Basel 1 - 0 Liverpool: In Game & Post Game Wonderings (again).

I hate posts like this one but if we had suarez we would have been winning this game. No, I'm ashamed of posting this but I can't force myself to stop because I whole heartily believe it to be the case.

No need to be ashamed mate it is true. A lot of people thought we'd get stronger without him..

The sad fact is we are sorely missing his goals, assists, hunger and desire to win.

I think we should have bought someone with the same traits, ok they'd never be as good but it wouldn't totally disrupt our style.

We have gone from a fast, skilful goal and assist machine to two bigger, slower players who I think don't fit our style

No we wouldn't, he is still banned so he'd have been watching if we still had him. Remember that. All theses games that people are saying "if we only had Luis" well you might as well say if we'd only had Messi cause there would have been a better chance of that after Luis got banned.

I started my post with a if, so when I say if had Luis. Then I mean on the pitch not banned but I get your point though. Reason everybody mention Luis is because we had a world class player and we let him go, now we can't replace him with all the money we got for him.
We never had messi.

Mario is the best play on the team, tonight, in my opinion. Tried a lot, but it's not easy to be a striker on a team that can't create and don't have plays for a striker.

I'm sorry but he's been shocking. He is the anti Suarez.

Well, at least we have had the ball in the net now like.

F**k it. We are in trouble boys.

Those thinking Mario has been our best player must think he is a midfielder or something. What the F**k has he done that has been half decent?

We're a bit sh*t at the moment to be honest. Is that honest enough?

We weren't going to win the CL anyway

I'm sorry but he's been shocking. He is the anti Suarez.

Difference is, he was playing in a team that suited his style.

That is total rubbish. Normally, you write sensible posts but that is not true.

Balotelli is and has been really trying,

Then why bother buying him?

F***ing sickening watching us.

Then why bother buying him?

I've already answered this.

anyone hanging around for "the players were immense tonight" interview they all need a rocket up their arses

F***ing frustrating. Not one player deserves any credit today. We played sh*t as a team. Main culprits Raheem, Marcovic,  Enrique and Brendan's tactics and team selection. F**k got up at 4:45 for this sh*t! Shattered.

See that there even? Gerrard hoofing fro 50 yards. Terrible football. Worse than terrible. We are F***ing awful to watch.

Why are we comparing him to Suarez? Mario is not as good as him and It's wrong to think that he would be. He is Mario, he has his style and BR needs to figure out a way to get the best of him. He is a really good striker and will be useful if we want something to do with titles. And, tonight, even tough the players that should be involved in creating chances were awful(Sterling, markovic and Coutinho), he tried. We won't score alone like Suarez did last season, but in a good team, he could be the player we want him to be.

The new spurs unfortunately. I'm getting F***ing loads of texts from my pals saying that anyway.

We have 100% lost our flow big time. I'm genuinely worried about where we're going this season.

Balotelli is and has been really trying,

But he looks more troubled than happy.

Not one of them had a decent touch when played a half decent ball to their feet.

Then why bother buying him?

Because he is cheap, and the guy who sold most LFC shirts was gone. Now we needed another high profile player who sells shirts. We can't afford the big names. Enter Mr Mario. Cheap. Will sells shirt.

That is total rubbish. Normally, you write sensible posts but that is not true.

Balotelli is and has been really trying,

Then why bother buying him?

Not saying he hasn't been trying. He doesn't create the openings or doesn't commit the runs which empowers players like Coutinho who I feel desperately sorry for because when he had Suarez and Sturridge ahead of him he had players who could activate his vision for a pass. With Balotelli, Coutinho has been suffocated. Sterling has felt the need to play like Messi and do it solo which he can't do (at the moment!). He's doing that and hence demolishing his own form because he can't get into triangles of creativity because Balotelli isn't making himself available...ever.

We did NOT pay £16m for that.

not only gutted but worried now

We badly need Sturridge back because Balotelli is f***in sh*te. I had my doubts about this signing but was also excited because he possess obvious talents.

But it only makes things even more frustrating to see a strong player, with a powerful shot, good technique and excellent first touch, wasted with such a horrible attitude.

He keeps trying the spectacular even though he's barely done the very simple well yet; and he keeps ruining our attacking plays more often than not, never looking for a pass when he's in the direction of the goal. The only time he attempts to pass is when he's with his back to the goal and then often does a decent job of controlling not-so-good passes and laying it down to Sterling or whoever is around him.

Anyway, he's a terrible team player and with his big head attitude I can hardly see it changing any time soon. With Sturridge on the side, his strength is more useful but alone up top he's a parasite.

Our win rate is really 50%. We lost half of our PL games and won half of our CL games. That's a mid table form.