Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Ken Tucky · 17-12-2023 7:25pm

Wow...that was so poor

Mr Disco · 17-12-2023 7:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121506780#Comment_121506780

Ok. Liverpool were hopeless and have blown any shot at the premiership

Mr Crispy · 17-12-2023 7:26pm

What an absolutely dreadful game, with abysmal performances from so many of our players. Nothing positive to say at all, other than we're lucky Utd don't have the self belief to have had more of a go towards the end.

rob316 · 17-12-2023 7:26pm

Awful awful performance. As poor a united side I can remember there for the taking.

~Rebel~ · 17-12-2023 7:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121502028#Comment_121502028

A disappointing one, just not good enough or focused enough today.

For worse and better, all my feelings about the weekend ended up coming true.

martingriff · 17-12-2023 7:27pm

Disappointing with the draw but not surprised in these games especially when going in as strong favorites. Was never going to be a rout like some were expecting here

eigrod · 17-12-2023 7:27pm

Not good enough in final third. Nunez is a good sub, no more. Can’t remember the last game he’s influenced from the start. Similarly Diaz. Still, a point off the top is good almost half way in.

Akabusi · 17-12-2023 7:27pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507122#Comment_121507122

Probably a bit over the top. Utd just wanted a point and will be delighted with it, not too much wrong with our team.

cmac2009 · 17-12-2023 7:27pm

We've been woeful for a while now, and have been bailed out by wonder strikes and moments of individual brilliance. That doesn't go on for ever.

Dont Be at It · 17-12-2023 7:27pm

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giveitholly · 17-12-2023 7:28pm

That result has been coming in fairness,don't know why anyone is surprised,we have been very poor the last month

Utopia Parkway · 17-12-2023 7:28pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507167#Comment_121507167

I’m not convinced by a number of options in the team and whether they have long term futures at the club.

awec · 17-12-2023 7:28pm

Diaz, Nunez, Szozboslai, Gravenberch, Salah were all absolute dross.

Diaz especially is starting to really frustrate me. He offered absolutely nothing today.

Nunez runs around a lot but that’s about.

Szozboslai couldn’t pass water today.

Huge opportunity missed.

Marty Bird · 17-12-2023 7:28pm

Forgettable performance, Endo was our best player today.

SuperTortoise · 17-12-2023 7:28pm

Very poor.

I'm going to hold back the rest of what i was gong to say until tomorrow and see if i feel any different.

martingriff · 17-12-2023 7:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507149#Comment_121507149

Well that's the spirit

Osmosis Jones · 17-12-2023 7:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507149#Comment_121507149

We're a point off top nearly halfway through the season.

We were bad today and have been at other points this season but genuinely what enjoyment do you get from football if this is your attitude? We're a point off top with 63 left to play for and it's all over already?

noodler · 17-12-2023 7:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507180#Comment_121507180

Diaz refuses to play simple balls sometimes and prefers to dribble the long way around.

Can't wait until Jota is back

patsy sally · 17-12-2023 7:31pm

Rubbish game as mentioned United were never going to come and go toe to toe,Liverpool have to be disappointed we created very little all game but it is what it is now on too next week

Alonso77 · 17-12-2023 7:31pm

People need to seriously relax, this game will be well forgotten if we beat arsenal and Arsenal are not going to be as rigid as Utd tried to be today

Pepp1989 · 17-12-2023 7:31pm

We were very poor. Awful performance. The quality on the ball was embarrassing for a big home game to go top.

Crowd were also awful.

Ken Tucky · 17-12-2023 7:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507185#Comment_121507185

You will probably feel worse

But at least ETH will be there for another while 😆

505_ · 17-12-2023 7:32pm

The worst Utd team to come to Anfield in the premier league era? An ancient Johnny Evans at the back. That could be a disastrous result at the end of the season. Fair play endo probably only performer who comes away with any credit. I’d love if someone would come in for Nunez. Don’t think we’ll ever get that money back though. Headcase as well as an awful finisher

noodler · 17-12-2023 7:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507194#Comment_121507194

Yeah let's be realistic, I'm not sure I fully believe even before the game but Arsenal at home to probably go top? You'd have to take it. We are really going to have to up it though.

martingriff · 17-12-2023 7:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507179#Comment_121507179

Ya next week if they score they will be flavor of the month. Liverpool/United and Liverpool/Everton form goes out the window

Zak Flaps · 17-12-2023 7:33pm

Dreadful stuff. It doesn't bode well for the season.

Endo was our best player.

I have lost patience with Diaz. I don't know what he brings to the team. He's been awful this season.

Gravenberch was poor again. Can't remember when he played well.

WTF has happened to Szoboszlai.

Time for us to get 100 million for Salah this summer from the Saudi's.

Nunez was dreadful.

Gakpo so hit and miss.

Klopp has to sort this out. Change the system slightly because it's not working.

happyoutscan · 17-12-2023 7:35pm

Szobozlai and Gravenberch offered nothing from midfield. Szobozlai couldn't pass 5 meters and a deep sitting team doesn't suit how Gravenberch plays.

