FSV Mainz 05 vs Liverpool

[Sputnik1]

If you're going to win & lose 4-0 then the way it happened over this weekend is preferable.

[Trumo]

We got bummed 5-0 in a pre-season friendly against this lot 10 years ago. Klopp was their coach back then.

[Tony Moanero]

My eyes, my eyes.....

 

Just seen it in a sports shop in town. It's more Stabilo Boss green than yellow, or like a mixture of the two. It's very loud, but I'd have loved it if it came out when I was a kid It's way better than the home shirt, which looks cheap and nasty.

[VladimirIlyich]

Which idiot arranged back to back friendlies on subsequent days? Way to go to deflate any momentum from battering Barcelona.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Simply going through the motions right from the off. Would not look into this result at all.

That said the keeper and Wisdom are awful.

[thompsonsnose]

Oh.

[ZonkoVille77]

I wouldn't mind but I stupidly put them in an accy for fun and they've gone ams let me down for 250 quid. I'm some can of piss.

[Strontium]

In tribute to Mainz 05, we are going to change our name to Liverpool 04

[Mark M]

Which idiot arranged back to back friendlies on subsequent days? Way to go to deflate any momentum from battering Barcelona.

yep. When I read it a couple of week ago on the fixture list I thought that it was a typo. Stupid idea to have a back to back match with travel involved as well a week before the season starts.

[Chairman Meow]

We've played friendlies 2 days in a row?

 

Who the fuck though that was a good idea.

[El Rojo]

This weekend has been a case of good Klopp bad Klopp.

[Pureblood]

 

 

We've played friendlies 2 days in a row?

 

Who the fuck though that was a good idea.

 

People who arrange friendlies.

[Chairman Meow]

People who arrange friendlies.

 

People who arrange friendlies are clearly idiots. 

[Pureblood]

People who arrange friendlies are clearly idiots. 

 

It's not how the TNF would operate.

[Arl arse]

Well that was predictable.

[Rotpeter]

Which idiot arranged back to back friendlies on subsequent days? Way to go to deflate any momentum from battering Barcelona.

Klopp did, and he did it on purpose by the sounds of it.

[Strontium]

Klopp knew we would batter Barca, so he needed to manage expectations down

[VladimirIlyich]

Klopp knew we would batter Barca, so he needed to manage expectations down

He's even better than I thought.

[Gym Beglin]

Dampens down expectation, work to be done, good.

[Jairzinho]

Who do we play tomorrow?

[an tha]

Not really a good idea was it that.

 

Only us can boost confidence by smashing Barcelona and the undo it by gettting smashed by likes of Mainz in a game that shouldn't have taken place 24 hours later.

[setreal]

Who do we play tomorrow?

Yer ma.

[Trumo]

We've played friendlies 2 days in a row?

 

Who the fuck though that was a good idea.

 

It's not that unusual for clubs to schedule 2 games in two days. However, they normally have 2 entirely different squads and don't send all the coaching staff to both games. The more high-profile game will be in the care of the first-team coach while the U21 coach might look after the other game. It's bizarre that we involved everybody in games which took place in different countries within 24 hours of each other. I think the Barca game had been scheduled earlier this year as part of that International Champions Cup bollocks (which we finished 2nd in by the way, behind PSG), and the Mainz game was arranged more recently. It could be a deliberate ploy by Klopp and his staff to keep everybody on their toes, like Zobel sending his unit to run up and down Currahee after stuffing their faces with spaghetti first. Although he did that as revenge for being pranked and made to look like a tit.

[G Richards]

Strange one to play again the next day, but if it gives a few more a chance then good. Obviously Mainz were well up for it, as we were against Barcelona. On our end it was a bit of a dampener, but then on the other hand, as others have said, it reinforces the message that there's work to be done.

 

Bring on the Gunners. A week's rest and training and then we'll be raring to go. Because they are a good team hopefully they will come out and go at us, which should give us the space to do our thing.

 

Anyway, I'm glad Klopp got to go back home, and in a funny way, I'm glad Mainz won, as they had a big day and for us, after Barcelona, it reminded us about the work yet to be done.

 

Onwards and upwards.

[manwiththestick]

Not losing any sleep after that just like I wasn't declaring us kings of the everything yesterday. I think we will be fine next week.