Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2016/2017

4 wins in a row......hasn't happened regularly enough, best under Klopp?

It's great to show the capacity to get a win in a game like that.
We didn't play well at all and Swansea were fairly resolute but we had enough lads just being dangerous to get the job done.

But you can see how we'll drop points in similar circumstances - maybe an injury to someone important or a bit less luck on the defensive side of things - like the open goal they missed at the end.

Thought Coutinho, Wijnaldum, Hendo and Milner had passable games.
Coutinho wasn't great by his own standards but just doing his regular stuff on the ball in the middle of pitch was hugely important to our spell of pressure.
I like him a lot more in that position and even if he's not firing on all cylinders I think he has a lot more impact there.

I'd probably have given Wijnaldum MOTM for us. Thought he was excellent.
Really clever movement, good vision, linking. If those around him hadn't been so poor in the final third he could've had a big hand in 2 or 3 goals.

Clyne is just so utterly brutal in the final third. He's as good as they come in the league before he gets there but all he seems to show is new and creative ways to waste the ball.
It's not a huge deal because himself and Mane make a good team but his own productivity is atrocious.

Sturridge wasn't great but service was so poor as to look like deliberate sabotage against him.

Mignolet must be feeling frustrated. Karius has been unambiguously poorer than him so far in pretty much every way.
He's even worse with his feet and Mignolet's kickouts can barely clear the halfway line.

DrumSteve wrote: »

Great win.

All the criticism of Karius is a bit bollocks when you consider a) his age b) how many league games he's played for us c)how long he's been and the club and most importantly d) his hair.

Of course, I think expectations are a bit high due to being highly rated in Germany.....

Excellent win, let's hope the international break is enough time for Lallana to recover from whatever it was that forced him off.

We were staring a banana skin in the face at half time, massive turnaround

NukaCola wrote: »

Of course, I think expectations are a bit high due to being highly rated in Germany.....

And his being available has immediately seen Mignolet dropped. He has to justify that. Mignolet has also been fine this season.

I though Karius' judgement today was off - when to go for the ball and when not too. He looked shaky under the high ball and missed it a few times. Distribution was ok, not great.

J Mysterio wrote: »

Karius does not seem an upgrade on Mignolet. He seems very similar really, just better hair.

Massive win. Thought Sturridge played well.

Far too early too call in only his second game.

Do you remember De Gea's start at Utd?

murpho999 wrote: »

Far too early too call in only his second game.

Do you remember De Gea's start at Utd?

Yeah, we will see. I said he 'does not seem better than Mignolet' though, which he doesnt. Hopefully he improves, he needs to.

Good to see us get a win today, was a difficult match and a previous Liverpool side would have folded today.

We still need to improve our defence.

We're guaranteed to finish at least 4th at the end of this weekend which is good.

The kind of game we would have lost last year but dug in and got the result today, huge win. No worries about karius in the slightest, give him time I say.

Gbear wrote: »

Coutinho wasn't great by his own standards but just doing his regular stuff on the ball in the middle of pitch was hugely important to our spell of pressure.
I like him a lot more in that position and even if he's not firing on all cylinders I think he has a lot more impact there.

Coutinho's standard is inconsistent - there is nothing new there.

Talisman wrote: »

Coutinho's standard is inconsistent - there is nothing new there.

He's a lot less consistent when we're expecting him to play in the inside left position than when he's playing deeper and more centrally.

That was where he cut his teeth at Liverpool but now he's in the front 3 and I just don't think it does him many favours. He can score more goals there but he takes boatloads of shots as well.

The trick is Lallana.

If he wasn't so bloody brilliant this season we'd probably be playing something closer to today's lineup in most games.

GBX wrote: »

How often in the past have we gone behind and not been able to get a win. Brilliant turnaround in the 2nd half. Well done lads. Hopefully the run continues in 2 weeks.

Last season we salvaged 8 points from the 13 league games where we conceded the first goal. So far this season we have 6 points from 3 such games.