Zenit

[amli]

Great performance.

With Sturridge and Coutinho cup tied and Borini injured, we wouldn't have won the cup anyway.

In that sense, better to go out now and conserve our energies into making up the gap on 4th.

[Creator Supreme]

Thoroughly enjoyed that despite going out, Shelvey needs a kick up the arse, I'll miss Luis when he goes, what a wonderful player.

[Joey8FrogsLegs]

Good performance that against quality opposition. Still Zenith would lack match sharpness this time of year and probably have another 10% in them.

 

Most of all I think todays match confirmed our lack of depth in the squad.

 

Anyway two home wins and 8-1 in a week, it can't be all wrong either can it?

[Randy Marsh]

Sadly my 3-1 opening post prediction was spot on.

 

Only just got in so can't be arsed reading through because its probably all be said before.

 

Ill keep it simple. We can over analyse everything, tactical decisions, substitutions, whatever. The simple fact is if we defend correctly and don't gift the opposition a goal on an almost weekly basis by thoroughly avoidable errors then we'd have easily qualified from this tie and probably been atleast 10points better off in the league.

 

Scoring goals isn't our problem. Defending against them is.

 

Can't fault effort and commitment tonight, we gave it the best we had with the fairly limited options we had. But we are our own worst enemy and until that changes we need to get used to being at the level we are now.

 

Oh, and Luis Suarez is fucking unbelievable and it's going to take some almighty persuasion to keep the lad here another season. If he goes we can kiss goodbye to any hopes of progression in the coming seasons. Truly world class player.

[index1000]

:(

[nedved11]

Lucas was the difference tonight

 

If we had him in the first leg we wouldn't be in this position in the first place

 

Lovely player .. brilliant

[amli]

I don't care what offers come in the summer, the answer is 'fuck off!'

 

And after they've finished fucking off, they can piss off.

Luis stays and I can't see him forcing a move after his reactions, firstly on his second goal and then at the final whistle.

He really gets it.

Really, really gets it.

Love him.

[Baltar]

Baffling subs by BR, not sure why he made those changes at that time. I think we would've gone on to get the 4th goal had we kept the team the same.

Great effort from the team, a big shame that sloppy mistakes by Carra and the manager had to cost us.

[gmac]

Nonsense, credit's where it's fucking due. We were excellent today.

 

Thought we were great tonight, buzzed, quick passing for the majority. Can’t for the life of me understand that substitution, said the same to my wife at the time. Thought it was unnecessary at the time and the impetus, although we could have won it, was lost there, it backfired.

 

Overall thought we played great, another thing, I don’t like Shelvey one bit, neither does my wife, and seldom do we agree on anything.

[corro]

In hindsight it was a mis-judged double change by Rogers, especially taking Henderson off for the lamentable Shelvey. But then again if we had gone through he would have been hailed a genius - thats football.

 

True enough I suppose but I can't help feeling we missed a chance tonight.

People have said that Rodgers is still learning and I reckon tonight will be a big lesson for him.

The substitutions came at the wrong time as everyone was on their game and would've been flying after 3-1 so he should have left the subs for another 10 mins.

Shelvey was a passenger who could not get into the pace of the game at all.

Assaidi for Allen maybe but he should have left Henderson on the pitch. I'm far from his biggest fan but he was doing OK in the game.

Great effort but opportunity missed. Good times ahead.

[Coro]

I thought downing did alright tonight. He showed guts, and he was involved in plenty of our attacking play.

 

For me the onus was on him to try and commit a couple of defenders and get that link up going with Suarez. He never imposed himself enough on a defence that was there to be got at.

 

Might be harsh as I don't know his instructions from the manager and Rodgers may well be pleased with the job Downing did for the team tonight.

 

Still cant get over that substitution bringing Shelvey and Henderson going off. Killer.

[Jonjo Baldy]

Gutted. Team played with heart and deserved a classic comeback win. We lost momentum with those subs, Hendo should of been kept on at the very least as his link up play and constant recycled passing helped us keep on the go massively.

[clangers]

Great performance.

With Sturridge and Coutinho cup tied and Borini injured, we wouldn't have won the cup anyway.

In that sense, better to go out now and conserve our energies into making up the gap on 4th.

 

Yep in reality that's probably true. I can't say I'm too bothered to be honest, I know I'm not supposed to say that. I thought it was a great performance against decent opposition.

 

Now lets go on a real unbeaten run thumping a few sides in the process and see where that gets us.

[stringvest]

 

 

Still cant get over that substitution bringing Shelvey and Henderson going off. Killer.

 

Amen brother.

[VladimirIlyich]

Baffling subs by BR, not sure why he made those changes at that time. I think we would've gone on to get the 4th goal had we kept the team the same.

Great effort from the team, a big shame that sloppy mistakes by Carra and the manager had to cost us.

 

Thought those subs were baffling myself.

 

I simply dont rate Shelvey at the moment and Downing has perfected the art of just doing enough to get by.

 

Assaidi did well for me and Lucas was brilliant in the second half after a dodgy start.

 

Sad for Carra but he's not really suited to Rodgers style of play in the long run.

He will be very tough to replace though.

[index1000]

The guys played some great stuff and the passion from the crowd and fed the players, what a Free kick from the little genius.

[zico]

In hindsight it was a mis-judged double change by Rogers' date=' especially taking Henderson off for the lamentable Shelvey. But then again if we had gone through he would have been hailed a genius - thats football.[/quote']

 

Not the First time! He needs to learn fast, great managers do changes that tip the game in their favor....

 

Team gave it a good go tonight, if we can keep our players and have a good summer next year is looking good!

[Newport]

The lads proved tonight they have it in them, and with all our players available we would have completely steamrolled Zenit.

[gmac]

[mike23]

Can't fault the performance or effort. We were the better team for most of the tie and they really didn't look anything special but we went out because we missed good chances in the first leg and gifted them a goal in both games. Real shame for Carragher for that to happen in his final European game for the club after contributing so much to so many great European nights in his career. I think the Rodgers bashing on here has been way over the top but I've got to agree that the 2 substitutions right after the third goal were very badly timed. Zenit were absolutely all over the place at the time and there was plenty of time left to get the fourth goal so he could have at least left it another ten minutes to see what happened.

 

Not really much left to play for now this season but I hope the players don't just give up on the league like they did towards the end of last season. Get as many points on the board as possible and try to finish in a respectable position and give us something to build on for next season.

[joeyk]

Gutted. But. Nights like that remind me why I love this club. With all my heart. Love to all those at Anfield tonight.

We'll be back. Better. Stronger. A sea of Red.

All of us together.

[KopOut]

He was shite tonight, not worth the shirt.

 

Those subs were all kinds of wrong and cost us the momentum.

 

If only we'd signed Sturridge at the start of the season.

 

But no, he had to have Allen.

[Jose Jones]

But no, he had to have Allen.

 

Who scored tonight you might have noticed.

I was really hoping this post would have been lamenting the fact that Andy Carroll would have made the difference as a great Plan B to bring on. You're slipping a bit.

[KopOut]

The usual dubious tactics from BR and baffling substitutions. Players we hardly ever saw earlier in the season look good.

 

I loved this club before BR arrived, and i'll continue to love it after he's gone. I just hope Suarez doesn't follow him out of the door.

[Jose Jones]

Part time supporter then eh? Nice one.