Liverpool 1-1 Everton: In-game & post-match "..."

I thought we played well... just couldn't score and then got robbed at the death.

F**k I can't wait till Sturridge is back. He adds a whole new dimension to our game.

He does, I do feel given time, Mario will be able to deliver. But Sturridge getting injured when a new striker comes in at the club - worst case scenario ever. Give it a year, I'm sure Mario would have won us games what with being used to the system and all that.

I still blame that stupid c**t Hodgson for this.

Oh and by the way - Lallana will be class when Sturridge is back - a pedestrian Ballotelli is not ideal

Brendan out you F***ing c**t , always sitting deep when leading, like we are a relegation team, worked last season when the luck , solely the luck saved us. See the games vs norwich, west ham, sunderland

Disrespectful is too kind a word for "supporters" like you.

To be fair I thought we played much better today and defended generally pretty well. You can't legislate for a fella scoring a worldy in the dying seconds. As it's dropping to him we're all hoping he's going to hit it as it was a one in a hundred chance. Sometimes they fly in, usually they don't.

As for Mario's sitter, it was actually a great save.

Can't blame our defence for that goal, you simply don't save those. Maybe should have been closing him down quicker, but this is Phil F***ing Jagielka when does he hit a shot like that, only against us it seems.

Deserved to win, Barry should have been off early, we should have had a couple off Balo at least but we got punished for sitting back.

People moan when we sit back at the end, they moan when we attack at the end. I thought our performance was better than recent weeks, Gerrard much better and Lallana miles better, MotM for me today Adam. Also think our defending was better than it has been but we've been sucker punched and anyone can take those.

It hurts more because of our shocking results recently, need to pick ourselves up and get on a winning run or we'll see this race for top 4 be a tough ask.

Brendan out you f**king c**t , always sitting deep when leading, like we are a relegation team, worked last season when the luck , solely the luck saved us. See the games vs norwich, west ham, sunderland

well well well that makes a very good supporter/fan out of you

 YNWA

You are as bad as each other. Prats.

Another DISGRACEFUL performance.

Sick of this bunch now.

Appalling. Why they let Everton attack? Why they stood off? Why they did nothing?

Lalana at the end there showed what we needed to do. But after he ran around, what did the lads do? Nothing. Sat down. Had a chat. Bunch of pussies. No fight in them. No pride. No care.

Brendan out you f**king c**t , always sitting deep when leading, like we are a relegation team, worked last season when the luck , solely the luck saved us. See the games vs norwich, west ham, sunderland

Dare I say it? I was actually quite happy with our performance.

It feels like a loss, we played well enough to win, but we didn't take our chances. Mario needs to sharpen up QuickTime!

Balotelli was the subject of a lot of provocation, thought he did well not reacting. It's gonna click one day soon.

Somebody up there hates us...

Would of been a good result with an ok performance. Now its a poor result with an ok performance. Which is a lot worse in my eyes.

Balotelli should have scored. We looked a lot better with Coutinho on, Markovic seems off the pace and not with it.

Sterling showed glimpses of what he can do but end ball was never there. Moreno and Manquillo were quite average today. 

Not sure why we didn't have two up top it's clear Balotelli doesn't like to run in behind the defence, have him with someone up top and he will get more space. Showed great strength and linked up well, but needs to be more direct when attacking.

We need to up the tempo, we don't have that same hunger and desire to get the goals this season.

Onto the next one ay.

The amount of chances we had today................... ......... how did we not comfortably win that?

You waste your chances, you're going to invite real pressure at the end. When some of the new players get to grips with the system, goals will come, but it's ball-achingly frustrating at the moment.

It's encouraging we played a lot lot better today, but god, nothing makes you feel good from this match especially when you need the points.

Because we did not buy a pure goal scorer in the Summer. Balotelli is a target man. He's not meant to be running the channels, he's meant to be holding the ball up, turning his man, nodding the ball down or getting on the end of headers. He is not meant to be leading the attack and the fact that we're being forced in to playing him like that is a failing of our Summer transfer policy. Blatant missed chance aside, he had a reasonable game. He's a square peg trying to be forced in to a round hole and people need to stop blaming him for that.

