Liverpool Match Posts

01 Feb 2026 10:00:19
Views on Newcastle game? (Long time lurker's first post) :

1. Wirtz and Ekitike - now leading the league for best partnership. Wirtz seems to dance through tight spaces… and Ekitike is so Tores like. Both strikes last night were incredible in terms of technique, speed and accuracy.

2. Salah - whatever he tried, he seemed to lose the ball. Psychologically it's as if he needed to be Liverpool's star man last season. Now he's not, something fundamental has shifted.

3. Made for up Konate.

4. We won like we did because Newcastle didn't employ the low block. Like many others, so fed up of the slow / safe build against such teams.

01 Feb 2026 10:39:15
All agreed, I'd say Mo's legs have gone a bit as well but there's no doubt he's no longer the focal point.

Against low block you need goals from outside the box, set pieces and so on. If we can improve that aspect, and we've got the quality to, we should be able to get top 5.

01 Feb 2026 11:46:17
Surely against a low block you should also just play with intensity and speed. to actually not allow the opposition to setup the low block.?

01 Feb 2026 21:19:56
To beat low block you need pace and i am sorry to say it MO has lost that burst of pace been brilliant for our club he lit up our club and the premier league but father time hits us all sooner or later but what memories he has given us fantastic footballer . Thank MO YNWA.

02 Feb 2026 00:47:23
You need Olise, Semenyo type player to pull apart a low block. Diaz was able to do it. Its not to do with Mo's pace. Mo is normally the beneficary of the dribber like Diaz or Mane.

02 Feb 2026 10:15:36
funky061, it's a lot to do with Mo's pace. It was a big part of his game. That chance on Saturday when he ran clear from his own half. Even last season, nobody would have caught him and he would have put it away. This time, he had a 10 yard start and was caught. It is also why he can't beat a man in a one on one anymore. He just hits the ball straight into his opponents legs and loses it. The decline in his pace has been brutal in just 12 months. He can still curl in a good cross or play one back as he did for Wirtz on Saturday, but generally his legs have gone. There is no way he will see out the last year of his contract, but if he digs his heals in and stays, he will be lucky to make the bench. I am not trying to disrespect a legend who has been great for the club, and one of its best ever players, but time beats every player. If it didn't, we would still have Steven Gerrard in midfield. It happens to everyone.

I don't know how difficult it would be to get Michael Olise out of Bayern, but we should try with everything we have. A front three of Olise, Isak and Ekitike would be frightening for defenders. Olise would provide the balance that Mo has done for 9 years, while Isak and Ekitike are talented and versatile enough to interchange between the left and centre.

03 Feb 2026 10:59:37
There is more than one way to beat a low block.

1. Explosive pace - beat a man from a standing start. The is what Salah used to be great at. His legs haven't gone like many are suggesting but this explosive pace is definitely not there anymore. Other than Rio we don't really have anybody who ticks this box.

2. Close skill - See Wirtz v Newcastle. He beat several players with close control to create some space and set up Ekitike.

3. Quality crosses - these can create danger for any defensive setup. Ours have been very poor this season.

4. Move the ball - This is our go-to. Passing the ball side-to-side is a good way to beat a low block. The problem is that you need to do it quick enough and well enough to drag opposition players out of position to create space and we tend to do it so slowly that it has little-to-no effect.

Point 4 is the key. We have the right idea we just need to do it well and do it with more pace (on the passes) and urgency. If you can combine it with a mixture of points 1, 2 and 3 you are laughing!

01 Feb 2026 08:23:29
Wirtz is a class act and all those rival fans you'd better start deleting those flop memes because he's only warming up.

01 Feb 2026 09:38:17
Great to see him coming good, I was worried he wasn't going to click this season. Also good to see Mo look so pleased for him when he scored, puts to bed some of the daft rumours of factions in the team.

Ekitike has probably been the standout though, we have a real player there. He wasn't exactly cheap but he's outperformed expectations.

01 Feb 2026 11:13:31
Wirtz is a magician…. what a player.
Ekitike plays so much like Torres. ( hopefully less injury prone though)
Two fantastic signings.
Szobozlai was immense at right back.
All round great team performance.

31 Jan 2026 22:18:27
If Hughes got us in a couple
Of needed bodies loans or what ever we might do
Ok but I'm not holding my breath it's our 1st in 2026 in the epl.

