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Ewar Woowar: Feb 25, 2007

Ewar Woowar posted:

I'm starting to come around to this idea.

Big meltdown post ahead...

- We have absolutely no idea how to attack a team that sits deep. This has been a problem at Liverpool for a long time and after about two minutes of yesterday's game you could see exactly what was going to happen. I understand why we kept the same defence that's looked decent enough in the first three games but given everyone knew how West Ham were going to play (hell, Bilic himself announced it) surely Rodgers could see that we'd struggle without any kind of width. Poor Joe Gomez was always offering self as an outlet but given he's a right footed centre back he was never going to be able to take on his player or hit the byline.

- Lovren is a massive clown. The second goal we conceded was entirely his fault and those step overs sums up his ability on the ball. If Sakho doesn't get into the team after that display I'll be really disappointed.

- Milner, Lucas and Can were very disappointing today. Lucas' positioning and work rate is and always has been good but those injuries took a toll on his body and it shows. He's too slow to turn when players run at him and he lacks the speed to catch up. When you combine him with Can, who is also slow off the mark, you're asking for trouble. Milner was trying to make things happen but he seemed reluctant to make runs in behind even when we were 0-2 down and desperately chasing the game. Henderson is not the perfect midfielder by any means but he's a great athlete and his willingness to get forward was sorely missed.

- I have never seen a collection of such terrible crosses. Not a single one was weighted right. Benteke did what he could but that was some of the most shocking service I've seen in my life. S'Land level of service.

- Firmino looks like he'll be a decent player for us (as he loving should be at that price) but too many times he took up the same area of the pitch as Coutinho did. He needs pull defenders away from Coutinho and create space. In fact our whole team needs to work on movement off the ball.

- That ref was an absolute loving joke. Coutinho's second yellow was harsh I thought but I can at least understand it. Noble's one was absolutely retarded and if it's not rescinded I'll be amazed. The amount of holding the West Ham defenders did on Benteke was ridiculous but they did it subtly enough that it was never called. Given Martin 'Handsy' Skrtel plays for us I'm not going to complain too much though.

- West Ham absolutely deserved their win and played the perfect game against us. Winston Reid is extremely good and I'm surprised the bigger sides haven't come in for him. Kouyate is also a really good player and I would love us to have a physical presence like that in front of our defence.

- We need to figure out very quickly how to play against teams that sit deep as almost every team will come to Anfield and try to do the same thing.

Nice meltdown

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:03

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# ? May 19, 2024 08:42

Pissflaps: Oct 20, 2002; by VideoGames

Liverpool will not finish higher than fifth with Brendan Rodgers in charge. Fact.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:05

not not luvd: Nov 17, 2006; My Arse!

reminder that i luvd have been calling rodgers a shithouse for 3 years

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:11

Brendan Rodgers: Jun 11, 2014

Pissflaps posted:

Liverpool will not finish higher than fifth with Brendan Rodgers in charge. Fact.

Nice initiative.

The worrying thing is the signings and the money wasted on every Aspas in the world, it's his squad at least twice over by this point.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:11

Pissflaps: Oct 20, 2002; by VideoGames

not not luvd posted:

reminder that i luvd have been calling rodgers a shithouse for 3 years

Same but longer and me, Pissflaps.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:12

not not luvd: Nov 17, 2006; My Arse!

Pissflaps posted:

Same but longer and me, Pissflaps.

idk why people dont realise we're right

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:16

Pissflaps: Oct 20, 2002; by VideoGames

not not luvd posted:

idk why people dont realise we're right

They're in denial.

Which, unlike the Mersey, isn't a river in Liverpool.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:17

not not luvd: Nov 17, 2006; My Arse!

imagine a manager so bad youd rather have hodgson

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:20

Blue Star Error: Jun 11, 2001; For this recipie you will need:
Football match (Halftime of), Celebrity Owner (Motivational speaking of), Sherry (Bottle of)

I hope Liverpool sack Rodgers before everyone realises that Alex Neil is the reincarnation of Fergie

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:26

Digital Jesus: Sep 11, 2001

Need to sack Rodgers and panic-buy Klopp (can you panic-buy a manager? IDK) before Chelsea do :v:

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:32

Ewar Woowar: Feb 25, 2007

not not luvd posted:

imagine a manager so bad youd rather have hodgson

Lol lets not get carried away here.