I thought the performance  was not bad at all. Lallana worked his socks off and IMO was MoTM.

sh*t,sh*t,sh*t,....


 

Because we did not buy a pure goal scorer in the Summer. Balotelli is a target man. He's not meant to be running the channels, he's meant to be holding the ball up, turning his man, nodding the ball down or getting on the end of headers. He is not meant to be leading the attack and the fact that we're being forced in to playing him like that is a failing of our Summer transfer policy. Blatant missed chance aside, he had a reasonable game. He's a square peg trying to be forced in to a round hole and people need to stop blaming him for that.

He's on £80,000 a week and if the manager says you run the channels, you run the channels. If the manager says you need to be more mobile up front, you do that too. Just like the manager told him 'you do mark at corners now'

We need to face facts. This team is going to need time to gel and adopt Brendans tactics.

Hope we make the most of this years CL participation because in all honesty we're simply not good enough to make the top 4 to take part next year.

I hope there's money available for a proper pacey forward in January.

Second place syndrome is striking again it would seem

Feels like a defeat but I do think people are being a bit too negative. We created a lot more openings today and if it was Sturridge instead of Markovic we probably would have created even more and maybe scored a few more too.

Defence were a lot more solid today, Moreno was doing brilliantly (until he almost threw it away in the last second) against the much bigger and stronger Lukaku and the CBs were more commanding (even though Mignolet again tried to F**k them over by not coming out).

Gerrard and Hendo were much improved in the middle, Gerrard in particular put in a performance like the ones he was producing towards the back end of last season. Sterling was decent, created some things but was wasteful on other occasions. Markovic was very poor and was the clear weak link but I think he'll get better with time and Coutinho returned to the side with a decent shift. Lallana was my clear MOTM, always looking to make something happen and the way he was running about everywhere making tackles was brilliant, he will be one hell of a player for us.

Not sure what to make of Mario's performance. Some very nice touches and again he put in a top shift but his end product seems a worry and he really should have scored twice (Howard shouldn't be getting a sniff for that second chance). I think he will get better with time, it's just a mighty shame that Sturridge got injured so early meaning we had to rely on Balotelli at such an early point in his Liverpool career.

How we pick ourselves up from this one will define our season. We need this game to fire us up, we need to use it as motivation to go on and kill teams off. We are still lucky that only Chelsea really have got off to a flyer so we aren't going to be miles off the pace come next weekend but it's getting to that point now where if we don't get on a run the top 4 is looking like one hell of a struggle.

Im actually relieved cos although we deserved to win the game by two or three I thought after their one in a million kind of goal they were then going to steal it at the end with that free kick.  Imagine that?  Bad enough now but imagine if they had beaten us in injury time with that back heel. That really would have summed up our day. So Im a bit gutted we did not win but deep down relieved it wasnt worse.  And I am at least encouraged with most of the performance.   I thought we played very well apart from the last ten when we were understandably jittery and sat too deep. If Sturridge returns and Emre Can and Joe Allen get fit and challenge central midfield then I think we can be pretty formidable again.

Well at least the trend is broken.. W L W L W L W D and that was a pathetic September

Off to Switzerland, pick up an away win and we have West Bro (H), QPR (A), Hull (H), Newcastle (A) until the plastics come here. Common boys, lets have a good October

bit harsh on balo could have been hero but for Howards shoulder.

Mignolet -6still stuck to line but not lot to do
Manquillo 6 - offered little offensively but good at back
Lovren and Skyrtel-7
Moreno-7 bjt rash at back with pen appeal and near costly foul at end but good going forward
Hendo7 more snappy and pressed well benefited from rest
Stevie 8 much better due to having more time and trademark goal
Sterling and lallana 8/9
Markovic 3
Balo 6

Jagielka showing Balo how to do it.

Average performance, even though we played better than Everton and should've got the win. Really unlucky and totally gutted with the result.

A draw at home always feels like a loss, no matter who we face.