SlickRic · 17-12-2023 7:35pm

That's as bad a draw as you'll see. Absolutely appalling, and I won't hear any argument that 'these things happen'.

Utd are awful. They were awful up to today, and make no mistake, they were awful today. That result is about us, not them.

Lads with free headers. Lads shooting rather than building the attack. Lads getting offside for no reason other than laziness. Lads not working with each other.

Utd did nothing special. If they want to believe they did, that's their issue. But that was an incredibly bad performance, and might be showing where we are actually at.

More embarrassing than City's draw yesterday.

I never thought it'd be easy. I told everyone who said we'd slap them that it just won't happen. But I thought itd simply be because Utd would stay tight, and we'd eventually make our way through.

No, we absolutely bottled that game.

Dont Be at It · 17-12-2023 7:35pm

Klopp's inability to come up with a proper plan against good, deep lying teams is a persistent weakness.

martingriff · 17-12-2023 7:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507205#Comment_121507205

I still think top 2 or 3 will be a fantastic year after last year

Alonso77 · 17-12-2023 7:36pm

This is an absolute myth about klopp and breaking down deep lying teams

awec · 17-12-2023 7:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507226#Comment_121507226

I think that’s the most frustrating thing.

It wasn’t a united defensive master class. Liverpool just didn’t turn up.

Cant even use the Europe or internationals excuse this week.

Osmosis Jones · 17-12-2023 7:37pm

Ask fans of almost any top team in world football and they'll tell you that their team uniquely struggles against low block defences.

machiavellianme · 17-12-2023 7:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507212#Comment_121507212

Alisson didn't do much wrong. He stopped any chances they had. Himself and Endo were our only positives.

martingriff · 17-12-2023 7:39pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507229#Comment_121507229

Ya that is something he was ever bad with they need to score early in those games or its a draw or we lose

Augme · 17-12-2023 7:40pm

5 points clear of 5th and United didn't narrow the gap either at least. Big game against Arsenal, a defeat will really narrow the gap.

Fitz* · 17-12-2023 7:41pm

Missing Jota big time. The rest of the attack are all playing poorly with a few games now.

~Rebel~ · 17-12-2023 7:41pm

Feels like maybe Diaz is maybe having a bit of an emotional crash after everything that happened with his Dad. In the midst of it all, and the immediate aftermath, he was actually flying, as if all the emotion was fuelling him. But sometimes those sorts of events/traumas are worse after they've had time to settle in.

Utopia Parkway · 17-12-2023 7:41pm

10 games without a goal now for Darwin. Diaz and Gakpo both up and down and not really getting many goals either. If Mo has an off day it’s a big problem. Jota has his faults but we miss his goal poaching ability when he’s not available.

On the plus side Virgil brilliant again.

Osmosis Jones · 17-12-2023 7:43pm

I'm honestly not too bothered with the "system" today, hard to gauge how much it was at fault when everyone just wanted to shoot from 25 yards out every time we got forward. Imo this was almost entirely on bad decision making and execution from the forwards. We all saw how many times someone took an ill-advised shot when there was a pass on that would've led to a better chance.

martingriff · 17-12-2023 7:45pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507271#Comment_121507271

Ya Diaz may need an extended time off. I you say he is still all over the place of the trauma of what happened to his parents. Any person would't be

Pepp1989 · 17-12-2023 7:46pm

Nunez didn't even miss his usual hatful of chances today

ShamoBuc · 17-12-2023 7:46pm

Such a poor performance. We didn'y deserve anymore than a point. United were as bad as we thought they'd be but half of our tean were absolutely brutal.

Osmosis Jones · 17-12-2023 7:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507250#Comment_121507250

Barely worth mentioning but Van Dijk didn't put a foot wrong either imo

505_ · 17-12-2023 7:51pm

Allison and vvd grand but think anyone saying brilliant is getting carried away. They weren’t up against any threat. Did anybody watch Utd against Bayern they are brutal going forward this season

hynesie08 · 17-12-2023 7:52pm

Is it wrong I'm now weirdly confident we're going to smash arsenal next week.

awec · 17-12-2023 7:52pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507299#Comment_121507299

VVD and Alison probably saved us from a united smash and grab tbh.

They had better chances to score than we had.

Osmosis Jones · 17-12-2023 7:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507320#Comment_121507320

Careful, that comment's enough to have everyone blaming you if we don't win now

Ottoman_1000 · 17-12-2023 7:54pm

That performance was forecast by myself and a few other during the week.

Anyone that has actually watched us the last month, it was all very familiar. Ponderous, sloppy and just no pace to anything we do...

We are quickly dropping back into the average side we watched for most of last season. The impact of the new signings has well and truly faded. We need to pull the finger out, and fast!

Osmosis Jones · 17-12-2023 7:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121507323#Comment_121507323

They showed more composure in the final third.

That string of 2-3 passes for Hojlund's chance was better than anything we put together, if that was up the other end there'd be one pass and then a speculative shot from outside the box.

Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

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