Can’t believe there isn’t a line of folks waiting to praise Jürgen, I mean we give him plenty of stick when we get a bad result. Should probably give him kudos when we get a good one?
Well done today boss, nice bounce back.
It's always easier to criticise than to praise. Just have a look at the amount of pages in a live match thread when we draw / lose (we've actually only lost 3 games in the last 35 or something?) a game compared to when we win and demolish teams. Of course it's no fun to say something was good, it's only fun to rip into players, the manager and blaming the scapegoat of the day for whatever result we had on the day (in no way blaming you, just in general).
I'm happy with our progress under Klopp. Yes, the amount of draws are rather frustrating, but we haven't been outplayed by a single team so far this season (unless people really want to count the City game where we were down to 10 men). We've turned last season's losses into draws, time to turn a few of them into wins.
Last season we regulary struggled beating the bus parkers / cannon fodder / lower half of the table teams.
This season's numbers so far against these teams:
Win: 8
Draw: 2
Loss: 0
Goals for: 29 / Goals against: 3
Those are some pretty stellar numbers compared to last season.
Out of our eight draws:
- Six were against teams in the top half of the table
- Two were scoreless draws
- In all but one of the six score draws, we were ahead at some point in the game
We're pretty much the polar opposite of last season dropping points in the games against the big teams now. Though I think we deserved more in all of the Chelsea, Arsenal and manc games.
We're well on our way to have a 80-90 goals scored season and 75-80 points season (if we manage to turn some of these draws into wins) while having made the final 16 in the CL. Progress.
With regards to the goalkeeping situation: there was a clear agreement in place at the start of the season. Mignolet gets the league, Karius the CL. If Klopp didn't rate Karius, he wouldn't be playing him in the bloody CL and the occasional league game. Think he's just being careful with him. Lots of people are calling for him to get a run in the side (me included). The majority of these people will jump on his back from the moment he fucks up. This board goes half into meltdown when we draw a game. What do people think will happen if he messes up just once? We all saw what happened last season.
Did I agree with Mignolet starting against Swansea? Nope, but at least we know Klopp is a man of his word.