Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours 2019

charolais0153 wrote: »

No room for aoc,keita,lallana,shaq??

I'm just naming the best balance of 3 there. Fab and Gini are there without question and for me that final spot has to be Hendo or Milner if you're looking for your best, most balanced midfield.

Lallana (if he's ever fit again for more than 2 games in a row), and Shaq are great options, but in more of a horses for courses kind of way, where we expect to have tonnes of possession, and don't expect much threat, so can get away with fielding an unbalanced team in favour of the attack.

Ox and Keita would be my long term replacements for Hendo and Milner, but Keita hasn't shown enough to name him in our best balanced team yet, and Ox i'm just not counting for this year for obvious reasons. From next year (assuming he comes back as good as he was) he would certainly be my go-to for that all action driving role.

Nerdlingr wrote: »

Our best midfield has to be Fabinho and Henderson ... and one other.
I've said it before but you don't get to be captain of Liverpool if you're not an outstanding player. I'm amazed to see, even now, that fans still don't see what he brings to the team. The guy is an unbelievable footballer with so much passion and energy for our club yet still keeps getting the put downs.
Would absolutely love to see him lift the league trophy in May to finally shut the haters up.

And even more than that, an outstanding character. it sounds like a brendism, but it counts for so much. Rafa was a huge believer in it too. Getting leaders that make the difference when games are tough and tight and things are going against you. Masch, Alonso, Kuyt, Bellamy, Torres, Agger, Lucas.

It's a pure nebulous concept, but when you need something through sheer grit and determination, i'd have a Hendo on the field over a Pogba or a Jorginho every day of the week.

marklazarcovic wrote: »

Tonight,naby breaks his duck.

GTFI.

Our goal difference has been edging closer to City’s over the last few weeks.

Be a nice time for Mo to start scoring again regularly. A very nice time. And mo better man.

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Our goal difference has been edging closer to City’s over the last few weeks.

Be a nice time for Mo to start scoring again regularly. A very nice time. And mo better man.

We havent at all ,
City won there last 3 games by 2 goals , We won last night by 2 but the two before that by 1 ,
So in the last 3 weeks they have gone ahead by a futher 2 goals

AndyBoBandy wrote: »

Our goal difference has been edging closer to City’s over the last few weeks.

Be a nice time for Mo to start scoring again regularly. A very nice time. And mo better man.

Since the start of March they've actually scored one more than us, in one fewer game :-/

It's a 7 goal difference now with 5 games to play for us and then having a game at hand - if it comes down to goal difference, unfortunately. we won't win. The only way we can realistically get a better goal difference is if city drop a bunch of points and then it becomes a moot point anyway. Shouldn't even worry about it.

Thoroughly agreed on Mo though - and i've a feeling with that monkey off his back in beautiful style, that he'll go on a bit of a run.

Salah will go on a run now.

He will score against Chelsea.

Roberston & especially Mane's challenges leading to Salah's goal really summed up how much how much the players want to win this title.

Obviously the win and 3 points was the most important thing, but I don't think I could have picked three better goalscorers for us too. Two goals from midfield, Naby gets his first, first goal in ages for Hendo and Salah reaches 50 after not scoring for a few games. Perfect!

As for Goal Difference, I really wish we could catch up with it, though I think it would take us winning games 4-0 and City winning by 1 a couple of times and there just isn't enough games left. The annoying thing about the Goal Difference is that we can't afford to even draw one game. If we did draw one and City even lost a game, they'd still beat us on Goal Difference. Which means we just have to win every single game, us dropping points means they'd have to drop points twice.

It puts a lot of pressure on us (well, on me anyhow!) knowing that each game could be the one that means we won't win the league, and if we're not winning with 10 mins to go it gets very stressful! Would love some comfortable wins just to help my heart!

But it's great to be in this position and to be pushing for the title with only 5 games left (for us). Only 5 games, this **** is definitely getting real. You know it's close when you have memorised the games that are left. I still remember City/Norwich/Chelsea/Palace/Newcastle from 5 years ago, and now it's Chelsea/Cardiff/Huddersfield/Newcastle/Wolves...

I love the old mentality that used to apply to strikers like Shearer/Owen when they were going through a barren spell. "He'd take any sort of scrappy goal to get the monkey off the back" Then Mo Salah does that. Special times

No way on earth we're catching City on GD. If we went +10 in the last 5 games that would be an amazing return, so making 7 goals on city now is not going to happen. No chance.

messinkiapina wrote: »

No way on earth we're catching City on GD. If we went +10 in the last 5 games that would be an amazing return, so making 7 goals on city now is not going to happen. No chance.

Yeah they definitely have the goal difference on us. It would be heart breaking to lose out on goal difference.

Hopefully Salah finally scoring(not that he's been bad or not contributing)gets him back in track and gets another 4 or 5 in the remaining 5 games. It would be a huge boost as mané can't always bail us out.

Loved the celebrations last night. Noticed milner jumped into Hendersons arms after salahs goal and they were holding each other tight after hendos one! I feel we got us a budding romance going on! 🙂
Seriously though, when you see milner jumping into fellas arms you know it's special!
Loved mane and keita celebrating together too.
Just a warm fuzzy feeling all round!

SuperTortoise wrote: »

Who's just above Gerrard in the pic?

Ronny Rosenthal.

The White Wolf wrote: »

Hopefully Naby pushes on now as you could see the relief on his face when he scored.

Barely even noticed him on the pitch before that.

I thought he was probably the best of the starting midfield 3, not that that's saying much.