Eddie Howe

[The College Dropout]

I missed the first 20 minutes. But pretty much everything I saw in the first half was building to the equaliser.  We don’t create many chances but we were just building our strength into the game for such a moment. 
 

Second half I thought we lacked a bit of quality or luck to snatch it. A bit more quality on the ball from Tonali and Ramsey and we fashion another few chances and score. 
that is nit picking though.  Everyone did their very best including Howe. It’s us that should be more disappointed with that draw. That’s an achievement. 

[nufcjmc]

30 minutes ago, Interpolic said:

 

Got the quote as this is all I could find? 

 

"We were conceding too many chances, and I thought Paris played really well in that opening 20 minutes." 

Sorry mate wasnt written anywhere I had this on in my headphones on my morning walk comment came from TV coverage its about 58 seconds/1 min in. 

 

https://youtu.be/pwpN9D_4BnI?si=VaZWlut5sKzAYG6B

[alexf]

11 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

I missed the first 20 minutes. But pretty much everything I saw in the first half was building to the equaliser.  We don’t create many chances but we were just building our strength into the game for such a moment. 
 

Second half I thought we lacked a bit of quality or luck to snatch it. A bit more quality on the ball from Tonali and Ramsey and we fashion another few chances and score. 
that is nit picking though.  Everyone did their very best including Howe. It’s us that should be more disappointed with that draw. That’s an achievement. 

First 20 It was a little ominous. was looking like we might take a really tanking. They were just buzzing round the pitch and lightning speed and it looked like every single one of our players apart from Elanga were dreading water compared to them. 

Agree on the lack of quality but that has been evident all season so nothing surprising there, the surprise for me was more the positive things we did do well. But agreed that there were some half chances that could have become real chances if the final ball or decision making was better. 
Through balls were the area we missed Bruno most, however I think we needed both Ramsey and Tonali's speed and engines more from a defenisive perspective. 

It's something to build on though. 

[Interpolic]

15 minutes ago, nufcjmc said:

Sorry mate wasnt written anywhere I had this on in my headphones on my morning walk comment came from TV coverage its about 58 seconds/1 min in. 

 

https://youtu.be/pwpN9D_4BnI?si=VaZWlut5sKzAYG6B

 

Cheers, he says 25 minutes to half an hour to find our feet there and that PSG were good for 20 minutes in the other interview. The commentary team said in the second half that we'd been under the cosh all first half which was a huge misrepresentation of what happened.

 

Speaking personally the first 15 minutes were borderline traumatic but after that I felt fairly comfortable defensively and excited by us any time we managed to get forward. 

 

 

Edited January 29 by Interpolic

[nufcjmc]

2 minutes ago, Interpolic said:

 

Cheers, he says 25 minutes to half an hour to find our feet there and that PSG were good for. 20 minutes in the other interview. The commentary team said in the second half that we'd been under the cosh all first half which was a huge misrepresentation of what happened.

 

Speaking personally the first 15 minutes were borderline traumatic but after that I felt fairly comfortable defensively and excited by us any time we managed to get forward. 

 

 

 

It wasn't wave after wave of attack and chances squandered for them. Nor was it a cool calm easy performance from us. Lads had to be on it from minute 1 but we did settle and to a certain extent nullified their threat for the most part. 

 

I will forgive Howe alot of media duties straight after a game his comments will all be genuine but initial thoughts counting for the discrepancies. 

 

Dont agree with the commentary team you mention either. They deserved the lead after that blistering opening period but our heads didn't drop we plugged away and the equaliser albeit from a unlikely source in willock was deserving in the end.

 

Second half I feared they would find another gear and would steam roll us I shouldn't have worried at worse it was fairly even but based on quality of opportunities in that second half we had the better of them. 

[PauloGeordio]

[Nepharite]

Do we think Eddie employs this formation/tactics in the Prem against LiVARpool?

[Decky]

1 hour ago, PauloGeordio said:

 

They said Miley deliberately moved his hand to the ball as well.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

5 minutes ago, Decky said:

 

They said Miley deliberately moved his hand to the ball as well.

They have to say that TBF. 

[nufcjmc]

7 minutes ago, Decky said:

 

They said Miley deliberately moved his hand to the ball as well.

The stream I had on the only replay they showed looked like he sort of "flapped" his hand towards the ball making it look more of an on purpose sort of thing. 

 

Miley had been done by the player and was running full pelt to catch up and if it did hit their player first and that changed the trajectory of the ball it seemed a low bar to give a pen for. 

 

Also heard a few times the media suggest the threshold is lower in Europe its the same fucking game it shouldnt be. I hope our shout is shown in our extended highlights as supposedly under that threshold it should have been one also?

