Liverpool Match Posts 2

18 Apr 2024 22:27:08
What has happened these past 6 weeks? The players look so lethargic it’s ridiculous!

Some of klopps decisions tonight were bordering on certifiable! First there is the tactics, we started well and then once we got the goal, the press disappeared and we were back to playing the ball around the back and pumping it hopelessly long!

Starting gakpo when we needed to come out the blocks firing was the wrong call. Starting jones, who has looked so rusty since his injury, was the wrong call.

Then there were the substitutions. Taking off diaz and salah when you’re chasing goals is ridiculous, regardless of how they’re playing! And then to top it all off, he throws gakpo left back! I genuinely don’t know how a season which showed so much promise has derailed so quickly!

18 Apr 2024 23:41:09
Diaz and mo was right subs for me. We could play til midnight and they wouldn’t have had a shot on target let alone score.

18 Apr 2024 22:18:56
Got what we deserved.

When your keeper has the ball for half the game (exaggeration Iknow) your not going to get a good result especially in Europe.

Shame really.

Heres looming forward and a fresh start,

18 Apr 2024 22:15:07
What’s the point of this constant passing back to Alison and he just stand’s there wasting up to 20 seconds each time! Watching it on the TV there is no movement or desire from any Liverpool player to want the ball. Van Dijk just stands there screaming at players to pass it back to him and Allison. Both of them use to play some brilliant long range passes but they seem to have no interest or maybe the forwards aren’t making the right runs. It was a terrible performance with the subs coming on performing worse than the players they replaced.
Well done to Atlanta because they turned up in both games with a brilliant attitude and were clinical in the first leg while also creating some great chances tonight.
It looks like Klopp will leave without a whimper. In my opinion he has under achieved. I know a lot of people will disagree but he has left behind at least 2 Premier league titles and 1 champions league along with the Europa League and league cups.
He’s given the club some of its best nights in history but unfortunately hasn’t added enough trophies.
I saw a quote recently from him saying people shouldn’t ask him about what it takes to win in England because he normally finishes second. It breaks my heart hearing him speak like that because he gives his absolute best. He just doesn’t seem to get the luck when it really matters.

18 Apr 2024 22:51:02
It’s all relative Jarjar.

If someone had told me when Klopp took over that within 8 years we’d make the Europa League final and Champions league final 3 times, be in a title race most seasons and win a league title, champions league, FA Cup, League Cup twice, European Super Cup, Club World Cup and a Community Shield I’d have absolutely snatched your arm off!

We had been searching for a manager to take us back to the top of the league since Dalglish left in 1990. We had sporadic success in cup competitions but never truly ever looked like winning the league or even challenging for the league consistently.

For one man to come in and take us straight back to the top of the league consistently and to make us one of the very best teams in Europe again is nothing short of spectacular.

You can look at his trophy count if you like and say he’s underachieved but the fa t he achieved half of what he has is unbelievable and something we all should be eternally grateful for.

{Ed025's Note - hear hear BP. Well said mate..

18 Apr 2024 22:11:21
Wasn’t to be tonight, after an excellent start, they played rubbish and created nothing
Salah is finished in the prem, no pace and lost all of his retention skill set.

18 Apr 2024 22:37:27
Damage was done in the first leg. Season is looking as good as over right now.

18 Apr 2024 22:04:50
Well that wasn’t the way we wanted to finish Europe under Klopp. But all good things come to an end. Atlanta looked a lot stronger than us. Fitter and there press was amazing. I just can't see why Salah was pick tonight. He has been a shadow of himself for ages now and tonight has to be the worst I’ve ever seen from him. ( yes I know he scored a pen) but he did nothing else literally nothing to the point were it was embarrassing. He was getting pushed around like a 10 year old and has lost everything that he was good at.
I know Klopp wanted to make space by getting players to move away from man making but it just created confusion and in the end the ball was kicked long and then lost It really is a sad way for Klopp to finish his last couple of game because he is getting out smarted by everyone at the moment.

18 Apr 2024 22:13:26
We don’t have any other options to not play Salah. He’s been poor but the other 4 top have been too. Salah has proved what he can do we need to sign a world class striker and left winger for him to play with.

18 Apr 2024 22:39:14
Salah is done at the top level. Sorry to say. His legs are gone, no shame in admitting that. Best thing we can do is move him on in the summer and get as much as we can.

19 Apr 2024 01:43:20
he looks like he is checked out and on as beach somewhere already tbh. as for no other options wasnt the where dom played for his old club and also elliot can put a shift in there, may not have salahs skillset but at least he would try.

18 Apr 2024 22:02:20
It finally looks like the players have lost belief. Atalanta completely outthought us tactically, their press not allowing us easy passes into our midfielders. I so wanted Mac to be moved up to 8, as he is creative around the box, but that didn't happen either. Should have just started Trent as 6, and Mac as 8. Szoboszlai has tailed off so much. These games are not the ones I would start Jones in, Elliott would have been a much better shout.
Just very sad, Klopp's tenure is ending so poorly. Playing like the team he inherited instead of the team he created.

{Ed025's Note - Elliot should have started for me as well TKA..

18 Apr 2024 22:08:46
We wouldn’t beat Everton on this form ed.

{Ed025's Note - thats stretching it a bit mark mate.. :)

18 Apr 2024 22:22:14
Elliott brings effort and energy. Jones is a Klopp favorite and is a safe pair of hands but offers little going forwards for me.

{Ed025's Note - I’m with you RF..

18 Apr 2024 22:27:49
I don’t know Ed, I think Everton would at least fight and show some passion. We mostly looked disinterested and like we were thinking about the beach.

{Ed025's Note - it was not good VV I must admit. But maybe you have not watched Everton play mate?..

18 Apr 2024 22:43:41
Everton always raise their game for the derby. Can’t say the same for us….

18 Apr 2024 21:57:45
Just not good enough, damage done in the 1st leg, have over achieved this season but we have had a great ride on the strength of it, outside chance of the league but if we keep persisting with this slow build up possession rubbish tactics we will be lucky to win half our remaining games. Atalanta to their credit never really looked in trouble big strong solid outfit full of energy something our team is lacking after a long and hard season but the thought of winning a 20 league title should be enough to drive these players on sadly I think we have run out of steam.

18 Apr 2024 22:16:26
When you watch the videos of training you can see there's a few cliques in the team and the players live in a bubble, there's just too much familiarity, too much same old training, klopp built an empire but tried to hang onto it by not rebuilding the team, i genuinly thought keegan could not be replaced but king kenny was better. Tell me is Diaz better than Mane? Is slobbo better than dare i say it Hendo is Endo better than Wjinaldum, love him for his desire but if Nunez could finish like Origi then he would be a worthy replacement for Mo. Sadly tonights performance was a rinse and repeat formula from a manager to a team that's nowhere near the team he thinks they are Atalanta won that easily.