Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2018 (MOD NOTE: POST #2805)

rob316

As good as our attacking play was I thought the defence was rock solid. Read the game well, made some vital last ditch touches.
Dare I say it but I think van dijk has saved lovrens Liverpool career they look a good pairing.

Knex*

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Mane copies Fun Bobby's kick
https://twitter.com/MoLFC_/status/963886604703207424

Likewise your grandad trying to copy a dance move.

martyos121

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Add in Keita to that front three and....

Mr.H

monkey9 wrote:

I know. What a pain in the hole haha. Flip it I'll just get drunk on the kop and celebrate for the game. Hopefully we will grab a couple at home since Porto will go all out attack

Agent Coulson

Milner & Henderson in a duel holding role made us a lot more solid and was top notch from Klopp and both did great.

dilallio

martingriff wrote: »

the reserves next time?

I'm heading over for the return leg. I might get a game

Harry Palmr

Keita is an No 8, not that he knows that it should be said :pac:

murpho999

Ulysses Gaze wrote: »

Let's see what wet blanket the Dunph throws on this performance....

Find this harsh.

He always gives credit when it's due and he's praising Liverpool tonight.

johnpatrick81

That was fvcking glorious.

Newcastle and United games can get our full attention now!!

Mr.H

dilallio wrote:

I'm heading over for the return leg. I might get a game

Maybe we could both make the Liverpool defence? Sure even Lovren gets a game

Knex*

How I feel after that

& a clean sheet too :cool:

SlickRic

People will say Porto were shít. Fúck that. That is lazy and predictable.

They were in the game.
We got a lucky enough opener.
Then we stood on their throat and didn't let go.

They had no answer to that press.
They had no answer to the pace of Mané, the cleverness of Firmino or the greatness of Salah.
They had no answer to Gini's energy.
They had no answer to VVD clearing ever corner.

We were just fúcking good.

I'm not having it that Porto are just crap. Same as I heard people talk about Juve being old, thus taking away from Spurs' comeback. No. Porto have a decent defensive record, and Conceicao had them playing well.

We just did what we do when we're at our best.

Get fúcking in. Brilliant night.

MD1990

Van Dijk & Robertson 2 huge additions.

Our front 3 is amazing. And Klopp has developed their combinations & forward positioning incredibly well. Not a better attacking manager in Europe except for maybe Pep.

Agent Coulson

28 - Liverpool have scored more goals than any other team in the Champions League this season, with 25 of those goals coming across their last five games.

https://twitter.com/optajoe/status/963887752583503872

Harry Palmr

Linda tweet incoming

Osmosis Jones

At 5-0 I'd wonder if Klopp will even show up to the 2nd leg.

PropJoe10

That was super stuff. VVD is a Rolls Royce in defence, brings a nice calmness to it which even seems to have rubbed off on Karius.

Milner superb.

And our front 3 is pretty incomparable when they're on their game. A fantastic performance and result!

Mr.H

Fromvert wrote:

As was said earlier Porto didn't beat a couple of no marks in the group, 3rd and 4th in their group are currently 2nd in the Bundesliga and Ligue 1. They're a decent side who just got out played by a team that is very good and capable of being unplayable.

Would you ever. They are a very good El side. They got through their group but they are not that good a team in any way. They won't threaten a weakened side at anfield

SuperTortoise

Excellent performance all around, controlled the tempo of the game nicely, defence looked good with VVD in there, everyone played well.

Milner the MOTM for me, thought he played perfectly, no idea how he did'nt pick up a yellow though!

johnpatrick81

Dunphy making a good point for once, saying Milner an improvement on Can in many ways.

He was immense tonight.

Harry Palmr

SlickRic wrote: »

People will say Porto were sh Fúck that. That is lazy and predictable.

They were in the game.
We got a lucky enough opener.
Then we stood on their throat and didn't let go.

They had no answer to that press.
They had no answer to the pace of Manthe cleverness of Firmino or the greatness of Salah.
They had no answer to Gini's energy.
They had no answer to VVD clearing ever corner.

We were just fúcking good.

I'm not having it that Porto are just crap. Same as I heard people talk about Juve being old, thus taking away from Spurs' comeback. No. Porto have a decent defensive record, and Conceicao had them playing well.

We just did what we do when we're at our best.

Get fúcking in. Brilliant night.

Porto are a millions miles from the AVB era side that swept all before them playing some brilliant high press football. This lot would be mid table in the Prem.

ebbsy

If only we could play Porto every week.

Ronalso still has it I see. What a player.

A penny for Neymar's thoughts ???

Ulysses Gaze

ebbsy wrote: »

If only we could play Porto every week.

Ronalso still has it I see. What a player.

A penny for Neymar's thoughts ???

He'll be playing in Madrid next year.

TitianGerm

murpho999 wrote: »

VVD looks to be great for Karius. Plenty of communication and encouragement.

