Match Thread Liverpool V Brighton

[KingCanny]

Alisson 8
Jones 8.5
Konate 8
Virgil 8
MacAllister 7
Szoboszlai 8.5
Wirtz 7
Salah 8
Gakpo 7
Chiesa 7

But the over all team performance wasn’t as impressive as you may think from looking at those scores. Brighton had too many chances and indeed had more attempts than we did.

Cheers bud. I will catch up on the highlights Monday. Hoping we have turned a corner.

[CCTV]

Alisson 8
Jones 8.5
Konate 8
Virgil 8
MacAllister 7
Szoboszlai 8.5
Wirtz 7
Salah 8
Gakpo 7
Chiesa 7

But the over all team performance wasn’t as impressive as you may think from looking at those scores. Brighton had too many chances and indeed had more attempts than we did.

Calling Kerkez the invisible man, ya snide fucker

Cheers bud. I will catch up on the highlights Monday. Hoping we have turned a corner.

Alisson 7
Jones 8
Konate 7
Virgil 7
Kerkez 8.5
MacAllister 8.5
Szoboszlai 8
Wirtz 7
Salah 8
Gakpo 7
Chiesa 6

Kerkez motm for me. Assist for the opener. Pass before the assist for the second.

MacA got stuck in...
MacA - 8 tackles & 2 intercepts (10)
LFC - 15 tackles & 6 intercepts (21)

Jones, Sobozla & Salah played well & got goals..

Salah won a soft penalty, he gets fouled much worse in PL. He played better and was furthest forward on average by a good bit.

Gakpo had a headed goal ruled out for offside
He assisted Rio but that was ruled offside and it looked on. Cracking finish from Rio.

Chiesa struggled more than most.

[JockStrap]

Alisson 7
Jones 7
Konate 8
Virgil 8
Kerkez 9
MacAllister 5
Szoboszlai 8
Wirtz 6
Salah 7
Gakpo 6
Chiesa 4

Brighton had some chances,, notably when Jones slipped to let them clean through. Alisson had a dodgy moment where one of his clearances got blocked and could have gone anywhere.

Salah was ok. A sublime assist and won/scored a penalty. Better but nowhere near his best. Chiesa might as well not have been on the pitch.

Kerkez was easily MOTM.

[Ravo19]

The second goal was a real thing of beauty, lovely assist from Mo’s right foot and an excellent finish from Szoboszlai. Need to get him tied down asap

Agree,hate all these rumours popping up of "his dream move is real madrid"and he wants a massive pay rise.
Dont know much about his personality and aims in football to dismiss them,would he make a good captain?

[Steveo]

We were in the Anfield Road End 19… Posh seats - Brodies and sweet AM5 seats right behind the goal - just above the very cheeky Brighton fans.

First half - Brighton could and probably should have gone ahead. We were nervous and they played some nice football.
The Goal for Jones flipped the game really and it was no coincidence Miloš got the wonderful assist.. the atmosphere changed - great timing for the goal just before HT put bun in the players. Second half and we saw something more like the Liverpool we have become used to for most of the last decade. Belief - and the ability to actually finish.

2 disallowed goals. Rio’s was superb..

Cody did ok from a low bar of expectation. Still has one move.

Alisson - Saved us a couple of times
Virgil - Imperious
Ibou - Decent
Dominic - Superb
Florian - Not on it
Curtis - Very very good
Miloš - Almost Zanetti like (high praise)
Macca - A better showing for him
Mo - Almost the Mo of last season
Cody - better than of late but not enough
Chiesa - nothing really


Rio looked a real threat when he came on.. He seemed to link up well with Hugo in moments. Could be something to watch going forward.

Decent showing against a team that is struggling,

Really nice not to have to stress after going 2 up. Was obvious we were winning only question was by how much.

[Kev0909]

Glad you had a good time.

[Kev0909]

I must say glad Kerkez had a good game, never been worried about him or wirtz though like others, seen enough of them both at previous club s to know they're good players and not suddenly crap after joining us.

They'll both do even better when we have a better LW and someone kerkez works well with.

[miller0863]

Ha! Can’t believe I missed Kerkez off, another 8.5 from me.

I blame the red wine.

In the match thread I had him as motm in the first half but Szoboszlai and Jones were just as good over all I thought.