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Jurgen clearly didnt think Matip was the better option for this game. Bottom line is it was a substandard performance by the whole team. I reckon keita, if he's still here or chambo will be made into the new whipping boy when Lovren leaves in the summer.

Aidsical! That's it!

Isnt there a name for when an inconsequential, smaller entity, such as the shite, attempt to mock a far bigger and more successful one, such as Liverpool? Yeah, yeah, I know you can say delusional but I thought there'd be some fancy 'ical' type name for it?

Said at the beginning of the season we needed to jib the domestic cups. The team is now in a poor run of form, by our high standards. It needs to play itself out of that and into form quickly with Atletico on the horizon. And, there's only this and the Bournemouth game between now and then to do it in. Ive reluctantly come to the conclusion virtually the same team that lost to Watford should play against chelsea but with some changes. Im presuming Joe's knock means he is kept back for Bournemouth or Atletico Adrian straight swap for Alisson, Williams for Trent, Matip for van Dijk, Jones for Wijnaldum. Minamino could come in for any of the front 3 but Id make it Bobby to stand down. Admittedly, that's a suicide pairing of Lovren and Matip at the centre of defence so Fabinho's job is to sit in front of them, try and protect them as much as possible and not go foraging upfield. Fingers crossed we win and dont need extra time.

Got to be U.N.C.L.E.

Jurgen clearly didnt fancy Matip for this game though. But yes, you're right, with the exception of Alisson, no one else in the team performed today and I cannot remember the last time I thought that.

I agree! Onwards!

To be honest beating Bournemouth on Saturday is the priority otherwise the nerves inside Anfield will be palpable.

He's probably intending playing Jones at chelsea on Tuesday.

So the point did escaped you. Either that or you think van dijk would be the weaker target for deeney in the other pairings I mentioned. Better start knocking yourself out.

Nothing escaped me. Your quote is that presented by the quote facility but whatever. As an example, deeney says he targetted the weaker of van dijk and lovren. Who do people think deeney would target in a matip \ van dijk or gomez \ van dijk pairing?

It really isnt. Look, the result was bad but if you want to believe the defending from Trent, van Dijk and Robbo was pants because Lovren was in the team tonight, knock yourself out. It might have escaped your notice, we had 1 shot on target. I suppose Lovren made Mo, Sadio and Bobby plus the whole midfield shite.

I agree. He's the new whipping boy since Moreno left. Frankly I really dont think it would have made a difference if Joe or Matip had of played. Our form has been poor the last 3 or 4 games. We werent great at Norwich.

Matip against Deeney?! You think that works any better than Lovren?

Weeeeeeeell, villa beat us 5-0 away on the way to a title once. Long runs have to end sometime and at least we didnt lose 1-0 with a spawny goal. It's an old cliche but you can only get out of jail so many times before you cannot do it again. What can you say except we were pants, I mean really, really pants and I never thought we were going to win the title by a massive margin. Sky and the rest are massively happy with the result though, eh? And 1 shot on target by us tells you everything you need to know. Even the crossing into the box was virtually none existent. I've thought we've been in a bad patch of form from the Atletico game and the loss of Hendo is clearly a factor in the west ham game and this one. We shouldnt have lost here but we did. Some people may have thought the game had gone at 2-0 or 3-0 but like the Atletico game, I just couldnt see us scoring today as the game unfolded. No doubt some will look to the winter break as an excuse but that's rubbish in my opinion. We've had international breaks and they haven't made us play like this. This is poor form, nothing more or less. I dont like saying the players were shite but Sadio looks like he still has a cobb on from Monday night's subbing. Bobby is trying but nothing is coming off. I honestly think Mo is trying to complicate things, too many flicks and not making sure the ball gets to a red shirt. But there again, when you're playing against big tall centre backs he's going to find it very hard. Gini and Fabinho were poor in a game where watford were just going to play deep and crowd us out. Just WTF was Fabinho doing with that ball on the touchline in their half that lead to the second goal? Put the fucking ball out, dont just look at it. In games like this Gini is more a handicap as he always wants too many touches and slows the play down when we need to be quick. Back 4, WTF was Trent thinking with that 2nd half free kick? Honestly lad, do the simple things. Not sure if he was at fault in part for the 3rd but Lovren, van Dijk and Robbo have all got to do better there. No doubt Lovren will be the whipping boy but could you see Matip doing better in this game? Jurgen and the coaching staff are going to have plenty of stuff to point out to the players what they did wrong and didnt even do in this game. Despite all that, it's one defeat three quarters of the way through the season. The fat lady coughed while sing but number 19 is still coming home.

Hmmmm. Fucking frustrating half that. No urgency, misplaced passes and the ref giving them every 50 / 50 decision. Deloufreu going off probably helps us but you wouldnt think so really. Fabinho and Gini need to take their heads out of their arses and fucking look where they are playing the ball. The number of times both have needlessly given the ball away is shocking. Lovren looks an accident waiting to happen and once again, Mo, Sadio and Bobby just dont look with it. Watford are a big side so Mo in particular needs to give and go instead of trying to hold off some Lurch lok alike. Sadio looks strangely subdued to me as if he's still pissed off at being subbed against west ham.

What's the SP on Gomez, injured, ill?

Im surprised you havent 'self isolated' already given your optimistic outlook.

Im pretty sure the hack who first wrote the story about Liverpool, the virus and potentially not being crowned Champions, did it solely to wind up the fan base knowing loads of united, everton, city and chelsea tools would jump the bandwagon. But like I said before, people havent thought it through. If the season is declared null and void, then, if united manage to win the Europa League, that's going to be null and void. If city win the EFL Cup, that's going to be null and void. If everton qualify for the EL, that's going to be null and void. I could go on but Im sure folks get the picture.

Picard's point in the excellent Measure of a man was that the Federation and Maddox in particular should not be able to create a race of androids whose whole reason for existing was to save human on the battle field being sacrificed in conflicts or do the menial tasks humans didnt want to. In other words, slaves. "Is it sentient? I dont know but there it sits. He meets two out of your three conditions so far, Commander!"

Ha, no. You got me there!

Was he at Southampton at that time then? I know he was hopeful of signing him becaused he had him at Espanyol.

To be honest mate, I think that horse has bolted regarding stopping people travelling to limit the spread.

Wonder if spurs hacked their system at the same time? I mean Pochettino was very interested in signing him at the time as well.

Well there's already unrestricted travel and people going on holidays so let's not pin all society's blame on clubs.