Liverpool banter 8

04 Nov 2025 14:51:04
{Ed's Note - Ed001 has posted a new article entitled, Liverpool v Aston Villa - A Very Quick Liverpool Perspective

04 Nov 2025 14:59:03
Great review Ed001. I find it strange playing Wirtz out of position when he's not playing well.

{Ed001's Note - yeah but he needed to make sure Ekitike was fresh for tonight.}

04 Nov 2025 15:01:45
Thanks for the review Ed. Have missed reading this. Can't help noticing that you not writing the reviews coincided with us going on a poor run ;)

{Ed001's Note - which was because my parents were staying - so obviously they are a pair of Jonahs!}

04 Nov 2025 17:01:32
Hi eds1
I take it your parents have gone home now we have won a game 😂.

{Ed001's Note - yep, they went home and we won. Not that I am suggesting they are connected but I have already began a move to block their return! They are coming back in Feb, that could ruin our season.}

04 Nov 2025 19:14:10
We could all chip in and send them on a cruise then 👍.

04 Nov 2025 21:29:11
To Gyles Quay BIL! 🥳.

04 Nov 2025 22:38:54
Good old Gyles Quay 😎 ⛈️ SG.

04 Nov 2025 07:39:01
{Ed's Note - BlueNose1878 has posted a new article entitled, Everton Need January Reinforcements to Salvage the Season

04 Nov 2025 11:31:30
Send for Big Sam and Rafa …. 🙂.

04 Nov 2025 11:50:07
'Salvage the Season'? 14th in the PL 5 points above the drop zone / 5 points off a European place after 10 games is not that bad and is a vast improvement on recent seasons. I'm not sure that there is anything in need of salvaging except maybe certain fans expectations.

04 Nov 2025 14:43:47
But there on the way up. just wait 🥱.

04 Nov 2025 15:06:23
Shipley, maybe same expectations as West Ham did, which appears to be back firing by getting rid of Moyes.

04 Nov 2025 01:00:23
Flashes of what we could be last match. A promising improvement. Just need to sustain it now and get Isaks up and running. Downside is we had to rely on players we are phasing out.

Szoboszlai goes from strength to strength. He and Chiesa are proving to be our most consistent players so far this season.

But it's onwards and upwards from here.

04 Nov 2025 01:16:47
The only consistent thing with Chiesa is that his appearances are inconsistent.

04 Nov 2025 02:29:11
Hard to say Chiesa has been consistent given his limited playing time. Not against giving him more playing time however.

What players are we "phasing out" RL? If you're referring to Salah he has two more years. The average age of players in our squad is less than 26.

04 Nov 2025 09:48:13
@Lenin, I don't think the game was a flash of what we could be. IMO, it is a flash/ reminder of what we were last season under Slot cos 9 out of the regular starters from last season (bar Ekitike and Marmadasvili) started vs Villa.

What we can be this season? I have no idea cos it is still too early to tell and most importantly, we need results more than anything right now, IMO.

As for the players we are trying to phase out getting us the win, sometimes you have to go two steps backwards in order to jump higher. Or go a step forward.

04 Nov 2025 17:35:13
We cannot say WE'RE BACK from dispensing a tactically poor Villa side at home that has scored the second lowest amount in the league. IT has to be followed up with good performances against Madrid and City where this exact same sequence rendered three victories last year.

04 Nov 2025 19:31:35
The Villa game was a much better showing overall! It dipped here and there but speed, aggression and a better overall attacking attitude made it feel much better. It's a start and Madrid will fancy themselves tonite

Come on you reds.

YNWA.

04 Nov 2025 00:26:56
What I enjoyed the most about last match besides the more obvious things about the form of individual players (mo looking like one of the best players in the world again, macca looking closer to his usual self)

Macca celebrating winning a foul after the corner where onana threw him to the floor

Dom engaging in multiple occasions of rubbishhousery and gamesmanship, like he was taking a page out of robbo's playbook

Ekitike's furious and cathartic celebration after his offside goal

The drive to win and close out a game that we saw time and time again last year, even at one up we looked completely in control, two up and you knew it was curtains, we could allow villa to have the ball in our third, not surrender dangerous chances and then get on our bikes to counter with relative ease

To the folks on here saying slot had lost the dressing room, this was definitive proof that you were mistaken.

