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Chamberlain not happy coming off there. Dont blame him seeing as Mane is staying on. Milner with his trademark wasted shot from outside the box.

Nice of the ref to let them take that quick free kick yet haul Milner back from taking a quick one outside their box in the first half.

I think you mean they look like they want it more. The accuracy of our passing has been very very poor. What has Can done in midfield. Nothing. Milner is too slow to run on to any ball played into space which United have closed down well. Do not know why Chamberlain is being made a scapegoat when everything is breaking down when the ball is given to Mane. He looks like he is out for an afternoon stroll. Mo has been marked out the game. Bobby is trying hard but not getting his range. Second half is going to be very hard because they will sit back invite us on to them and hit us on the break.

Jesus wept. I was convinced we would win this 2-1 before the game. We are fortunate it is not 3-0. TAA having a mare. Lovren bullied out of 2 headers. Mane his usual could not careless attitude. Milner slow as usual. Bigger surprise is Mo is not in this game.

Top top top top player.

Not sure where to post this but here seems as good as anywhere without starting a new thread. There are a couple of charts and tables that do not copy over in the original article. If ever there was a precedent for key players departing a football club just when it seems they are at their most important, it is Liverpool. Predictably enough, all the evidence prior to Philippe Coutinho leaving in early January suggested they would suffer losing him. Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres and Luis Suarez all spring to mind, having each left Liverpool at the peak of their respective careers. In each case Liverpol's fortunes fell off a cliff. Liverpool finished second in Alonso's final season at Anfield, four points off the title; one season later, Alonso-less, they finished seventh. In the 2010/11 season in which Torres departed midway through, Liverpool came sixth; they dropped to eighth a year later. In Suarez's last season, Liverpool pushed City close for the title. Without Suarez in the next campaign they came sixth. That is why Jurgen Klopp fought tooth and nail to keep Coutinho despite Barcelona's unrelenting interest. £142m is what can only be described as 'crazy money', but even at that price few at Liverpool would have wanted to see the back of him. And yet two months on from his move, Liverpool are safely through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League and up from fourth in the Premier League (when Coutinho left) to third, hot on the tails of Manchester United in second. Maybe everything will be alright after all... Jurgen Klopp did everything to try and keep Coutinho Credit: Getty images But what's the reason behind Liverpool's ability, this time around, to contend with a key player's departure? Klopp said recently he believes his team is less predictablenow that Coutinho has gone, and there is certainly some truth in that: when Coutinho was available, all play went through him, and often he was the source of that moment of magic needed to break an opponent down. "On a good day it makes you more unpredictable if you don't have this dominant player but on another day you miss a player like that,” Klopp said. “Phil Coutinho was a very dominant player in our game and when we were not at our best it was always a good idea to give him the ball, maybe he has an idea. But it was always clear when Phil didn't play we had to do the job differently, to put responsibility on different shoulders and spread it between the players." And that is exactly what Liverpool have done. After only half a season together, the 'Fab Four' have been disbanded, their work now shared among three. And everyone has stepped up. Since Coutinho's departure, Mohamed Salah has nine goals and three assists in nine starts. Sadio Mane has six goals in five. Roberto Firmino has taken on greater all-round responsibility in his wonderfully unique gegenpressing 'false nine' role, with more tackles than any other attack-minded player in the Premier League in that time, his 17 enough to rank in the overall top 20, as well as racking up six goals and four assists in just 10 appearances. Indeed, Liverpool have become more of a team since Coutinho left. Despite playing only 14 times in the league this season, Coutinho still ranks third for shots attempted in Liverpool's squad. He accounts for just 3.9 per cent of Liverpool's minutes played this season, but 10.7 per cent of their attempts on goal. His 39 shots from outside the penalty area is 16 more than anyone else in the squad and makes up 20 per cent of their overall total. Pot shots from distance are rarer these days, and Liverpool are having fewer shots in total in the post-Coutinho era, with 11.4 per Premier League game - down from 13.1, but they are scoring more goals, their conversion rate having improved markedly. The players are attempting to dribble less often. They are making more interceptions and far more tackles. Chance creation is up, too. There is a real sense that everyone needed to step up in Coutinho's absence, and they have delivered. They are winning more, having seen off teams like Manchester City and Porto, falling seconds short of beating Tottenham, too. The defeats to Swansea and West Brom feel like a blip that has now been overcome. Goals are still being conceded, but in games other than the West Brom defeat and the 4-3 win over City, Liverpool have shipped just four goals in eight games since Coutinho left. Virgil van Dijk's presence has helped steady things, while Andrew Robertson has been a revelation at left-back and Trent Alexander-Arnold is still improving on the other side. Coutinho was a significant loss, particularly mid-season, but without actually buying anybody to replace him, Liverpool have dealt with his departure remarkably well. The burden has been shared and even though it is still early days, it looks like there will be no post-Coutinho collapse that many had quite reasonably predicted. Instead, Klopp's team are going from strength to strength. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/03/09/liverpool-have-improved-since-selling-philippe-coutinho/

Yeah looks like a homage to the Digger Barnes all grey kit of the late 80s.

Be surprised to see him make Citys first team regularly. He will be a bench warmer or League Cup called upon player. Still think he is angling for a move to Bayern but will end up in Italy.

Slagging our kits off is so de riguere or is it passe. I am not educated enough to tell.

I am past caring with the lad. He is doing a McManaman. Some say he is entitled to do that. I say he should be up front with the club and say he is leaving instead of the bullshit statements he is putting out. He has had a handful of excellent performances but on the whole he is not the type of player who turns a game. I think he is too slow and he will excel in Serie A.

I have a good mate who is a Spurs fan he went the game last night. I do not mind Spurs to be honest and do not really understand the edge towards them currently. They have not spent shitloads and made some very good signings. I like Kane and think he is a great striker but like all teams who depend on one man to get the goals they struggle if he is not scoring. They have always played good football well except when Graham was manager and everyone seems to forget they won the first double of the 20th Century when Bill Nicholson was manager.

I think he is angling for a move to Bayern and if that does not materialise he will go to Juventus.

Fixed that.

That flap at Xantis hit and hope shot finished all hope with him for me.

Im not surprised you do not understand. You have not a clue. Go back and re read especially your statement so it did not happen ages ago?. That sums up why you do not understand. Anyway I am not bothering engaging you further.

Dortmund are said to be interested in Mignolet. But if they went for him they would be changing one suspect keeper Burkhi for another.

That is spectacularly funny coming from you. But whatever.

Like I said if Kane aint scoring Spurs aint winning. Paid the price of not making the pressure pay and depending on one player to score the goals.

I think Juventus know how to manage a game.

Dybala is a fantastic player. Truth is for all Spurs possession they led by a misshit shot. If Kane is not scoring Spurs are in trouble.

Supposedly closer to signing Lemar if reports are to be believed. Mind you so is that sessengneon.

I am actually very angry at your comments. You seriously think I think harashment in football is something new or exclusive to football. Are you actually bloody serious. My post was not insinuating harassment was in anyway the shitness of modern football. It was the fact that 2 young LFC players had been alleged to have acted in such a manner especially after the false bobby allegations. You should have the decency to apologise for getting this so wrong but I know you will not. Utter disgraceful comments by you. I have been involved with trade unionism all my life fighting for equality and fair treatment of people and you post that shit on an internet forum.

I think we will win 2-1.

What a load of shit you spout. So the allegation should be ignored despite being plastered over a newspaper?