22 Aug 2016 06:12:59
Ok, the disapointment from Saturdays game is all but over for me now.
And I can start to see more clearly. We did play fairly well. 2 "mistakes" cost us the game.
Still a little disapointed that we couldn't score even 1 goal.
But onto other things. 2013/ 14 was probably the best football I've seen us play.
There's glimpses of that game now as well.
And if I had a choice of finishing 2nd (getting Champions league football), or wining the league with boring football, to be honest I can't say for sure what I would choose (my heart says 2nd and best football ever) .
If you ask me now, top 4 and good flowing attacking football, or "buying the league", or boring football, I would choose top 4 finish with the way we play.
For us to eventually win the league, we may need to become big spenders (and we not, 35mil is not high in football anymore when you have players going for 100mil) .
But would that feel right? No!
At that point, if we do get there, I would block out fees paid for players and wages etc.
I still feel we can achieve top 4 this season.
We may even have a good run, and we'll all believe we can win the league.
But I do know this, we will all definitely enjoy the ride. The 2-0 losses will hurt, but the 4-3 wins will make us smile through the pain.

1.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 06:54:56
We won't finish top 4 losing to teams like Burnley mate.
Suarez finished second not Brendan's Liverpool.

2.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 07:01:13
Surely not . look mate against burnley we had all the possession but we couldn't defend whenever they attacked and we couldn't score against them. That is not the performance you expect after a 4-3 win. Surely after that 4-3 more emphasis should had been on defensive side of game. But as usual we made those silly mistakes. we can pin out single names or blame the team but the fact still remains we are not defending well as a unit for some time now.
I am sorry to inform you boring was our way and we were the most successful team on the planet when we were boring. I don't know why call it boring? Is football all about attacking and goals? does defending mean nothing? that seems the trend and that is why there is dearth of good defenders and fallible defenders like stones cost 55 millions. Football is the game of defense vs attack and more often than not teams that defend better come out good. same reason why Burnley won. We are not the Barcelona and Bayern of this world that attack will carry us off. We need to learn to defend as simple as that, unfortunately i don't see that happening any time soon. Yea 4-3 is thrilling and scoring goals definitely gives memories, but there is nothing more better and satisfying than a clean sheet win.
We won't be anywhere near top 4 with attacking football, because teams like burnley will continue to defend there skins off and beat us, unfortunately they have been for some while now.

3.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 07:17:49
I don't think we played "well".
That was one of our worst performances since Klopp came.

4.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 08:13:18
Rubbish Akshit, we were far from boring in our pomp. And i would also suggest there is heavy swing towards defending in heavy numbers and counter attacking right now.

5.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 08:51:36
Played well? How?

6.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 09:38:07
mate according to the OP winning by toiling and defending hard is boring. and that is what we did in our pomp.
also there is a swing in tactics as you say but now defenders esp full backs are wanted to contribute in attack and its all about ball playing defenders hence no genuine defenders are being produced. every team has this issue not just liverpool. The general level of defending is on the whole abysmal. and we were the best in closing out games and protecting our lead in our pomp days.

7.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 09:39:39
Akshit, were you old enough to go to our games when we were the most successful/ best team in England and Europe? Because we were far from boring let me tell you, and if you want a snippet of some of the stuff we played back then can I suggest the 5-0 home game against Nottingham forest in 88. That's a terrible shout by you there fella👎.

8.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 11:27:24
Waro, I think he is referring to under Rafa, 05 era where we reached two champions league finals.

I agree with your point waro but football has changed a lot since then mate.

9.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 11:31:50
good god, i said the defensive style of play OP is referring to as boring was the style of play LFC played when we were kings. it is in context to the post. we never played all attack forget defense win 5-4 in our glory days. Defense was our bedrock, we hardly ever concede more than one back then. we could destroy teams back then and if the opposition put up a fight we could grind a result too by working hard defensively.

10.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 11:43:44
The 87-88 side was far from boring. The 5-0 demolition of Forest received praise by Sir Tom Finney saying something to the effect that it was the greatest exhibition of football he had seen. But it wasn't just one game, the 4-0 win over QPR saw possibly one of the finest individual goals at Anfield, two fantastic goals in the merseyside Derby and two more against Arsenal. I would go so far to say that side would have been the best in Europe at the time. Amazing sides to match the greatest from any era. Agree with Waro, akshit, way off the mark mate.

11.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 11:55:08
Thank you to putting context to your post akshit. Yes, not only were we blessed with attacking talent, we could also keep the back door shut. We needed both to go on the unbeaten run in 87-88.something like 28 games if memory serves me right.

12.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 12:21:59
DBol this may fall on deaf ears (or blind eyes) but I'm pretty sure on December 3rd, 2013 we lost to hull city away 3-1 and lost away to arsenal 2-0 on November 2nd the same year.
That's the same season we finished second 2 points behind man city.

Our famous anthem is not "You 'll never walk alone unless you lose a game, then you 're walking alone until the next game. "

I get the frustration and anger after a loss but don't be such a pessimist and get behind the team.

13.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 12:28:06
Correction, that's December 1st we lost to hull. Stupid me I had to go into detail.

14.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 14:05:43
I didn't say defending is boring. But when teams defend with 10 players for most of the game, that's boring!
If a teams tactics is to only defend, then that's boring. A game needs balance, by both sides.
As much as people say money has killed football, this new tactic of sides just sitting back, or parking the bus, is also killing the game.
Football is meant to have both. Attack and defense. Too often, the "lower" sides just defend with all their players, then get "lucky" on the break.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not just talking about this game. Its been happening for a while now. Managers go out to just sit back, and if they get a break, they hope they score. If not, they happy with just defending and preventing the other side from wining the game. Its not like the draw means anything to them, its more like preventing the other side from wining means more.
And no one has to agree with me, but it has killed the game!

15.) 22 Aug 2016
22 Aug 2016 17:09:58
It's up to us to find a way to counter ultra defensive teams, not complain about them defending.