Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Slip for the "penalty" and slip in that tackle. Saka did nothing wrong, they were accidental contacts. Endo was lucky himself to avoid a second yellow.

🤣 Your own player took out your manager and you're crying about it looking for Saka to be sent off. Honestly it's embarrassing.

Nothing better to be doing on Christmas eve...

Maybe he slipped

I agree with you but I also thought he was a little card happy yesterday as it was. Endo, Havertz and Nketiah, I don't think any of them really deserved the yellows they got

It was odd how much slipping there was yesterday, mostly from them. I wonder did we water the pitch more than normal. Also, the slight bobble before Trent hit the bar was odd, usually the pitch is like a carpet

"The decisions went for my team therefore they were correct"

I'm willing to concede the Tsimikas one somewhat, but in the current climate, I thought a 'slip' was pretty meaningless?

Once Mac Allister is back I think we need to start with Endo, Szoboszlai and Mac Allister in MF with Jones, Elliot and Gravenbach rotating in.

I'm looking forward to seeing Mac Allister in his best position.

If Saka had slipped and caught him with studs then that would warrant a yellow. That’s not what happened though. I don’t think that or the shoulder were worthy of yellows

Great game anyway, City the real winners though

Yeah I was impressed with Konate tbh. Far better than I remembered. Broke down a lot of play before the ball could be worked into more dangerous positions

There were 6 CBs on the pitch (White and Gomez playing fullback) and they might have been the 6 best performers

Should have been booked for kicking the ball away after the shoulder injury

10 points ahead of Newcastle, 11 over United, ahead of City. Jaysus, I'd have taken that at the start of the season. Tough crowd!

One beneficial thing that playing in the Europa League is that players like Chambers and Scanlon have played a couple of games each at LB. They have tasted the first team experience both on the pitch and being around the first team on match days.

Gomez is gonna be used at LB now but he can't play 90 mins every game. He will need to be rested a bit too. That real natural width will be lacking though.

Chambers has 2 starts & 2 subs appearances over 140 mins.

Scanlon has less with 2 subs appearances totalling 51 mins.

One left field idea could be to use Curtis Jones at LB. He has already played a couple games at RB, but he seems to favour the left hand side of the pitch and has played LW at times too. He could even play the inverter role from there if needs be, with Trent playing his more traditional RB role. No real natural width with Jones at LB though.

An even more left field idea would be trying Diaz there. He played there against Everton for a bit.

If I was to put Diaz anywhere at present it'd be "left back on the subs bench". The lad needs time off to sort himself out as he's clearly going through a lot and his game is suffering.

Yeah and the 3rd best centrehalf on the field got MOTM😉

Oh will you just give over. I don't even need to check back on your posts to know for certain you were moaning about how shite Solanke was when he was with us.

Probably the same guys giving out that we didn't beat Utd and Arsenal and should be top of the league.

You just cant win with some people.

Impossible to tell what would have happened if Salah had been dropped. Who knows, we may have won!!

I never said Salah should have been dropped. I said that I wouldn't have minded if Elliot got in there ahead of him as he had been great in the previous game. Salah of course scored a fab goal, but overall he wasn't great and was actually very poor at times in that second half. Sometimes his decision making is terrible. Still love the guy though.

I don't think the title is done. The usual top teams not playing well this season. But if we don't do some January business, I think we'll end up out of the race. I'd still favour City as they always seem to up their game in the second half of the season.

Agree with your front line comment. They're not up to scratch this season.

CDM - I think Endo has made great progress. He needs some competition. I don't like the way Klopp makes MacAllister play there. Play players in their best positions.

Ah lads who's chopping onions.

Fair play to the club for making that little man's day. Klopp is an absolute gem and when he does leave they'll be massive boots to fill. It's great to see how happy he was to see Diaz, Nunez and Mo and the way he smiled when Diaz kept ruffling his hair. Also really nice when Endo walked over to say hi when he was clearly just walking past.