Liverpool FC vs Aston Villa: Post match grumblings

[jonty]

:@

Full time. Liverpool 1-3 Aston Villa

[7-King Kenny-7]

Mixture of being cheated by the ref, shambolic play and unable to finish a couple of great chances.

[crouchinho]

Sh*t. Utter sh*t.

Rafa walked off preparing to set up his electric chair and hopefully he puts Steven Gerrard in there first.

[ayrton77]

A real mixed bag tonight, unfotunately every time we dipped our hands in it was just a different choice of sh*te we pulled out.

Bad defending, bad finishing, bad passing, bad refereeing, and no luck.

We are responsible for the defeat tonight, I don't think Villa won the match as we threw it away, and that from almost the very beginning of the first half.

Bollocks to it, onwards and upwards. For those of you who think the season's over, why not choose another club to support? Spurs are doing well right now, apparently.

[jonty]

My topic was 1st so should be kept

[mattmcg]

Well played Aston Villa.  That's all I've got to say.

[chats]

"After this performance, 17 Premier League Managers frantically phone the Premier League head office, asking one question: Can we play Liverpool next? Please?"

[mattmcg]

So bloody depressing that we have 3 post match threads!!

[yoyo-yoyo]

Well, I got called 'pathetic' because I said that our prem season could already be over by the time Aquilani was available after the Spurs game......unless there is some amazing transfer business to be done I stand by that

[ayrton77]

My topic was 1st so should be kept

F***ing sh*te post, though.

[Adryan]

6 points adrift after 3 games.

Very very bad. Strength in depth isn't there. 2nd half was much better than the first and was so unlike Stevie to dive in and concede a penalty. Looks like Xabi Alonso is a bigger loss than what I thought.

On the bright side, we lost to 2 very decent teams. We had 3 difficult games already. All our conceded goals came from set pieces.
It's okay to drop points at the beginning as long as we make up for it after that. This needs to get sorted out sharpish or we won't see the title at Anfield in May 2010.

[linneman]

poor performance. But maybe if we hadn't made that owngoal, it would have turned out differently. After the goal of Torres, for a moment I thought we would score 2 more, but then the penalty...
I'd say, on to the next match!

[ayrton77]

6 points adrift after 3 games.

Very very bad. Strength in depth isn't there. 2nd half was much better than the first and was so unlike Stevie to dive in and concede a penalty. Looks like Xabi Alonso is a bigger loss than what I thought.

On the bright side, we lost to 2 very decent teams. We had 3 difficult games already. All our conceded goals came from set pieces.
Need to get sorted out sharpish or we won't see the title at Anfield in May 2010.

Fairly summed up, I'd say.

But no excuses for tonight, we didn't do enough to win the game, simple as.

[robbyr]

Poor show by lucas today no urgency too many short square passes, for gods sake where is your invention, supposed to be brazilian, voranin needs selling , use pacheco instead. We need another winger on the right as kuyt doesnt get wide.   The season is not over by a long chalk, the transfer window hasnt closed and we will get nice odds on winning the league now for once.

[Beansie]

just one of those nights.

villa had one chance the whole game.

don't think we played that bad.

[vtorres]

Arghh I cannot believe we have lost again ! Today was a pathetic attempt to win a game after first ten minutes it like our team just gave up ! Not going to single anyone out for bad performances as most of the team played poorly but I will single out Skrtel, Carragher and Johsnons who were our best players today and out of them three two of them Carra and Johnson were more attacking then the midfield and Torres and Gerrard.

[ayrton77]

Well, I got called 'pathetic' because I said that our prem season could already be over by the time Aquilani was available after the Spurs game......unless there is some amazing transfer business to be done I stand by that

And rightly so.

Since when was the season over after a couple of weeks?

I don't deny our form is shocking, but I won't throw in the towel just yet, thanks.

[chats]

don't think we played that bad.

You f**king kidding me?

Bar Carra and Mascherano (and maybe Johnson) they were all sh*t. No heart, no desire, nothing. Passing was poor, there was no tempo to the game. It was awful, one of the worst displays of recent times.

[tezmac]

At least last year we were getting draws FFS

[whyohwhyohwhy]

Sigh    Very disappointing.  Composing my thoughts.  Just hope this is a cunning ruse by Rafa for us to start off so poorly and lull everyone else into a false sense of security.

[BigRed1978]

3 games, 1 win and 2 losses.

Already lost as many games in the first 3 as we lost in the whole of last season and to put it simply that's just not good enough.

Never mind bleating on saying 'Lucas was sh*t' or 'Lucas doesn't deserve to wear the shirt' well looking at the display tonight NOBODY deserved to wear the shirt and that includes the 'big stars'.

We were a bag of sh*t and unless it improves sharpish we'll be lucky to get a top 4.

[Adryan]

Johnson had a pretty good game except the part he was spinning around and lost the ball. Mascherano, Skrtel and Carragher didn't do too badly either.

It was really a shocking performance by Dirk Kuyt, Fernando Torres, Steven Gerrard and Yossi Benayoun. I mean, the team didn't play their best but it was so unlike them. Can't remember them passing the ball to one another.

We still lack the creativity in the final 3rd. Lucas and Masherano are too similar and they prefer passing either back or side ways.

[Ross]

At least last year we were getting draws FFS

Yeah but it was the draws that killed us, not the losses.

This season we could draw few and get more 3 points meaning the league.

[Bpatel]

Tough match.

It was always going to be tough to come back from 2-0 but we had done it before in previous matches, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.

Sh*tty start to the season but I'm not going to get carried away and start spouting sh*t. Shoddy defending and sloppy passing let us down today.

I just hope this is the worst of the results now. The players really need to pull their socks up and get back to business, Liverpool style.

[ayrton77]

At least last year we were getting draws FFS

Keep it for the knee-jerk thread.

Last season we were all saying that we'd accept a couple more defeats if it meant more points overall, maybe that's the plan?

Just hope this is a cunning ruse by Rafa for us to start off so poorly and lull everyone else into a false sense of security.

[crouchinho]

For the sake of my own and the forum's sake, I will save alot of expletives and provide a summary later on. I'm fuming that those tw*ts out there were lucky enough to wear the Red of Liverpool, might as well have taken it off and gone to the pub.

[Dmasta]

We played well until we conceded but once we did there was no urgency or determination to get back in the game I find that more disappointing then if we'd just conceded a few jammy goals. Heads will roll and rightly so.

[jonty]

My topic was 1st so should be kept

But yeh, few things :
1. It comes to a point when our players to come off the bench and change the game are Voronin + Babel :/
2. We played to predictable : get it wide, get  it central on the edge of the box and try to work an opening, but we failed to make an opening . Not the best tactics Rafa I must say
3. Well played Villa
4. Now we've lost as many games as last season so now we've got to go unbeaten all season to mount a SERIOUS title challenge

 


But nevertheless                                                            

[xBooniex]

Well played Masch Glen Jamie and Martin thats all that can be said without being negative

[Diego LFC]

There's nothing worst then what I am feeling right now. So disappointing. I can't even say anything about the performance itself, I'm just heart broken.