And Dom ...what a brilliant player. He has all the technical qualities you would want from a top player but more importantly all the intangible ones too. Motm by a country mile.

04 Nov 2025 01:18:26
Thinking about Dom, he received a lot of criticism last season and the season before that he was inconsistent, didn't have enough "output", I hate that phrase by the way lol

I can see Wirtz having a similar trajectory in our team. There's no rush other than expectations.

04 Nov 2025 07:43:31
People getting too excited after the last game…. Let’s be real, we scored because they made mistakes. Real and city are going to be a much tougher tests so if we can get through these unscathed then I might think there is some light at the end of the tunnel. However, at the moment I’m still not convinced.

04 Nov 2025 09:18:09
They made mistakes but this was because of our strategic high press. We created multiple chances because of the press, did you miss those? If we struggled going forward all game and created nothing besides those two goals then you might have a valid point.

04 Nov 2025 09:34:52
Faith, my guess is it's hard for Dom to have consistent output in the final third when he's running full pelt across the pitch all game, he's commented on this before. That he somehow manages to produce quality and workrate from first minute to 90th now is actually insane. The trivela that he hit to Salah in the 80th or so minute was nuts, as were his max effort sprints in the closing stages of the game.

By the same token wirtz having to chase the game so often or drop deep and drive forward to get us up the field means he might be a bit gassed when he gets the ball in the final third in the same phase of play.

04 Nov 2025 09:55:35
"Let’s be real, we scored because they made mistakes. ".

@Chaosengine, and other teams didn't score because we made mistakes under pressure or do things only go one way for you? Btw, that was like the 3rd time they had coughed up the ball against our press so it wasn't like a one off occurrence now, was it?

In addition, we created chances without them passing us the ball either, we defended their long balls and set-pieces and took our chances when they came while shutting them out bar the shot by Rodgers against the post in the first 5 mins, the only dangerous attempt they had.

But let's ignore all the above and just boil down our win to "Well, Villa made mistakes" or my fav, "Villa played into our hands", as if that is the first time Villa have tried to pass the ball out the back.

04 Nov 2025 11:34:46
Ok, would it be preferable to say 'the way Villa play played into our hands'? 😑

Villa did make mistakes and it wasn't all down to our press. Martinez had time on the ball before passing it to Salah for the first goal. He wasn't pressed into the mistake. Villa also played through the press a few times early in the game.

I agree with Chaosengine. Madrid and City will have more quality than Villa and we are not the Klopp side that won the League and CL in terms of a controlled press and being defensively sound.

04 Nov 2025 12:34:29
I’m actually a bit concerned about Ekitike’s attitude. There was the stupid celebration against Southampton where he should’ve just pointed to Chiesa and ran straight to him but decided to promote himself instead and now against Villa the aggressive celebration. It looks to me that he’s annoyed at being dropped and is making it all about him.

I hate players celebrating with aggression like that it’s all very petulant and Richarlison to me. I’d much rather a player smile and run to the crowd and his team mates. Scoring a goal is a happy time why would you not smile?

That being said I’m hoping it’s just because of the situation we found ourselves in and he was just saying ‘have that’. We don’t need a player causing issues because he doesn’t play every minute of every game. He’s at one of the biggest clubs in the world it comes with the territory.

04 Nov 2025 13:02:06
We may not be the Klopp side that won the League and CL in terms of a controlled press and being defensively sound but we are the Slot side thay won the League last season in terms of a controlled press and being defensively sound. And we did see hints of that returning when we played against AV.