I think Rodgers probably deserved another chance this season but it will be his last if it isn't a productive one. The team is actually not in that bad a shape at the moment so it really is on him this season to perform.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:33

Brony Car: May 22, 2014; by Cyrano4747

Seeing all of Liverpool's players run into each other when tracking back whenever West Ham was able to counter gave me great faith in the quality and the amount of tactical coaching they're receiving.

It's early in the season and there's a lot of new people who have to adapt, but that was a terrible game to watch.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 00:45

Brendan Rodgers: Jun 11, 2014

Fowler said on Twitter it might be the worst performance he's seen.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 01:34

Ewar Woowar: Feb 25, 2007

Brendan Rodgers posted:

Fowler said on Twitter it might be the worst performance he's seen.

Bitch it might be

# ? Aug 30, 2015 02:10

Barvo: Feb 19, 2008; by Ralp

Ewar Woowar posted:

Nice meltdown

It really was and I look forward to more substantive and well written meltdowns throughout the season.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 02:15

Shitshow: Jul 25, 2007; We still have not found a machine that can measure the intensity of love. We would all buy it.

Arsenal have been absolute poo poo to start the season and yet lie in 5th. What a sad indictment of the league.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 02:34

T Bowl: Feb 6, 2006; Shut up DUMMY

Shitshow posted:

Arsenal have been absolute poo poo to start the season and yet lie in 5th. What a sad indictment of the league.

Man U have been about as bad and could fart their way to 2nd tomorrow.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 02:48

vyelkin: Jan 2, 2011

Shitshow posted:

Arsenal have been absolute poo poo to start the season and yet lie in 5th. What a sad indictment of the league.

Same except about Liverpool.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 02:54

Empress Brosephine: Mar 31, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

it feels good to be back on top get hosed liverpool lol ~~

# ? Aug 30, 2015 03:09

Hoops: Aug 19, 2005; A Black Mark For Retarded Posting

Dean Lovren deleted his Instagram a few hours ago hahaha.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 03:25

Mean Bean Machine: May 9, 2008; Only when I breathe.

the PL sucks now, too much money for the English clubs to spend so they do it thoughtlessly and in quantity instead of quality, and use it to compensate for other stuff they're lacking like good managers or team unity or proper youth systems. i fear there is no way back. money destroys all. greed is bad.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 03:36

Ewar Woowar: Feb 25, 2007

Pissflaps posted:

They're in denial.

Which, unlike the Mersey, isn't a river in Liverpool.

BORO BANTZ

# ? Aug 30, 2015 03:45

UnlimitedSpessmans: Jul 31, 2015

Ewar Woowar posted:

BORO BANTZ

Truth hurts innit?

big lol at chels and liverpool.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 04:25

African AIDS cum: Feb 29, 2012; Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaaack

Mean Bean Machine posted:

the PL sucks now, too much money for the English clubs to spend so they do it thoughtlessly and in quantity instead of quality, and use it to compensate for other stuff they're lacking like good managers or team unity or proper youth systems. i fear there is no way back. money destroys all. greed is bad.

It is unwatchable isn't it

# ? Aug 30, 2015 04:25

El Hefe: Oct 31, 2006; You coulda had a V8/
Instead of a tre-eight slug to yo' cranium/
I got six and I'm aimin' 'em/
Will I bust or keep you guessin'

looks like Salomon Rondon can do it on a cold tuesday night in Stoke

# ? Aug 30, 2015 05:21

meat CRime: Jun 12, 2010; ham, turkey, roast beef, cold cuts, North Carolina, vienna sausage; Grimey Drawer

UnlimitedSpessmans posted:

Truth hurts innit?

big lol at chels and liverpool.

Welcome, new poster.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 05:50

meat CRime: Jun 12, 2010; ham, turkey, roast beef, cold cuts, North Carolina, vienna sausage; Grimey Drawer

El Hefe posted:

looks like Salomon Rondon can do it on a cold tuesday night in Stoke

Id take Rondon over Maldonado any day of the loving week

# ? Aug 30, 2015 05:55

8raz: Jun 22, 2007; He's Scouse, He's Sound.

meat CRime posted:

Welcome, new poster.

he's a good old stoke fan. i'll take his opinion over the boring coattail riders!

