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You know it's gonna' be a fun, boss day when Evertonians, those masters of Champions League football (oh yeah, my bad. They've never actually qualified for the competition proper), try skitting you over drawing with Sevilla.

A Sevilla team you've, 2 boneheaded defensive mistakes aside, taken to the cleaners for the rest of the game. A Sevilla team who were the 4th best team in La Liga last year. And are currently unbeaten and sat in 3rd this season. Whilst ranking 6th on UEFA's coefficient list. And given the other group game ended up 1-1, as utterly frustrating as it was, it wasn't a bad point in group play by any means.

God love Blues. They can always be relied on to perk your day up no end with their base hilarity of delusions.
 
Just had a look, I'd say a foul but not worthy of a card unless he'd racked up a lot of small similar ones previously
 
Tyton said:
There's just a massive shortage of CBs on the market tbh. Look how much money City spend on that position alone and they're still strugglig.
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I guess there is always that argument, but for me it always comes across as more of an excuse.

A lot of Liverpools goals conceded under Klopp, is often down to a poorly organised defence, whether that be from corners or in open-play.

The top coaches I see at the moment (there are exceptions obviously), can build a solid defence without any real star players. I mean just look at LVG when he came to us, admittedly he was pants at everything else, but one thing he could do is build an organised team from the back with a foundation considering of Mike Smaldini!

If you could somehow combine LVG's organisation with Klopp's dynamism and attacking play/intensity, you may have the perfect manager!
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
You know it's gonna' be a fun, boss day when Evertonians, those masters of Champions League football (oh yeah, my bad. They've never actually qualified for the competition proper), try skitting you over drawing with Sevilla.

A Sevilla team you've, 2 boneheaded defensive mistakes aside, taken to the cleaners for the rest of the game. A Sevilla team who were the 4th best team in La Liga last year. And are currently unbeaten and sat in 3rd this season. Whilst ranking 6th on UEFA's coefficient list. And given the other group game ended up 1-1, as utterly frustrating as it was, it wasn't a bad point in group play by any means.

God love Blues. They can always be relied on to perk your day up no end with their base hilarity of delusions.
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Ignoring the bluenoses, it's a disappointing result if you're aiming to win the group, as Sevilla are much better at home than they are away. That said, you've been helped out with that draw, could have been worse
 
I put up a list of defenders a week or two back. If you cannot get VVD in Jan, you need to target one of those if you want to take home a trophy this season. Also Klopp needs to use his subs much better
 
Mike. said:
Ignoring the bluenoses, it's a disappointing result if you're aiming to win the group, as Sevilla are much better at home than they are away. That said, you've been helped out with that draw, could have been worse
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Are they yeah? Ta. Honestly, know little about them save for having a quick look at their season to date the weekend.

Although still a very good side, they certainly seemed to of dipped a lot in overall talent from the top side we faced the Europa final 2 years back. Kind of figured they'd be a lot stronger on their own patch but good to have it confirmed.

Second to last group game so hopefully if anything's still on the game, it'll just be to decide who finishes 1st or 2nd.
 
Mad explanation from the Sevilla manager on his sending off.

I mean watching him speaking the press after, he seems a genuine, decent bloke. Just mad reasoning behind it as he honestly tried to explain it.
 
I can't criticize Klopp too much as I'm the same with subs in my dream team. Always leave players in that bit too long when they're not doing well!
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Are they yeah? Ta. Honestly, know little about them save for having a quick look at their season to date the weekend.

Although still a very good side, they certainly seemed to of dipped a lot in overall talent from the top side we faced the Europa final 2 years back. Kind of figured they'd be a lot stronger on their own patch but good to have it confirmed.

Second to last group game so hopefully if anything's still on the game, it'll just be to decide who finishes 1st or 2nd.
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They arent as good as the Sevilla side you faced in the EL, but I wouldn't want to go away to them needing to win tbh. But you have enough to beat the other two home and away.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
You know it's gonna' be a fun, boss day when Evertonians, those masters of Champions League football (oh yeah, my bad. They've never actually qualified for the competition proper), try skitting you over drawing with Sevilla.

