Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

awec

Our defending is so passive it’s a joke.

patsy sally

This could be long 2nd half another hiding away from home it's looking like

ShamoBuc

Disgraceful defending, not getting anywhere close to getting a tackle in.

mada999

MAKE SOME FOOKING SUBS... .

SlickRic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427358#Comment_120427358

I'd be shocked.

The team doesn't have the belief this season. They know they're not quite at the standard required.

It's going to be a trouncing now.

We needed the referee to get the Rodri decision correct. And that is so defeatist, but it's true given our current state.

AdrianG08

Love to know what the message was at HT

Ottoman_1000

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427354#Comment_120427354

He got himself back onside once the ball was touched by another player. It's fairly basis play you would see from most centre forwards but completely bewildered our center halves for whatever reason!!!

Fitz*

Heads went after conceding the first

martyos121

It’s not that losing here will end our top 4 hopes, it’s the fact that we don’t have a chance of it anyway because we’re conceding such sh*te goals.

McDermotX

Hmmmm.....let's see that

Nah. Diving baxtard

mada999

Legs are not there. City just playing the ball around...

no intensity all game....

martyos121

Embarrassing from Gakpo.

hynesie08

Gakpo lucky to not get booked.

Summitatem

Decent reflection of where we actually are.... Maybe a top6 team....way off the actual top.

Even if this went 3 - 2 you'd not fancy us. Utd result was a huge outlier.

mada999

City are allowed to be as rough on us a they want, any roughness by us on a City player = free kick

McDermotX

Trent is absolutely terrible

Serious change required there

noodler

We could be out of our misery by next Sunday.

martyos121

The only tiny consolation is that this result might stop Arsenal from winning the league.

At least when City win it, it already means nothing.

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427452#Comment_120427452

That's the horrible pathetic attitude Utd fans had when we were challenging City tbh.

Can't bring myself around to it.

SlickRic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427437#Comment_120427437

It's a cliché, but it's true - the margins are fine at the very top of the food chain.

If you stand still, you will be found out.

It was true 20 years ago, and it's true now.

The fulcrum of the team was let rot, and without that midfield fulcrum, and having the required foresight to solve it, this is what you get.

Honestly, with 2 additions in there, we're immediately contenders again. That's how fine the margins are. But when you're not on top of refreshing the team, it only needs one area to rot for the other top teams to overtake you in a season.

jones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427452#Comment_120427452

Weirdly that's how I look at it too. City winning is just the normal and highlights the financial doping even more IMO

mada999

This team is done... too many lackluster performances.... City players want it more....they running themselves into the ground and we are jogging around....

noodler

If id a euro for every cliched "this team is done" comment in here this season I could probably fund the rebuild myself.

Summitatem

Arsenal winning means that one doesn't need financial doping to compete. Better for the PL if they hold on imo.

Begrudging Arsenal the title is just sad imo.

mada999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427474#Comment_120427474

its looking more like fact every time we play.....

mada999

What is VVD at there..... smashing the ball away twice with no one around him...

machiavellianme

Is Klopp trying to make a statement with those subs? There's 4 far worse players than Mo, Jota and Robbo out there today.

ratracer

And the one to change our game is the Ox?? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

McDermotX

Arthur is having a grand oul time of it

Money for old rope

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427500#Comment_120427500

Eliott and Robbo were really poor imo.

Mo scored a beaut and obviously butchered one but was maybe just quiet.

I think it's just admitting defeat and planning for Tuesday night.

McDermotX

Saps

Summitatem

Henderson, Fabinho and Ox.... On the pitch midfield trio as I type. Ox is gone and the other two should be easy to upgrade on their current capabilities/presumed future contributions.

Hopefully the club see it as simply.

noodler

Letting him score hurts

awec

Ah TAA, pure laziness.

Charlie19

I f**king hate 12.30 kickoffs on a Saturday

Xander10

okay, Trent, you just stroll back when you're ready

FernandoTorres

That was a result of Trent burning himself out going on a mad run around the pitch on his own 2 mins beforehand.

dirkmeister

Jesus that was bad from Trent.

noodler

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427542#Comment_120427542

Don't make excuses for that level of laziness

eigrod

This is on Jurgen. From minute one, there’s been an acre of space on each flank and he’s done nothing to address it.

McDermotX

Loads at fault there, and frankly I'd expect better from Alisson

Xander10

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120427547#Comment_120427547

should have been dropped months ago.

ratracer

I’d nearly be annoyed if we beat Arsenal and so cause a 6 point swing in favour of this mob in the title race!

patsy sally

It's ridiculous defending again as has been said most games this season

theoneeyedman

Second half has been as bad as I've seen in the Klopp era. I've never seen us as off the pace and with as little energy of effort before. Completely disheartening performance, the first side I've seen us give up like this.

You simply can't operate at the EPL level without a functioning midfield. The 3 tried in the first half nd just about kept heads above water, but since the break the tank has been empty. The only thing that worse than seeing Ox coming in to save the day would be to see Melo and Naby come on behind him, shows the level our midfield is when we're asking him to come in in a game like this.

We're looking like United at Anfield at this stage.

SlickRic

Trent is a complete liability at this level without a functioning system around him pressing the opposition.

He has been targeted relentlessly all game for a reason.

He's is a ludicrously fantastic footballer, but he's cement in his feet on defence. He can't cope.

AdrianG08

The fact JK has one system of playing and sticks to it rigidly regardless of personnel, is just crazy.

In reality, the whole thing is built on sand, if you remove one card from this system the whole thing collapses.

We saw it a couple of seasons back when we shipped 5 losses on the spin.

No midfield and we see how poor our defenders are at actually being defenders.

BillyHasMates

Crisis season. Major overhaul needed. Do we have the owners to achieve it?

Ikozma

This team needs a complete overhaul,bar allison and konate,they are an absolute shambles and an embarrasment to lfc,get shot of the lot of them

awec

Attack v defence training session for City here.