Napoli (A) - 3 Oct 2018

[KMD7]

Well that was shit. I'd have been made up with a draw but we deserved nothing in the end. Abysmal second half from us

[Einch]

3 minutes ago, aRdja said:

I think it’s probably time we try something else upfront. The current setup is obviously not working at the moment.

Let me guess. It involves Sturridge starting right?

[The Guest]

Trent was an absolute disgrace from minute one.  He’s defensively all over the place.  Arrogant laziness is now kicking in as well.  Scared to head it, not bothering to stop one cross coming in and from his side and his passing was just as bad tonight.  How he stayed on for the whole game is beyond me and it cost us a goal in the end.  Klopp should have intervened because it was obvious.

[Thoth]

Play like that on Sunday and it’s a dry bumming

[magicrat]

Just now, TheDrowningMan said:

That was terrible. Worryingly, it’s more or less impossible to win at the weekend - we’ve had too good a record against Man City of late to stand a chance at getting anything on good form, let alone like this.

Living up to your username there. We have an excellent chance at the weekend if we bounce back which we are more than capable of

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

Trent was far, far, worse. 

Trent played like he had never even kicked a ball in his life. Totally lost but so many others were exactly the same. Hard to pick on one when so many had shockers.

[KMD7]

1 minute ago, Einch said:

Let me guess. It involves Sturridge starting right?

Ha ha good old aRdja. 

[niallers]

We were too deep all night too. We couldn't or wouldn't press like we normally do and that left our back line exposed to the ball over the top and short. We looked jaded and had we a single shot on target? Don't think so. That, for us is not fucking good enough.

We let them dictate to us all over the pitch and our usual calmness was fucking nowhere. Panicked rabbits in headlights we looked like. 

Fuck it, let's hope it's just a bad night at the office and draw a line under it. Fuck all these hard cunting games in a row. I hope they're not taking a mental toll as well as a physical one.

[Baltar]

We need some competition at right-back. Clyne is not good enough, TAA is still one for the future for me. He gets caught out so much it's just ridiculous. 

[Stickman]

Wasn't great and we got what we deserved but you know what even when we were the best in Europe we played shite and lost.

Nice to see some fannies are already out wanting xy and z dropped, how City are going to wipe the floor with us.......etc etc 

it does make you think some people love us losing more than winning 

[magicrat]

Just now, Shooter in the Motor said:

Trent played like he had never even kicked a ball in his life. Totally lost but so many others were exactly the same. Hard to pick on one when so many had shockers.

I hope Clyne plays on Sunday. Trent was shocking tonight, should have been hooked and was most culpable for their goal

[aRdja]

Just now, Captain Turdseye said:

 

We need to get back to what we were doing last season. Ripping it up and trying a completely different system is not the answer. 

 

Try 4-4-1-1, a formation we played a few times last season. This allows us to drop one or two of our out-of-form players for our in-form players e.g., Shaqiri, Sturridge.

[aRdja]

10 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

Trent was far, far, worse. 

Yeah he wasn’t very good at all. However Robbo made a costly error for the goal.

[Trumo]

Incredibly sloppy performance. We were very loose in possession, never made the ball stick in attack, and if I'm not wrong, not once did we have a shot on target. Shot-wise, I can only recall both Gini and Mo scuffing efforts well wide from the edge of the box.

 

Keita going off injured in the first half might have disrupted our set-up a little bit since he is more inclined to drive forward with the ball than his replacement Henderson would be, but Keita had also been sloppy on the ball when he was on the pitch.

 

The last time I can remember us looking that bad in Europe was the second half of the Europa League final against Sevilla.

 

Shit result that puts much more onus on the team to get 6 points against Red Star, and also means we've not won for 3 games. It's not that long ago we were winning every game.

[Saintslfc13]

6 minutes ago, DimReaper said:

Awful... Salah's form is becoming increasingly worrying, he can barely control the ball

I think if you didn't have City up next, who he's had success against and we know they'll all be well up for then you'd have to drop him at this point.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

I’m terribly worried about the weekend. Going to see the Giants and the Churchill Flyover is shut.

[bizzle10]

lets not knee jerk here win on sunday glosses this result and beat red star home and away sees us quaify

[an tha]

The question for Sunday is where is the intensity going to come from - we looked totally devoid of any tonight (an all too common problem for us when we have 3 games in a week)

 

We need high energy, pressing and quick play to do City damage and we look miles and miles off that right now...plus they have a 24 hour jump on us..

 

Klopp has to start finding a way to stop these low energy and tired looking performances in the busy times.

[TheHowieLama]

Bunch of surrender molnkeys

[Josef Svejk]

3 minutes ago, bizzle10 said:

... beat red star home and away sees us quaify

No it doesn't.

[RobbieOR]

10 minutes ago, The Guest said:

Trent was an absolute disgrace from minute one.  He’s defensively all over the place.  Arrogant laziness is now kicking in as well.  Scared to head it, not bothering to stop one cross coming in and from his side and his passing was just as bad tonight.  How he stayed on for the whole game is beyond me and it cost us a goal in the end.  Klopp should have intervened because it was obvious.

 

Leaving him on cost us a goal that came from the opposite side?

[Daisy]

Think it's time to maybe accept the squad just isn't good enough for the league and champions league. Need to pick one that we are going to focus on or will end up empty handed. 

 

Need to sort the midfield next summer for a sustained attack on both fronts. 

[therevivalist]

Our frontline have fallen to Championship levels. And we're playing without a right back essentially. Bring on Clyne and give the boy a rest. Another meaningless substitution with two minutes left is just baffling, when our attack is effectively non-existent; we didn't have a single attempt on goal in the entire 90 minutes. Time to drop some underperforming players and shift things around.  

[AngryOfTuebrook]

12 minutes ago, KMD7 said:

Well that was shit. I'd have been made up with a draw but we deserved nothing in the end. Abysmal second half from us

Can't even be arsed to write my own comments after watching that.

 

Just read what KMD7 said and pretend I'd posted it.

[Trumo]

We lost to a side that has a guy named Simon Green up front.