I thought I’d be talking this morning about the absolute dope in the number 5 shirt costing a comfortable win yesterday the performance richly deserved. Instead, the even bigger disgrace in the number 11 shirt over shadows everything.
Yesterdays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
7 wins down/ 20 to go.
23 points down/ 66 to go.
Current PL unbeaten run:
P 3 W 1 D 2 F 6 A 4 CS: 1
Current unbeaten away PL run:
P 2 W 1 D 1 F 5 A 3 CS: 1
First, the game-
Elland Road is one of the hardest grounds to go to in the entire Country whether you are in form or not. As much as I absolutely detest Leeds, down to their fans being a horrible gang of lads, they
ALWAYS turn up at home and make it as hostile and unwelcoming an experience as there is. In today’s sanitised PL, Leeds is a rarity. An old school, proper away game. On and off the park.
Liverpool do everything right to completely silence them up until the 73rd minute intervention of the only player on the pitch who yet again didn’t turn up and undid everything. First half, they are much the better side without scoring. Totally in control of the game. For the first time in what feels an age, you are confident that they are confident they have this and will win. Leeds hand us a gift the start the second to go in front. We are quickly 2 up as the swagger is back and we are playing like champions. Their crowd has been beaten into silence by our dominance and the away end, as it has all game with song after song after song, is bouncing with the same swagger that comes with being champions. Constantly reminding Leeds just what we are. Then Konate happens ….. I don’t actually think, without knowing his fitness situation, taking Wirtz off who, along with Curtis, who was MOTM, and who was the best player on the park, helped the situation. That changed the dynamic of our dominance slightly and gave Leeds a glimmer. I think Arne went a tad early there. But still, it’s AllyMac, so I half got it. But then Konate happens ….. 25-year-old, veteran Konate. Konate who has captained France. Konate who has over 150 senior games for the Reds. Konate who is now a SERIOUS liability EVERY time he steps on the park. ( He
HAS to be sat now when Conor’s ban is over. Arne has been hamstrung to this point with Joes lack of fitness and no other CH’s. But now he’s back and getting match sharp and fit, Konate HAS to be sat.). The boneheaded, needless challenge on the Leeds lad going nowhere for the peno pokes the bear and fully reawakens Elland Road. Which, if you’ve never experienced it live, can be like Anfield in totally consuming you and pulling you under. And within a minute, Konate steps forward again, completely turning his back and S out from a Leeds shot and it’s 2-2. ALL down to the big, useless dope in the number 5 shirt undoing all our great work up until that point. To our credit, for the second straight game after the big strides made second half against Sunderland, we again show our true mentality and fight back to go back in front from serious adversity with a wonderful team goal. Absolutely
NO less than we deserve. It’s ironic that people are narking about the Endo sub to close out the game the last 10. When they have been calling for Endo to be used more all season!
The manager just can not win. And then the only thing worse than Konate this season, the set-piece coach, steps forward once more to ****** a draw from the hands of victory. Leeds get a corner. You fear what’s coming. And the whole narrative of what had been a belter away day changes.
7 points from 9 would have been a fantastic week that would have had you bouncing into Inter with a lot of positives to take from the second half Wednesday and yesterday. Instead, 5 from 9 leaves you flat and frustrated.
F Konate! F Aaron Briggs. (Our pitiful excuse for a set-piece coach if you are wondering.) Who needs sacking yesterday! And F the egotistical, self serving gobS from Egypt who can’t accept that he’s been absolutely dog S all season long.
As if Konate and Briggs hadn’t ruined a brilliant day out enough, what Mo did after certainly did.
Thrown under the bus? The only person thrown under the bus lad was your manager who you completely undermined with your egotistical, self-serving strop. You shouldn’t have to fight each day and should have an automatic place you’ve earned ….. ?
NO player, whether you or Kenny Dalglish, or Nicky Tanner, should
EVER have an automatic place you jumped up little tawt!
BANG out of order. Where has your voice been through all our troubles Mo? Exactly. Radio silence. But when you are rightly sat for being utter dogS game in, game out, you suddenly find that voice. Self-serving tawt!
Some of the quotes are beyond unreal. Ungrateful bleep. I thought he was better than that. Has he forgotten that it's a team game.? What a sad end to a brilliant career.
I don’t care if you are an all time legend for this club. After that, you can go F yourself and I sincerely hope you never play for this club again. Ironically, what you have done by throwing the manager completely under the bus in your petulant strop, is made the support even more behind him. And sadly against yourself.
He’s let himself, the club, the manager, his teammates, and every last Red out there down. And there should be
NO way back from that! Shy of a massive public apology to EVERYONE!
S start to my Sunday. Roll on Bergamo and Milan later and copious amounts of vino!
We're now on our second longest unbeaten run of the season. So there is that. With positive green shoots to take from the last two. Baby steps.
Up the Reds!
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