Rapid Vienna 1-0 Liverpool - post match thoughts

[Bahrosa-LFC]

FFS, Fulltime. 1-0.

[crouchinho]

Historic victory...in a friendly.

I'm off to bed, screw this.

[7-King Kenny-7]

Full time. Not good.

[RedPuppy]

Totally given up on any stream, but this is more entertaining. These names your quoting are like some ripoff team avoiding copyright.

[Alastair]

Regardless of some of you saying result doesnt count, the fact that the team looks completely disjointed is quite the concern, espcially since one or two "first" team players were very shoddy, fit or not.

[solodee]

Carragher couldn't organize the defence?

[JayDLFC]

ahh well like he said its only a friendly guys not like we lost anything we had kids out gotta give them a try

[dunlop liddell shankly]

180 minutes, no goals. Friendly or not, it's not great reading.

Needs sorting out sharpish.

[CurlyRed]

Don't understand why Glen J didn't feature just as a sub - couldn't have done any harm..... do any of you know from the pre-match publicity? 

[RedDrog]

we were abysmal but at least it was only a preseason game.. lots to do to improve and im sure we'll be better when we get the rest of our first team back...

[Darkone]

Well. Its only a friendly anyway. Pacheco looks really good. His skill on the ball remind me of Messi. Rafa should work on him! We could creat a 'new Messi'.

[redkenny]

ahh well like he said its only a friendly guys not like we lost anything we had kids out gotta give them a try

We lost the game. That's enough to make me pissed off. But you're right about the inexperience. Add sloppiness and tiredness to that.

Not a good game to watch and not really any great individual performances. Although Pacheco looked lively.

We've got to start improving and get fit soon. The season is only a matter of weeks away now.

[bartman49]

It's never good to lose but if you going to lose now is the time, and not when the season starts, it's what these games are for to iron out all the holiday staleness, and for me the game done it's main job. You could see the Vienna club were well up on their fitness, their league kicks off this weekend and we have a few weeks to go. Good to see Mascha back, and was that a smile on his face at one point, anyway he's back so lets hope we will not here any more of him leaving, another mention for little Pacheco, what a talent, again he was the best of our players and even laid on a couple of goal chances for Kuyt, has to be in their with a chance of a starting place some time this season terrific prospect....

[adammac]

Pre-season is pre-season, I don't know why so many people get their underwear in a knot over the result. Degen lasted 60 minutes, kids got a run out and no one got seriously hurt (well I think Yossi is okay). It is interesting to see what young players get to make the trip to Asian while the other who will be sent back down to the reserve team for their pre-season games.

[7-King Kenny-7]

180 minutes, no goals. Friendly or not, it's not great reading.

Needs sorting out sharpish.

Not to mention 4 goals let in but luckily 3 of them ruled out.

Don't understand why Glen J didn't feature just as a sub - couldn't have done any harm..... do any of you know from the pre-match publicity? 

Has a slight knock thats why.

[Brian78]

Rather a poor pre season, were sloppy things can be ironed out, and go on to maybe win a league next May then set the world alight pre season and have a disjointed season

[kenny]

We lost a Pre Season game, ok I wont lose too much sleep but still its always nice to show these low standard teams who's boss.

I sensed a bit of frustration from two or three of the senior players Gerrard for one and I don't know if anyone noticed it but I felt a bit of a bad atmosphere in the squad. We'll know in the next game when we have the spainish players back if we dont start winning then ill start to worry.

Hope Yossi is ok he took a bit of a knock at the end I hope its not serious.

[redkenny]

Pre-season is pre-season, I don't know why so many people get their underwear in a knot over the result.

My underwear is perfectly fine. But I f**king hate it when we get beat whether it's in pre season or not. Obviously the seriousness of this game was zero and the main focus is just to get the lads back on track. And to be fair, Rapid Vienna were clearly more fit and focused on the game.

But I still hate it when we get beat. The only real plus we can take from this is the lads can watch the game back and see how not to play football when the season starts.

[Brian78]

Hope Yossi is ok he took a bit of a knock at the end I hope its not serious.

Where was the knock Kenny?

