Match Thread: Liverpool v Spurs

[KingCanny]

Isn't Slot our first head coach rather than manager?That worked out well

[Nineteenx]

Maybe just change the manager that might be a start

Should have.been done end of October

[LFC-DPG]

From my opening post


“That line up is so unbalanced and lacking in any sort of physicality, this is the Premier League ffs
Good job Spurs are missing so many. Still look dangerous up front mind.“


It looked a terrible line from the minute it was announced, the manager picks the team, coaches them and gives them the tactics .. well allegedly gives them tactics to play to but I haven’t seen any evidence of it this season.

Utterly appalling yet so obviously predictable

Yet we were far better with that unbalanced line up than we were after the first set of substitutions.

Slot got it horribly wrong today

[Insidious]

Can only assume the CL is keeping him in the job. Dont think the FAC will be enough to save him and it'll be an upset to knock city out A. It could all be over by Thursday

I don't see us sacking him unless we are mathematically out of the Champion's League race.

[RedMagic]

Yet we were far better with that unbalanced line up than we were after the first set of substitutions.

Slot has got it horribly wrong this season.

Fixed for you.

[Steveo]

From my opening post


“That line up is so unbalanced and lacking in any sort of physicality, this is the Premier League ffs
Good job Spurs are missing so many. Still look dangerous up front mind.“


It looked a terrible line from the minute it was announced, the manager picks the team, coaches them and gives them the tactics .. well allegedly gives them tactics to play to but I haven’t seen any evidence of it this season.

Utterly appalling yet so obviously predictable

You were right to worry and so it proved. I thought it looked ballsy with the changes and attempt to try something different.

Starting Rio was a good move but our best mid at RB and your best forward on the bench - on reflection….was daft

[Insidious]

The point is we have great players on paper. This is all down to slots management when so many players fall off a cliff & can't perform.

Also very imbalanced squad on paper in terms of make-up, with Kerkez, Gakpo, Wirtz, Ekitike, Isak and to a degree Mac Allister all enjoying work in the left half-space - so there have been chemistry issues - couple that with the change from Trent and a flying Mo to no Trent and this current version of Mo - and a few players in decline - AND the manager deviating to slow possession football to try to minimise opposition attacks..... it's all stacking up.

Hopefully balancing out the squad make-up a bit over the next window or two - and likely a managerial change - will help bring the best out of the number of quality players we have, as we definitely aren't a "bad" side even if we have been performing like one in many sense for too long a period.

[Nineteenx]

Rio was the best player on the park.

He really wasn’t he doesn’t beat men often enough or really create anything we’re just doing the overrate a youngster nonsense again

[jr81]

You were right to worry and so it proved. I thought it looked ballsy with the changes and attempt to try something different.

Starting Rio was a good move but our best mid at RB and your best forward on the bench - on reflection….was daft

This was a game we needed to win after Chelsea and villa results. Start strong, try get a few goals lead against a very spurs, then rest the players for CL. What he done was treat this game like an fá cup round against lower opposition. Stupid move.

Frimpong at right forward while our best midfielder this year is rb. Doesn't make sense.

But we are too slow and ponderous. We are not fully committed. Robertson half hearted challenge for that header at rhe end was embarrassing and Virgil attempt to block the attacker. Virgil and gomez were bullied by the 2 forwards.

[Steveo]

He really wasn’t he doesn’t beat men often enough or really create anything we’re just doing the overrate a youngster nonsense again

I think he was. I think he was the ONLY player spurs could not handle. And for. long spell all we did was keep feeding him the ball - the fact nobody had the guile to make a goal from it is on seniors.

Dom was good but made many mistakes too. Gakpo has been so shyte for so long some are thinking that was a good display up front,

please folks watch the game again

[Nineteenx]

Also very imbalanced squad on paper in terms of make-up, with Kerkez, Gakpo, Wirtz, Ekitike, Isak and to a degree Mac Allister all enjoying work in the left half-space - so there have been chemistry issues - couple that with the change from Trent and a flying Mo to no Trent and this current version of Mo - and a few players in decline - AND the manager deviating to slow possession football to try to minimise opposition attacks..... it's all stacking up.

Hopefully balancing out the squad make-up a bit over the next window or two - and likely a managerial change - will help bring the best out of the number of quality players we have, as we definitely aren't a "bad" side even if we have been performing like one in many sense for too long a period.

Yes because we didn’t need Wirtz or two number 9’s

Slot’s plan is/was to play 3412 with Frimpong and Kerkez supposedly providing the width and service

It’s a complete non starter

[LFC-DPG]

19 will watch the game again and still say ‘his man’ Konate was the best player on the pitch.

[Steveo]

On Rio from the BBC and this is what I saw
too:

Liverpool head coach Arne Slot finally bowed to the demands to unleash Rio Ngumoha from the start, the 17-year-old demonstrating what all the fuss and excitement is about with a thrilling display.
Following Max Dowman's brilliant goalscoring cameo in Arsenal's win against Everton, Ngumoha showed further evidence of a bright future for England as he stood out, despite being surrounded by the mediocrity of his Liverpool team-mates.
Ngumoha was a constant threat in one-on-one duels and was always willing to strike on goal, in a performance showing a vision and invention beyond other more experienced players around him.
But the teenager aside, Liverpool lacked urgency and creation and invited the trouble that eventually led to Richarlison punishing Slot's side at the end.

[Steveo]

Put this lad in a Klopp team and he is ripping it up. But with this dross even star players look turgid. Slots game is killing the players and the Anfield atmosphere

[Nineteenx]

That's what is genuinely worrying, it's not a new thing. We've been giving up points to so called inferior sides all season. You'd look at the way we play and call us inferior, we are fucking dreadful to watch.
We made them look good. We are in a situation now that's becoming damaging in my opinion, playing awful football with a manager who is like a vacuum in terms of positivity. He's fucking ruined a good thing.
I just do not see how any fan can be supporting this crap anymore.

Absolutely when it was announced Jurgen was leaving his system and style should have been put in place as the club system that any manager coming in had to stick with, like at Brighton

It is still relevant it has style and entertainment and has been successful for 10 years only a bunch of complete idiots would try and bin it and recruit fir something neither the players or manager had played, in a multinational billion pound industry everyone must realise how completely bonkers that it