilarious, and utterly glorious.
then, in the second half, for all City's possession, and for all the nerves I felt, Karius didn't have one proper save to make. that is astonishing given the (more than justified) narrative before the game. Lovren didn't make a mistake, which tbh, floors me. it was one of those games where he looks like a proper defender. i don't want to assume it's because of VVD, because assuming that is automatically insulting, but I'm sure it helps. VVD is a fúcking beast. i'm all of a sudden not scared of corners. it's lovely, actually. a really nice change from shítting myself at least half a dozen times a game.
Robertson - Roberto Carlos has nothing on him.
TAA - get the fúck out, Sané.
Milner - Silva's shadow.
Henderson - a wall in the centre. no nonsense. showed his value - something I often underestimate.
Ox - force of nature. buzzing. looks at home. knows his job, and is loving it. he's playing as much with us as he did Arsenal, but you can see he trusts Klopp and the club. honestly, i thought it at the time because of my faith in Klopp, but the fee will turn out to be a bargain IMO.
Firmino - superb as ever defensively, leading the press. got tired, and i hope it's all not catching up on him. not great offensively, but still made his mark for the first goal.
Mané - his touch in the first half was Salah-esque. the man never stopped.
Salah - machine. there's nothing more you can say.
Solanke - what a call by Klopp to put him on for Firmino with 20 minutes to go. made an impact. turned City and gave them something to think about. cute management.
the tie is obviously only half over, but if you can't revel in what you watched last night, then you need to stop watching football, and you need to stop supporting Liverpool. last night is why you're a supporter. it was engulfing. the atmosphere was tangible through the TV. the performance matched what the fans gave. absolutely brilliant.
we are a force to be fúcking reckoned with. City have 3 goals in them at home. that's obvious. we must nick a goal at their place, or else I can see it getting very tricky. but let's be honest, one foot should be in that semi final. Klopp gave off the right vibes in playing it down, and refocusing everyone on Everton, even having a moan at the time we're playing at. Love it! but if we're aspiring to be a big club and be at the big table of the Champions League for the foreseeable future, then this is a lead that you cannot let go of. it would be criminal; absolutely criminal, to let this go.
Pep played into our hands in the end, but fúck him. he tried a tactical switch away from the way the team have been playing all season, and got beaten. i saw Gundogan still peddling the line that they were 'unlucky' in the first half with the way the goals went in, and how quickly. Pep had the same excuse in the 4-3 - that they were controlling the game, and it was only these 'minutes of madness' that cost them. let them believe that. let them believe that they've been largely in control of both games.
now, bring on Everton on Saturday. beat that lot with our B team, then finish the job on City next week.
glorious.
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