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Liverpool 2-0 Newcastle United - 26/02/2025


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yeah, honestly it wasn’t terrible but it was frustrating that neither side ever really seemed to try very hard. Felt like the game could’ve been there for us really. Letting in a cheap goal first was a killer as well.

 

I really don’t think liverpool are very good at all. Everyone else is just either shite or really inconsistent. There is an absolutely honking Forest team in 3rd ffs :lol:

 

 

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Just now, Kid Icarus said:

That chance was half an hour in. We had plenty of the ball after that like, it's not one or the other.

Justvthe way people are going huge on zero shots on target. Do you really think had Wilson limply had it saved folk would be saying "we had one shot on target"? I doubt it so much. The "zero" weighs so much heavier 

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2 minutes ago, Mattoon said:

Take a step back and a deep breath, there's a few factors in play tonight, we were playing away from home at the top team in the country, who are 13 points clear of the nearest rival. We're down Joelinton, Botman and most pertinantly Isak.

 

The mentality was lacking today, Hall the only exclusion, the kid is immeasurably good! I can imagine the loss of Isak affected the confidence of the team also, Schar, sadly, looks to be on his way out, Pope looks poor too and Bruno has been uncharacteristically off the boil for a worrying amount of time.

 

It wasn't an enjoyable watch, I think we did OK considering the circumstances, the change in formation and personnel. One thing I do know is that is nothing like what we'll see in the final, this Liverpool side aren't one of the greats, they are not infallible, we can do these.

Exactly this.  We will see a totally different Newcastle in the final.  Arne Slot even knows this.  He has just mentioned our great performance against them at home and suggested we played a different formation tonight to get them thinking.

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Felt like we were playing with 10 men all game basically. Putting some effort in, but at the end of the day, weren't anywhere near getting anything from it. 

While it's fine to not get anything from Liverpool and City away (even this City), it's very frustrating to do so again and again and again without barely even threatening them. I just wish we were able to put in performances against these cunts that we can do against Arsenal. 

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Just watching the second again. When Tonali loses the ball, there’s 4 Liverpool players on the right wing with Burn tasked with marking all of them. Gordons bitching on about not being passed the ball and not even jogging back, Bruno Hall, Tonali jogging back and fuck knows why but Willock’s stood up front. It’s so, so poor and absolutely basic football to get back as fast as possible when you lose the ball. 

 

 

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On the plus side we've won the game of the three we really had to (just), and recent results have generally gone our way, so we're only two points outside of the Champions League places with a nicer (on paper) run of games ahead.

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we did get Murphy in behind them with a couple of really good positions for a cross tbf, should’ve done better one those.

 

Again you feel like if Isak had been on the pitch it would’ve been different.

 

 

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Just now, The Prophet said:

What's with the sloppy early concessions?

 

That's about half a dozen games recently where we've conceded a soft goal in the opening exchanges.

 

I think this is our biggest issue and speaks to why we're not a consistently good team yet. I guess some players are really stretching themselves to even operate against the top teams (Murphy, Wilson, probably even Willock, Schar and Burn) and maybe that leaks into a lack of conviction and confidence at times. 

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1 minute ago, Smal said:

we did get Murphy in behind them with a couple of really good positions for a cross tbf, should’ve done better one those.

 

Again you feel like if Isak had been on the pitch it would’ve been different.

 

I felt like we actually had more good attacks than them in the first half, we just don't have the quality to reliably turn them into chances. 

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9 minutes ago, madras said:

Justvthe way people are going huge on zero shots on target. Do you really think had Wilson limply had it saved folk would be saying "we had one shot on target"? I doubt it so much. The "zero" weighs so much heavier 

If Wilson had scored or got it on target, the other opportunities we had on the ball and did nothing with would still be bizarre.

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1 minute ago, The Prophet said:

What's with the sloppy early concessions?

 

That's about half a dozen games recently where we've conceded a soft goal in the opening exchanges.

Been happening all over the league this season, it's actually been kind of weird how many early goals there's been. 

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1 minute ago, Elma said:

On the plus side we've won the game of the three we really had to (just), and recent results have generally gone our way, so we're only two points outside of the Champions League places with a nicer (on paper) run of games ahead.

 

In terms of points this game is neutral really, almost everyone will lose twice against Liverpool. 

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How many on here say they can accept and or expect a loss before a game, but no matter what, whenever we end up losing, find something to justify not accepting the loss anyway? :lol: "I don't mind losing, its the manner in which we lost" every single time.

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9 minutes ago, Conjo said:

How many on here say they can accept and or expect a loss before a game, but no matter what, whenever we end up losing, find something to justify not accepting the loss anyway? :lol: "I don't mind losing, its the manner in which we lost" every single time.

 

Lot of people mind the way we win much of the time.

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22 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

If Wilson had scored or got it on target, the other opportunities we had on the ball and did nothing with would still be bizarre.

No denying that. Know what, they had another two or three very good chances, all off target, if instead they'd had 3 shots on target from 35yds that Pope just batted down are they better or worse chances for being on target.

 

I know I'm going a bit OTT on this it just seems weird so much is made of the zero shots on target, if we'd cuts them to bits had 11 one on ones  and missed the target with everyone would we still look at zero shots on target.

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7 minutes ago, madras said:

No denying that. Know what, they had another two or three very good chances, all off target, if instead they'd had 3 shots on target from 35yds that Pope just batted down are they better or worse chances for being on target.

 

I know I'm going a bit OTT on this it just seems weird so much is made of the zero shots on target, if we'd cuts them to bits had 11 one on ones  and missed the target with everyone would we still look at zero shots on target.

I think it's relevant because there were opportunities to have shots and have shots on target that weren't taken. If we'd been dominated it wouldn't be as relevant as it is here.

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5 minutes ago, Kid Icarus said:

I think it's relevant because there were opportunities to have shots and have shots on target that weren't taken. If we'd been dominated it wouldn't be as relevant as it is here.

I totally get that. What if we had all those shots and they just went wide ? Still zero shots on target.

 

You know, I like xG as a stat, it's not perfect but gives a decent idea as to how a game went in a way that zero shots on target doesn't 

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7 hours ago, Conjo said:

How many on here say they can accept and or expect a loss before a game, but no matter what, whenever we end up losing, find something to justify not accepting the loss anyway? :lol: "I don't mind losing, its the manner in which we lost" every single time.

So Bruce got us 12th under Ashley so he was a great manager, end of story? The performance does not matter at all? Everybody understands that we can go to Anfield, play well and still end up losing.  Yesterday we did not play well and there were some really poor performances and also poor decisions from the manager. I don't know why is that so hard to take for some.

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