Coffee_Johnny

Sometimes subs work sometimes they don’t. Barnes finds Wilson in the box instead of being caught in two minds and it is a different story. He’ll have learned from this, but doesn’t mean he won’t do the same again.

Another left footed right winger/forward?

I was in Newcastle (couldn’t get a ticket, again) but decided to watch the match in town. I was doubly gutted. But I’m over it now, personally. Fair play to them. Two great finishes and they managed the game very well. Another day it could have been a juicy memorable 3-0 to us. That’s football folks. That said I’d be desperate to beat them at Anfield! (nice thing is, we just might…).

Looked like he was mainly just trying to stop someone being hurt. Until some cowardly scum punched him in the back of the head and he appeared to identify him and go and swing for him slightly off camera.

I’m still assuming are aiming for a top six season and have used a way of gauging when we will, on average, pick-up the 61 points likely to be required (average for PL). Categorising the teams (mainly on last season’s position) into four tiers and predicting we will pick-up (rounded-up) 9pts from T1 (all tiers ten games except 8 in Tier 1), 16 pts from Tier 2, 18pts from T3, and 19pts from T4 teams. Taking into account the ‘tier’ of the team we play, and whether home or away, and breaking down into the different months the points should be picked-up like shown in the chart below (will be clearer once we’re a few months in). Basically, we should have had 4 points end of August, 11 points end of September, and 16 points by end of October, 21 end of November etc. (I need to check & adjust if games have been moved to a different month).

I’d like to see the freekicks shared a bit more. Would love to see Tonali bang one in.

Hope you choke on those prediction points ?

Salah is a class act. Some great passes and fantastic movement throughout. Anybody would have difficulty keeping him in check.

Errrr, hope you had a nice bank holiday in the end! I was actually in Chester-le-Street and Durham City. The old place still looking good.

He seemed quite isolated at times yesterday. Couple of times he received the ball and there was nobody in black and white within 20 yards. Not a problem in itself, but risky when teams have targeted him for quick closing down. I like the fluidity Tonali’s roaming play brings, but I think they’re still learning to balance each other.

1 down. 9 to go. His performance was a real positive today.

I like this approach! My first positive thought about the match. Every team, even the great ones (not saying we are), lose games they should have won. We didn’t quite click, but still did enough to win; especially with the odds stacked in our favour. Well done to Liverpool who dug in, stuck together, and have top quality throughout the squad. Two great finishes make the difference not unlike last season’s defeat to them here. Maybe it’ll be a different story at Anfield, it’ll be on us to make it so.

Did you miss what he spent the summer doing? His stamina wasn’t why he was subbed.

He wasn’t gassed. He’s out run TAA. Deserved to be the winning scouser today.

I’m guessing 14 minutes. (until the ban).

I’m guessing Fazakerley… (no, not Derek.)

I think it was an error to do the ‘standard’ attacking substitutions. Gordon had TAA’s number, and Isak just needed more of the ball. Football is not a controlled experiment but Howe notices everything and will no doubt wonder whether he contributed to taking the wind out of our sails.

Happy birthday, man. Results are temporary, progression is continual. This time next year, we’ll be … ?

Two great finishes. Should have ‘Andy Carrolled’ him when I saw him in IKEA.

I don’t normally question substitutions but I wonder if simply swapping Miggy for Wilson (moving Isak out) would have been more beneficial. Both Gordon and Isak deserved to stay on.

Time yet… .

Ebb and flow. They’re in for a tortuous last twenty.

Well you’re a ray of sunshine. Thanks for that.

Massive conspiracy… mmm TAA could/should have walked.

Was about to say: I reckon Tonali needs to drop a bit closer to Bruno… but all words are now pointless ?‍♂️ bit like Liverpool I’m this game