# ? Aug 30, 2015 06:39

UnlimitedSpessmans: Jul 31, 2015

actually I'm a boro fan with a soft spot for stoke.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 06:57

8raz: Jun 22, 2007; He's Scouse, He's Sound.

UnlimitedSpessmans posted:

actually I'm a boro fan with a soft spot for stoke.

respect

# ? Aug 30, 2015 07:03

Byolante: Mar 23, 2008; by Cyrano4747

Its a day later and I am still loving furious about the adam red card

# ? Aug 30, 2015 07:09

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

El Hefe posted:

looks like Salomon Rondon can do it on a cold tuesday night in Stoke

this meme doesn't work anymore

# ? Aug 30, 2015 07:29

Ratios and Tendency: Apr 23, 2010; MURALI

Byolante posted:

Its a day later and I am still loving furious about the adam red card

At Adam?

# ? Aug 30, 2015 09:07

Lenin Riefenstahl: Sep 18, 2003; That's enough! Out of here, you tubs of beer!

Enjoying the Liverpool meltdown, but where are all the chels posters? Only posting when they're winning? I'd like some thoughts about what's going wrong. This is basically the same team that strolled to the title last year etc...

# ? Aug 30, 2015 09:17

Ewar Woowar: Feb 25, 2007

Yeah we seem to be getting it worse than Chelsea but we've had a better start with a worse squad.

Mourinho sides are never sustainable. He doesn't know how to integrate youth at all and buys for the now as opposed to the future. Don't let all the loan players fool you- they're bought to make money, not to play for Chelsea. He also doesn't rotate his squad a whole lot so it wouldn't surprise me if a few of those players are actually burnt out. Ivanovic especially looks like he needs a long break.

I'm very much hoping Chelsea continue to struggle as I'm interested who Mourinho will blame next.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 09:47

Eau de MacGowan: May 12, 2009; BRASIL HEXA
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otoh Mourinho got Falcao scoring

# ? Aug 30, 2015 09:57

EvilHawk: Sep 15, 2009; LIVARPOOL!

Klopp's 13pts clear thanks to video ref

If you said at the start of the season we would have 7 points from the first 12 I would say wins against Bournemouth and West Ham and a draw away at Stoke would be about right. Unfortunately getting battered by West Ham at home as taken all the enthusiasm out of things. The only positive is that we're on the same points as Arsenal and (currently) United, so at least we're in the right areas.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 10:18

fart simpson: Jul 2, 2005; DEATH TO AMERICA

EvilHawk posted:

If you said at the start of the season we would have 7 points from the first 12 I would say wins against Bournemouth and West Ham and a draw away at Stoke would be about right. Unfortunately getting battered by West Ham at home as taken all the enthusiasm out of things. The only positive is that we're on the same points as Arsenal and (currently) United, so at least we're in the right areas.

Don't forget that you've been gifted half your points by poor refereeing, too!

# ? Aug 30, 2015 10:24

Ewar Woowar: Feb 25, 2007

EvilHawk posted:

If you said at the start of the season we would have 7 points from the first 12 I would say wins against Bournemouth and West Ham and a draw away at Stoke would be about right. Unfortunately getting battered by West Ham at home as taken all the enthusiasm out of things. The only positive is that we're on the same points as Arsenal and (currently) United, so at least we're in the right areas.

My biggest issue with the West Ham game is we still clearly have no idea how to attack a team sitting so deep. It also means every other team will come and do the same thing to us because they can rely on the fact that one of our defenders will poo poo themselves.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 10:34

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# ? May 19, 2024 08:42

EvilHawk: Sep 15, 2009; LIVARPOOL!

Klopp's 13pts clear thanks to video ref

fart simpson posted:

Don't forget that you've been gifted half your points by poor refereeing, too!

It all evens out my friend.

Ewar Woowar posted:

My biggest issue with the West Ham game is we still clearly have no idea how to attack a team sitting so deep. It also means every other team will come and do the same thing to us because they can rely on the fact that one of our defenders will poo poo themselves.

They weren't even sitting that deep, they were just compact. The absolute worst moment I can remember was a corner late in the first half, all the big boys come into the penalty area, and Milner plays a loving short corner and we lose possession.

# ? Aug 30, 2015 10:34

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