Liverpool FC Team Talk, Gossip, Rumours 2024/25

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Villa only 8 points behind us if they hold out. Id fancy them to claw that in more than us chasing down the 2 points to City before the season is out if I'm honest 🤣🤣

Ugh...such a missed opportunity. Bleugh.....

Ffs another city title incoming. Infuriating.

It would be an amazingly entertaining run in if they'd sorted those 115 charges and it was just us and Arsenal

Couldn't watch live, and had planned to watch later - but then ended up catching the score. Don't think I can bring myself to do it now. Sounds like it was just a shïtshow right across the field though.

Gutting to see Arsenal dropping points… though I'm not sure it really matters for the title as far as we're concerned. Kinda think with City having gotten their noses ahead of us, it's always going to be very hard to get back ahead of them.

It's not gone, but it's now a long shot, with City - as they always have been - huge favourites.

Who'd have thunk our goal difference against Arsenal might actually improve today (after the fiasco earlier)?

Might as well just put the asterisk on the trophy now and be done with it.

Positives eh.....

Ahh joint top, I don't see GD coming into it

Hate to say it but City will win it. Much easier run in than Arsenal or Liverpool.

It'd be a normal run-in - the likes of which we saw most seasons up to about 2018.

But that doesn't exist in Pep's 115ers era.

Mad results are supposed to happen. You're supposed to have days or a couple of days where you bottle it a little, then sort yourself out for another day. But you simply can't with this City team.

It's why I can't take advice seriously from the likes of Neville, Keane, Alan Smith, Merson or whoever about how to get through a run-in. Their teams were allowed to occasionally lose at this point in the season. They actually know fúck all when it comes to how to do a run-in with this iteration of City. It's utterly different to their era. It's exhausting. They'd all look like a load of bottlers trying to keep up too.

Well ted, didn't see that coming

If VAR did it's job properly when we played against Arsenal and City, the 2 peno decisions we'd have had enough to points to be able to drop… City will win all their games until they have the league won now… prob field weakened teams when they playing in the CL final…

Pints of lager when they are celebrating maybe

4 of the next 5 City games are away from home, Brighton A, Forest A, Wolves H, Fulham A, Spurs A

Now I know we face similar, but the point is there is still room for a couple of twists yet. If we won them all from here, we'd win the league, as will anyone else who did the same

Both horrendous decisions and against our title rivals so very harmful but for me the most egregious decision was the Spurs one. At least for the Odegaard handball and the Doku flying chest kick you could argue were subjective decisions that the refs "saw differently" or whatever to the rest of the world but for the Spurs goals there was no decision to be made other than "should we give Liverpool the perfectly legitimate goal that they scored or not" which is simply not a decision the reffing team gets to make but they made it that day.

Tbh for me the legitimacy of the entire season has been in question since that day. It is a completely unprecedented situation. The only thing that comes close is that goal that wasn't given to Sheffield Utd I think it was due to technology failure of the goal line tech but even for that one, which was outrageous itself as everyone could see with their own 2 eyes that the ball was miles over the line they trusted the tech and got it wrong, they have the tech as an excuse or whatever. But against Spurs we scored a perfectly legitimate goal that the reffing team were aware that we scored but chose to not give us that goal. That is utter madness and those guys still have a job the next week!!!

The refs chose to not give us a perfectly legitimate goal in a tight game and quite probably cost us points in a title race that we know from experience can easily come down to 1 point. That is so crazy when you think about it. And it never evens get mentioned like it never happened. I don't think you could ever point to a worse ref decision than that one. It's black and white. It's not even a decision per se, nothing to think about. I still can't get over that, it's so insane to me

nobody to blame but ourselves

This. If I could thank it 97 times, I would.

I'd no expectations going into the season and hoped for a top 4 and a good run in the Europa. Having a cup in the bag and being at the business end of 2 competitions in April has been incredible. It's a shame that we might just finish with one cup and call the season a letdown, but the only real letdown is Klopps departure. It has been a fun run. Let's try and take second and be proud of where we have come from.

Had they not cheated do you think they'd be where they are? Surely that's not difficult to understand?

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There some truth in it. They players still had plenty left in the tank to get into positions to score or positions that open up Palace but they consistently made extremely poor decisions when it came to the crunch. Saying the pressure has no nothing to do with their complete capitulation as soon as they've gotten to the busy end of the season is very generous.

However, I also think it is important to recognise that most of the players who have been available for the last few weeks are young and/or simply don't have the experience of playing in seriously high pressure situations.

On that note too, I really can't say how utterly disappointed I've been with Salah the last few weeks. He should he the one leading by example and driving this team forward, instead he's been the complete opposite and looked as if he hasn't even given a toss.

Before FFP Madrid and Barcelona were at it for years bankrolled by the Spanish government