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Liverpool’s year in stats

European kings, runaway Premier League leaders and, as of Saturday, champions of the world: Liverpool have had quite a year. As the Reds’ silver-laden 2019 draws to a close, we look back on some of the numbers behind their incredible achievements.
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dilakh2 said:
Am I the only one that thinks its not even a title challenge from Leicester. I know a bit egotistical but think about even after going 7 wins on the trot their still 8 points behind us and I think City and LFC both posting 90 plus points have numbed people but thats the high standards set which have never been seen before. Do Leicester have it in them to post up a 90 plus point a season. I dont think so. We have won 23 of the past 24 games. Thats the real level.
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Guess I was right literally played them off the park. This side is simply different gravy and Trent might be rivalling Alonso for the best passing ive seen in an LFC shirt. Still backup for the national side though... :/
 
Sings ' ..... And now you're gonna believe ussssssssssss ...... '

I honestly don't know where to start with that display. September next year will bring around the 40th anniversary of my first game watching the Reds live. And through the intervening 4 decades, and F knows how many games all over this planet following this humongous shared passion of ours, I'm genuinely struggling to remember a more complete team performance, back to front, than that? Maybe Kenny's great '87/'88 side (until this vintage the finest L'pool side I've ever had the privilege of watching) taking Clough's Forest out behind the woodshed to the tune of 5-0 in a game the late, great Tom Finney described as the finest performance he'd ever seen in his life? Rafa's '08/'09 side destroying Real Madrid 4-0 in the CL first knockout round maybe? But when you add in the context of everything this evening (Leicester being, on results at least, the second-best side in this league. At home no less in a game we were 'supposed' to be happy with a draw out of/ L'pool having been out in Qatar becoming Champions of the whole ****** World just prior to Chrimbo/ key players out injured to the tune of young Curtis Jones and Neco Williams on the bench et al), I'm inclined to say that's the finest display of football I've ever been lucky enough to witness in the flesh. The ultimate team performance where every last one of them was absolutely outstanding.

Heck, Leicester didn't even have ONE shot on target. (And only 3 total shots all night.). Leicester City. The second-best team statistically in the pL Leicester City. The third highest scorers by far in the PL. Leicester City. Needing to win this game to have even a remote chance of mounting a title challenge. At HOME. And they never managed a shot on target as they were completely and utterly dominated (as they were at Anfield in a game that was far more of a 4/5- 1 game in reality than the late 2-1 win it ended up) from the first whistle to the last by a team LEVELS above them. (Or anyone else in World football come to that.).

An absolutely superb display from this gang of historical Reds you're just running out of superlatives for now. The absolute quote of the night was overheard coming away from the ground from a couple of Leicester lads, in their mid-20's, and I quote 'I've never seen any side give us such a doing that. They made us look like a 6th Form Netball side out there!' Which summed the night up perfectly. Men against boys didn't begin to describe what happened at the King Power.

Where does this end? Honest question? I mean you've got to be starting to look at an unbeaten season now and topping City's 100 point record. These lads are THAT good. They will of course, but you just can't see where they're gonna' drop points? First it was 'L'pool don't have the squad to match City.' Then it was 'VAR will sort the cheating Scouse C out!' Then it was 'December will F them. All those games and Qatar on top!' ...... It'd be much easier yanno' lads to just admit that this L'pool side is among the finest that have EVER been seen on a football pitch. In ANY era. ANYWHERE! What they are doing on a weekly basis is historically phenomenal. And the really frightening thing, to the rest of not only England but Europe, is they've nowhere near hit top level yet this season.

52 F points out of a maximum 54 available. And they've just DECIMATED the current 2nd best side in the country, on their own ground, by 4 of our goals to 0 of theirs.

What a time to be alive. What a time to be a Red!

Oh yeah, back to that opening song ' ...... We're Champions of the WORLD!'

Up the different level to everyone else Reds!
 
dilakh2 said:
Guess I was right literally played them off the park. This side is simply different gravy and Trent might be rivalling Alonso for the best passing ive seen in an LFC shirt. Still backup for the national side though... :/
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Totally. We truly have 2 #10's playing FB. With a 21-year-old Scouser absolutely running games of football from RB.

What makes it all the more remarkable the consistent levels Trents performing to is the constant pressure on his shoulders to perform. He's our key attacking outlet and the expectation on him to maintain that game in, game out, which is only intensified being a local lad, is off the charts mad.

To equate, Gerrard, for example, never had anything like that pressure heaped on him at 21.

And he's not even touched his ceiling yet. There's more development to come from well arguably the best RB in World football right now who'd walk into ANY team in the World right now.

Utd paid a World record FB fee for their version of Nathanial Clyne. Just WTF would Trent fetch if he hit the open market?
 
I was pretty vociferous on here a few years back in not wanting Leicester to win the league. Last night was a glaring example of why.

The next time the media try's to push the 'loveable, small club' angle-

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Also, in no particular order we had-

'One Boris Johnson', and some other ditty about the Torries- Not sure if that's flattering trying to nark at us through that as to what we stand for or disturbing that ____wombles in Leicester actually think they give a flying F about them? Whichever, it got the deserved response from ourselves of ripping the said, racist, bigoted, xenophobic blert and his Evil right-wing party to F.

