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Football Thread 2014/15 |OT9| - How the Snitch stole all the banter
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I wonder if we are going to rest players for the final group match.
(I suspect we'll play a full strength team and lose anyways.)
The_Hitcher89
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'The performance was the main thing today'
What? Results are everything in a fucking 6-match league format. And if the performance was the main thing, you fucking failed regardless. We were shit. Less shit, but shit nonetheless.
No faith in our own ability to control a match, or attack properly without conceding on the counter. Every single fucking team we play against attacks at will, cos they know we're doing jack shit on the counter with a grand total of 2 players capable of bursting forward with any pace.
Gerrard was much improved by virtue of his shitty touches leading to turnovers in possession 35 yards out rather than putting us under huge pressure with nobody to sweep up.
Moreno needs to switch on, or his tidiness won't mean anything to us.
I'd have been delighted with a win, anything to stop the rot a little bit.
Say what you want about our defending from corners, but most teams would concede from one of them if they gave away as many as we fucking did tonight, and that comes about by fucking cowardly fullbacks afraid to out a foot in, letting their wingers get to the byline before making any attempt to end the attack.
Sterling was much improved at least.
What? Results are everything in a fucking 6-match league format. And if the performance was the main thing, you fucking failed regardless. We were shit. Less shit, but shit nonetheless.
No faith in our own ability to control a match, or attack properly without conceding on the counter. Every single fucking team we play against attacks at will, cos they know we're doing jack shit on the counter with a grand total of 2 players capable of bursting forward with any pace.
Gerrard was much improved by virtue of his shitty touches leading to turnovers in possession 35 yards out rather than putting us under huge pressure with nobody to sweep up.
Moreno needs to switch on, or his tidiness won't mean anything to us.
I'd have been delighted with a win, anything to stop the rot a little bit.
Say what you want about our defending from corners, but most teams would concede from one of them if they gave away as many as we fucking did tonight, and that comes about by fucking cowardly fullbacks afraid to out a foot in, letting their wingers get to the byline before making any attempt to end the attack.
Sterling was much improved at least.
I was pretty certain we were going to lose today. very pleasant surprise.
You know what a crisis used to be for Liverpool back in the day? Being behind any club in England. The club is in absolute disarray at the moment, there is lack of belief and a lack of knowledge over how to go on. The owners clearly know fuck all about football, that is the reason why they have employed these advisers who have - to be quite honest -completely let the owners down. They need to be done away with and the manager needs to be given trust to buy the right players. None of this transfer committee shite, 110 million pounds have been wasted for NOTHING.
Rodgers is a small-time manager, he will win nothing major and does not have the correct mindset for a club like Liverpool. There was so much nonsense about his huge C.V when he was selected, what has he ever won? One promotion in his whole career?
The problem is that I don't know if the owners are just clueless and need help or actually do not want people who have a strong mindset. Would they accept someone like Benitez who does not tolerate nonsense.
Too many passengers in the organization, from top to bottom. Liverpool is now a club based on sentimentality, not based on ruthlessness and grinding out trophies.
Vivalaraza
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Oh God theyve Lollerpooled again :lol
5 in a row
:lol
5 in a row
:lol
HE HAD A SORE TUMMY
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
/DEAD
Nah mate. Juve not leading at HT killed me.
Thank god for based Sanogo.
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
/DEAD
Nah mate. Juve not leading at HT killed me.
Thank god for based Sanogo.
Hasphat'sAnts
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Congrats on beating the 16th best German team. Arsenal
Go_Ly_Dow
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Pitch was a bit bobbly
Marc
Member
He is just happy to be playing in the champions league, he couldn't have dreamed that not that long ago. Scoring in it too.
Nice bloke but that is the kind of mentality and player bought in that is dragging the team down. The best players are pissed off when they don't win.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Liverpool actually let them have a good game. They weren't half bad tonight, especially in the second half. Pitch was dodgy though.
Oh well.
Please...you're one Sanchez injury away from being irrelevant.
