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So why is it that when we're on a fifteen game unbeaten streak, we barely manage an average of 15 pages on the live match threads and when we lose one game, everyone loses their mind and suddenly the forum comes back to life? Is it so much easier being a negative f**k and sh*t on everything rather than being positive and praise the performances we've had the past few months? We've got more pages filled with people shitting on our manager and players on this thread alone than we have pages in a match thread when we win a game. Even the player threads section has suddenly come back to life!
Now don't get me wrong, you can criticise the manager and the players. The players did f**k up big time in those last fifteen minutes. I think they just collectively decided to unplug their brains. God knows what was going through their heads then and there. But some of the overreacting here is just laughable and most of the negative posts are by people who only post when there's something negative to say. You'd think we just got relegated and our team isn't any better than Sunderland's.
Even without three of our best performing players this season, we were absolutely brilliant in that first half. We started a tad slow in the second, conceded a stupid penalty (no idea what Milner was thinking there, Fraser was going nowhere and Lucas was there to cover), but got straight back to it and made it 1-3. Then the lights went out and well... They didn't go back on unfortunately. It wasn't even a collective offday or whatever, it was fifteen minutes of madness and credit to Bournemouth, most teams would've given up when our third went in.
How anyone can say we're no title contenders anymore after this, is beyond me. We're only four points behind the leaders, who still have to come to Anfield. City are without Aguero and Fernandinho for a month, two of their best players. Arsenal is Arsenal and Spurs aren't a threat. Chelsea, as is inevitable in the Premier League, will drop stupid points too. We're as much in the title race as we were before this game, we just took a small hit. No big deal. We're only 14 games into the season, there are still 24 to go.
I also think the no squad depth and having to buy another five players argument is bollocks. We we're missing four of our seven attacking players today, not even counting Firmino who, as Klopp said in his pre-match press conference, wasn't 100% fit and not being played in his best position. How often does that really happen? We do have a strong bench when (almost) everyone is fit. People wanting a replacement for when Mane goes to the ACON. What happens to said replacement when he returns? We would have: Coutinho, Lallana, Firmino, Origi, Sturridge, Mane, Ings (or are we writing him off already?), Mane Replacement and not forgetting the younger lads like Ojo, Woodburn, Ejaria, Wilson, ... How are they going to get any chances if we bring in even more attacking players? Mane isn't gone for a year, he's gone for a month. And while he does offer something that few or none of our other players have, Klopp and his team are smart enough to make slight changes to our system to fit in someone else.
The only thing I do agree with regarding squad depth / bringing in players this winter, is a new CB. It can't be that our defence completely falls to pieces when we're missing Matip, though that really is a big compliment to him as he has been amazing so far. This team is nowhere near the finished article and look at how good we are already.
On to West Ham next weekend and luckily for us, their defence is even worse than our's apparently is
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So calm your tits for God's sake. It's one loss after an almost four month unbeaten streak. We go again!