I've only just stopped laughing over that goal
The funniest thing about it was, when VVD shot there was a loud cheer of 'Waaaayy' from the bitter away section. Only for the ball to land on pickfords head who made a mess of it and divock tapped in home
brilliant.
The celebrations by the Kop, players and in particular JĆ¼rgen was class. What a way to win a Derby match hahaha.
Right that said, let's get level headed now and I'll discuss the game how I saw it as always.
First things first, I wasn't happy with the line up. Whenever we play shaqiri, we have to move both firmino and Salah out of position and it affects them both massively. Neither have been particularly great this season anyway, but there's no doubt about it that firmino is much better playing as the 9 and that Salah is much better out wide.
James Milner hasn't been playing particularly great of late either but for a Derby game he would have been the first name on the team sheet for me. I'd have also put Keita in for this match too.
So personally, I'd have gone with the same back five, gini as the 6, Milner and Keita as the 8s and our usual front three. I think that's our best team.
Anyway, the game gets underway and it's just end to end in truth. Everton had some massive chances, in particular the header from two yards out. I can't believe they missed that but it was great goalkeeping and then follow up defending from Gomez (who was immense throughout).
We also had some big chances of our own and both mane and shaqiri should have scored.
That said, I don't think we played particularly well and if anything, Everton were the better side. I thought we lacked fluidity going forward and our midfield was being over ran. I don't know how many times klopp has to play firmino as the point of the midfield in the 10 role to realise it just doesn't work. The huge spaces we left in midfield we're embarrassing at times and against a better team, they'd have punished us. Fabinho did ok I thought but gini was a passenger for most parts and Bobby was shocking.
Second half I felt we went up a gear and that Everton sat back a little bit and were looking for the draw. We had a couple of more big chances that we should have put away. Mane missed another big chance and I can't believe origi hit the bar from about 3 yards out either. Again, we weren't playing particularly well but I felt it was one way traffic.
The goal eventually came which is up there with the funniest and flukiest goals I've ever seen. To get that 90+6 against that shower of sh*te of all teams was truly brilliant. I haven't stopped laughing at the absolute fume coming from them since
.... F***ing brilliant.
To summarise, we probably just about deserved the win overall in terms of big chances. Everton had 2 or 3 but we had 4 or 5. In terms of playing football, I actually thought they were the better side for once, especially in the first half. Maybe that's because we always drill them and for once they didn't look as sh*te as they usually are.
We've still not found our rhythm yet. The football is a bit sh*t and we've got big problems in the midfield and with our attack. Unless we solve it pretty soon then we're going to get found out I'm afraid so it's no good jumping on people's backs who are raising the concerns.
Special mention to our back five who have been incredible all season. Our goalie is F***ing boss and Gomez has saved us 50m on bringing in a new cb to partner virgil. He is going to be every bit as good as VVD and to be honest, he's not that far off now.
A brilliant and hilarious win, one we needed after city's win, but we still need to book our ideas up. Come on reds.