04 Nov 2025 15:52:24
I wouldn't disagree with you, Dracred.
I will add that we were more solid in midfield and pressed better under Klopp. I was saying, maybe pointlessly, that we haven't suddenly become the title winning side of Klopp.

Or Slot, for that matter.
Where you are right is about it being 'a hint' of returning to last season.
Madrid and City also have more quality than Villa and might be able to pass through us more easily.

05 Nov 2025 01:17:36
We made Real Madrid look average.

Shame we can’t play them in the group stage next season Bradley was going for the treble - Mbappe 2024, Vinicius 2025 and Bellingham 2026.

06 Nov 2025 00:26:39
we scored because of their mistakes? well, I have a great post about this, regarding luck lol

Patrik - Dom is awesome aye. I remember saying in his first season that he has all the tools to excel in a Liverpool midfield. just needed time to adapt and learn from him mistakes,

Lol I feel like I sound like a broken record when talking about the club and our players lol TIME!

03 Nov 2025 22:31:26
Question to Ed 01.
What are your thoughts on all this wrestling from corners and long throws. It seems impossible to police. Would it help by not letting players into the 6 yard box till the ball is kicked or released.


Also why wasn't Onana sent off for the hand around MacAlisters neck. I thought it was a clear directive no hands to face/ neck. I know he went down like a sack of sh#t but there was clear intent to the face area?

{Ed001's Note - it is easy to police, the refs just need to start showing yellow cards, it would soon stop. The officials are just too weak.

I don't know why Onana wasn't sent off, it was a clear red card and a yellow to Macca for simulation too.}

04 Nov 2025 02:33:25
Agreed with the simulation yellow Ed but they hardly give them and usually only when a player is not touched. More yellows would def help.

As for set pieces into the box, there's always been jostling but now it's getting ridiculous with the falling down both with attackers and defenders. Refs fall for it every game sadly. No pun intended.

{Ed001's Note - I would always have post-game simulation cards handed out - the officials can't always see it live but there is no excuse for them not to go over the games afterwards. Then it would make players think twice before doing it, after they pick up a few bans for simulation with the possibility of Macca having 6 game bans for every one appearance he makes!}

04 Nov 2025 09:58:32
Ed01, Rodri was rightfully sent off a couple of years ago for doing the same thing to Gibbs-White of Forrest. But hey, expecting a rank incompetent ref like Atwell who btw, seemed to not know that you can restart a game while a player is off the pitch getting treatment to the point that VVD had to tell him that, is literally wishing upon a star.

04 Nov 2025 12:57:13
That 6 yard box should have been brought in years ago. Players not allowed in it until corner or throw is taken. Such an obvious change that won't cause any fuss.

03 Nov 2025 22:35:51
Hi Ed's and everyone else

Trying to educate my nephew about the European cup existing before the champions league and our record in the competition and it got me thinking of the best eleven we could put out of all the players who have played in a European cup or Champions league final -my eleven is

Clemence - just edging it from Allison
Neal
Hanson
VVD
Robbo
Salah
Gerrard
Sourness
R Kennedy
Kenny
Rush .

Obviously missed out on other greats but that's my eleven.

03 Nov 2025 23:26:44
Can't argue with that.

04 Nov 2025 00:03:19
Barney rubble over Robbo, just for the 2 winning goals.

04 Nov 2025 01:28:59
Clemence

Neal Hansen Van Dijk Nicol


Hughes Souness Gerrard

Dalglish

Keegan Rush.

04 Nov 2025 11:31:44
Was going to say you missed Barnes out but he never played in it because of the European ban, or have I got that wrong.

04 Nov 2025 11:49:01
Barnes never played in a Euro final for us but just wondering how many more European cups we might have won with Kenny’s great sides from 86 - 90? Probably only AC Milan as a better side in those years?

04 Nov 2025 16:20:27
Bristol red . id have to have Barney Rubble instead of robbo. he scored the winning goal in two finals.

04 Nov 2025 18:14:45
Stromsgodset - True but Robbo was a better player / LB -
I feel guilty enough not fitting Keegan in!