Stottie

Good! I'm on tv on an international feed and they're willing Liverpool to win.

Expect nothing in commentary about that never being given in the Premier League. At least five times this season on Woltemade.

The BBC will have to be charitable to give that 3 out of 10.

Dull half. Inter struggled against Liverpool press, but grew into it toward the end. Liverpool bench looks like ours on a bad day a couple of years ago. Wirtz plus a load of kids. This should get more interesting. Dunno the rules for CL but any "forwards gain advantage" handball should be handball for me.

Here we are on December 9 and Isak still doesn't look fit.

I hope its by FA Cup time, which is a month away.

While not on the record breaking form of last season, Salah still has 6 combined goals and assists in the league. For wide players, Semenyo has 9, and a few, including Gakpo have 7. 6 will still have Salah as Top 10 among wide players. Mbeumo has started well, but only has 6. Even Doku only has 5. This begs the question of why a "he's shit" type narrative is being allowed to fester. The same about Gakpo too. This is when Liverpool are losing games due to conceding goals, not a failure to score them. "We're wide open at the back and can't defend a corner, but let's blame the guy who's won us the league twice, the last time pretty much on his own" I call that bad management.

That Transfermarkt graphic is goals and assists. Isak has one of each in the league. With Ekitike clearly no. 1, many Isak "appearances" are going to be 10-15 minutes. His goals per appearance is unlikely to improve, paving the way for comparisons with all the worst disaster signings in recent years. Liverpool's real disaster is their defence, but them blowing their "we don't sign high priced underachievers like Chelsea" reputation away at the same time is delicious.

I think that's handball.

Looking forward to seeing Wirtz and Isak in a graphic like this. Zero in 14 PL games now for Wirtz. Only 36 more to qualify. 2 in 8 for Isak, so a strong start for the 145M euros-to-justify man. Liverpool are loaded so their spend shouldn't actually matter very much. It matters loads however, because of ex-Liverpool pundits and eScousers ramming some notion of them being the best club with money down everyone's throat. With this summer, they have blown that one out of the water.

Just on hypotheticals, but they could have replaced Salah with Olise for 50M in summer 2024, trousered mega Saudi cash, it sounded like 150M was on the table, for Salah, and still had a strong go at the league with Rodri out, Arsenal misfiring, and Chelsea on/off hopeless. As a more recent hypothetical, what would have happened had Glasner not threatened to resign and the Guehi sale had gone through? I doubt Liverpool would be quite as bad as this. When I have a Christmas tipple, I will raise a glass to Ollie the Austrian for giving us such great entertainment.

Liverpool now on 48 goals conceded in 2025 in 34 PL games. For recent form, you can also add the 3-0 to Palace in the EFL and them shipping 4 to PSV in the CL. From appointing Slot to the 3-3 at SJP almost exactly a year ago, they barely conceded any goals. https://www.transfermarkt.com/premier-league/jahrestabelle/wettbewerb/GB1/saison_id/2025 Inter away for them on Tuesday then home to Brighton next week. Inter are fourth in the CL standings with a record of P5 W4 D0 L1 F12 A3 off mostly easy games. The defeat was last time out 2-1 away at Atleti.

Inject the comparison with Isak starts for Liverpool.

Another great chapter in the legend of Bruno. I'll just remind you that it started with an equally outrageous goal from a corner.

Liverpool's main issue is the goals against column, which you cannot blame on their attackers. Man City's defence went to shit when their star DM was out for the season. Liverpool's has gone to shit with the DM the pundits and eScousers insist is a star still in the team. If anything, I reckon the eScousers generally underrate Salah, because it would mean admitting there have been times when they are a one-man team. This will be especially painful for them, when that one man does not do interviews and does not come out with the "we're a special club" BS they want to hear and has periodically questioned whether glorous LFC have been paying him what he's worth.

A sickener. I thought it was a pen, and on the whole I thought we did enough to shade it. Their equalizer was a poor goal to concede. Their last ditch defending, blocking shots etc., was way better than ours.

Wow, hope so! Great news about him not going to AFCON. I doubt we'll see much of him and Woltemade together, especially if Osula is injured. Wissa coming in just means we have cover now. We're still in four tournaments and may well need it.

Yeah, we beat them with Krafu and Burn at FB, Willock, Sandro, and Ramsey in midfield. Opta reckons Vicario, Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Spence, Bentancur, Palhinha, Kudus, Simons, Kolo Muani, Richarlison. 7 of them started the EFL game, albeit with Palhinha at CH. They'll be stronger at keeper and CH, but I'd fancy a strong team from Eddie to do them.

I think this season is the best Tino has looked at RB. His best performances in previous seasons have been at LB, where he's usually more effective in attack. It used to be a tossup between Tino and Trippier at RB, based on their relative strengths. I don't think it is now. Tino is a better defender than Hall, but Hall is a sublime footballer.

Great snapshot which he took very early, but it did go through a defender who could have blocked it. He was in acres, but he found them easily and not through good movement. I thought it was a stretch from pundits to compare it to the Carabao final goal. Especially now with Wissa about feature, no regrets about it at all. My main concern about the whole episode is that I don't think it's good for Gordon to play up front. I think it does him in.

If you watch the whole segment, Carragher actually says that Salah VVD and Alisson have been legends who've carried Liverpool and that its now time for the others to step up. Carragher said that Salah's legs have gone, but I think there is more to it than that. After Trent, the other big supply line to Salah last season was Szobo, who Slot or whoever thought was disposable enough to move to accommodate Wirtz. Without Szobo (and Diaz) working the high press, Gravenberch also doesn't look like much of a DM any more. fwiw, I don't recommend watching the segment because Carragher started it with a god awful myth making session of "we're unique among European clubs" and then "we have never sacked a league winning manager... never!". For context, they did show Roy Hodgson the door, and they've only won the league twice in the past thirty years, so haven't had many league winning managers to sack in the trigger-happy Premier League era. It is irrelevant whether Liverpool didn't sack a First Division winning manager, because managers didn't get fired anything like as often back then. They could be hopeless and get the whole season. Take backhanders, be alcoholics, shag the players' wives, you name it.

Not confident. Being confident about away games this season has got me nowhere, so this may be a good thing.

Neuer to the Nick Pope rescue. At least Pope sent Aubameyang wide.

Crap finishing strikes again. It's been a theme of the season. On the whole though, so much better with Tino and Hall. Like a completely different team.

I didn't think it was handball. The first Forest goal looked like an offside player was in the keepers eyeline at least at much as the one given against Liverpool last week, so they probably cancel out. Obviously would prefer 2-0 because its Liverpool and I hate them.