Liverpool Match Posts 2

21 Apr 2024 17:19:09
The defending we've seen all year has been masked by our 3-1 turn arounds.

Its literally hilarious how bad we can be in midfield and at the back, teams like fulham are able to generate such easy chances. I'ts insanity how it keeps happening each week.

21 Apr 2024 16:59:01
What’s with this possession style slow build up? It’s like the players struggle to understand it and create chances. It’s almost impossible to watch.

21 Apr 2024 19:28:53
Not only impossible to watch, but boring as hell. Whatever happened to the high press.

21 Apr 2024 15:39:29
Looking at the team news it seems Klopp has already given up, maybe he should go now .

21 Apr 2024 16:03:12
Please explain your thinking? Apart from Gravenberch I can't see anyone coming into the team that shouldn't be!

21 Apr 2024 16:16:28
gravenberch is a big question mark for me, better off playing a young lad tbh.

21 Apr 2024 17:44:09
Klopp knows best.

21 Apr 2024 18:51:43
Obviously season ended weeks ago now. Just giving everyone a run out.

21 Apr 2024 15:36:40
Bizarre team selection.

21 Apr 2024 19:11:37
Well done Jurgen for rightly ‘resting’ Salah and Nunez. Top decision.

21 Apr 2024 22:39:20
We actually looked better without Salah today. Never thought I would ever say that.

19 Apr 2024 00:09:30
Dear god what a dire game that was, so frustrating it's unreal. I just want the end of the season to come now.

After the early goal I really believed we could do it, stupid on my part I know but come on, we should've been at them full throttle but instead we kept buggering about doing absolutely nothing. It was almost as if we didn't want to score another?

1 goal (a pen) in three games, we're in trouble, real trouble. Bring on next season already. We need big changes and I fear it won't be an easy quick fix.

19 Apr 2024 02:09:34
That’s what I thought too
And guess what, the chance came about from width!
But TAA just keeps drifting inside. Yes he did play some good balls from that position that put us in some good positions, but he will be even more dangerous outside. In the second half, we had no attack at all and so often we approaching their final third but had no one to play to on the right and we came back to the middle again.
Formation aside, the tactics was dire, especially second half. At no time did we even try to pressure them into submission in the second half. There was no high pressing, balls into box, shots from all ranges to put them into panic stations. It was honestly very comfortable for them for large parts.
I just wonder where has all our intensity went to? The very way we played that gained so much success. Even in this and last season, regardless of formation, it’s when we pressed high and hard and win the ball back fast and used width that we had the best spells. But time and again we revert to a slow paced build up. Boggles my mind.

19 Apr 2024 10:26:25
Awful performance again last night . they more or less played exactly the same in the first leg. shocking from the management. players seemed to not no what to do. definitely need to find some confidence from somewhere, otherwise it might be a struggle to qualify for champs league nevermind actually winning it.

18 Apr 2024 23:05:03
I appreciate all that Klopp has done for us but, if he wanted to make it so we wouldn't miss him when he leaves, these last few games have reinforced that.

Tactically outclassed again and very little urgency shown with our players simply passing around the backline and Goalkeeper. Klopp selecting players whose performance have dropped rather than those that would feel better suited to the occasion, Jones instead of Elliott, again, for instance. Pigeonholing players into roles they are simply not suited to, i. e. Szobo as Hendo 2.0 and Gakpo as everything but the LW he came as.

It has been a bizarre season and, honestly, I am looking forward to a change. Time to have a manager at the helm that has the desire and motivation to achieve more, leave sentimentality at the door as it has blinded Klopp's decision making far too often. We need to be critical now, recognize flaws and address them rather than allow them to stagnate.

I think this group of players need a refresh, defence and offensive units especially. Rotational players, such as Tsimikas need to be sold. And, once integral players, such as Salah, moved on before they are allowed to become free agents. We need to be ruthless with our decisions now, if a player is past it, no matter the contributions they have made in the past, they need to be sold to build funds. Same goes for free agency, if Van Dijk will not sign a new contract, that all parties can agree on, get what you can now, rather than allow him to leave on a free, like many before him have.

No idea who the next manager will be, mind you. But, I feel honestly hopeful for the future. Of course, be careful what you wish for and all that, but I honestly don't think I could sit through this version of Klopp's football for another season. His greatest strength was the press and occupying / utilizing the wide areas, and he has gone completely against it.

Mind boggling.

18 Apr 2024 23:21:26
Unfortunately, I agree. It seems the team are done, not playing for each other or the manager. I do worry though that they have to pick themselves up, otherwise with Villa away, we run the risk of not even getting top four anymore!

18 Apr 2024 23:32:01
Good post mate ditto.

19 Apr 2024 00:31:46
The unfortunate fact is that when we are pressed high we don't have any answers. We don't have the players to play our way out of it and don't have the pace and power up top anymore to play direct, at least not when Salah is playing. That's why this possession inverted nonsense is awful. It works for City because they buy the players that can play that way. We don't so why try?
Klopp is a legend and always will be winning everything and making us believers again, but he is right. It's time for him to go.

19 Apr 2024 07:10:48
The unfortunate fact is that when we are pressed high we don't have any answers.
Because we buy sub standard players who cannot resist a press, nor turn on with the ball. Endo and Jones are utterly awful in this regard and Gravenberch is just very poor. Szobo is not a midfielder to recieve the pass. The only notable exepction is Mcallister and he did have a good game. didn't he?

19 Apr 2024 08:26:07
Playing Mac Allister as a number 6 was a complete waste of his talent and ability, he’s the one midfielder we do have who can pick a pass and make things happen and we play him as a defensive midfielder.

18 Apr 2024 23:04:04
Feel like that match resembled the beautiful flaw of our football under Klopp.

Just weren’t technical or brave enough on the ball to pass the ball through their press.

Shame to go out that way but was watching and thinking that it was almost an appropriate reflection of Klopp’s tenure where we’ve been so good yet fallen short so often.

Well, PL run to come and maybe some more good times before this chapter closes.

19 Apr 2024 00:30:01
Let's face it we were all over the place . no cohesion anywhere. we wouldn't have scored if we played till May. looks like we're running out of ideas. new manager new ideas.

19 Apr 2024 08:27:33
Depends who the new manager is though Strom. If it’s Amorim then we’ve done well, if it’s the other names linked then we’re in for a difficult time.