A Sevilla team you've, 2 boneheaded defensive mistakes aside, taken to the cleaners for the rest of the game. A Sevilla team who were the 4th best team in La Liga last year. And are currently unbeaten and sat in 3rd this season. Whilst ranking 6th on UEFA's coefficient list. And given the other group game ended up 1-1, as utterly frustrating as it was, it wasn't a bad point in group play by any means.

God love Blues. They can always be relied on to perk your day up no end with their base hilarity of delusions.
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lets see what thay have to say after tonight
 
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zzeezzy said:
If you could somehow combine LVG's organisation with Klopp's dynamism and attacking play/intensity, you may have the perfect manager!
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Say no more fam.

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Too much ******** about Liverpool's CB's on here. You lads should just get behind them.















I mean, it works for the strikers...
 
Four straight home clean sheets the league. Which is now 7 in the last 10 league games period. And the fewest league goals conceded in a 38 game rolling spell for 4 years I believe ..... But all the pundits and reactionary sections of the fanbase don't want to talk about the positives with the steady improvement in our defensive record (by no means perfect and still a lot of work to be done but that can't be denied) and would rather go WAY over the top in criticism after last Saturday's City anomaly. A complete 'non-event' game in relation as soon as Sadio walked ( against the worst possible side in the league to be down to 10 against) to the game L'pool we're dominating in most every statistical aspect except the scoreline to that point.

Not unduly worried about Burnley this avvi. Yeah, they've picked up two excellent results in London thus far but their overall record on their travels since returning to the top flight is beyond woeful. And they're currently on a 9 game losing streak at Anfield in all competitions scoring just one and conceding 20.. Be very disappointed and no less surprised if that doesn't continue today.

Taking our chances and killing the game off was equally as big an issue as the brainfart's defensively Sevilla and needs to be rectified today. If for nothing else after last Saturday, we need to start turning the goal difference back into the positive. Currently a very dull, grey day. And Burnley doesn't exactly get the juices flowing. (not least when you've woken up feeling as sick as I have. Ugh!). But we need to play our part and get behind the Redmen from the off and not sit on our hands moaning and groaning as many sadly now do in run of the mill Anfield games. You pay enough for the experience. Enjoy it to the max. And the only thing stopping you doing that is you!

Respect Burnley. Work as hard as them. And our far better quality should win out all things being equal. 3-0.

Up the Rebound Reds!
 
This is the type of game Liverpool struggled in quite a few times last season; deep blocks, hard working, will look to take advantages of the large spaces in behind against the run of play, or capitalize from set pieces (decent height, with Brady's cracker of a left foot whipping them in) - let's see how it rolls. You'd expect a comfortable home victory, but you just never know.
 
RhQQ said:
This is the type of game Liverpool struggled in quite a few times last season; deep blocks, hard working, will look to take advantages of the large spaces in behind against the run of play, or capitalize from set pieces (decent height, with Brady's cracker of a left foot whipping them in) - let's see how it rolls. You'd expect a comfortable home victory, but you just never know.
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That's another thing flippantly thrown around without much research down to a handful of games/standout results. Mainly through the early part of the Calendar year dip.

People, no less lazy pundits, should check out our record against the bottom half the league last year.
 
The few times you dropped points against lower opposition, I felt like I was watching a replay of the previous time. Dip in form or not, there were definitely similar patterns in the games you lot dropped points against the smaller sides. PatrickLFC & a couple others saw it too. Off the top of my head, Burnley (funnily enough) and Hull felt identical? There were other dropped points too, just cba checking.
 
Nobody CBA checking. Made worse when it's just flat out lazy punditry that the general footie fan bounces off.

It's easier to just brand this L'pool side with a problem breaking down the lesser teams.
 
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