Liverpool FC - Talk /Gossip/Rumours 25/25

I would say the bulk of their xG was down to our 2 gifted defensive mistakes, Bowens in particular I imagine would have shown up pretty high, but he didn't have control of it.

This city train ain't stopping until they get the league imo. Arsenal are going to crack, 10 games with city chasing you down would drive anyone crazy, Klopp knows all about it.

I wouldn't be surprised if Pep leaves and then next season they get the 50 point deduction or whatever. We better have our act together by the end of this season, because next one could be anybody's.

Midfield was wide open in the first half, whenever Fernandes got on the ball he was a problem for us because there was nobody there to pressure the ball. Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Konate and Alisson all had moments where they lost their focus. We were fortunate that West Ham didn't capitalise on the mistakes in the first half.

Yeh, that's a fair assessment, I think if it was stronger opposition we wouldn't have gotten away with so much complacency. However I kind of expected these few games Feb/Mar with weaker opposition to enable us to build some confidence and with it, gradually wean out our negative play and mistakes from earlier this season. So far so good, hopefully we can kick on against wolves x2 before we need to face Galatasaray away

Haven’t had time to catch up with the thread but I am still disgusted that so little was made of that absolute stone wall penalty on Hugo. What difference was there been that and the one given against us against city bar he didn’t take the full contact in order to not possibly get hurt.

Chelsea have a horrid 2 months ahead of them. Just look at their fixtures. If they come out of that run still in the top 5 they'll deserve to take one of the spots. It really should be in our hands to make sure we secure a spot.

Despite 5-2 it was all bit meh. Lovely to feel relaxed through a game though, and the performance felt like it didn't matter so much because it was so comfortable on the scoreboard.

They seemed to embrace some chaos, which i think is always our best bet.

No, it wasn't that at all.

Before today West Ham had put a string of results together over their 5 or 6 games before today.

I'm delighted we won.

It was non existent in the second half

Game was box to box

Better teams would have punished us more but at least we are showing our quality up front ( ahem not Mo ) against the weaker teams but work needed in midfield because better teams won't let us off like WH did today

Good result, but a very sloppy performance again.

I can't get my head around that either (TBH I think neither a penalties). But if we are to follow the same logic, Allison apparently gave VAR no choice but to award the penalty. But it wasn't even mentioned then today? What is the actual difference here? That was stonewall if the same rules are to be applied.

Right, I don't really disagree with any of that but that's the issue with Gakpo. He will have a good game every now and again when the circumstances suit his style but he simply is not good enough to be the sole starting LW of a front 3 in a team hoping to win titles. He is extremely limited as a player. What he does he does well but he doesn't do enough, he doesn't have enough strings to his bow so to speak. He can absolutely rotate in and out of the starting 11 like he did last year.

But mainly what I take umbrage with is just being referred to as a fake fan just because I point out what is painfully obvious to anyone without rose tinted glasses on by someone who goes and does the exact same thing himself an hour later.