Liverpool v Brighton (Match Thread)

**RedNoodle** · 3rd February 2021, 10:36 PM

I think I'm going to go and re-heat my dinner. Who knows, maybe a miracle will happen and we'll get a shot on target.

**TheDOC1979** · 3rd February 2021, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Crimson Dynasty

I don't dispute that.
But saying that "it was coming" implies that they've been swarming us all game and getting chance after chance and only just been unlucky.

That's not been the case at all.
This was their first real chance on their first productive build-up (which, granted, they did well) and they just happened to score on it.

Aside from that, it's almost farcical to suggest they've been threatening at all.
If anything they've been set-up and played like a team that was strictly coming to play for a point and a draw and nothing more.

It's because we haven't been threatening at all. You sense that they'd get a goal if we're not on our game.

Basing it on past games??

**Insidious** · 3rd February 2021, 10:38 PM

Originally Posted by shminkyred

oh 4 someone who can score from set piece

Shaqiri certainly can, but he is off the pitch.

Thiago likely could too.

Trent seems to have "dibs" - if he isn't banging them in on the training ground, you'd certainly question it.

**miller0863** · 3rd February 2021, 10:38 PM

Precisely Doc, it’s not hindsight I said it at half time, play the same system with the same players in the second half, we will lose.

**shminkyred** · 3rd February 2021, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by RedNoodle

I think I'm going to go and re-heat my dinner. Who knows, maybe a miracle will happen and we'll get a shot on target.

sometimes its like we have to walk it into the goal....... i think its three from outside the box???

**TheDOC1979** · 3rd February 2021, 10:39 PM

Our set pieces have been really shit this season

**Crimson Dynasty** · 3rd February 2021, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by miller0863

Called it at half time CD. They were getting more and more confident as it went on, pushing more players up in each attack. It was a matter of time.

I still don't agree with that.

It was a flukey as fuck lucky goal - scored from a deflection off of another deflection - coming from their first real attack and their literal first shot in the match (on target or otherwise).

They've actually had LESS possession in this half than they had in the first half, so the notion that it was coming or a matter of time, is stretching things a bit, methinks.

And by the way, that's not to suggest that we were looking likely to take the lead either.

It's always the thing with games like this.
You keep teams like this hanging around instead of going for the jugular, you expose yourself to the risk of this exact sort of thing happening.

In fact, this is literally how we lost the chance to take all three points when we met them before and they end up getting a soft penalty when we couldn't put the game away.