Sleeping on it hasn’t dampened the frustration.
Yesterdays admin-
Title Defence Countdown:
10 wins down/ 16 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 27 wins.).
36 points down/ 48 to go. (Adjusted from pre-season target of 89 points.).
Current PL unbeaten run:
P 10 W 4 D 6 F 15 A 9 CS: 4
Current unbeaten home PL run:
P 5 W 2 D 3 F 6 A 3 CS: 2
Liverpool do more than enough to win 5 games of football. 32 shots to Burnley’s 7. With 11 of those on target to Burnley’s 1. 3 big chances created to Burnley’s 0. 9 corners to Burnley’s 1. 72.9% possession to Burnley’s 27.1 %. And an exceptionally high xG of 3.18 to 0.4. With 2.38 of that from open play to Burnley’s 0.33. They miss a peno. Have a shot cleared off the line. Have multiple other shots as good as cleared off the line/ from in front of goal. They dominated the worst team in the PL to the levels they should. On pure domination and factual stats, it would be ‘
just one of them’ that happens in football. Total dominance undone when you both don’t take your chances. And you have a mad 10 minutes that gifts your opponents something they never deserved from the game.
Yet it still isn’t good enough.
Even if they’d won, it never felt that dominant and wouldn’t have been good enough. Everyone is unhappy. Everyone is frustrated. It boils over at the end, for the second time at home this season, after PSV, into some, not many, from the back of the Kop, letting that annoyance and frustration boil over. A building, seasons worth of frustration at home, into boos. The very antipathy of how we conduct ourselves at the match. But, with the anxiety and frustration at failing to beat yet another promoted side at home, this one well arguably the worst in the entire league, its understandable frustration. Why wouldn’t you be in a bad mood when it keeps on happening at Anfield? Folk getting off toward the end of 90 and in injury time is nottin’ new. Thats a PL staple madly to beat the traffic, rush back into town for trains, or get back the boozer early to start the night out. Jurgen was regularly exasperated at that right through his 8 years. That will never change in this age no matter who is in charge and no matter how dominant/ sparkling the football is. The ‘boos’ were minimal like and born out of pure frustration. But there was a general, growing annoyance and pure anxiety and frustration. Mainly at the players for missing chance after chance after chance. Along with the manager, for some of the stop/ start play of fast breaks that stopped to walking pace the final third. (Szobozlai madly the biggest culprit of that all game when his teammates were trying to break fast.). And lead to the arl’ Kop classic of ‘
Attack, Attack, Attack, Attack, ATTACK!’, being screamed at them the last 15 as frustration mounted to get the winner. This was by far and away the best showing against the three promoted sides at home. Particularly first half where L’pool played some great football.
Yet it still isn’t good enough.
Wirtz was great again. As was Frimpong and Kerkez. Mad how he took the latter off?
Ekitike was boss all game. Curtis stood tall again and dictated. But too many just weren’t good enough ….. Big Dom was atrocious all game. And madly spent most of it berating his teammates to calm down and slow it down!
Konate was back to being a walking calamity. Gifting Burnley there point taking equaliser. Gakpo continues to frustrate as he has no left foot and is so predictable cutting inside all the time as he can’t go outside and beat his man. Kyle Walker never got out of bed for 75 mins. But he sure as heck S himself the last 15 with Rio tearing at him. Rio who should have been on MUCH earlier. AllyMac, after a couple of really good games, back to his seasons worth of nothingness.
It just isn’t good enough right now from them. As dominant as that game was, belief going into injury time we’d win just wasn’t there. And frustration and unhappiness was as tangible as it’s been all season with it happening again. At home. I’ve read comments of it being like the end of Hodgson and Rodgers. This is
NOTHING like that. We were far, far,
FAR worse and dull than we are currently under those two. And the manager and players haven’t lost the support. But this can’t keep happening. Particularly at home. Where you’re uncertain as to the outcome EVERY game!
Yesterday, frustration boiled over toward all of them.
COLLECTIVELY!
Sort it out Liverpool aye?!!!!! You’re all, manager included,
SO much better than this. Have belief and conviction in yourself and sort it out as this happening again, against a promoted side, just isn’t good enough.
And if you all think your football life is bad, spare a thought for those of us that do actually support them over the next week. A day in work tommorow. Then an overnight in Paris Tuesday. Before a train down to Marseille. Which is always grim and proper moody to start with. Constantly watching your back. Before you throw in the French RoboCops treating you like utter S. Home Thursday and back in work Friday. To then have another long A drive to Bournemouth, for a ridiculous tea-time KO, and an overnighter there down to that and not having the will to drive back all in one go. All to support this shared passion of ours.
But
we’re the problem apparently.
Up the just not good enough Reds!
