Liverpool vs. Chelsea

Nishy wrote:Man of the match?

I'd give it to either Skrtel or Sakho. Lucas in that mix as well.

difficult one, may be Lucas and Skrtel both

Has it hit anyone yet that OUR defense kept this free scoring chelsea out of the game and the only reason they scored was because a peno?

I'm telling you guys once we find that 3rd CB, and Can develops as a midfield player, he'll become beast.

Rodgers can't organize a defence though?

El Cujo wrote:Rodgers can't organize a defence though?

We didn't really test you tonight. Let's see what your defense does at the Bridge.

I hadnt imagined Chelsea would play football from the times of BC so I would really wait for the away leg when most likely they will attack more and have the more of the ball.

I think that if you won today you would've parked the bus at the Bridge too. Maybe not a Chelsea bus, a smaller bus.

You can't always play the game that you'd prefer, sometimes you have to adapt.

Just got home today. I'm so proud of the boys and Brendan.

Screwed by the effing ref. Could've easily won this if someone fair was officiating.

At least we're still in it going to the Bridge, anything can happen. I believe.

Red Alert wrote:That was a typical Chelsea away performance lol.

Anyway, we played well but result clearly favours them.

You're gutted aren't you ?

At least you have Australia's impending humiliation vs. Japan to look forward to.

Natalie Portman wrote:

Red Alert wrote:That was a typical Chelsea away performance lol.

Anyway, we played well but result clearly favours them.

You're gutted aren't you ?

At least you have Australia's impending humiliation vs. Japan to look forward to.

If we beat china hahahah

On a serious note if we did vs them in the semis it would in no way be a humiliation, we'd have a better chance than Liverpool have at the bridge.

I really hope we start Lallana (or Sturridge if he's fit) instead of Gerrard at Stamford Bridge. It will be much more difficult to play with the same intensity over there and we need better legs than Gerrard's to do that. Just reverse the roles from last night's game and bring Gerrard on for Lallana at the 70 minute mark.

I don't think the game at the Bridge is going to resemble this one, but we've showed - perhaps most importantly to ourselves - that we can trouble them and out-play them. We need to show the same positive mindset and determination at the Bridge - not accept the away team role - and we can beat them there. If we suddenly play with fear because it's at their ground, we're screwed.

El Cujo wrote:Rodgers can't organize a defence though?

Oh stfu.

One game where we look good defensively because Chelsea don't commit going forward doesn't mean we're a defensively stable team ffs.

They put in the same performance/set up the same tactically we played against City at the Etihad 2 years ago in the semi of the same competition. They got an away goal and just soaked up pressure as they were holding onto an away goal. We were good because they let us play, not because we completely dominated them and they didn't know what to do.

Natalie Portman wrote:

Red Alert wrote:That was a typical Chelsea away performance lol.

Anyway, we played well but result clearly favours them.

You're gutted aren't you ?

At least you have Australia's impending humiliation vs. Japan to look forward to.

There's two ways to respond to this, and I didn't know which one to send so have them both.

If not sarcastic:

You're not gutted? Really?

THEY HAVE AN AWAY GOAL. THEY HAVE THE ADVANTAGE. ALL PRESSURE IS ON LIVERPOOL RIGHT NOW.

If sarcastic:

Step 1) Buy a dildo
Step 2) Entertain yourself with dildo
Step 3) Leave me alone

As for Australia, easy peasy japanesey. We'll meet you (Iraq or was it Iran, sorry I forget) in the final, don't you worry about it son.

Kick wrote:

Red Alert wrote:

Kick wrote:Someone has to watch over you

OK, first regarding the grumblings about Gerrard & Markovic. We all know their limitations, but they did gave their best, so let's move on.

Next,
#1. Gerrard volly (tipped by Courtois)
#2. Gerrard shot (hitting the bar)
#3. Coutinho shot (held by Courtois)
#4. Lallana shot (saved by Courtois)
#5. Henderson shot (held by Courtois)
#6. Raheem shot (held by Courtois)
Anything less than a world-class keeper would have seen us win yesterday.

Regarding substitutions: may be, just may be we should have substituted Gerrard a bit early (around 60 mins) and also brought in Lambert around 75-80 mins.

Regarding away-leg:
#1. Either Chelsea will sit back knowing they have the advantage and we need to come forward, then we will be able to deploy more men to crack them.
#2. They will went for the kill in which case our back-line will under pressure but the attackers will have more space to operate.

So here are the FULL highlights. . . .

Fahim

Also for the away leg, lets see if Mourinho acts like a pos again or be a man and come at us. We need to be at our top most defensively to stop them.

Red Alert wrote:

Fact remains that we're in middle of the season, well in contention of top 4 and in 3 cup competitions on an upward projector. The manager has turned the downward slide around (Something some of the bigger names like Klopp still haven't be able to do so)....and yet you desperately want us to lose and not succeed because you have a personal dislike of the man.

Did your gf send nudes to him over snapchat that has made you hate and despise him sooooo much? I genuinely don't think you even hate ISIS more than him. Consistently wanting him to fail, so you can day-dream about another manager who's struggling to get the highest-spending team in Serie A past a team placed 14th in La Liga in a CL qualifier, or never came close to winning the league as much as BR did in 6 attempts (with less competition).

For fans like you, you deserve BR getting sacked and replaced by someone like Avram Grant. That's what likes of you deserve for being such unfaithful and self-hating clowns.

Red Alert wrote:

El Cujo wrote:Rodgers can't organize a defence though?

Oh stfu.

One game where we look good defensively because Chelsea don't commit going forward doesn't mean we're a defensively stable team ffs.

