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Funny football weekend of emotions that where you’re left frustrated at the result as its them. But, yet again, L’pool win the weekend in the championship race.

Yesterdays admin-

Title Countdown:
14 wins down/ 15 to go.
46 points down/ 46 to go.

Current PL unbeaten run:
P 15 W 11 D 4 F 40 A 18 CS: 5

Current unbeaten home PL run:
P 8 W 6 D 2 F 18 A 7 CS: 3

Let’s start with the latter and context. I get the frustration as it’s United. And, yesterday aside, the worst United outfit in living memory at that. But some of the proper cringe embarrassing, WAY OTT on-line reaction I was reading yesterday evening, as I dried out from a horrid weather day, had me double checking if I was reading Everton twitter? 🤷‍♂️ This is a Liverpool side who have been almost perfect all season home and abroad. Who are currently on a stupendous 24 game unbeaten run. (20 wins/ 4 draws.). Which has them sat pretty atop both the PL and CL. With another massive cup semi to come this week. With the FA Cup to follow. A side with bona fide credentials to be seriously looking at a quadruple assault and football immortality. The CLEAR best side, at half-way, not only in England, but across Europe too. Who, as horrid as they were yesterday from the managers wrong team selection and in-game adjustments on down, didn’t lose to an excellent United side on the day. And, in fact, if you still think theres a ‘title race’, gained yet more ground on everyone by virtue of keeping parity with Arsenals result. Whilst Arsenal lost another game to close the gap. Yet SM is full of absolute gob-shites who would have you believe ‘the manager has been found out/ the players are all S and we need to spend big in January/ and the season is now unravelling!’ Context and perspective just isn’t a thing with these absolute whoppers. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

As to the actual game, by far and away our worst display under Arne. Who had by far and away his worst day to press on the job. From getting his team selection totally wrong by starting Diaz and not Darwin or Jota down the middle. (Diaz is like Bobby, dropping in and doing his best work outside the box. Sound as the focal point against two CH’s when he can drag one out with him to create space for others. Neither use nor ornament against a sitting back three. The only time we really occupied Utd’s back three was when Darwin came on and legged and harried them . Until his silly booking after which point he disappeared like the rest of them.). Through shocking in-game management and an inability to change. Something he’s been unbelievable at this year. In-game adjustments. But not yesterday. Bringing Jota on in midfield, when he needed to be pushed right on to the CH’s, just summed up Slots horrible coaching day. His tactics didn’t suit the conditions either. As horrid as the weather was, it was the same for both sides and not a day for pretty, controlled football. United realised that from the off. We never did. And his players, bar a brief spell from 0-1 to 2-1, played with no intensity, no control, and no intelligence. The mad scapegoating of Trent is just that in the context of NO L’pool player being a 7 out of 10. Yeah, Trent was abysmally poor. (Add him to Slots miserable day. Not subbing him WAY earlier.). But the whole team didn’t function as the cohesive, controlling unit we’ve come to know and love. All really, really poor in our worst collective display of the season. To signal one man out of that is churlish in the extreme.

And I’ll add myself and everyone in the ground to the P poor outing. Until United scored and woke us from our slumber, we were very quiet for a game against them. Absolutely NO excuses on or off the pitch yesterday.

FULL credit to Amorim and United. They were on it from first minute to last. As relegation ugly as they have been all season, they were absolutely brilliant yesterday and fully deserved the win. We were VERY fortunate to escape with a point. But the fact we did shows you the inherent difference between the two sides and just why they are where they are. United at their very best, couldn’t put us away at our very worst.

So all-in-all, an incredibly frustrating day to throw ‘one of them’ in. In the biggest game in World football. But, so far as the procession to the league is concerned, absolutely NOTHING has changed bar being one game nearer to pay dirt.

Now we can put the league to bed for a week or so and get stuck in to the cups and another trip to Anfield South for the seasons first silverware.

Up the bruised but FAR from out Reds!
 
The only one he’s spouting nonsense about is Gakpo. De Ligts was clear hand ball. The rest he has very valid points tbh. Hes missed another shocking decision out when Garnacho was flagged offside when he was through 1 v 1 when he was clearly about 3 yards on. Result was fair and that’s all that matters at the end of the day. I don’t expect anything from the officials these days. Shocking every match against every team!

Let’s not forget about Nunez yellow that should have been a red. Absolutely no intention to play the ball and leads with his for arm/elbow
 
Fully expect Trent to bounce straight back this evening and be as good as he’s been the majority of the season after all the ridiculous, OTT S being thrown around the last few days about him. Which had gone WAY beyond him having an abysmal outing Sunday. Missed all that the previous week at West Ham with his goal/ assist. 🙄

I would imagine, unless Jota is ready to start, that we’ll be pretty much unchanged tonight. Which we should be in a major semi. Accrington even more affords that Sat’day when you could pretty much change the whole side before Forest. Be folly to think like that tonight and lose match rhythm. And, listening to Arne yesterday, I aren’t even sure Kelleher will get his usual LC run out as he goes totally full strength.

They fully believe, as they should, that they can win all 4 this year. With the major difference from last year being that JMG aside, we are totally injury free with a fully fit squad for the second half of the season. Not having to play kids and running legs off those left/ having returning stars late not being match ready/ having match rhythm. If we were this healthy last year, NO way do we fall off the last month.

Straight into these soft Southern bleeps again Redmen. We’ve our trophy to defend and another big day out at Anfield South to secure.

All memories you just can not beat. And all you want as a supporter.
 
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