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[Finesse]

Which manager has Laca Auba and Pepe all fit and decide to play a cagey game? What would Watford or Burnley do then since they don’t have such fire power? This game was lost from the first minute. Sorry for Ceballos and Auba. Many would criticise them for their performance. The set up did not favour then. Pepe was outstanding and he would have done better in a better system. Emery get a regular team and stop tinkering around based on opponents. Play your game to the best your players ability. Spend millions over the summer to buy players and then play to te opponents every time. Too tactical in terms of approach.

 

[Jury]

Can't even be arsed to look for signs of improvement overall. I just can't when we've been well beat. Some promising individual performances though. Pepe is going to be star.

 

[Ashybashy86]

Sokratis doesn’t look comfortable on the right to me. Then again he never looks comfortable on the ball. Anyway, a loss I expected, but did hope for a draw.

 

[freeglennhelder2]

Absolutely gobsmacked at the amount of suggested lineups here that didn't include Lucas Torreira. One of the first names on the teamsheet IMO.

Anyone that states that we would have fared better with Özil should be permanently banned

 

[Garrincha]

Decent performance with defensive errors.

Amazed to see Xhaka & Dani start with no DM. Its Xhaka & Özil all over again... We are not good enough to play multiple niche players away vs anyone let alone the European Champions.

Hopefully we can solve the DM problem in the window.

 

[Wengysaurus]

Chambers and Sok looked good together. Kicked him out for Luiz.

 

[kofigunner]

Fine margins. If only we’d taken our earlier one one one chances..

 

[Axel9090]

I aint gonna take this game into consideration when estimating our top 4 hopes, because I expected 0 points. Lets just write this one off.

Moving into next week now where we have to win and we should get all 3. Ill be pissed if we dont. We need to go out with Laca Auba and Pepe for sure.

 

[Gooner_girl14]

Didn't learn anything new here - 3-1 is a decent scoreline for us considering the obvious gulf in quality between the 2 teams. Luiz's silly foul to give them the penalty killed us and the game. We knew Luiz would be a liability at times and have his mad moments. The main positives from this game IMO is that key players like Pepe and Torreira who are lacking sharpness/fitness look like they're getting there.

 

[remains]

Emery never believed we could we here, and it showed in the players attitude.

Yeah I really didn’t like those loser comments he made before the game.

 

[MLK79]

So, we've played the worst of any team Liverpool has played against this season except for after the subs. This is truly an Emery problem. The man is a fücking coward. From talking about how he would like never to play them to having us turn up in our shortest dress ready to be fücked.

 

[MutableEarth]

This wasnt as terrible as it perhaps could have been. Indeed, we actually didn't perform too badly for the most part, but the damage was done immediately before and after HT.

Neville is kinda right - there is a quality issue from a couple of players in different respects. For one, we don't have a strong enough passing defence to play out from the back. Sokratis passing was very laboured and AMN was flitting between decent and sloppy all too often.

Also our midfield was mixed. It was actually the youngsters who performed admirably while Ceballos struggled and Xhaka had an average game.

The attack was somewhat promising aswell. Enjoyed Pepe. Think we could have done with Nelson or Mhki (preferably the former) in that 2nd half to help pin them back a little.

There were promising signs. Emery didn't do a bad job tactically either to start with, but when the game state changed he was timid rather than seeking to make an impact.

 

[Camron]

Can't wait for Holding, Tierney and Bellerin. Until then we have to make do.

 

[DanDare]

Terrible match for us of you think how far we've fallen and how wide the gaps become.

Don't think it means we won't get top 4 though

 

[EmeryCouldnt]

3-1, pretty bad result, but expected. Tactics did seem a bit wrong, barely challenged their crosses. No need to go nuclear about this one.

I feel like people overgrow their optimism and then fall too far. Definitely happened last season after a good run. Last season’s target was stability, this season’s target is top 4. Let’s move forward.

 

[krengon]

People said they would be happy with loosing by 1 or 2 goals before the game. Here we are and it's still all doom and gloom. I get being dissapointed with a loss regardless, I am too but f*cking hell you can't win with some of you lot.

Imagine being happy with losing by 1 or 2 goals ffs.. Who the **** said that.

 

[JoaoFelix]

This loss is for everyone who said we were playing well. We defended during the whole game, we didn't press them, we didn't do nothing. How is that a good performance? I didn't feel he tried to win the game. We were **** and we deserved nothing. Name me two players who have been good for us. All the Liverpool's players were good. Even Henderson was much better than us. There was no intensity, no pressing. All he we did was throw long balls at Auba and Pepe. And you want to win with this kind of mentality?

 

[Axel9090]

Yeah I really didn’t like those loser comments he made before the game.

I thought Klopp said himself it was tongue in cheek and nothing more, I hope thats what it was anyway.

 

[2Smokeyy]

The great news is we won't play against Liverpool at Anfield again this season

We’ve got City though.

I can see us getting outplayed there too if we’re not set up correctly.

 

[Lakersgooner24]

Yeah but that less important than league game

True. Wouldn't mind winning the FA Cup again though.