Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

My main takeaway from Saturday is that Klopp's Liverpool 2.0 are the real deal. A lot of leaders in that side again. Matip Gomez Allison Szlobozai Salah etc etc. And that's just one game.

And Klopp himself played another blinder with tactical shifts with 9 and 10 men. A 96th minute deflection OG stopped us going away to Spurs (who are unbeaten and winning most games this year) and taking a point with 9 men and screwed by refereeing decisions.

Making the pitch narrow with 10 contain Spurs that way, but also having the counter attack pace. Then making the pitch tiny with 9. Spurs could only pass sideways and couldn't penetrate vertically. So compact. Also the Jota sub was very bold and shows what he wants, even when down to 10. To score goals. To attack. The bold brave Klopp is back. Liverpool are back. We are in a title race so strap yourselves in.

Spurs enjoyed Saturday, I'm sure we'll be enjoying a lot more of the season after the next 8 months.

Yes time to actually focus on the teams performance rather than the shambolic one of the officials as noting can be down about that. Fully agree, I wasn't sure what to think going into this game, because although we have had great results lately, some performances have only been 50/50 at best, but Saturday was really impressive. Spurs had been in great from up to this and I though we made them look ordinary in that first half, scoring 2 goals against them with 10 men! The Gakpo injury was a big turning point, not just because his replacement got sent off, but Gakpo is a just so good at coming deep to receive the pass, avoiding the tackle and getting us going forward quickly again. That is a huge asset when you have only 10 men as he can often take 2/3 players out of the game with the quick turn of pace. Jota is just not that type of player and is not comfortable coming deep to receive the ball with his back towards goal, that effective passing lane was gone for us from the start in the 2nd half. If Gakpo stayed fit and on the field I'm not only convinced we would have won a point but we would have created chances at the other end too. Lets not forget that Diaz missed a sitter at the end of the first half to.

To add to the perfect storm;

- the decision was made abnormally quick.

- lines were not drawn/shown to the tv audience. How many times ovet the previous seasons were goals were allowed/disallowed for marginal offside/onside and lines were NOT drawn?

- why was the error not communicated with the ref?? Even if the tv audience was shown with the lines drawn, communication could have reached the players or ref.

- 3 match officials worked for and got paid handsomely by our biggest rivals just 2 days prior.

You could definitely sense something was off watching the game in real time. The game restarted very quickly and without us being informed of the var decision.

Untill VaR is implemented like the rugby equivalent it won't be fit for purpose...it's not a big jump from where it is,and will improve the game imo..use it for any incident,diving, asking for cards, pulling jerseys in the box.. obviously for stuff which leads to goals or deprives of goals...it won't be hard.

4 hour long games, here we come

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Jota's wife .

Clever girl, they can't ban the wife or fine her. MacAllister needs to take note ha

The not going back thing is stupid. If the goal had been corrected at a break in play within a few minutes, it would barely have got mentioned in the media today. And if it did, it would be to commend them on having the balls and common sense to correct a brain freeze moment.

Hawkeye didn't award a clear point to Galway shortly before half time in the All Ireland S/F against Derry last year. Croke Park had the cop to just give Galway the extra point at half time and retire Hawkeye for the rest of the game. No uproar.

This must be how the bribe gets paid. Hire them for some job and pay them loads to do it so it looks legit. Kinda like how all the ex US presidents go round and give talks at all the big companies that they worked for while president and getting paid millions for these talks.

Look, we need to move on, there is a game Thursday and it can't come quick enough.

We were shafted, let the noise rattle about but the team and squad including the coaches have to park it and concentrate on what's what.

We played very well on Saturday. We didn't let the refereeing effect us, we had some brilliant performances, not least Gomez and Matip who have gotten some critism. Gomez has given us a good base in Trents absence, he's a good player and has contributed a lot this season already. The mobility of the middle 3 has been a big improvement, and Jones even while on the field kept up his high levels. We were a threat, and created several half chances on the break with 10 men, and even with 9 we were still trying to break, maybe too much. And Allison.... What a fvckin player

The attitude was the biggest take away, and I think the lads can take this performance and use the sh1t surrounding the game to drive them on for the season - I'm not saying it's gonna drive us on to won the league, but it'll drive us on to win the league 😎

We should move on

Or he needs to post another tweet quickly as sadly the rules are that once the next tweet is tweeted nothing can be done about the previous tweet!

Yep, deal with it there and then, don't just sit on your hands and say nothing. Props to the guy with the headphones, who bundled his

way on to the stage to grab that card and say '' give me a look at that card'

The last thing that will improve VAR is more VAR.

It should be done away with entirely.

It's ruined the game.

😝 you know anything about football?

Have a read about that year then .... Or just trot out a fairy tale.

Spurs were never top of the league... And finished 10 points ahead of liverpool !! 😂 😂 😂 😀

Why are you lot hating Spurs? The club had nothing to do with Howard Webbs refs fcuking up... But go ahead ... We dont care.

Lol!

Pathetic.

I’ve never heard such moaning from a group of fans.

Just get on with it, stop embarrassing yourself, and concentrate on the tough game you have coming up against Brighton.