[Heron]

2 hours ago, PauloGeordio said:

This was exactly my take yesterday. Not a pen and nor was the one we didn't get. However, if they got theirs we should have got ours.

[Danh1]

5 hours ago, PauloGeordio said:

Would’ve liked Howe to be a bit more aggressive but I know it isn’t his way. Corruption is what it is, I know we use that phrase lightly a lot but I don’t see how it isn’t. 

[Ben]

5 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

Would’ve liked Howe to be a bit more aggressive but I know it isn’t his way. Corruption is what it is, I know we use that phrase lightly a lot but I don’t see how it isn’t. 

 

By the look of the halftime footage I think he leaves that to Mad Dog

[TheBrownBottle]

Miley does move his hand towards the ball; and intent doesn’t come into it.  Which is why it wasn’t a pen - Miley’s handball follows a PSG handball.  

[TheBrownBottle]

3 hours ago, nufcjmc said:

The stream I had on the only replay they showed looked like he sort of "flapped" his hand towards the ball making it look more of an on purpose sort of thing. 

 

Miley had been done by the player and was running full pelt to catch up and if it did hit their player first and that changed the trajectory of the ball it seemed a low bar to give a pen for. 

 

Also heard a few times the media suggest the threshold is lower in Europe its the same fucking game it shouldnt be. I hope our shout is shown in our extended highlights as supposedly under that threshold it should have been one also?

It’s more that the laws are sometimes applied with more rigour - English football sometimes seems to be flummoxed by the handball law.  PSG shouldn’t have had a pen, mind - their player accidentally handled the ball to create a goalscoring chance, so it should never have been given.  Without the PSG handball, it is 100% a pen. 

[PauloGeordio]

12 hours ago, Danh1 said:

Would’ve liked Howe to be a bit more aggressive but I know it isn’t his way. Corruption is what it is, I know we use that phrase lightly a lot but I don’t see how it isn’t. 

It is blatantly corrupt. That’s what VAR is there for, to help the chosen few. 

[AyeDubbleYoo]

12 hours ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Miley does move his hand towards the ball; and intent doesn’t come into it.  Which is why it wasn’t a pen - Miley’s handball follows a PSG handball.  

 

His hand travels towards the ball but he doesn't move it there as part of any conscious action, it's a natural position and the ball deflects into his path randomly. 

 

I don't know what the law actually says but it's absolutely stupid if that should be given. 

[Dr.Spaceman]

13 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

 

His hand travels towards the ball but he doesn't move it there as part of any conscious action, it's a natural position and the ball deflects into his path randomly. 

 

I don't know what the law actually says but it's absolutely stupid if that should be given. 

 

Has anybody asked the obvious question - why would he do that intentionally?

[Holloway]

The fact that the accidental handball by their player that places the ball into Miley's path in a split second is overlooked is what reeks about this decision. Would it be given at the other end,would it fuck

[dcmk]

Howe disproved a bit of a narrative that's been forming around Howe being anti foreign signings, he admitted he had tried to sign Ekiteke twice in the press conference today.

 

Howe-outers have been saying for a while now that Ekiteke and all the foreign signings have been driven by Nickson.

[Chris_R]

6 hours ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

 

Has anybody asked the obvious question - why would he do that intentionally?

 

I mean I've no idea but I watched Shola Ameobi stand a good 15+ yards from goal and just throw his arm up and punch a ball away in the box once, so these things do happen (to Shola).

[timeEd32]

On 29/01/2026 at 10:25, PauloGeordio said:

 

Should have ended with a "it'd be nice to go to Paris sometime and not feel like we got robbed. Maybe I'll take a holiday this summer."

[TRon]

1 hour ago, dcmk said:

Howe disproved a bit of a narrative that's been forming around Howe being anti foreign signings, he admitted he had tried to sign Ekiteke twice in the press conference today.

 

Howe-outers have been saying for a while now that Ekiteke and all the foreign signings have been driven by Nickson.

 

 

Howe was desperate to get Ekitike long before he was even on Liverpool's radar. I can remember when we were first linked with him a lot of posters thought he was too scrawny to ever be a main striker. 

 

The only thing which stopped him coming here was he thought he was destined for the biggest clubs in the world, and tbf he's signed for two of them since then. 

[Miggys First Goal]

1 hour ago, timeEd32 said:

 

Should have ended with a "it'd be nice to go to Paris sometime and not feel like we got robbed. Maybe I'll take a holiday this summer."

Probably get pick pocketed. 

[TheBrownBottle]

9 hours ago, Holloway said:

The fact that the accidental handball by their player that places the ball into Miley's path in a split second is overlooked is what reeks about this decision. Would it be given at the other end,would it fuck

Yep, it’s absolutely what should have seen it not given.  If there wasn’t a first handball I’d have no problem with that being given as a penalty - but there was; so it should never have been given.