Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Makes it even sweeter that the 1 big debatable decision went in our favour. Seething Simeone.

Atletico really are Klopp kryptonite. Just set up perfectly to disrupt and unsettled everything Liverpool do well, it's almost an artform the way they play.

Really hope Solskjaer was watching that tonight and gets the idea to try a similar approach at the weekend because given how poorly they're trained and drilled, Liverpool will tear them apart.

Didi looks devastated we won lol, couldn't even admit it was a red. Bizarre stuff, Sadlier laughing at him.

The frustrating thing for me about Atletico under Simeone is that when they want to play they are very good. But they only play for certain moments in matches and spend way too much time flaying around and just being dickish.

Peter Walton tying himself up in knots on the Atleti goal and possible offside.

Still can't believe we didn't get a midfeilder this summers

Next summer Milner, Ox and Keita will need to be replaced can't for the life of me seeing us sign 3 midfielders

I actually think I'd rather loose 3-0 to utd than loose to simeones team,they can play,but choose not to to play a form of football I'd call dirt. If it wasn't us playing them not a hope I'd ever watch them. For years, disgusting it is.

Quite right. It doesn't need to be intentional to be careless and endanger an opponent. The purpose of giving reds for these kind of challenges is to stop someone from having their skill split open by one. Didi and others would do well to remember that.

How many Champions league matches has this referee taken charge of?

I wonder was Keita nackered

He played 3 game on international duty then staryed at Watford, then tonight, Thats a lot in a short time for him

Although he had a mare away to Madrid last season, maybe just not cut out mentally for the big away games

Didi just being silly

Yes it wasn't on purpose but its Greizmans duty to known if a player is there or not before leading with his studs first into someones head

Can't stud someone in the face 6ft of the ground and say sorry i didnt see him

Great that it’s a Tuesday - Sunday week at least, really looked like the lads need as much time as they can get after a really sharp high tempo performance on Saturday, and a tough scrap tonight.

Atletico were also given the weekend off so were a lot fresher

The hatred for Atleti is strange to me. So much to admire about how they set up. The diving, antics, etc isn't great. However, to claim they are just 'dirt', 'anti football' or other stuff shows a lack of understanding of the game and a lack of appreciation for different styles in my opinion.

They're Spanish champions, scored the same amount as their closest challengers last season. They've lots of quality, exciting attacking players eg Griezmann, Lemar, Suarez, Carrasco, Felix.

You don't have to like them or Simeone, but you should be able appreciate what they do.

Hard to argue with this Tweet, what a game of football, the usual insanity of when we play Athletico, mad shíte bound to happen....

Great result, one foot in the knockout after 3 games, with 2 home games to go. Caught the breaks this evening, but we owe them one, a great result. Looked leggy when they upped the pace before the break, but it's all about the win.

On to Sunday....

Simeone running down the tunnel at the final whistle was absolutely pathetic, that act sums him and his team up. Does he do that every time they lose?

35 goals scored in the first 12 games this season.

11 goals conceded in the first 12 games of the season.

Looks like we are going to go balls to the wall this season.

We haven't shown any composure in those game. 2 years ago when we won the title we would go ahead and it would never even look like the opposition would get back into it...I do believe it will get better once VVD gets more confidence but currently we are very suspect at the back in my opinion.

I don't know if that is the answer either. Pressure would be massive on him of he gets dropped from the side, the media would have a field day with it...but he was very poor tonight alright. Way off the pace.

Define dirt? If it's simply about the antics, then yes they're dirt. They don't play a style of football you can call dirt though.

Define anti football? Again they're style of play isn't anti football so I find it hard to accept people just blindly tagging them as that and ignoring just how well drilled, how well coached and how well set up they are. It's not pretty but they do play and express themselves going forward too.

The theatrics are part and parcel of the game, especially on the continent. They use them more than most teams but again that's not the only weapon they have. They just exploit scenarios presented to them. It's not just them either. Real do it, Carvajal and Marcelo are experts. Busquets spends a chunk of most games clutching his face. Lewandowski is the same, I seem to recall him at it versus Ireland in a qualifying group in recent years.

I get that you don't have to like them, I don't expect everyone to but at the same time they can't be dismissed as this abomination within the sport. It's too simplistic.

Anyway it's probably for another thread so I'll leave it there defending their honour.

Delighted with our three points and more so as we didn't even play particularly well.