Liverpool FC Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 - Mod Warning in OP, 10/12

Hoki · 04-11-2014 08:56PM

Mr Alan wrote: »

I'm not writing Markovic off by any strectch, but even in this insane transfer market when spending £20m on the a player they should be able to offer something other than potential. At this moment in time, he's shocking IMO.

Rodgers running the risk of putting half his teams nose out of joint by not giving them a game against the European Champions in the Bernabeu.

Everything is shocking / horrendous / deluded to you. Markovic has done nothing wrong tonight & has played pretty well if you ask me , get off his back ffs

martyos121 · 04-11-2014 09:01PM

Lucas has to play against Chelsea.
Has to.

Agent Coulson · 04-11-2014 09:03PM

martyos121 wrote: »

Lucas has to play against Chelsea.
Has to.

And Can.

smileyj1987 · 04-11-2014 09:04PM

martyos121 wrote: »

Lucas has to play against Chelsea.
Has to.

This team should start against Chelsea !

Agent Coulson · 04-11-2014 09:34PM

Borini and Sturridge need to be the starting strikers when both are fit.

Borini gives us the hard work and chasing we are missing from the forwards this season. (Maybe not goals) but he opens up space for the midfielders to come into.

martyos121 · 04-11-2014 09:35PM

Plenty of positives to take from that performance.
Considering the opposition, I'm not too dissapointed.

Tipsy McSwagger · 04-11-2014 09:36PM

No goal, no threat going forward, another loss. Still crap.

klose · 04-11-2014 09:36PM

Only caught the second half but was impressed, gerrard coming on was thoroughly ineffective however, usual hollywood ball ****e. Hopefully rodgers dosent revert to the "first" eleven for the chelsea game.

brevity · 04-11-2014 09:36PM

I think that's a performance Lloyd was looking for :pac:

Can, Kolo, Borini, Lucas should start against Chelsea.

Raif Severance · 04-11-2014 09:37PM

Good Effort from the Lads.

Just couldn't Create anything in the Final 3rd.

And Credit where Credit's Due, Toure and Mignolet were Great in that Game.

mav79 · 04-11-2014 09:37PM

Kolo MOTM for me today. The whole team did pretty well, a lot better than I thought before the match.

Harry Palmr · 04-11-2014 09:37PM

Well a few players did themselves no harm at all with that.

Sure Madrid ended the match playing a cagey possession game but they never did work up the momentum to get the big win that so many had assumed (me included).

Manquillo, Can, Kolo, Moreno, Lucasaid all done well. Markovic gets a hard time but I can see (and have seen) what he can do and I think will do. Mig had a good game as well though if you can catch you really should do.

04-11-2014 09:37PM

Full of heart against the champions in their own backyard.

Looks like Rodgers knows more than boards managers. Some of the stuff written pre kick off was embarressing tbh. Toys out of prams nationwide

Utopia Parkway · 04-11-2014 09:37PM

Much better performance than the home game. Actually passed the ball well at times. Need to get back to scoring goals though. It's like we've forgotten how to.

Soft Falling Rain · 04-11-2014 09:38PM

Better, much better. The only problem was that for all of Borini's and Marko's effort, there were no 'killers' in attack.

I think the team can take heart from tonight going into the Chelsea game anyway.

rob316 · 04-11-2014 09:39PM

Proud tonight huge gulf in class and we kept in the game. Well done to rodgers with his brave team selection that will keep the critics shut.

mav79 · 04-11-2014 09:39PM

Pity Balotelli did not come on instead of Gerrard. Lucas was the best of the three midfielders playing and didn't need to be brought off.

Pyjamarama · 04-11-2014 09:39PM

If we play with that kind of effort on saturday and Danny is back we can get something out of it.

Good to see the level of effort. Maybe it'll get some of the "Rodgers has lost the plot" brigade to quieten down.

Demosthenese · 04-11-2014 09:41PM

Better setup. Better discipline. We've hammered BR for not being able to setup his team like this before (with possibly more attacking intent when we win it back) but he has managed it tonight and credit due. Corners were FAR better tonight and there is obvious work done there evident from the Newcastle match as well.

That said ... 5-10 mins to go is there a difference between 1-0 and 2-0??? I know some players looked dead on their feet - Allen and Lallana looked bollixed. But i'd have prefered to have a better go at them deploy even Sterling further forward.

Seriously though, we could setup like that week in week out in the PL with Sturridge fit and with Sterling on the break we could be very difficult to beat.

Lets not kid ourselves though ... it was a huge gamble, it sort of payed off and was encouraging to see the lads prove a point and show some much needed pride!

MD1990 · 04-11-2014 09:42PM

Surely Toure will start saturday. But who to drop Skrtel or Lovren?

klose · 04-11-2014 09:42PM

mav79 wrote: »

Pity Balotelli did not come on instead of Gerrard. Lucas was the best of the three midfielders playing and didn't need to be brought off.

Agree, lucas however only has an hour in him these days, anything more and hes running through treacle

mada999 · 04-11-2014 09:43PM

wow didnt know Scholes was so small, standing there beside Macca

Turtyturd · 04-11-2014 09:45PM

mada999 wrote: »

wow didnt know Scholes was so small, standing there beside Macca

Seems to be morphing into Moyes.

ShamoBuc · 04-11-2014 09:45PM

What does he do now? Start some of the players that played well tonight or some of the very under performing subs??

Slattsy · 04-11-2014 09:45PM

Toure and Lucas the standouts.
Shout of for Borini too. Ran his ballocks off.

Utopia Parkway · 04-11-2014 09:46PM

MD1990 wrote: »

Surely Toure will start saturday. But who to drop Skrtel or Lovren?

Skrtel made some bad errors tonight. Gave the ball away in the first half which nearly cost a goal. Second half left Ronaldo and ran towards Benzema who was already marked by two players. Nearly let Ronaldo in. Does some daft things at times.

tok9 · 04-11-2014 09:47PM

Happy with the performance but obviously disappointed with the result.

Would agree with Alan (to a hugely lesser extent) that Markovic was disappointing in the 1st half although I thought he was much better for the 20-30 mins he played in the second.

On a serious note, this really shows up our defence. Toure came in and had a really good game. Manquillo just has to be our first choice RB at least until Flanagan comes back.

Skrtel had his typical stupid moments. I would honestly start that back 4 against Chelsea. I'll be gutted if Johnson is back in

Mignolet, Borini, Lucas, Can all did well imo.

One real negative was Joe Allen. I thought he had a really poor match, lot of misplaced passes.

Hopefully this will be a small boost to morale and we can go on and beat Chelsea at the weekend.

mosstin · 04-11-2014 09:47PM

So, a template for going forward or normal service resumed at the weekend? Too many undroppables in our squad for it to be the former I think.

Kerrigooney · 04-11-2014 09:47PM

Much much better. At least there was a bit of energy on the pitch.

For all the flack he gets,Toure put in a performance of a much higher quality than Lovren has managed all season.

mada999 · 04-11-2014 09:47PM

looking at the goal there... surely we should have known to double up on Marcelo... Arbeloa was not going to get too far forward so no need to double up that side

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