Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

Mo a big loss going forward obviously but arguably our best attacking performance of the season so far wasn't tonight. It was West ham in the cup when Mo didn't start. If we're still top of the league when Mo gets back its time to start dreaming.

I like when Gomez plays, and you're totally oblivious to the fact he's playing

Good game today at left back

I never thought he had it in him to come back to this type of from after shocking displays like away to Napoli.

Fair play to him

Missing Salah and Endo will be tough, but the last time we had players leave in January for the AFCON we did not do too badly. We then lost Mane, Salah and Keita in 2022 and both Mane and Salah played in an energy sapping final that went into extra time and Salah had to see Mane win the tournament with his penalty. That would have been tough mentally and may have been one of the reasons his level dropped when he came back. We will just have to see how it will go.

Yeah, he was holding the back of his leg when he went off. Did not see if he had ice on it afterwards and hopefully it was just tiredness but that could be a problematic one if it is something more serious.

LB is where he started under Rodgers yeah

I forgot how dire our LB situation was prior to Robbo, that run of Flanagan, Gomez, Moreno, Milner

I couldn't agree more on Endo, if you compare the performances before he became a regular starter. We were getting wins, but we looked fragile and poor for large spells of those games.

Since Endo became a regular in the 2-0 win against Sheffield UTD at the start of December, it has been no coincidence that we have played our best football with him on the field. He may not be the best No.6 in the world, but the difference of playing with an actually No.6 in the holding role has had a huge impact on our performance levels IMO.

Great performance and result last night, Gomez Endo and Jones were my MOM all played really well.

I was at the game in the new upper Anfield road stand club have done a wonderful job on it atmosphere was electric last night one of the best I’ve been at in recent times.

Great result last night, in the first half I had a feeling this was going to be another one of those games ala United where we dominate possession but do nothing with it. Thankfully the second half subsided my fears ha.

Gomez, Jones and Endo were all brilliant as others have said Endo gets more important to this team every week he plays IMO. Jones and Gomez have both stood up and VVD appears to be back to near his best. Alison and Salah are Allison and Salah and Trent seems to be clicking into gear at the exact right time.

Biggest issue for us now is losing Salah and Endo for a month or more combined with the fact that city are losing no one to afcon/Asia and also have big players back from injury. I still think city are favourites for the league they just have such form at this time of year they could quite easily win their next 15 games and could be out of sight by Easter. But we've done all we can so far. Let's see what the next few months bring

Endo's pressing is what we've been missing in the DM role. When we lose the ball high up the pitch and are vulnerable to the counter attack, Endo is able to gengenpress and win the ball back thus stopping the counter attack and keeping the opposition pinned back.

Have we seen Sobo, Mac and Endo start together yet?

Gomez at lb gives great solidity when it becomes a 3 with vvd and konate with Trent moving into midfield , it may be a better option than anyone else there.

he is looking great now and very athletic aswell

Diaz was far better, taking on players, running into space.

Absolute game changer if he could rediscover his pre-injury form, looked a special player.

Diaz was massively improved but coming from a very low base.

City are going to go on a winning run now most likely. They have a very handy run of fixtures until the beginning of March. The only game they might drop points in is their next one away to Newcastle but Newcastle are not in the best shape right now. City's fixtures in March and April though are very tough if we can just stay in touch until then.

Jones can still be a bit frustrating at times, he played a great through ball last night, don't think we scored from it. He's a different option to have, very McManaman like with his mazy dribbles.

Jones himself has stated that he applies himself much harder in training these days, you can see it paying off and fair play to him.

I had written off Curtis as a player barely good enough to be a Liverpool squad player, definitely not good enough to be a regular starter in a championship contending team. But I think he’s matured this year. I thought his performance in the league cup quarters v West Ham was immense. He just bossed that game and played like a captain, even his interactions with teammates was just mature, and ‘this is my team’ and giving proper encouragement to team-mates.

Did have to bear in mind that West Ham put out a weakened midfield and then against Arsenal he was only mediocre. But that was excellent from him yesterday and with Endo away and Szobo possibly injured, I think he’ll be starting plenty of games in the next 6 weeks or so.

That effort from Trent that went off the woodwork from a ridiculous angle goes right into the pantheon of Great Liverpool Almost Goals.

He joins:

Carragher hitting the post from 30 yards in his final game

Suarez' volley vs Arsenal

One of only two moments I can remember from Lazar Markovic's Liverpool career (the other being his red card in the UCL)

I'd almost (not really) believe Jota just went down because he knew it'd be the more controversial move 😆 He's got a bit of that Jamie Vardy shít-stirrer attitude in him.

Hopefully there is.

Does anyone know when the rest of the fixtures will be confirmed, looking to make a trip over in April but some want to book anything until fixture is confirmed. I couldn't find any details with a quick Google.

You best bet would be book a two night stay now and try to get the Sheff Utd game to be sure, the Palace game will be played on the Sunday if Liverpool get into the Europa League Quarter Finals those are the only 2 you can be sure about at this stage

It was tongue in cheek, but Fabinho is not crocked. If Szobo has a hamstring injury and Thiago and Bajcetic are still injured, we are going to be short handed for 6 weeks or so. Mac Allister is not a good 6. That’s been pretty plain. Might be worth shoe horning Curtis into 6 to allow Alexis play his best position, but either way it’s not ideal.