Just saw him give a handshake/high 5 to Karius for coming out even though Porto were offside.
Never really saw that before he arrived.

On the 83rd minute VVD tracks the Porto guy going to the ball, just before he goes he tells Lovern to follow the run in behind.

Before VVD came out CBs would have stepped up rather than track the runners.

Agent Coulson

Mane now in double figures with 12 goals bringing the front three to 64 goals so far.

Vicxas

Annnnd here's Eamon Dunphys wet blanket

martyos121

ebbsy wrote: »

If only we could play Porto every week.

Ronalso still has it I see. What a player.

A penny for Neymar's thoughts ???

A penny won’t do it, €450k and a further bonus of €50k if his thoughts meet certain expectations.

~Rebel~

citytillidie wrote: »

Wish BT would not give away the scores in other games

Yeah, very annoying, especially when the games don't impact each other.

Had hoped to watch the full Madrid game after without knowing. Just settle for highlights now I guess.

Knex*

Hold on, I've done one better.

54and56

Potential Underachiever wrote: »

5 star performance from the 5 time champs.

Off to get the ride now, catch you saps again.

You not back yet? What's taking you?

BorneTobyWilde

Firmino's minutes per goal in CL, 82 MINUTES
Mane's minutes per goal in CL, 71 MINUTES
Salah's minutes per goal in CL, 96 MINUTES

19 Goals between them

Agent Coulson

Knex*

I need to learn how to edit gifs...

Could totally turn that into Firmino and then a flying kick.

theoneeyedman

Delighted for Mane.

He's being going through a ropey period lately, but he's never hid or stopped working hard. He got a break for his first goal but visibly grew after and was cock a hoop by the end of the game. Delighted for him, but Bobby.... well its Valentine's day, I Loooove him 😘

MD1990

We can KO Barca in the next round.

I would love if it happened.

ERG89

James Milner & Peter Collins is a crackers & galtee cheese combo.
Dry but dependable

Agent Coulson

Liverpool this season:

Won 4-0 twice
Won 5-0 twice
Won 7-0 twice

Won 1-0 once

Drugs on sale outside the ground eh? Jurgen’s flinging out bags of em out in the dressing room right now......

Ulysses Gaze

Djimi Traore, Eamon.....Djimi Traore!!!!!

rob316

MD1990 wrote: »

Van Dijk & Robertson 2 huge additions.

Our front 3 is amazing. And Klopp has developed their combinations & forward positioning incredibly well. Not a better attacking manager in Europe except for maybe Pep.

As a pure attacking manager Klopp is the best and Pep has said the same. His vision has moulded that front 3 and they would be at home in any top side. Clinical and work so hard.

TitianGerm

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Now that brings back memories :pac:

Knex*

Nice for Porto to get fucked on Valentine's Day.

Knex.

Knex. wrote: »

Nice for Porto to get fucked on Valentine's Day.

pumped

OwaynOTT

It's all well and good it being a cake walk but cake is a serious drug.





Also, I kinda missed the mental torture

Knex*

Holy ****, that is fantastic from Petr Cech. Fair play. What Mason is going through is horrible, so I can only imagine how much that meant to him.

https://twitter.com/ChrisWheatley_/status/963707029637476352

daheff

rob316 wrote: »

As a pure attacking manager Klopp is the best and Pep has said the same. His vision has moulded that front 3 and they would be at home in any top side. Clinical and work so hard.

If only we could defend or manage a lead better(apparently we've dropped loads of pts from winning positions) .. We'd be unstoppable

Utopia Parkway

Second leg against Porto is 4 days before the Man United game as well. Handy.

Harry Palmr

34 goals in Europe including qualification round.

Gbear

I think the fact that it was CL 2-legged knockout football wrongfooted me a bit.

There's kinda nothing wrong coming into a tie like this and just passing the ball around for a bit.
The conditions were ****e as well, so that's another thing.

The commentators were talking about how Porto were a pressing side but they stood off us early on, so maybe that was a factor as well.
There wasn't a huge amount of space in midfield and Gini and Milner were anonymous for that period, we had no way of getting the ball up field, and it all looked a bit pointless.

At times Porto worked well through the press and they created a couple of chances. They didn't look like total muppets.

However, once the first goal went in, they maybe came out and stretched a little bit more, and we started to get out wide a bit better.
They opened up, which they had to, but what they never did was show a shred of intensity.

You can't turn up against Liverpool and stroll around the pitch expecting to get anywhere.

In the end, because they put no real pressure on us, we had total control of the tempo, so we could wander around the place like it was a training match, and then everyone now and again, we'd spot a gap, or we'd trigger the press and go at them, and they had no answer.

Truly, Porto were absolutely dreadful and we'll surely have a real test at some stage, with it being unlikely any team as good as or worse than Porto will be left, but it was still very solid, very professional and while we were gifted an opening, we cruised off the quality of our front 3 after that and most of the goals were really top class stuff.