Fabinho

[Baltar]

Imperious. He single-handedly dominated their midfield. What a player we could have here!

[El Rojo]

Has a bit of everything by the looks of it. Well able for the physical stuff too. 

[Tj hooker]

Totally bossed the midfield today MOTM as well showed everything that a top midfielder should be 

[aRdja]

32 minutes ago, Baltar said:

Imperious. He single-handedly dominated their midfield. What a player we could have here!

Gini wasn’t too bad either. 

[Aventus]

Can't wait to see the United fan in work tomorrow, he was laying into Fabinho saying they've dodged a bullet by not buying him. 

 

Those legs must be a nightmare to play against, it's either tackles coming in from miles away, or interceptions that nobody expects him to reach. Constantly cutting passes out just when they think they are going to break forwards. 

 

 

We saw flashes of this in the beginning but he was making mistakes and getting caught out of position a bit, probably why he didn't play much. Some thought it was because klopp realised he was shit, turns out he just needed to polish himself off at Melwood before being released on the big boys. 

 

What a signing, and what a fine example of man management from klopp. 

 

 

And the best part is, because he wasn't playing much until now, those lovely long legs are gonna be some of the freshest in the squad. 

[Caramac]

[suzy]

Yep love him, Klopp sure knows what he's doing!

[Paulie Dangerously]

 MOTM TBQHWYL 

[cloggypop]

Probably not selling him to PSG or Juventus now. 

[Jennings]

Midfield general.

[VladimirIlyich]

Brilliant game,by far his best game so far. Finally finding his feet and was M.O.M for me.

[scudger99]

On 10/24/2018 at 8:21 PM, moof said:

He’s absolutely boss. You can sense he’s gonna be massive in the important games later in the season. 

Moof knew all along.

[3 Stacks]

World class performance. 

[sir roger]

2 hours ago, Aventus said:

 

 

We saw flashes of this in the beginning but he was making mistakes and getting caught out of position a bit, probably why he didn't play much. Some thought it was because klopp realised he was shit, turns out he just needed to polish himself off at Melwood before being released on the big boys. 

 

 

Looking at the lovely Rebecca I can't imagine he would need to polish himself off at Melwood.

[The Guest]

Hendo must be worried.  He just been left out of the biggest league game of the season and the lad replacing him is the best player on the park.  I actually feel a bit sorry for him because I don’t know where he goes from here.  He’s not going to want to be a squad player in the peak years of his career and he’s not going to play for a team better or on equal footing with us.  The team has outgrown him though.

[Elite]

2 minutes ago, The Guest said:

Hendo must be worried.  He just been left out of the biggest league game of the season and the lad replacing him is the best player on the park.  I actually feel a bit sorry for him because I don’t know where he goes from here.  He’s not going to want to be a squad player in the peak years of his career and he’s not going to play for a team better or on equal footing with us.  The team has outgrown him though.

I'm not sure Henderson has a big ego to be fair to him. He's good enough to be part of the squad but he's going to have to be demoted as captain soon, which may be difficult for him.

[Section_31]

Haven't had a player who can ping balls around like this since Alonso.

[Lee909]

Watching this on MOTD

That Fabinho performance on the ball was as close as I have seen to Alonson since he was here. No wasting time on the ball quick releasesd forward. Always on the front foot and his pass is often made in his mind before he has the ball. 

 

More interceptions and nicking the ball than crunching tackles

 

Absolutely brilliant today

[Aventus]

Near the end of the game I spotted a stat that said he had more shots, and more shots on target than the entire United team. Not sure if the game finished that way, if not then I imagine it's still close. 

[aRdja]

He played very well. He’s clearly a talented player.. Not to take anything away from the performance but just to give a bit of context, we had one more man in midfield than them, and United didn’t press our midfielders. Fabinho played very well, but this was a much easier game for our midfielders than the Arsenal away game for example.

[Lee909]

Just now, aRdja said:

He played very well. He’s clearly a talented player.. Not to take anything away from the performance but just to give a bit of context, we had one more man in midfield than them, and United didn’t press our midfielders. Fabinho played very well, but this was a much easier game for our midfielders than the Arsenal away game for example.

Possibly but he will try to play the same way. You can see he wants to do so much on the front foot and get the ball forward at pace. That's what put me in mind of Xabi. Gerrard and Torres really benefitted from it, the knew they could make runs as he would see it, move it quickly and accurately enough for tbem

[LFC 6 Times]

Arrived tonight, saw a lot lore strings to his bow. Loved that quick feet dribble in the first half, passing was sharp and incisive and great tackling and winning the ball back. Will kick on from here.

[Jennings]

Loved him today, but there is a lack of Rebecca in the recent posts. I'll nip off to Twitter. if I find anything post worthy, I'll be back.

[Jennings]

Red color fits me well? pic.twitter.com/eutYAPqNXF

— Rebeca Tavares (@reebecatavares) December 10, 2018

[Carvalho Diablo]

1 hour ago, The Guest said:

Hendo must be worried.  The team has outgrown him though.

Hendo should be worried, our team is marching on and he is merely tagging along.

 

Really pleased to see Shearer and Stevie Warnock recognise Fabino's excellent performance today, specifically mentioning the importance of his inclination of winning the ball and playing it forwards / progressively. I'll just let that one sit there.

 

A genuine question too : in all the years Henderson's been at Anfield has he ever played as well as Fab did today? If so, I can't recall.