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TheDrowningMan

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  1. Three tricky league aways in a row is ridiculous - I get that we have to fit them in somewhere, but that must be close to unprecedented. Makes us fairly clearly the third favourite in another ridiculous title race where any dropped points could finish our chances.
  2. I quite enjoyed seeing him take part yesterday. I don’t really hold any animosity now, and certainly no more than I do towards Suarez, who would have been off to Arsenal before he’d had his one truly great season for us if he had his way…in spite of the support we’d given him over the previous 18 months. In fact, I see both of their departures as positives now. If either of them stay it probably butterflies the Klopp era out of existence. Two fine players but little more than footnotes in the Liverpool story.
  3. Thing is, where’s the evidence that De Zerbi can challenge for a CL spot, let alone trophies in a major league? He’s had 7 jobs in 11 years and has won a knockout cup for Serie C teams and the Ukrainian Super Cup. There’s not even an against the odds promotion in there.
  4. I wouldn’t read too much into that given the difference in options to the respective clubs, but I would be worried by a manager who is very much a known quantity in the Premier League and isn’t doing anything astonishing. Would be very much a Hodgsonian “see how he’s doing in October” sort of appointment. We couldn’t afford to waste time on someone who didn’t seem to be coping at a huge club. To some extent, that worries me with any of the main contenders aside from Alonso - even though he hasn’t managed one, he knows what it’s like to be at huge clubs. Not everyone can deal with that.
  5. As poor as this is, I’m more inclined to think it will help us with the league game. I’m pretty confident we’re not going to get a repeat of this sort of display.
  6. Yeah, it’s a tired performance. Whatever happens now, I wouldn’t read anything more into it. A Southampton strength starting line-up would have been enough to get the job done in the second leg against Prague.
  7. 7-0 aside, we’ve got a really poor record against them under Ten Hag. One win out of four inside 90 minutes is pretty woeful given their lack of quality.
  8. Everton have been safe since before the season begun. They’re far, far too good to go down and that has nothing to do with the fact that they’re awful and everything to do with the guarantee that there will always be at least three teams who really plumb the depths. How many games have they gone without a win? And still, the only reason it’s remotely close is because of the points deduction.
  9. I think a win next week would more or less guarantee that we won’t win the league game. I felt the same after we knocked Arsenal out.
  10. At first, I thought we’d signed someone who, at this stage in his career, seemed closer to a Championship player than one who’d end up being an outstanding part of a Premier League title challenge. I was completely and utterly wrong, of course.
  11. I feel as though we’ve seen exactly why so much fuss was engineered out of an entirely innocuous error last weekend.
  12. Fantastic performance and, given how good we were, a disappointing result in the end. Desperately need City to get something against Arsenal at the end of the month - Looking at Arsenal’s upcoming fixtures, I think the title race is effectively over if they win that one.
  13. Unless I’m mistaken, we’ve never come from behind to beat them in a league game under Klopp - wouldn’t be the worst day to fix that stat…
  14. I think the best case scenario today is to keep it as close as possible and then sucker punch them late to salvage a point.
  15. A monumental, catastrophic, calamitous, historic error not to send off Havertz, and I don’t think it can really be disputed that there needs to be an extra, play-off title decider game in the event Arsenal win the league by a point or two.
  16. Keep in mind that Arsenal’s next game is a guaranteed three points at home to Brentford. They’ve had a ridiculously kind run of fixtures. Given that Arsenal’s goal difference advantage will be unmatchable by the time we kick off, a draw for us against City would be a very poor result and a loss is unthinkable if we want to retain any sort of chance of winning the title.
  17. The reaction to this is arguably some of the best evidence I’ve ever seen of how zombie-like the British public is. Critical thinking basically doesn’t exist in this country.
  18. Or Arsenal, unfortunately. They have a very, very kind run of games & will be top next weekend if we draw with City.
  19. Yeah, just saw that. Hopefully just bruising / dead leg and the upmost of caution, but it’s hard not to expect the worst given our injury situation at the moment.
  20. No one who is expected to start against Forest should play this one. We can’t afford to risk any more injuries with the situation we have, and I’d also say we should be extremely cautious about who plays in the Europa game the week after given that City are up three days later.
  21. I think you can also make a very, very good case for going back and removing points from the likes of Arsenal for deploying that tactic - after this, you’d have to question the integrity of a possible league title where that didn’t happen.
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