Well that was easy. I wasn’t expecting it to be like that because we’ve been crap lately and the last time we played the Hammers at Anfield we had to play really well to get the win as they looked a good side. Both managers made six changes but even so, I don’t think anyone expected this.
We were really good. It was clear from the very start that the tempo was high and we were playing with intensity. We weren’t creating too many clear chances but it always felt like a goal was just around the corner. West Ham weren’t offering anything in attack but they were working hard to keep us at bay so the first half was at least somewhat competitive. They just gave up in the second half, but that’s not our problem. We can only beat what’s in front of us and the lads did that very well.
After the damp squib served up last Sunday this was what we needed. A lively, aggressive, front foot display full of attacking football, relentless pressing and a nice variety of goals. If only we could have had just one of these goals against the Mancs.
Some of the goals were lovely. The first from Dom is a belter. Not many people can strike a ball that like, with that weird Ronaldo technique. If I tried that I’d break my foot. The keeper didn’t really have any chance to keep that out. He should have dealt with the second one though, scored by Curtis just after half time. It’s a clever finish after he ran onto a lovely pass by Nunez, but there’s only one way he can score from such a tight angle and that’s through the keeper’s legs. How is the keeper allowing that to happen?
The third was a powerful strike by Gakpo from the edge the box. Very clean strike, which is something he’s really good at. Not gonna lie, I was pissed off that he didn’t play Nunez in but he scored so what can I say? Well, “greedy bastard” was something I did say but you can just chalk that up to my desperation for Nunez to end this run he’s on and shut all the knobheads up.
I saw some LFC account with nearly a quarter of a million followers tweeting before this game that if he doesn’t score in the next two games he’s in danger of losing the fans for good. It’s this kind of shit that makes me go so far the other way.
Goal number four was from Mo who came off the bench to run clear and effortlessly score. He was horrifically bad in everything else he did but the way he took that goal, it was just never in doubt was it? He never seems to miss those. He misses fucking loads of chances, but rarely those ones when he runs clean through. So accomplished at those. If only he could pass some of that on to my boy.
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