Liverpool V Leeds match day thread

[Steveo]

You don't understand footie too well.

No you clearly don’t.

[JockStrap]

No you clearly don’t.

If the foul starts outside the box, it's a free kick, even if the contact continues into the penalty area

I corrected you yesterday on the yellow card rule and I'm correcting you today on penalties.

Please don't speak of that which you do not know.

[miller0863]

Yet again, oh the irony.

[JockStrap]

Yet again, oh the irony.

You should keep quiet too lest I embarrass you again.

[Steveo]

Ahh..Shaddap a 'you face.. And watch what occurs inside the box ...wrestling begins way outside - so what - the contact..knee on Hugo's leg is clearly inside and this is before the lunge which totally takes Hugo away from the ball. This should be a penalty regardless of Hugo not diving which you suggested would have made it a penalty. Defender not close to the ball and stops Hugo from getting to it illegally.



Biff..

[miller0863]

You should keep quiet too lest I embarrass you again.

It has to have happened at least once before, for it to have happened “again”.

You know, just as you continually embarrass yourself.

[Nineteenx]

Quite a few others seeing it on natch threads now

How Slot planned to play and convinced Edwards & Hughes to give him 430 to spend on [b]moving away from a winning formula[/center] but not only that, the most exciting band of football and the most watched team worldwide has been an absolute farce and disgrace

He needs replacing while the magic drive and desire Jurgen instilled in many of these players still remains

I called this 3 months ago, he’s turned the most dynamic, cut and thrust watchable side on the planet into a paupers version of City in 19-20 when kit id teams just evolving to be pressing and counter pressing set up
And picked their much better brand of overpassing than Slot’s ideas off and when even the master of it could no longer play it in this league it was dead

That’s how it is, just the truth of it in the cold light of day

[justme]

we shouldn't have bought Wirzt.. we should have gotten another midfielder on the likes of Macca or Dom. but with a bit more physicality.. you could have played a more 4/4/2 then and let Szoboszlai get in behind a forward. if teams are intent on being defensive against us. which seems like they have this season. you need an extra player in the box. we have over played too much this season. its always very difficult to break down low blocks.. you just have to get more people in the box rather than try and sit a little off and play. we are open to the counter attack. but we are anyway when teams break on us.

[Nineteenx]

That’s the beauty of 433 with a false 9 and 2 wide forwards always having 2 up quickly making a 3

Always on to go direct with runs in behind always quick to have 3 or 4 in the box created more chances all the time

[justme]

you end up with 1 up with 4/3/3 when the wide players do nothing.. that's why you need a midfielder in the box..

[Insidious]

Nothing will change with slot

I'm interested in what the picture will look like at the end of the season.

There's been a lot of concerning stuff (the 9 losses in 12, the sideways passing in front of a packed defence, the apparent lack of creative movement in the forward line) but there's also stuff that looks like it's getting somewhere (full-backs deployment, ability to hold the ball centrally in build-up) and we know Slot has a bit of a cob-on for Enrique's 24/25 PSG side.

We had the slump, we've stopped the rot. It's admittedly not enthralling football right now, so the question will be "is this it?" or is this a stage of development of the side where we ensure more solidity like a Benitez side (in possession in Slot's case, excellent control of space in Rafa's case) for a couple of months before sliding the risk up a touch once we have that solid foundation sorted.

I like that we're getting the control back somewhat after some of the really troubling performances (PSV was.....something!) but we feel like we're stuck in 3rd gear at present with question marks as to whether Slot is going to show us a version of the side where we get up to 5th gear and blow a couple of sides away.

I'd love a larger sample size of having Kerkez and Frimpong in the set-up simultaneously for one thing to see if that gets the extra 5% out of us and would love to see how much (or how little?) impact another pace merchant could have in the side.

The still-very-recent slump of form, the inability to find a title defence and the drop-off in entertainment value are inevitably going to impact how we see it - so right now there's going to be a lot of *long exhale* about the place - it's just whether or not we're only a couple of steps away or not as it felt to me (made a thread on it) that we had a lengthy list of small problems stacked up, rather than 2/3 major ones.

I think in a different context we could have chalked today up as "just one of those days" like the 0-0 matches we seemed to have against Birmingham under Rafa, but knowing that our faint hopes of rekindling a long-odds title push (now 12 points behind when we might have hoped we'd be 7 points behind Arsenal if we'd won a few games on the spin including beating the Gunners) has probably popped the Balloon a bit more than normal.

The distraction of a European game would be bliss right now!!!!!

[Kev0909]

we shouldn't have bought Wirzt.. we should have gotten another midfielder on the likes of Macca or Dom. but with a bit more physicality.. you could have played a more 4/4/2 then and let Szoboszlai get in behind a forward. if teams are intent on being defensive against us. which seems like they have this season. you need an extra player in the box. we have over played too much this season. its always very difficult to break down low blocks.. you just have to get more people in the box rather than try and sit a little off and play. we are open to the counter attack. but we are anyway when teams break on us.

Have you actually got something wrong with you? like..... learning problems?

I read your posts it's literally like reading a 5 year olds shit

you're the biggest fucking retard on this forum

get a grip you stupid cunt

[Kev0909]

Not if what started Troll? The grabbing? It could start between both on the half way line but if the defender wrestling him away from the ball and inside the box he lunges between his legs which is what stops the strike - it’s a penalty.

here he is, the other complete retard, not as stupid as justme mind, you deserve some credit

You're still a complete good for nothing waste of oxygen, do us all a favour and fuck off.

[justme]

Have you actually got something wrong with you? like..... learning problems?

I read your posts it's literally like reading a 5 year olds shit

you're the biggest fucking retard on this forum

get a grip you stupid cunt

you know what i really find amusing and delightful is unhappy drunks. you are destroying yourself and thats the delightful thing. and all i say is GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD ok? is that OK?

[justme]

unhappy drunks are not a pleasant thing sorry to say