'Feed the Scousers, Let them know it's Christmas time .....' - Mocking poverty. At this time of year to boot. 'Classy' as it gets.

' ..... Always the victims, It's never your fault .....' - Did I say 'classy' as it get's? Low life scumbags.

'In your L'pool slums' - Because Leicester is such a palatial paradise right? Oh the F irony!

The Gearrard slip song bollocks- Like WTF relation does that have to Leicester?

'Champions of England, you'll never see that!' - Uhmmm, don't know if yers realised lads but we're on a march to a record title-winning season. And we have seen that. 18 F times!!!!!

And then there was the rather, let's say, 'rotund' meff who spent the whole game the other side of the divide trying to both stare out and throw constant abuse like the hard btard he wasn't. Only to then go running to the bizzies when he got singled out and skited to F by claiming an Asian lad in front of him had been racially abused. Which caused a 10-minute interlude of the Police trying to determine if anyone had racially abused anyone and needed lashing out. Thankfully, the innocent lad he'd pointed out was determined to have not said anything other than calling the fat gobshite what he was and it was left at that.

The only saving grace was that we didn't have the 'clapper' bollocks they usually hand them out that they bang for an 'atmosphere.'

Typical lower league mentality knobheads. Which is a shame for the respectable Leicester fans that they've never grown up and matured.

SO much right with Leicester City FC under this ownership. Totally tarred by a large section of there so-called support.

Always have been horrible btards. Always will be.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Totally. We truly have 2 #10's playing FB. With a 21-year-old Scouser absolutely running games of football from RB.

What makes it all the more remarkable the consistent levels Trents performing to is the constant pressure on his shoulders to perform. He's our key attacking outlet and the expectation on him to maintain that game in, game out, which is only intensified being a local lad, is off the charts mad.

To equate, Gerrard, for example, never had anything like that pressure heaped on him at 21.

And he's not even touched his ceiling yet. There's more development to come from well arguably the best RB in World football right now who'd walk into ANY team in the World right now.

Utd paid a World record FB fee for their version of Nathanial Clyne. Just WTF would Trent fetch if he hit the open market?
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You just put in that last part to make me laugh didn't ya? :ROFLMAO:
 
Levels.

City raise the bar to ridiculous levels that forced us in turn to raise our game to match them. Now we've smashed through it and they can't raise there's to match us.

Levels.

Take Sunday off Wolves. You've earned the rest. ?

Up the best team in the F World that NOBODY can live with Reds!
 
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Scouseinthehouse said:
Levels.

City raise the bar to ridiculous levels that forced us in turn to raise our game to match them. Now we've smashed through it and they can't raise there's to match us.

Levels.

Take Sunday off Wolves. You've earned the rest. ?

Up the best team in the F World that NOBODY can live with Reds!
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I think we're capable of going unbeaten but if we go deep into the CL we might have to sacrifice a game or two in the PL and rest the key men. Otherwise if our key players play in the league I honestly don't see anyone stopping us.
 
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Paul Scholes on what Liverpool have done that no Man Utd side ever achieved

United legend Scholes says it's 'game over' in the Premier League title race - saying it is now just a question of how big Liverpool's winning margin will be
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All the years of waiting and agonisingly close misses. And then we wrap #19 up before the NY.

Madness.

‘Hand it over, Hand it over, Hand it over Man-ches-ter!’
 
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TBF the two VAR decisions in today's game were right given the current rules. The offside rules need changing, that's the issue. Should be some form of 'referee's call' for marginal ones like they have in the cricket
 
morimech said:
VAR NWA
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You'll have to forgive me for nothing down with the cool kids but 'NWA?'

That's 4 games VAR has F up this weekend alone. I mean strictly speaking the offside decisions have all been correct. But it's the whole process that's wrong and the reasoning to behind it to begin with. Trying to decide such minute margins is beyond ridiculous (not least when the technology itself isn't 100% accurate to begin with and is down to subjective human decisions as to where to place the lines), it TOTALLY goes against the spirit of VAR was brought in for to begin with! WTF happened to 'CLEAR AND OBVIOUS!?!!!!!' When did that cease to be a thing as it was sold under?

I've stopped saying anything on it as I'm resigned to the view that sometimes it'll go for you and the other side will be F. Sometimes it'll go against you and you'll be F. I believe, as of just before Chrimbo, those that are keeping records on VAR decisions have researched there'd be absolutely no change in our lead at the top of the table as we've neither gained nor suffered to any outright degree. So it's not like I'm speaking from a position of benefit/ negativity as regards LFC. But I can speak as a match-going fan, and it's absolutely killing the game from that aspect by taking all emotion out of the equation. The very essence of what the games all about. Today for example, albeit they ultimately got both decisions right under the way the system/ rules currently are, the fact it took a good 5 minutes or so to reach each conclusion just killed the moment. Sadio's goal being awarded was more a shrug and ' F finally!' than a mad celebration of arms and legs as it should have been.

Virtually no paying fan is for it. The mediots/ pundits are now starting to turn against it and are no longer drawing the party line. It's F up virtually every other game in some description ..... Just HOW much worse does this failed experiment have to get before it's pulled?

Single worst thing to come into the live spectacle in my lifetime. And the longer this carnage continues, the more it'll turn people off going the match.
 
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