Liverpool FC Premier League Champions 25/26 - Talk /Gossip/Rumours

Potayto potato. His thing is he always wants to just shoot with his right foot for the far post. Doesn't have to be a specific lead up to it. And before you say something like "Salah is the same sure" really think about that as a response….

Do you wanna know what got the biggest cheer out of me the whole game today, given the fact that ya can't celebrate goals anymore cos of VAR? It was the one time in the first half that Kerkez played it to Gakpo and ran behind and Gakpo actually played it back to him and we created a chance really easily as a result. Like, it only took the dude 7 months to realise all he has to do is play it back to kerkez after he receives it from him like that for us to create a really good chance.

The problem isn't even Gakpo per se, he is a league winning player and deservedly so. The issue is really having no one to rotate him properly with, like Diaz last season. In a perfect world Isak is fit and firing and Ekitike rotates with him and gakpo but when have we ever existed in a perfect world?

Or Jota, who, it seems, they planned on having this season.

Good result, didn't see the game, but, was keeping an eye on the score, great to get the early goals, makes a huge difference in how the game pans out. Hopefully Arsenal can do us a favour later. Big few weeks coming up, we need to make the most of our favourable upcoming fixture list to cement our place in the top 5, as 3 of our last 4 games are against our direct opponents for top 5 and Brentford is out last match, a really difficult end to our league campaign.

Ffs

I've noticed over the years that Gakpo is streaky, similar also to how Jota was. When you have a streaky player, you usually want them playing regularly as you never really know when they are going to switch on. People have short memories but Gakpo was pretty phenomenal at Euro 24, I remember watching him thinking he was going to kick on like crazy for us the next season. I think this season he has been about average.

It seems to be a philosophy for Liverpool, to buy streaky players ever since the MSF era. Perhaps it's an issue with the data nerds again, you're seeing their peak performance and aiming to get that output on the regular, but you end up with periodic purple patches. It doesn't matter when you have someone anchoring the front like Salah, but when Salah dropped off and we turned to others, then there was no one there.

Personally I would again lay the blame on the recruitment and long-term planning rather than Gakpo, or Slot. We again don't have the depth of squad or strong enough back-up when players run into poor form.

I thought it should be brought back to where the foul was initiated, and then perhaps still DOGSO but free outside the box. I also though if a pen is given it's usually not a red card for DOGSO, but perhaps that changed?

Such a soft penalty though, really quite a bit of luck that Carrick is on. I'd expect he will get found out at some stage, but maybe they'll give him the contract already.

Amazing what happens in this league when a team can just get its act together for a run of a few games. Villa down to 4th now, and their form is going in the opposite direction.

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Why would you want Chelsea to get a point?

March Games

But Chelsea are our closest rival in the table. If you cheer them on to equalise here it's a dangerous game because they go on and win and they overtake us in the table

Arsenal dropping points is irrelevant to us at best, but i'd argue it makes things worse for us

I think Villa can be caught but given our last 4 games I don't want Chelsea close to us

I long ruled us out of competing with Arsenal . I just don’t want them winning the league. Their absolute dependence on set pieces , OGs and corners again like today again is brutal to watch and the fanbase is intolerable. With 5 CL places we can finish ahead of Villa or Chelsea without needing Arsenal to do us any favours but they are not dropping points today either way.