They put in the same performance/set up the same tactically we played against City at the Etihad 2 years ago in the semi of the same competition. They got an away goal and just soaked up pressure as they were holding onto an away goal. We were good because they let us play, not because we completely dominated them and they didn't know what to do.

You really are something curious. You can't give credit to the team for dominating Chelsea it's like it hurts you to your very core that they went out there and looked amazing against the best team in the PL. 'Chelsea let us dominate them'. Definitely, I think it was exactly their gameplan to have a total of what...1 shot? while we had what almost 20? Maybe Mourinho knew that Atkinson would be completely in his pocket, and wasn't afraid of Liverpool. Maybe he knew we would hit the post or that Courtois would make ridiculous saves to keep his team in the game, because on another night playing as it was Chelsea could have seen a worse drubbing than the Spurs gave them.

All in the plan though.

Meanwhile we've looked good defensively since Rodgers changed formation. Over the last 9 games we've had 56 shots on target and scored 18 goals. We've allowed 25 shots on target and conceded 8 goals (at least half of which were individual error and had nothing to do with defensive organization). But, you know, it's just one game where we've looked good and it was because the other team let us or something.

FFS

El Cujo wrote:

Red Alert wrote:

El Cujo wrote:Rodgers can't organize a defence though?

Oh stfu.

One game where we look good defensively because Chelsea don't commit going forward doesn't mean we're a defensively stable team ffs.

They put in the same performance/set up the same tactically we played against City at the Etihad 2 years ago in the semi of the same competition. They got an away goal and just soaked up pressure as they were holding onto an away goal. We were good because they let us play, not because we completely dominated them and they didn't know what to do.

You really are something curious. You can't give credit to the team for dominating Chelsea it's like it hurts you to your very core that they went out there and looked amazing against the best team in the PL. 'Chelsea let us dominate them'. Definitely, I think it was exactly their gameplan to have a total of what...1 shot? while we had what almost 20? Maybe Mourinho knew that Atkinson would be completely in his pocket, and wasn't afraid of Liverpool. Maybe he knew we would hit the post or that Courtois would make ridiculous saves to keep his team in the game, because on another night playing as it was Chelsea could have seen a worse drubbing than the Spurs gave them.

All in the plan though.

Meanwhile we've looked good defensively since Rodgers changed formation. Over the last 9 games we've had 56 shots on target and scored 18 goals. We've allowed 25 shots on target and conceded 8 goals (at least half of which were individual error and had nothing to do with defensive organization). But, you know, it's just one game where we've looked good and it was because the other team let us or something.

Wtf are you on about. ALMOST EVERY TEAM IN THE WORLD plays like that in the first leg away from home in a cup competition. They get an away goal. They defend. They soak as much as possible but it doesn't matter if the other team dominates because the result favours them. EVERY team does it. We did dominate them, yes. But we didn't dominate them because they played bad. We would of put the exact same performance in.

If they didn't score they would of had more than 1 shot. They got what they wanted with 1 shot. And from our "20 shots" only 3 were "decent" chances. The goal, Gerrard's post (where the keeper was beaten), and Lallana's shot (which was an amazing shot, amazing save). Every other shot was tame or straight at Courtois so he didn't have much to do.

Atkinson was bad. I never said he was good. With that said, he was consistently bad for both teams.

We've looked okay defensively since "Brazilian Delph" came in and your boy Lovren was dropped. With that said, we haven't been good. We've looked more assured but we haven't looked good. lol

Natalie Portman wrote:

Red Alert wrote:

Fact remains that we're in middle of the season, well in contention of top 4 and in 3 cup competitions on an upward projector. The manager has turned the downward slide around (Something some of the bigger names like Klopp still haven't be able to do so)....and yet you desperately want us to lose and not succeed because you have a personal dislike of the man.

Did your gf send nudes to him over snapchat that has made you hate and despise him sooooo much? I genuinely don't think you even hate ISIS more than him. Consistently wanting him to fail, so you can day-dream about another manager who's struggling to get the highest-spending team in Serie A past a team placed 14th in La Liga in a CL qualifier, or never came close to winning the league as much as BR did in 6 attempts (with less competition).

For fans like you, you deserve BR getting sacked and replaced by someone like Avram Grant. That's what likes of you deserve for being such unfaithful and self-hating clowns.

Fact remains we're still 8th.
Fact remains we're out of the CL.
Fact remain we're most definitely out of the Europa.
Fact remains we're most likely not in the CL next season.

Where the f*ck have I said I want to lose because I don't want Rodgers to succede? What the f*ck are you on about? Seriously. Ffs. I said I wanted him gone because he's not good enough to manage us. We won't win much silverware under him, you can quote me on that. Give most managers the same amount of time / resources he'd had and we'd be in a better boat right now. He was worth the risk, but it's time to move on ffs.

Rafa had less competition? Didn't come as close? Are you kidding me?

As for Avram Grant, Rodgers is probably on the same level as bad. lmao

And please stahp with this nonsense of typical away performance from Chlesea...I would really like to see what is a typical away performance of Chelsea is when they face PSG in CL. They played bad because of our pressing and harassing them all the time. Well the only thing you can say is, the end result is what probably they had come for.

I actually don't even know how to discuss this team with RA anymore. He's completely delusional.

Fact remains we're still 8th.
Fact remains we're out of the CL.
Fact remain we're most definitely out of the Europa.
Fact remains we're most likely not in the CL next season.

We are out of Europa!! WHAT!!! When did that happen!!

You kidding me? Im a known pessimist when it comes to Liverpool FC and im confident we can win the EL.

Bah Gawd i can tolerate blind optimism but this agenda driven pessimism-we are out of Europa league before even d game started, is just shitting on my brain.