31 Jan 2026 23:00:54
An all action aggressive midfielder jay would solve good portion of our problems I reckon.

31 Jan 2026 23:47:35
100% agreed Digger 🙌🏼.

31 Jan 2026 22:15:08
I take my hat off to konate tonight good game considering the circumstances in his personal life, thought he played well, remember only my opinion regardless of the slaters 👍.

31 Jan 2026 22:28:32
Konate had one of his best games of the season tonight, fair play to the lad, difficult game to get through but was immense.

01 Feb 2026 00:55:43
Yep was very good.

01 Feb 2026 04:39:50
Great win tonight and throughly deserved. But have to say that Pope's goalkeeping is throughly embarrassing. I don't think I've seen such a poor display from a keeper in a long while. I think at least two of our goals could be saved if Newcastle had half decent keeper. Regardless, I think we played really well and I can't criticise our performance much.

31 Jan 2026 22:14:38
Great win, once again not gunna drag up slots tactics my opinion won't change on that, but i want to say that my oh my flo and Hugo, what a pair we have if they keep this up anything is possible.
Special mention to donate as he has been the whipping boy for long periods of this season, but have to say that was some performance so soon after what will have been the hardest moment of his life.
It's time to remove the shackles on this team and let them flourish.


Another note crowd was much better tonight, noise was definitely driven up by the aggression in the first, but more of that please, u can see that the players feed of that energy even if you're a slot in or a slot out guy at the match u scream and shout and back our boys. We loose that game i feel if boos rang round the stadium when they scored first. Support in the game complain and praise after.
Much love to all xx.

31 Jan 2026 22:19:10
I really did not mean to type donate I got autocorrected forgive me.

31 Jan 2026 22:12:00
Fair play to konate tonight he was brilliant! I've been as critical as anyone of him this season, just shows we as fans need to chill out at times! I've said all season his head was in Madrid or elsewhere but maybe he's had a lot going on with his family! Ekitike and wirtz great again and the atmosphere was much more like it!

31 Jan 2026 23:54:24
He's poor, 1 good game doesn't change that.

31 Jan 2026 22:15:35
The real konate has finally turned up.

31 Jan 2026 22:11:02
How do you feel about that result team, it almost felt like the Madrid game again, we get up for the big ones but the small ones we do not have the motivation.

Thoughts?

31 Jan 2026 22:17:18
We got battered for 30 mins 12 mins before we got out of the half! But We won well in the end we still need more.

31 Jan 2026 22:30:33
Teams attacking us bring the best out of this team. We did well with the physicality tonight and kept Newcastle relatively quiet. Poor periods of the match it felt like I was watching last season!

31 Jan 2026 22:10:25
Great game, we played into their hands for the first 25 mins, free kicks corners etc but we dealt with them very well, but then we took control. when we play this way, the fans get a voice n everybody is lifted, special mention for Konate, he played very well tonight, icing on the cake was his goal.

31 Jan 2026 22:08:18
That felt like a performance of old - aside from the first 30, we finally saw the passion back in that team.

We looked dangerous on the counter, and players are starting to click - let's see if we can use this as a base to move forward.

Couple of comments:

- Credit to Slot for being human and telling Konate to take the time he needs despite our injury crisis
- Credit to Konate for coming back to help so soon

After a long time of a fair bit of perceived mess inside the club, that felt more the Liverpool way.

Let's see if we can keep it up though, but thought best performance of the season, and for once I wasn't really worried about Newcastle getting any more goals.

31 Jan 2026 22:03:44
Konate did his father proud tonight. He was amazing.

We played more like a Klopp team tonight, was a joy to watch.

31 Jan 2026 22:00:11
Well done Ibou tonight.

Had a shocking season upto the last game or two but fair play tonight. Losing a parent and putting a performance like that in. hope to see more of that. even if it is just until the end of the season.

Ekitike and Wirtz were great too. Hugo could and maybe should've had 3 or 4 tonight but what a player we have there.

Massive 3 points, let's hope we can go on a run now. Much better from the boys tonight. 👏🏻👏🏻.

31 Jan 2026 21:58:59
So much better tonight, I thought Konate was outstanding tonight.
He looked like a different player maybe his dad has been ill all season and it's been a cloud over him all season and as sad as it is he has been able to move on now.


Newcastle made it a real battle and it was one of the most enjoyable games I've seen with us for a very long time.