Match Thread: Liverpool v PSG

[Nineteenx]

Should have won that game second half

Jota starting was a serious error for me, he was fucking woeful

Jones & Elliott together makes for a non existent press or ball retention, Slot needs to learn from that it killed us second half of extra time

[Creator Supremes]

I mentioned similar last week but Arne and the new coaching set up don't have huge experience of CL knockout games. Compare to Jurgen who had some huge knockout wins and getting to a last gasp loss in a CL final with Dortmund before he came to our club.
We failed at even being in the CL last season so at least we made progress at European level. Arne will need to learn a lot from tonight about approaching our next CL knockout tie. Which should be next season.
We'd be firmly in the next round had we got Arsenal or Villa's draw.
Those are the breaks.

[Kev0909]

That's a bit revisionist. The use of the squad is one of the reasons we are top.
We're top on merit, let's not be hasty because we've lost that on penalties. They're easily one of the best in Europe.

Is it though?

Let's see next season when man city will surely not be as bad, and arsenal recover from injury crisis and finally sign a striker

It's more over-rated by some, and it was clear the difference tonight.

FSG will be fuming, that's millions down the drain for them.

[Crimson Dynasty]

Cos he's played the same players week in week out.

You dont think Endo, Elliot or Chiesa could have played against Soton?

I said earlier that Slot needs to take a large part of the blame for tonight both for his substitutions in this game (the timing of them), and more broadly, his terrible (or lack of) rotation in the weeks leadind up to this and leading to the current state of the team that was clearly fatigued and gassed out there, and ultimately totally outplayed by a PSG team that looked like they were up for it from the off.

A lot of people will blame the club for not giving him the necessary funds to get reinforcements in either of the past two windows, and that's valid.
But you can't complain or cry poverty if you're not using what you already have, or not using it well.
And he hasn't.

[RedMagic]

Doubt it would have made much difference tonight tbh

We need another mid in the summer and forwards.... not to mention RB/LB/CB we'll probably get 2-3 players Even with trent leaving....

Squad will always lack v clubs like PSG, we're skint compared to them, they've got a great squad, we've got a good first team, and a few options on the bench, rest average simple as that.

We've needed those players for years, and we'll still be needing them in years to come given FSG and their ways when it comes to transfers.

[jr81]

Four trophies down to two. Final without Trent & possibly Konate. Lack of quality in the squad when we need it at the business end.

Haven't we been here before though? On a few occasions.

[fiordearg]

I never thought this season we'd win the CL. Origi was better than Nunez and Jota. We don't have the cut and trust of Firmino Salah and Mane 5 years ago.

[teesred]

The reason we're top is almost soley down to the same/main reasons we've had success in recent years, Salah, Van Dijk and Alisson.

It absolutely is not "solely" down to that. They're obviously key players but everyone's played their part upto now. Even Chiesa has been involved in a key result.
It's far too easy to piss on what we've achieved upto now because we've lost a game.
We went to penalties against a top side. They're better than us, it suddenly doesn't mean we're shite.

[RedMagic]

Haven't we been here before though? On a few occasions.

I said this early on. I'm sure you/we know the definition of madness, but unfortunately those in control of such things don't give a damn.

[jr81]

Should have won that game second half

Jota starting was a serious error for me, he was fucking woeful

Jones & Elliott together makes for a non existent press or ball retention, Slot needs to learn from that it killed us second half of extra time

Come on, what choice had he regarding elliot and jones. Leave Szobo on and murder him altogether? He had to freshen it up at different times. This is where the squad isn't good enough as many have said on multiple occasions.