Losing hurts - it always does. But sometimes you can stomach a defeat if you're seen to be trying to do something about it. A bit of fight and desire is the very least Liverpool fans should be expecting to see. If you give that then the fans will love you, no matter how sh*t you are.
That tonight though was an embarrassment to the name of Liverpool Football Club. The players didn't give a toss. Before, during and after the game it was all about how we'll do well to get a point. How we've already lost before a ball has been kicked. We went into the game knowing we were gonna lose. That's not F***ing on, not from this club.
Nobody put themselves about tonight. Nobody showed any sort of fight to go and knock Madrid off their game plan. It was the perfect chance for somebody to just go flying into a tackle, F**k the ball just stick the fella in row z. The crowd would of amped up the volume, the rest of the players would of got a lift and it would of sent Madrid shitting themselves. But all F***ing game we stood 10-15 paces off them and allowed them to pass the ball around. Even the first fifteen minutes when we supposedly played well, we didn't hurt them in any shape or form. Second half, they couldn't be arsed playing. They came out waiting for the ref to blow up for full time, we still couldn't do anything. Still ran away from the ball.
I don't think Real Madrid outclassed us tonight, I think we simply allowed them to play the game they wanted.
There was easily 6 or 7 players in Liverpool Red tonight that I could happily never see play for us again.
I'd rather get beat 11-0 with 11 players who show fight and desire than what I saw tonight. Throw the F***ing kids in cos they can't be any F***ing worse than that. If people are telling me Jordon Ibe couldn't do what Markovic is doing then they're F***ing idiots. 20 million for somebody who is no F***ing better than a young lad we already had on our books. 16 million for Balotelli when we've got Harry Wilson scoring for fun in the youth team. 10 million for Can, who I thought was probably our best player tonight, when Rossiter is sitting there just waiting for a chance. 25 million for Lallana, so he can drag it back once, twice, three times and lose the ball. 20 million for a centre half who can't F***ing head a ball.
Not to mention the players we already had. Johnson who is F***ing useless. How we sold Kelly but kept him is beyond me. Henderson, who I do rate, shitting himself to play the ball forward (when he did we should of got a foul from Arbeloa on Sterling). And Gerrard, the one player I thought could raise the rest of the team, not giving a toss. He was probably the most defeatist of the lot before the game. Sickening to hear it.
Ah F**k me that was shambolic.
As for Rodgers' subs tonight. They were F***ing mind blowing. We need 3 goals to get a point so we'll bring the forward off and throw a midfielder on. Why the F**k buy Rickie Lambert if he's not use him? I know we tried flogging Borini but since we couldn't, why not have him on the bench? Surely he's gonna be more of a threat than Markovic? And then to bring Coutinho off, the one fella who looked to be making things happen, was just down right daft.
As I've already said, Real Madrid did not outclass us tonight. We simply allowed them to do what the F**k they wanted. Any team in the world, given the kind of space we gave them, is gonna exploit it. I really can't understand how we couldn't even press them and get the F***ing boot in occasionally.
Well F**k it, it's gone. Ain't gonna dwell on it. Hopefully a few home truths get said in training and we can move onto a successful third consecutive League win against Hull.
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