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Tottenham have conceded a goal to Aston Villa in the first minute of their tie so I think it'll be safe to assume that our game with them won't be postponed due to the Semi-Final. 😀
With over 40 points yet to play for the league is nowhere close to being won
Firstly, fair play to Plymouth - were the better side in the day and deserved the win.
Not too disappointed to be out of the cup given the demands on the squad, if the B team could stay in it then good and well, but not worth running the first XI into the ground IMHO.
That said, the performance was poor, very passive and lacking quality. Easy to be hard on the kids in midfield for instance given the lack of control in that area, but the likes of Elliott, Chiesa, Diaz, Kostas were poor, kept giving the ball away and allowed the game to crawl along at a stop/start pace that suited Plymouth. Plymouth didn't do anything really, they just didn't do anything stupid, and Harvey did, and that was the tie right there.
Gomez didn't look right at all, he chased an attacker for a ball over the top in the first few minutes and he looked like an old man. Maybe he was ill or something, but didn't look right from the off.
Only on the semi-final weekend, as part of the deal for no replays the FA and Premier League agreed there would be no Premier League games scheduled for the same time as FA Cup games hence why the 5th round this season is back to a weekend schedule and not mid week like it has been for the past few seasons
Exactly we played mid week and playing a vital league game mid week again. If we weren't going to rest players today, then when? To be honest we still had Diaz, Jota, Endo etc that team should be good enough to beat Plymouth. Really don't see this as Slots fault
Remember the 4-3 loss to Palace ?
Now THAT was painful.
We all hate losing and if we lose ourselves from this result on to the end of the season you may have a point. But what squad would you have selected for this match? Remember we played Thursday night against Tottenham, so rest day Friday and travel day either Saturday or this morning, who would you have put in the squad that played on Thursday and that will play on Wednesday again.
Agree with the first half but not with the bit about Klopp and Slot. Slot needed to think about the five league games in fifteen days coming up. Away games to Everton, Villa and City included.
Same
What do you want us to do? Is the league lost because we lost with our kids and fringe players against Plymouth? Will we benefit by playing fewer matches? I don't know why you are complaining, other than you want some of us to feel worse that we did not win today when we have seen what happens if we play too many matches at the end of the season.
Yeah sure I get his overall injury record is poor my comment was more on the last 2 seasons for him it’s been good.
big time!
Was Gomez injured or sick today? It didn't look like a typical injury
If the manager was happy to sacrifice the FA Cup well and good but to send a squad like that to an away fixture in the second tier of English football seemed just sloppy to me at least have something on the bench . Get the results now in coming weeks and fair enough all forgotten but today not so much .
I cannot remember if some games were played that needed to be rescheduled, but looking at our fixtures last year it was only from the QF of the FA Cup that it clashed with the league. So we had to reschedule our match away to Everton to April just after the QF in the Europa League and we lost that match.
This year it is only the semi-finals of the FA Cup that clashes with possible league fixtures. We are scheduled to play Tottenham that day, 26 April, so may need to reschedule it if they are still involved in the FA Cup.
I don’t think this is a controversial opinion…
Joe’s injury record since joining Liverpool in 2015
https://www.flashscore.com/player/gomez-joe/SKt9dxk8/injury-history/
Not a hope the players will have that mentality.
Nor the vast majority of fans who have actually watched football properly over the years. Long way to go.
I absolutely hate this mentality of oh shur it's lightens the workload for rest of the season.thats bullshit, slot showed like jurgen did an absolute lack of respectively for the cup and what about all those travelling supporters I'm sure they aren't too happy either
the league is as good as won? I’ve seen this mentality creeping in last few weeks. I wish I had that confidence lol
Still watching. Seeing their lads interviewed, their manager, the cuts to their fans, I can't help but really like them
There was no cynicism, no sh-te from their fans that you hear in a lot of grounds, great passion. Fair play
We were very poor with a disjointed team, very disappointed with Jota/Diaz/Elliott/Tsimikas but not too bothered beyond that
No F*cks given
Harsh on Joe up until December 24 his injury record was pretty good. Such a shame today of course.
I don’t think many of us will lose sleep over this loss only annoying thing is the performance of back up
Players like quansah chiesea and taimikas
Quansah has had a nightmare of a season and probably needs a loan out as he looked good last year after returning from his loan spell so obviously playing week in week out brought him on
Is there not League games also on FA cup weekends thought there was last year
Exactly,if we were out of the league cup then I definitely would of wanted to go further in the fa cup. Look no one likes to lose but you have to look at the bigger picture. Of course the most disappointing thing is the performance of some of the first team squad.
I'm listening to Robbie Fowler now. Is that okay?
Last time I watched a cup match was the Stevie G final.
Yes I am that old.
Okay
Always crap to lose, even more so to a lower league team, but getting to this match would have been a chore. Add in we have more important matches coming up, it is no surprise we lost. We do get some time off and we have are one match away from winning a trophy so this is not like we lost our only chance for silverware this season. Had we been 3rd/4th and out of the League Cup and not looking good for the CL, then I would have felt differently.
This also stops the rubbish talk of a quadruple from other fans at least. We still have a battle for the league, whatever anyone else may think and we are not guaranteed to win the Champions League either and the extra matches would have been a pain to fit in. Congrats to Plymouth, you may have beaten the team at the top of the Premier League on paper but that was not even close to that team on the field. But you can only beat what is in front of you and they did that.
On to Everton now, much more important match and glad we did not have any of our starters close to this match.
Here go off & annoy your family or friends I can't be bothered with your nonsense
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