Really frustrating night. We seem to have half a dozen or so of these games each season where for whatever reason too many of our lads donāt show up. You can carry one, maybe two, but you canāt carry 8 or 9.
I thought Matip and tskmikas had good games, virgil and Trent did ok, and then the rest were poor in truth.
I was surprised ox got hooked. I donāt think he was particularly great or anything but I still thought he was the better of the three in the middle. He tried to clip a few balls over the top and was the only creative thing we had in the middle. Fabinho was really off it tonight and I was surprised Hendo wasnāt hooked much sooner too. Got to say though naby was awful when he came on and Milner was just Milner, great at helping seeing games out but heās not what you want when youāre chasing a goal.
The front three were huffing and puffing all night and Bobby should have been brought on much sooner.
3 points dropped against a sh*te Leicester team. We had the chances but didnāt take them. Very annoying.
Presumably city will go 9 clear after they play Brentford and I think thatās too much to claw back despite having a game in hand.
In my opinion, and without being biased, weāre the best team in the league. When weāre performing at our absolute best then I donāt think anybody else can touch us. The problem is our style requires the opposition to leave gaps and spaces for it to be effective and thatās why we see these games from time to time. We struggle to break down teams who put ten behind the ball and sit deep. Itās why we signed thiago to offer that something different and boy did we miss him tonight.
Citys style is better playing the other teams in the league. They are extremely good at working the ball in tight areas and have about a million technical players. They put 6 past this sh*te Leicester team a couple of days ago. We just donāt have that.
But itās why we will always do better than them in europe because generally you come up against top teams who want to play, therefore leaving the space for us to exploit and thatās when weāre at our best.
Shambles tonight. Very frustrating. Gutted because my head is telling me we canāt catch city now.
Weāve given ourselves a bit of a mountain to climb. But weāre liverpool and we never do it easy do we? Chelsea is an absolute must win.
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