Match Thread: Liverpool v PSG

[CCTV]

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.

It was a disappointing exit. Slots selections over the past 3 games somewhat bizarre.
To go with the same approach/setup as the 1st game v PSG 🙄

[Crimson Dynasty]

Nunez wasn't any different though. It's the squad. He couldn't start gakpo, he is just back from injury so it was gonna be one of jota or nunez.

You could have started Gakpo and taken him out at the half.

Alternatively bringing on Nunez earleir might have taken advantage of his number 9 play and ability to get crosses at the period when we were crossing a boatload into the middle but there was no target to get them.

By the time Darwin was brought on, we were totally gassed and even those crosses were nowhere to be found anymore.

[Kev0909]

It was a disappointing exit. Slots selections over the past 3 games somewhat bizarre.
To go with the same approach/setup as the 1st game v PSG ��

He obviously doesn't see many players outside first 11 as quality? who knows...

To be fair he didn't have many options..... well even less after tonight wish gakpo was fit & upto speed to play full 90

Endo at CB quansah at RB for newcastle?

What should he have done, rush gakpo who's had one training session back?
Start Endo & Jones V PSG.. or ELliot???

Good job we didn't start with endo as we need our emergency cb now as quansah is already our emergency RB

[jr81]

Yep that's why I kept saying to stevo just enjoy the prem this season and league whilst we can... don't trust FSG at all....

at least we have the prem pretty much in the bag, fuck everything else, and can celebrate it properely unlike with covid.

I'm fairness to Stevo, I don't think he trusts FSG at all. But I agree, if we don't see a huge cash investment in the summer the squad will start to look poor very quickly. And that's before we know of virgil, salah and trent are staying.

[Creator Supremes]

Worth noting that Sunday represents the first step at winning a domestic cup plus the league title for the first time since 1986 at our club. A knock on effect of our 30 year title wait but still too long for a club of our stature

[jr81]

You could have started Gakpo and taken him out at the half.

Alternatively bringing on Nunez earleir might have taken advantage of his number 9 play and ability to get crosses at the period when we were crossing a boatload into the middle but there was no target to get them.

By the time Darwin was brought on, we were totally gassed and even those crosses were nowhere to be found anymore.

I don't think starting nunez would have made much difference, but we will never know that.

I agree with not starting gakpo. Only back from injury, I wouldn't risk him either in starting. So it was jota or nunez for me and once nunez started on Saturday I thought it would jota starting. He could have gotten jota off earlier but I still don't know if it would help. Both nunez and jota were ineffective.

Guess we add a proper striker to our wish list of incomings along with all the other positions.

[Kev0909]

Nunez was useless but for some reason we stopped crossing like we did for Jota ???

I'd swap both for a top striker, eitherway.

[teesred]

Quansah was good tonight when called upon
He's been steady the last few times he's come on.

[RedMagic]

A complete moot point. It's like last week when people said ",if it wasn't for Alisson.....".
What should we do, leave him on the bench to give the opposite team a chance?
Those players play for LFC and saying if we didn't have them is daft because we do have them and they're outstanding.
It isn't the squad players that have cost us, the squad players are the ones who ensured we left Paris 1 up remember.
PSG have been building that team for a long time all the while cooking the books and pretty much destroying the whole transfer system. They should have an outstanding squad after what they've spent.
That's no slight on Liverpool.

It's not a moot point. The best example of this is Gerrard. Yes we won stuff with him/because of him (many people said we were a one man team), but think how much we could/would have won if he had been surrounded by better players, and in contrast to that, how little we might have won if he hadn't been at the club. Personally I think there would have been a distinct possibility of us winning sweet f.a. if we hadn't have had Gerrard in our team.

It's not a case of "well we do have these players, so it's a moot point", it's merely highlighting the fact that we are over reliant on such players which means that we are constantly walking a tightrope that we wouldn't need to be walking if only for a bit more quality to share some of the burden.

All it takes is for one or two of these players to become fatigued, have a dip in form, or get injured for us to start struggling, and that's before you factor in anything happening to any of our other players.

A current example is Arsenal. Saka on his own got injured and Arsenal started struggling. A couple more integral players get injured and the wheels came off. Why? Because they didn't get in sufficient backup to lessen the impact of losing just one key player, never mind any other players getting injured or struggling for form.

[jinky]

Not too disappointed.
Over the tie PSG we're better than us. If our whole squad was available who would they go for. If you reverse that story I would take 4 or 5 of their team as improvements on what we've got.
The league is almost done and you know Newcastle will find a way to lose the carabao. We are not good enough to win the champs league. Go on PSG beat those RM cheats / gooners