The_Hitcher89
Member
They actually are if you don't have real attacking quality*. They don't bring many players all the way back to defend, so they always, always have passing options when they move forward. So unless you back yourself to score from every attack, or back your defensive unit to cope with being outnumbered after every turnover, its difficult to attack them properly.
We probably made them look better than they are, but they're no mugs.
*and even Madrid struggled in this fixture
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
I can. Really really want Liverpool.
Marc
Member
You don't get injured with a body like that.
Arsenal's march to the final goes on...
Stay on topic. This is about Liverpool.
I accept that Arsenal make up the numbers.
Still a chance we do something, there isn't for arsenal really
last season went better than Liverpool's ability would suggest on paper (compared to other teams in the league; no CL helped, obviously) and this season has gone worse. people weren't saying those 110m were wasted in the summer, everyone was raving about how their only regret was that they couldn't just buy ALL the southampton players. as always, the reality lies somewhere in the middle.
Liverpool didn't get Rodgers because of his huge CV, Liverpool got him because you were choosing from the Rodgers-Martinez tier, not from the likes of Mourinho and Klopp.
like, let's not get carried away with the unexpected success of last season; it was unexpected precisely because Liverpool were godawful the three seasons before that. getting back into the CL was a huge accomplishment but it certainly didn't mean that Liverpool were back to where they were in the heyday of the Benitez era; particularly not when you had to sell your best player in the summer.
way too early to panic now. I can't even fathom sacking Rodgers before the end of the season. it accomplishes nothing and sets the club back at least a year, maybe more.
Liverpool didn't get Rodgers because of his huge CV, Liverpool got him because you were choosing from the Rodgers-Martinez tier, not from the likes of Mourinho and Klopp.
like, let's not get carried away with the unexpected success of last season; it was unexpected precisely because Liverpool were godawful the three seasons before that. getting back into the CL was a huge accomplishment but it certainly didn't mean that Liverpool were back to where they were in the heyday of the Benitez era; particularly not when you had to sell your best player in the summer.
way too early to panic now. I can't even fathom sacking Rodgers before the end of the season. it accomplishes nothing and sets the club back at least a year, maybe more.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Wat
The_Hitcher89
Member
Very optimistic
Need to beat Basel without Sturridge
Need Sturridge back, fit, and firing
Need the rest of the team to step up
Need a load of new players, yet again
Need a sea change in our approach
That's a lot of things that need to go right to even get to the quarters.
arsenal v liverpool banter
i live for this sort of thing
"my dad could beat up your dad"
"my mums got a better smelling fanny than your mum"
"goals-wise i bet lambert's a no go against yaya sanogo"
Looool
Marc
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Normal legit banter m7.
I don't think anyone looked at those signings in the summer and thought they would be doing much. Opinions changed. With Sturridge they would have likely won that game, with Suarez they would have walked it. Great players making a difference shocker.
Vivalaraza
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huh
FortuneFaded
Member
|OT10| Yaya Sanogo has woken up
Normal legit banter m7.
I don't think anyone looked at those signings in the summer and thought they would be doing much. Opinions changed. With Sturridge they would have likely won that game, with Suarez they would have walked it. Great players making a difference shocker.
I think you'll be ok with Rodgers.
Biggest issue will be signing players in the summer if you aren't in CL. Too many punts.
TheAutomator
Banned
plz arsebros cease with the banter, i have a strong feeling all the shit talk will blow up in our faces very soon
And will still fail to come away with the trophy like every other year
Not saying we are close to winning the thing, but certainly no further away than the also rans of the past how many years?
The_Hitcher89
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I think he meant setting a team up to do nothing but defend and flood the box is easy. Bullshit either way, as proved by the fact that we fucking concede every time we try it.
The_Hitcher89
Member
Having not qualified from the group, we're certainly further away than them
Vivalaraza
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Marc
Member
I'm not a LIverpool fan btw. I am England FC all the way.
Glad you qualified, congrats! Glad Ox is getting a run.
Yeah, they wasted their opportunity to bring in a higher class of player. If you really love the likes of Lambert and Lallana, they would have come with or without the CL and could have waited. They needed Sanchez!
Send me a postcard from the middle of Siberia when you are there on a Thursday night.
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