Southampton (H) - Premier League - 1/2/2020 - 15:00

[Iceman]

I like that it's pissing them off. I'll take all the luck and VAR I can get. Don't give a fuck, I just want us to get this title. 

[easytoslip]

5 hours ago, Bruce Spanner said:

Recovering booze mong with an ‘E’ in GCSE home economics. 

Home Economics?

[aws]

3 hours ago, Philtrum said:

He doth bestride the world

Like a Colossus and we petty men

Walk under his legs and peep about...

 

Shakespeare knew. 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

 

[jonnyp]

8 hours ago, skaro said:

 

 

I'd say the fact he scored 2 himself had a much more direct correlation to the scoreline.

 

 

 

 

The team was more fluid which created the chances for himself an others.

 

 

[Strontium]

2 hours ago, aws said:

He doth bestride the world

Like a Colossus and we petty men

Walk under his legs and peep about...

 

Shakespeare knew. 

 

Alastair Stewart's going to tweet this to Tanni Grey-Thompson.

[s(k)aturation]

58 minutes ago, jonnyp said:

The team was more fluid which created the chances for himself an others.

 

 

 

I think when he's scoring goals, he looks a better team player - his decisions to shoot look less selfish, and his decisions to pass look the right thing to do.

 

I think he's now approaching his best form of the season, which hopefully means goals and assists go up.

 

With him in goal-scoring overdrive - and Mane back, and Firmino just being Firmino - we could sweep all before us in the final third of the season.

 

I wonder after this break, if we have another couple of gears to go up.  Imagine that.

 

 

 

 

 

[jonnyp]

1 hour ago, skaro said:

 

I think when he's scoring goals, he looks a better team player - his decisions to shoot look less selfish, and his decisions to pass look the right thing to do.

 

I think he's now approaching his best form of the season, which hopefully means goals and assists go up.

 

With him in goal-scoring overdrive - and Mane back, and Firmino just being Firmino - we could sweep all before us in the final third of the season.

 

I wonder after this break, if we have another couple of gears to go up.  Imagine that.

 

 

 

 

 

Totally agree, and can understand why my initial post may have been viewed as churlish by some. You’ve presented it far more eloquently though. He’s a class player when on form, no doubt.

 

He’s choosing the right decision more often now, especially in this game, which for me, made the whole team tick. I suspect the recent goals he has scored has removed the angst and channeled his focus.

 

More gears to go up is definitely a possibility. Frightening!

 

[VladimirIlyich]

Mo playing better without Mane in the team? A coincidence,or not?

[aRdja]

5 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Mo playing better without Mane in the team? A coincidence,or not?

He scored 44 goals in his first season with Mane in the team!

[TheBitch]

1 minute ago, viRdjil said:

He scored 44 goals in his first season with Mane in the team!

Aside from that.

[Numero Veinticinco]

When Mané got injured I said it’s time for Salah to step back up. I’m glad to see Salah gets email notifications of my posts. Last two games his work Ethic has been great, his decision making and lack of selfishness has been way better. I never want him to stop taking his chances, just to release the ball when his chance is unlikely to result in a goal and the easy pass would all but guarantee one. 
 

Ling May he reign. 

[VladimirIlyich]

28 minutes ago, viRdjil said:

He scored 44 goals in his first season with Mane in the team!

You don't seem to do sarcasm very well,do you?

[Bobby Hundreds]

I find this idea Southampton were hard done by bizarre, they played well first half and Liverpool were poor but second half we pulled their pants down slapped their arses and sent them on their way. Their manager is deluded. 

[Davelfc]

33 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I find this idea Southampton were hard done by bizarre, they played well first half and Liverpool were poor but second half we pulled their pants down slapped their arses and sent them on their way. Their manager is deluded. 

I think it's more like they kept up with us for a while and then they couldn't. Like me sprinting off on a marathon and leading the pack for ten minutes before fading and finishing last. At half time Southampton could have been three up, if we'd have not been playing with a goalkeeper. Most of their chances came from our poor passing. 

 

But yeah, luckily the games don't last 45 minutes and we do play with a goalkeeper so we thumped them. 

[Elite]

No team that loses 4-0 is hard done by.

[clockspeed]

I think the sense of vulnerability at back this year has helped us. A number of teams have broke free from the defensive formations as they think they have upper hand. Boom we hit them on counter, then they chasing game. Our powers of defensive recovery from Allison,VVD , Gomes and even Trent is outstanding last ditch,calm, ball focused and ultimately successful.  Throw in contributions from hendo, gini and returning fab and it is not as harem scarem as would first seem . Compare and contrast with the mistakes made by experienced defenders when we break and are in their box eg Robertson’s pull back on by line and pass back and bobby’s delicious threaded pass back to Hendo. We can experience that type of opportunity we would have made the decision making a lot harder. All down to pace (and ability) it’s one thing anticipating what attackers are going to do another getting in a position to change their minds. Think it was VVD’S positioning made Ings change his mind from shot to pass midway through first half. He shoots against any other team.

[Numero Veinticinco]

15 minutes ago, Elite said:

No team that loses 4-0 is hard done by.

Well, extrapolating from what I read on bluemoon, we should have all four goals chalked off and they should have a pen. By rights, that’s a 0-1 loss. Should be ashamed of ourselves. 

[s(k)aturation]

 

 

I knew I shouldn't have posted that "harsh" comment four times... Southampton manager's been reading TLW again.

 

 

 

[Elite]

22 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

Well, extrapolating from what I read on bluemoon, we should have all four goals chalked off and they should have a pen. By rights, that’s a 0-1 loss. Should be ashamed of ourselves. 

Well that's a bit like asking the inhabitants of a mental health unit to discuss sanity.

[Bamo]

Anyone got a video of the Salah offside goal?  Took my breath away at the game and wanted to see it again, but not even shown on MoTD

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

I find this idea Southampton were hard done by bizarre, they played well first half and Liverpool were poor but second half we pulled their pants down slapped their arses and sent them on their way. Their manager is deluded. 

I didn't see the first half but, as a rule, if a team plays well for 45 minutes and doesn't score, it's usually because the other team successfully contains them.

 

If the other team then twats them 4-0 in the second 45, it's hard to argue that they deserved anything. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

8 minutes ago, Bamo said:

Anyone got a video of the Salah offside goal?  Took my breath away at the game and wanted to see it again, but not even shown on MoTD

@Caramac

[Caramac]

Liverpool vs Southampton - Mohammed Salah (disallowed goal) 54' from r/soccer

[TheDrowningMan]

11 hours ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

City 2 years ago were strangely immune from this. Everyone just seemed to accept it - "They've bought loads of very good players and they've got the right manager - of course they're strolling to the title."

 

True. I reckon there are a couple of things at play: one, their ridiculous resources led to a squad strength that enables a style of play that has typically scared the shit out of teams to the point that it’s a formality that they’ll sweep them aside, rendering the odd botched decision an irrelevance.

 

Related to said resources is the glamour factor - “Ooooh, look at their fancy spending! Look everyone, it’s Pep! Pep Guardiola! In ENGLAND!” That, along with the fact that they’re not a traditionally big club with decades of past glory, probably afforded them a pass from many.