Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

yourdeadwright

Horrendous from Konate

patsy sally

Good night to that

ballyargus

grim lack of creativity out there, we don't look like scoring. It felt like it was on early in the half but we've been tepid.

ctrl-alt-delete

Far too easy, Liverpool not happy.

martyos121

Weak from Konate, not a foul.

noodler

Looked a foul.

awec

100% not a foul that. Konate needs to be much stronger.

Utopia Parkway

Whole team is just weak as piss.

SlickRic

It's technically not a free.

But it's given every single week.

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057107#Comment_120057107

Yeah, on replay agreed.

Too soft

ShamoBuc

Konate should have been much stronger there.

noodler

We need to stop playing our fullbacks so high.

We can't afford it in the current system/personnel.

RedCardKid

Anyone who thinks that was a foul needs to get into SpecSavers asap tomorrow morning. Brentford player outran /outmuscled Konate ... simple as.

machiavellianme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057107#Comment_120057107

That's a goal and assist that Konate has tonight. He basically gave up there and went for the lazy option of tacking a tumble instead of holding firm.

citytillidie

Going by what fouls he has given if it was the other way it would have been a free kick to Brentford the ref is not reffing the teams to the same standard

Osmosis Jones

3 goals conceded, all immediately from players giving it away in bad areas

yourdeadwright

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057123#Comment_120057123

Nothing to do with our full backs there, That's all on Konate

Jarhead_Tendler

Got what we deserved from the whole game. There was an improvement 2nd half but not enough to warrant getting anything. Back to the drawing board again.

awec

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057123#Comment_120057123

Fullbacks weren't the issue there.

Keita coughed up the ball in midfield really easily.

Our fullbacks are attacking fullbacks, when the ball is in midfield we need to be more careful with it or we get caught out.

cmac2009

Diabolical attempt at a header back to the keeper. Like Konate but he's been terrible today.

martyos121

This is a completely deserved defeat too, that’s the depressing thing. Brentford have outplayed us from the tenth minute onwards, and they’ve done it without their star player.

No amount of money spent in this window will save this season for us.

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057139#Comment_120057139

It's endemic though, turn and fire one ball over the top and it's always 1v1, always. It's where two of the goals came from.

Yeah, Konate was weak af but way too many 1v1s.

We need to start cutting our cloth accordingly. Still playing like a midfielder will be back there.

machiavellianme

If we don't improve our midfield ASAP, this garbage week in, week out, isnt going to improve. Top 4? More likely to end up in 7th and deservedly so.

awec

The only positive you can take from this game, and it's a very tenuous positive, is it surely highlights that the chequebook needs to come out in January and we need multiple players.

Gakpo is not going to make any difference to this.

Europa League is on the cards next year if we're lucky.

SuperTortoise

DM and CM need to be priority.

paulie21

What's going on with Carvalho? 3 games in a row an unused sub. Curtis Jones even getting on ahead of him

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057156#Comment_120057156

I still believed before this game.

Not now. Not with the lack of fight, midfield or fit front men.

And not with our next three league fixtures.

awec

How was he free in the middle? Why are we not doing the basics of tracking back. It's unforgivable.

Allison coming off his line saves a 4th.

Osmosis Jones

Konate was brutal for the goal but you cant expect a defence to deal with this many 1v1s and 2v2s every week, same way Alisson can't keep bailing us out. Every goal came from someone losing the ball by being thoughtless in a vulnerable area.

The midfield needs to offer protection, ideally protection AND creation but right now I'd settle for one.

awec

An awful lot of fannying about around the edge of the box.

Someone please just shoot.

Charlie19

Trent has just given up.

passatman86

"down the pub in 30 years time"

I remember when Liverpool last won the league in 19/20

Liverpool fan here btw

yourdeadwright

This squad is done

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057190#Comment_120057190

Ah Jesus stop.

Osmosis Jones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057165#Comment_120057165

Looked like a child in his past couple games imo, seemed very easily pushed out of the game. Maybe he's not entirely ready to play in an already struggling team.

ratracer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057185#Comment_120057185

The night we won the league, I said to my son “ I was your age when we last won the league, I hope you’re not my age before we win it again!” - god dammit I must have jinxed them 🤬🤬

brevity

Cant go ignoring the obvious and expect to get by.

Donut formation.

TitianGerm

Stat I saw on Twitter earlier -

https://twitter.com/Squawka/status/1609977656967135232?t=pT3tz8_Gh3ihE-ccwTpkcg&s=19

It's clear that the ball is getting through the midfield much easier and the defenders are dealing with far more than previous years which in turn means Ali has a lot more to do.

I remember reading that we used to give up quite a few chances but that they were usually low percentage chances (shots from distance, shots from wide angle etc) whereas I'd imagine we're daily high 8n the stats for giving away a large number of high percentage chances this season.

SlickRic

It's taken me a while to accept it, but this team just isn't that good anymore. That's the crux of it.

We haven't refreshed at the correct pace, particularly in midfield, and the team, in this iteration, is dead as an elite team.

It's too old and slow in too many areas. That simple. The epic seasons have caught up on this group. It's done.

Utopia Parkway

There is no way out of this with the current personnel at the club. No amount of coaching will change it. Only spending big money on the right players in the right positions. Until that is done it will be more of the same.

yourdeadwright

Nunez has now missed 15 out of his 19 big chances this season

machiavellianme

That number of saves is some stat TitianGerm!

Charlie19

This world cup break can't come quick enough.

fyfe79

Everyone on commentary absolutely delighted with that result, including Carragher.... laughing along with them.

A-Train

Full rebuild of the midfield and defence is now required but that going to happen with FSG at the helm.

ShamoBuc

Got what we deserved. Atrocious defending for the first 2, 2 not given by VAR, and Konate showing no strength at all for the 3rd.

Better second half, but simply not good enough at so many levels.

Pathetic to blame Nunez for the result, absolutely pathetic. So many were well below his effort - was Salah really out there? VVD deservedly dragged. Harvey deservedly dragged etc etc

mormank

I tell ya something for nothing. It's gonna be so hard to take if Arsenal win the league this year. We have been outstanding for 5 seasons or so and during any other era would have had 4 titles to show for it but only got 1 and it was basically taken away from us cos of covid. If Arsenal go and win the title after just 1 season of being good enough it might be harder for me to accept than city's ridiculous final day comeback in the league last season. Maybe I'm alone in feeling that way but it just really feels like we are cursed when it comes to the league title.

martyos121

Time to start resting players for Madrid next month, is how I feel after watching that.

ratracer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057194#Comment_120057194

He’s not wrong though…..

Osmosis Jones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120057244#Comment_120057244

The defence and it's backup personnel are still a great group of players, it's entirely a midfield issue I think.