05 Nov 2017 13:44:19
I'm so disappointed to keep re-reading the same old posts about Mignolet. Yesterday he was fine but we still get these deconstructions of his performance. For the goal he was blameless and as for the Ayew incident he did his job, he made himself big and forced Ayew to miss, I don't see how he gets criticism for that. There were a couple of incidents with his ball control but nothing actually came from either, this is an area he's actually demonstrated himself to be pretty strong in the last couple of seasons.

Migs had gotten a lot of undeserved criticism recently and I include the spurs game in that. In that game it wasn't his fault we lost but he was made the scapegoat.

We all know there are better keepers than Migs out there but he's ours and he deserves our support. He's been a decent servant to Liverpool, he was keeper when we almost won the league the years ago, he was our keeper in two cup finals last year. It's not his fault he's not as good as DDG or Courtois, he just tries his best and he has my thanks for that.


1.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 14:13:45
The frustration is a result of constant errors. He has not improved since we purchased him and he offers little in goal. I would prefer to give one of our two young keepers a chance to make those same errors in the hopes that st least they can get better.


2.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 14:23:59
Dismissing errors because "nothing came from them" is a red herring. It doesn't cease being a mistake if you're not punished for it.

As I said below in the reply to Scarry Houser's post, we wouldn't be talking about Migs' mistakes against West Ham much if they were an isolated incident. But they're not. He's making mistakes in more matches than not. If he stops making mistakes, people will stop obsessing over his performances.


3.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 14:48:12
They weren't clean play but they weren't mistakes either. It's this constant striving to find something to criticize that I find so irritating, you start the match having decided that's he's going to do badly and then look for an incident to justify your pre conceived opinion. For any other goalie that was at least a 6 out of 10 performance but because it's Migs he's eviscerated.


4.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 15:17:54
I don't want Mignolet in the Liverpool goal longterm. I hope Klopp gives the gloves to Ward or Marius soon. But I have to admit, some of the criticism Migs gets is uncalled for. The only mistake I can think of him making yesterday was when he unnecessarily gave away the ball near the corner flag and his goal kicks mostly never finds any of our teammates.


5.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 15:20:07
Every man and his dog is an expert these days Putney Red. That is the issue! Personally i tend not to read or comment on posters or Ed's reviews on players because its just one opinion albeit written a lot better with nice paragraphs but its still only one opinion.

We need a new keeper. In fact you could argue we need 2 if Ward or Karius don't step up or Klopp doesn't rate them highly enough but i agree, giving Mignolet dogs abuse and pointing out every error certainly won't help. He is Klopp's No1 in the League so get used to it. If it goes tits up don't blame Mignolet, blame Klopp. Mignolet can only do the best he can.


6.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 15:23:47
Agree - he’s not my pick but he doesn’t deserve getting panned every week even if he does OK.


7.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 15:34:06
Totally agree with this, I think everyone can agree that he is not good enough but I’m really not sure what he could have done about West Ham’s goal yesterday. It was a decent finish that Lanzini took early and put right in the corner, constantly criticizing someone just for the sake of it is pathetic.


8.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 16:41:46
I'm never shy of giving Mignolet criticism but he didn't have a bad game ( for him) yesterday.


9.) 05 Nov 2017
05 Nov 2017 22:31:51
Putney,
I agree with your post that Migs is getting undeserved flack vs WH as he did nothing wrong on the WH goal. But to say that he has been getting undeserved criticism of late, is complete tosh. Are you actually trying to somehow absorb him of blame vs Spurs? If anyone was scapegoated for thtat loss, it was Lovren. It was not Lovren who came stupidly storming out of goal to get to a ball that Harry Kane already had at his feet for the first goal. It was not Lovren who came out and completely flapped at a cross that the defenders were about to clear leading to Kane's second goal and Spurs' goal.

It was all Migs, the very same one who almost cost us the LC game with two errors and giving away a penalty that Vardy shot right at him. The same guy who has led the PL in errors that lead to goals since 2013. Stop defending the indefensible, bro. The guy is pants and the reason he is still playing is cos (per Ed01), Klopp does not wanna bring Karius back in and the disgraceful set of fans who got on his back for making two mistakes last season, do the very same thing again if he makes one now.