Similar to the inter game. Teams match our intensity for 20 mins or a half but still get nowhere. Then bam up the tempo and two knockouts punches and then control the tempo for the rest of the game. This team is functioning at elite levels.
More on that in a mo .....
Literally the first time I've had to myself today to post on last night-
Today's/ Yesterday's Admin-
Title Countdown:
21 wins down/ 9 to go.
69 points down/ 26 to go.
City-
P 29 PTS 70 F 68 A 18 GD +50
Liverpool-
P 29 PTS 69 F 75 A 20 GD +55
Current Unbeaten League Run-
10 games: W 9 D 1 F 25 A 4 CS: 7.
What another absolutely boss night out with Jürgen's Red Army. Taking the P in 'that there London.'
AGAIN!!!!!
The absolute World Class, other-worldly
ELITE levels this team is purring at is mind boggling. 9 straight wins in the league and counting now. And if we win out, which, as we currently stand, is the objective to top City's equally stupendous, unseen levels, it would take that winning run to 18 successive games. Think about that for a moment ..... having to win 18 straight games to win a league. That would equal our and City's English top flight record of consecutive victories. That's proper mental!!!!!
Two conversations related to that said it all yesterday. One before the game with a couple from Cheltenham of all places who were in London overnight before going onto Paris today for the rugby the weekend. And overhearing Arsenal fans on the tube after. The former was a Chelsea fan who basically said he didn't know how, as much as they are improving, they could ever get up to the levels of ourselves and City now the bars been raised to the abnormal levels it has and 95 points being the target to just be in with a chance of the title?! (Which was ironic giving all the ridiculous cry arsing across SM in the summer about how much stronger Chelsea's squad was perceived to be. But I digress ..... ) And the latter saying the same that as much as they're improving with Lego Heads youth movement at Arsenal, they just don't see how they ever get back to challenging so long as Klopp and Guardiola are having their own personal title fight season-on-season pushing each others clubs to levels never before witnessed in English football?
It's just madness when you stop and think about the off the charts consistency of these two teams. And you can't criticise either who finish runner-up to each other in whatever season. You jut have to tip your hat to both and say in whatever season, whoever comes out on top was that smidgen better and fair F's to them. I firmly believe, as I have from the '18/'19 vibe that was coming out of the Austrian mountains in the summer, that we'll win this thing. And I still firmly believe we're making history with all 4. But even if we only come out of this with a League Cup come May, it won't be a time to be downbeat and angry. I mean how can you possibly be when, if we beat Forest Sunday, we'll be going into APRIL still seriously involved in EVERY competition we've entered. This is generational stuff rarely ever seen before in England. And never form ourselves. The closest I can think is '86 when we did the double and lost in the semi's of the league cup. But down to the ban we had no Europe. Or maybe the first treble winning season in '84. But we were out of the FA Cup early that year. Unprecedented stuff where you just have to relish every single second because it will
NEVER get better than this.
Absolutely superb, gigantic win last night. After a nondescript first half in horrid conditions where we couldn't get a grip in midfield. (Side note- The Emirates is utter ***** in the rain. Leaking roof and rain that was comically, and aptly, described by one lad as
'Inside rain.' Talk about being weather battered! So F knows what it felt like playing in it?). To an absolutely outstanding second half display of true champion quality to pile the pressure even more on City.
And just how demoralising must it be for them, and every team we have left to play, to see that first half thinking
'L'pool might drop here yanno'. The pressure's getting to them!' ..... To then watching the levels fly up and Arsenal get volleyed all over the second period. Oh yeah, and then see the first goalscorer and Díaz taken off for the small matter of the best player in the World, and Bobby F Firmino, coming on to restore the 'original' best in Europe front 3! Talk about killing the oppo's hopes right there!
What a special,
SPECIAL team this is. And what a historic,
SPECIAL season this is fixing to be.
Absolute time of our lives. Relish it boys and girls.
Whatever happens. THIS is what football support is
ALL about.
Up the mighty, MIGHTY Reds!
But you are way off the mark mate if you think he's going anywhere. Klopp loves him. This is why they have been so patient in developing him to what they want and in fixing his core health issues by literally bringing in Germany's top muscle/ rehab specialist to, initially, specifically work full-time one-on-one with him.
