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...they had a plan and it was well executed; kept the league leaders at bay for most of the afetrnoon.
Why the hell haven't they been able to do likewise against lesser teams through the season?
Could have been fine, it seems to me
I honestly think the absence of Bamba has helped
I'd also say that the loss of Arter helped. I love his high energy pressing but there's rarely an end result.
I think the big mistake yesterday was bringing Zohore on & playing the same way. I thought Bobbie Reid would have been a much better option to give Matic & van Dijk something different.
By the way Etheridge's kicking yesterday was appalling
liverpool had 81% possession and only scored 2.
not too bad .
We stayed in the game against a side that should have walked all over us for nearly an hour and we defended far more resolutely than we did in our home games against both Manchester clubs, Arsenal and Spurs. We have competed far better in our last two home matches than we did previously in our games with top sides and the way we won at Brighton also offered more proof of progression - conceding goals against a side who are going to end up with close to one hundred points is inevitable and to write off what we did yesterday purely because of the couple of goals we let in is unfair.
Agree. I thought Liverpool missed 2-3 sitters in the first half and could easily have won the game 5-0.
Sounds harsh I know but we constantly allow teams acres of space around the 25 yard mark.
The better teams look for one-two’s or have excellent movement to create chances.
Someone must move to the ball in those situations.
I also agree with an earlier poster, we only take Niasse off for Ken. No difference in play. I thought a faster striking option might have been worth a go.
I can only remember 1 in the first half, which seemed quite even.
We made a few chances ourselves in both halfs.
2nd half though , they had more than us and when they scored it was no surprise.
The penalty killed off any hope .
Overall I thought we did reasonably well.
When you look at the relative resource we need to be at the top of our game, them to be at the bottom of theirs, take any chance we get, have some luck and get at least a fair deal from the ref to get even a chance of a result.
On all of these we were just a bit out.
The fact is, we are a million miles off in terms of quality. Players like Peltier, Niasse, Gunnarsson struggle to the basics but the one thing that's unforgivable is rolling over like we did against Spurs and United and today we didn't do that and managed to stay in the game till the penalty.
You really seem to have lost the plot in recent weeks.
City worked hard yesterday and several players had decent games. Manga, in particular, was excellent. But the first half seemed quite even? Do me a favour. Liverpool was far superior in every respect and could easily have been a couple of goals in front at half-time.
By my reckoning, Liverpool had three very good chances during the first half. City had one. Meanwhile, as expected and entirely understandably, Liverpool had a large majority of the possession and looked easily the better team. The first half seemed quite even? Do me a favour.
It wasnt even. We were hardly battered either.
We could have been a goal up. Man City Man U Spurs we were batterd and completely outclassed. Yesterday we defended well and at least countered and made them defend.
You may not like it but we could have gone 1 up , should have equalised and should also have had a pen.
The result though was a fair one.
We were in the game until the 80th minute with a side that cost less than most players in Liverpool's starting XI. We weren't battered and gave a good account of ourselves
Had firmino taken his easy chance, we'd probably have been roasted as it was fairly early on.
I wasn't disappointed but talk of how we could easily have been one up at halftime - no way. "Conceivably" but not easily.
(Ok, I misread the posts, they didn't say at halftime)
Can't we give some credit to our defensive play that meant that one chance was offside, another chance went over the bar when 9/10 times it goes into the back of the net? Liverpool's world class strikers aren't prone to missing so we must have done something right in that first half to make it more difficult than normal.
Been very impressed with Cardiff this season, since turn of the year been in most games, just not had a goal scorer to win those close games, would not be relegated if Cardiff had someone like mitrovic up front, he’s like deeney