[JD]

Pre-season is pre-season, I don't know why so many people get their underwear in a knot over the result.

True. I remember in the 80s when we were winning titles we had some pretty abysmal pre-seasons.

Regardless of some of you saying result doesnt count, the fact that the team looks completely disjointed is quite the concern, espcially since one or two "first" team players were very shoddy, fit or not.

In fairness though - at any point were our 'team' actually playing alongside each other.

Bunch of kids out there - Pacheco and Nemeth are blatantly not taking their opportunities to shine.  I'm prepared to look on the bright side and say at this stage it is still all about the fitness.  Gerrard's assault charge is not helpful that he is travelling back to Liverpool and not to Thailand.

However, for me, we definintely need back up for Torres. If we lose him to injury this season then we are in big trouble. Yossi's injury is a cause for concern and my oh my how I would love to see someone like Silva at Anfield.

The owners need to deliver about £40 M to Rafa - they've let us down and like I keep saying - if you include the Keane sale - they haven't spent a penny on transfers this summer at Liverpool FC. An absolute joke.

[kenny]

Where was the knock Kenny?

He was stretchered of in the last few Min's after a bad challenge or was I just imagining things?

[JoeyLFC]

is this a joke?? How did we manage this? I'm not happy. Not happy at all

[Junior_Red]

Pre-Season matters little, we've had great pre-seasons and had poor seasons, we've had poor pre-seasons and great seasons so does it matter?

[xxLiverPrinc3ssxx]

Feeling a bit gutted that we lost but at the end of the day it was just a pre-season game, so I won't lose any sleep over it. That commentator was proper annoying me though, the way he pronounced some of the players names, and the crap that he was coming out with... Oh don't get me started.

[Eem]

Only positive is Pacheco. He'll be a star one day.

Poor performance, and although it's only pre-season, I hate it when we lose.

[dunlop liddell shankly]

Pre-Season matters little, we've had great pre-seasons and had poor seasons, we've had poor pre-seasons and great seasons so does it matter?

Yes!

Whether it's pre-season or not it's always good to get into a winning mentality. It's always good to hit the ground running. It's always difficult to shake off a barren spell of lack of goals. It's always disheartening to lose.

Obviously if we go to White Hart Lane are tw*t Spurs 5-0 nobody will even mention the results. But it's still nice to get rhythm and a winning streak built up. Get goals under our belt.

Lets be honest everybody is trying to make out these games don't matter because we've not done well. If they didn't matter people wouldn't have been praising Johnson's debut, last year people wouldn't of been drooling over Ngog's impressive pre-season or Voronin's the year before. Last year we were all singing our praises after hammering Rangers 4-0 and a good solid 1-0 win over Lazio, but all of a sudden we're doing badly in pre-season so it doesn't matter? Bollocks to be honest.

Pre-season is vital because not only does it gain our fitness, get some momentum going, it also shows what we're lacking and during this pre-season we're showing signs of struggling without Torres up top.

[bri1970]

getting beat is never easy to take but at least it was only friendly.No goals is a bit worrying but I am sure we will start to step in the next game as the players are getting fitter.

[Eem]

The way I see it, you have to try to get things right now. Pretending these games don't matter is a losers mentality, and I'm sure the players know that we have to win these games.

[JD]

DLS, I'm not saying pre-season isn't important - but I'll pay more interest to the results in pre-season when I see a recognisable Liverpool XI out.

We conceded a goal when Peter Gulacsi was in goal.  He's about our 4th choice keeper (even ignoring Itandje (tw*t) and that Bulgarian fella).

When the Spaniards etc are all back in - players I would expect to see us actually use in the first team - then the results will have more significance.

[ssr.w]

I know that I am not the only one that's been waiting, counting the days, hours, minutes and seconds, but for what I think? for this? no one seems or wants to win this game..the last season ended up in the very best of ways, so I expect that this season will be even better, so for a start when I've had imagine results like 7-0 or less or some astonishing matches, I realize, that with this mentality we'll have to wait a little bit longer to win some other EPL, sorry if anyone feels touched, but that's how I feel now,

in the good and in the bad times  'once a red always a red'!