Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2018

Matip should be our 3rd choice CB.
Lovren can be ok when his last ditch defending comes off but he is a liability.

We played very well tonight.

Hopefully Mane has his shooting boots sunday.

gimli2112 wrote: »

watching extended highlights on Virgin now, it's nowhere near as tense.

did I hear Spurs beat Barce 0-2 in the Nou Camp? I'm sure Inter are happy. Still cracking result for them if that's what happened.

Finished 1-1 in Spain sure Inter could only draw 1-1 with PSV so only can blame themselves

Damien360 wrote: »

VVD out for next round is a worry. Robertson got booked for time wasting. Does he miss a match also ? Salah booked for nearly killing the keeper when he touched him, really ridiculous. Who else is booked we need to worry about ?

When's the yellow card amnesty? They need to look at that rule. It's too easy pick up a ban. Although I've only become interested with VVD and Salah at risk.

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

He left the Napoli player with the free chance on goal though. If the other player can read a ball and be there for it, there's no reason he cant. He stood there with his hands up instead.

He did but that player had wandered offside, Lovren stayed closer to the defensive line rightly, only for it coming off Fabinho playing him on. Fabinho knocks it away or a Napoli players hits it and he did the right thing.

MD1990 wrote: »

Matip should be our 3rd choice CB.
Lovren can be ok when his last ditch defending comes off but he is a liability.

We played very well tonight.

Hopefully Mane has his shooting boots sunday.

It's always hard for a centre back to.come into a game that late. I don't see much between lovren and matip, dog **** would look good next to van dijk though. By far the best centre back in the world no one comes close

The only real squad positions we are short in is the full back positions.


We need another right back and left back as cover.



We also could do with one more forward.



So three signings in January.

The downside is we'll be tired for the utd game, lots of players looked shattered.

Unreal night, that was nervy as Hell. Today deserved though and really should have won by four or five.

First off, that save by Alisson at the end. You know Mignolet wouldn’t have saved that. Part of Alisson’s brilliance is he presence he has in that goal. There’s a huge difference bearing down on him or bearing down on Mignolet.

Once again, Robertson was unreal. Defensively solid and such a bloody good outlet going forward, he relieves so much pressure.

VVD was immense as per usual. Thought Firmino was poor tonight, he still has to find that form from previous seasons.

It’s such a relief to get through because honestly, if we’d have been knocked out tonight, i’d rather be out of Europe altogether which I know wasn’t a possibility. So it’s lovely that it will be Champions League football distracting us in February and not the Europa League.

Just a quick word on Napoli. I know it can be a bit weird going into a game in which you don’t HAVE to win. But they were one down for the majority of that match and never looked like going for it apart from the last couple of minutes when they kept Koulibali up there and launched it.

Anyway, great night and some good reading in other threads I suspect.

SuperTortoise wrote: »

The downside is we'll be tired for the utd game, lots of players looked shattered.

A nice warm down tomorrow and light tactical training days Thursday and Friday and Saturday and an early night they will be grand for a home game on Sunday afternoon.

Fromvert wrote: »

He did but that player had wandered offside, Lovren stayed closer to the defensive line rightly, only for it coming off Fabinho playing him on. Fabinho knocks it away or a Napoli players hits it and he did the right thing.

I'd prefer players didn't take the chance and hope a player is offside. Stay goal side, clear the chance . Napoli player took the chance and should have scored. " but it came off fabinho otherwise he was offside " is duck all consolation when the 2nd half of the season is spent playing Thursday night football.

MD1990 wrote: »

Selling Coutinho for 142m & getting Alisson, Van Dijk,Robertson for about 148m is the best piece of business we have done.

3 of the best players in Europe in their position.

A season on the bench and throw a cheeky 50m offer at them in the summer

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

I'd prefer players didn't take the chance and hope a player is offside. Stay goal side, clear the chance . Napoli player took the chance and should have scored. " but it came off fabinho otherwise he was offside " is duck all consolation when the 2nd half of the season is spent playing Thursday night football.

When a player goes offside you don't follow him, you stay with your other defenders as well as you can. If he drops back other Napoli players can get closer to the goal behind VVD/Matip/Fabino in that situation. He'd be booted up the hole by his other defenders if he dropped deep with an offside player. When you play a defensive line you trust each other to keep the line and win the ball, you have to let offensive players go into an off side position.

Fromvert wrote: »

When a player goes offside you don't follow him, you stay with your other defenders as well as you can. In.

He wasnt anywhere. He was floating around between both

It really has been some 10 or so days, incredible times for this great club, now roll on sunday