Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

In games lile today we need a ykinger Gini someone who is tireless and can also carry the ball wgen needed,

Thiago and Fab are unbelievable footballers but when u don't have the ball more the opposition there lack of legs can hurt us, although i do realise we don't come up against sode like that often,

It is. The stellar title winning team of 1989-90 lost 5 times yet still won the league at a canter by 9 points.

3 seasons ago we lost one game and didn't win the title. This season we've lost only twice and are favourites to only come 2nd. These are the realities of dealing with Man City and their endless pit of money in 2022....

Good result given how we played that first half. Needing them to slip up is never ideal but we'll see. Just take care of our own business.

Of all the places not to do the basics well, the few times we did keep calm and control the ball we scored.

Comparing these 2 teams to teams from 20 years ago is insane really. It like they are playing a different sport. The pace, skill, intensity, drive, tactical acumen of these two teams is waaaaay head of anything I've seen before, and I've watched a lot of mainly English soccer since the early 80s.

I dislike this City team, in fact I dispise some of the characters involved, not to mention how they are financed, , but one has to admire in some way what they are doing in terms of performance levels.

Just a question on Salah, and to a lesser extent Mane. How is Ramadan effecting them? Do they fast in daylight hours, or can they exempt themselves? Just wondering if Mo's seeming lower energy levels over the last couple of weeks related to him fasting or anything.

It's amazing. According to our fanbase...

Trent was bad defensively.

VVD was nervous.

Fabinho was worse than he's ever been.

Thiago was passing us into trouble.

Mane useless bar the goal.

Salah is still in a rut.

KDB was mesmerising.

Silva dominated.

Cancelo was sensational.

...

Yet we've drawn 2-2. I think we played a little better than we all think.

I thought it was stressful. I don't think we were fluent. But our flurries of good play were devastating.

City edged it, but bar the last 15 minutes, we were just as dangerous.

The keeper back 4 and Fab where absolutely horrendous in the first half,

From minute 1 VVD looked a bag of nerves and it seemed to spread,It was so unlike VVD he booted one into the stands and couple of headers where he had plenty of time headed the straigh into a packed midfield

Even Allison kicks where shocking, City put us inder pressure but even when they didnt the back 6 where all over the shop,

Thankful what ever was said at half time really lifted them or possibly the quick fore goal just help spread confidence,

Decent results but cant help thinking of we had of been anywhere near our normal levels in the first half we could have won

Don't think we can press as relentlessly as we once did. It's not really a problem against the vast majority of teams but it is against City. When we got results against City before it was usually because we pressed them crazy hard in defence and midfield and made them cough up possession and feasted on their mistakes. Salah and Mane are a bit older now and Hendo's legs are not what they were. Thiago is not that quick across the ground either. We probably need some younger legs in midfield. We just couldn't get close enough to City today. They had time to turn and get their heads up and slide passes in behind us. Or switch the ball wide to their full-backs.

''If the ball is in the wrong place, the kick is retaken. A player who takes a free kick from the wrong position in order to force a retake, or who excessively delays the restart of play, is cautioned.''

''No quick free kick allowed, if the referee is talking to a player''

For the first goal, the ball was nowhere near the right place,AND IT WAS MOVING, and Henderson and Fab were both in discussion about the freekick with Ref, plus he never blew whistle for the taking of it.

Lads I think some of us are looking at this through rose tinted glasses if we're thinking city just "edged" it. Let's be honest they should have been at least 3-1 up at half time if not 4. Our full backs were destroyed and it was only in the second half we came into the game at all in my opinion. Even with that Mahrez should have won it at the death for them.

I can't make up my mind on jota he's clearly a great goalscorer but I don't know if the team as a whole functions as well when he plays. That sounds odd I know.

Delighted with the result particularly with how the game went and it does keep the dream alive but i really can't see us catching city. Between the two teams we're more likely to drop points combined with the harder run in. I hope I'm wrong but i see this being another 1 point title win for them.

We'll just have to take the champions League as a consolation prize 😜

In fairness there was games in hand in play too on the 14 points. I don't think it's impossible city will drop points I just think we're more likely too. I really hope I'm wrong

Hard to see City dropping points out of these fixtures

Not sure the ball was moving when the city player took the free kick or that it was that far from the location of the foul to merit being re-taken but the rule about the free kick not being taken if the ref is talking to a player isn't the same thing as the free kick not being able to be taken if players are moaning to the ref about the free kick, if that was the case free kicks could take 10 minutes to take!!

Also, the ref doesn't have to whistle for an indirect free kick to be taken unless he first of all indicates that he wants the free taker to wait for a whistle whilst he deals with something and the ref didn't make any such indication.

Looks like Leeds, West Ham, and Wolves - all away - are our best bets for City dropping points. They're really the only remaining teams with threats on the counter that could cause problems breaking in behind. Villa to an extent too, but that one at the Etihad on the last day, and their lack of a DM, makes it tough - would rather not be holding out for a reprieve there. If I were to single out one, it would probably be Wolves though, their defence is very solid, and they've a decent record against good teams that go at them - City were lucky to get away with a win against them at the Etihad earlier this year, needing a pen to score, even with Wolves a man down.

(I'd never have picked Leeds under Bielsa, but Marsh has already made them much stronger defensively).

Surprisingly it is our squad strength that may win it for us if we do win it. We can rest the midfield again this Wednesday, maybe Fabinho plays 60 but you expect Keita to start along with one other among Ox, Milner, Jones and Elliott. Then we go again the weekend against City. City will need to be on it to beat Atletico and then again against us on Saturday, then again the week after to keep their lead.

But we have to keep winning, which is not as easy as it sounds. We just have to take it one game at a time. Next up Benfica on Wednesday.

Gerrard and Coutinho could win Liverpool a league on the final day 😉

I'm worried about Spurs at home but we have to get that far first ,

All doom and gloom in here this morning just enjoy the journey folks and see what happens in May

I was watching a youtube video with Newcastle, Chelsea, Utd, City and Liverpool fans and the neutrals were horrified that City we're allowing Liverpool to win the league. We really are public enemy #1 thank goodness for oil money.

I really do think it could be our midfield that lets us down in the big games, We have numbers but not quality ,

Milner, Ox, Jones ,Elliott for different reason aren't really good enough for big games,

Broken record i know but if we had Gini or a like for like replacement we'd be way better off ,

Gini is gone he wanted the money, and didn't like the twitter trolls, let him go

That was city's best, that was nowhere near our best and we got a draw, that is what was so disappointing, we are SO much better than that. Fabinho who is generally a rock was the worst player on the pitch, Henderson and Robertson way below par too. They are beatable, we scored from our couple chances we created.

I have to say wow, what a player KDB is, he was all over us.