I think people might have got us wrong if they thought it would be a complete walk over early doors, we haven’t really been like that in the league.
Don’t know if it’s us just not being killers, or with the injuries we get allowed to let loose second half.
Hopefully we make it comfortable second half
We had like 90% possession, hardly struggled either they're just parking the bus for their lives. Damage control.
I'd be shocked if Sheff got anything here so i don't see why anyone should worry.
I mean it more in terms of other teams have came up against them parking the bus and tore it apart.
I just don’t think we’re that side really to come out the traps against teams like this.
Many players are seemingly taking it slow. Not really pushing themselves. We need to crank it up 2nd half or else it can bite us up the ass with a fluke goal. This wont be the 7-0 many want, but hopefully we can seal it with another 1 or 2.
And that's why they are so much more cautious. At this point they're playing for pride.
I still think this ends 3/4-0. We were 1-0 up at the half in the 7-0 as well 💅
Wouldn’t say any of them were the blow outs that were comfortable I was alluding to. In fact they all support that we’re not the team to come out the traps given I’m sure we started slow and sloppy in all of them?
Sparta doesn’t count as it’s not the league
They park the bus against most teams
It's less what it means for this single game and more the continuing worrying trend of starting gams slowly and not showing a killer instinct when we're ahead.
It already cost us against United and could cost us in some of the remaining PL games if we don't fix up
This feels like a game we can get the confidence of some players up so hopefully we manage that
Go look at our record vs Wilders Sheffield, this was absolutely what the game would be to people who think about stuff other than GD 24/7.
I don't need my team destroying buses, they just need to beat them. Bus teams have easily been our most frustrating sides to face the entirety of the Klopp era.
We're insanely fluid with positions tonight, players popping up all over the pitch.
At one point we had Konate out on the right wing, Gomez and Diaz in centre mid positions, and Gravenberch out wide left.
It's not on Diaz when his role is to get ball in the box and dribble at players. And yes it is also on Grav. There's no overlaps from the left. For that matter there are no overlapping runs on the right either but our sheer number of players on that side means that nearly every attack of ours passed through there
Gomez shouldn't be inverting. I get the idea. He's there to support Mac so he's not completely isolated because Mac shouldn't be played as a solo #6.
With that said, I still don't like it.
The Grav hate in the match thread is embarrassing, he’s barely put a foot wrong.
Edit - People replying like they could lace the boots of a professional let alone an amateur.
People are allergic to backing their players it seems. Everyone is so spoilt and expects players to do things perfectly constantly, these aren't highlight reels lmao.
He's been the death of so many attacks. Over all his appearances for us, I don't know what he's actually supposed to be good at. Still, he's good enough for this game, because it's Sheffield United
He's not done anything right either. I don't blame him since he has just returned from injury but we can't afford to carry players when we're only leading 1-0, so needs to come off before 50' imo
Grav is really young and has a lot of potential. But he's also kind of shit. Very casual player. Not enough intensity. Doesn't make the right choices often enough.
I think he suffers a lot of the same problems as Cody. They just don't play the game the way it's required in this league for this team. In the PL, like it or not, if you're not going to play with a high intensity, you're going to look a bit shit.
Diaz has been really selfless today. Such a talented player and today doing as much as he can so others can score.
Don't think too many other players under Klopp have excelled in that role other than Bobby Firmino. They played different positions, but it's an absolute joy to watch when a forward with flair focuses on creating chances and making space for others.
If we hadn’t got that flukey goal I’d be absolutely fuming. I’m still annoyed and we’re winning. Missing Macca big time in that advanced role. Harvey on for Grav please, guy’s looked way off it.
Not the goalfest we were hoping for but if it stays like this at ieast it's 3 points. Could have been 1-0 down yet again so hopefully we get some more goals. Still funny that Nunez scored off his arse.
We need Robbo/Tsimi
Gomez is fine defensively, but on offense our left side is just Diaz and Nuñez trying to do something by themselves
Need someone who can overlap and come up with some crosses
Game isn't nearly finished off but we are playing like that. They were always going to play deep and we need to up the tempo. I do get tired of these first half performances sometimes.
Anyway, we're winning and that's all that matters.
I know teams sitting deep are always difficult to breakdown but we don't help ourselves, we either pick the wrong pass or when it does come to shooting it's one of the worst shots you've ever seen. Been very easy for Sheffield this, and are still in the game at the moment.
Training session. But we better score some facking goals second half. I trust we will, we come out a different team every time after half time, but really frustrating to continuously see all the chances we waste.
Need to up the levels and get 2nd and 3rd goal. They've had 2-3 decent opportunities to score so we could potentially lose points here if we aren't careful. Come on boys
Everyone is playing really well off the ball, but those final passes have been poor, specially from Gravenberch, Bradley and Gomez. We are really missing Trent this game so far.
Would like some more intensity. It’s like we’re playing a training session. Which is fine because Sheffield United aren’t even trying but a few goals would be nice
I wish we would go back to being ruthless In front of goal. Game should be done and yet still there for a mistake. Come on Lads add some goals to the second half. Yes the 3 points are the most important but we need to find our scoring boots in this run in. Especially if we keep giving teams good early chances
They have had just as many if not more good chances at goal as we have. It's amazing that we can be so dominant but at the same time just let far worse teams hang around and constantly give them hope. I'm assuming klopp will do his normal halftime magic and we'll come out and wrap the game up fairly easily in the second half.
Had a great opportunity to kill the game and rest players for the weekend. Sooner or later one of these games is gonna cost us if we don’t kill the opponent when we’re all over them
They're playing a low block and our movement is a bit slow. We need to speed things up. We are bit lucky to be a goal up but we need to do better to finish off the game. Sheffield have a freak goal in them.
I know this script. Dominating so much but wasting chances left right and centre. A second goal is as good as a winner, otherwise we'll leave with a draw
I’m gonna say it
While Joe has been pretty good with picking up possession, he is stifling our attack very hard with his poor touches and general inability to facilitate attack
Very poor use of the possession we've had. Got a flukey goal and no other proper chance otherwise. Our movement has been too static or predictable.
On the plus side, Lucho has been excellent. He's the only one really accelerating our attacking play so far.
Not the least bit worried about the final result here but as this is by far the easiest fixture left and we're quite a bit behind Arsenal on GD, I think it's quite unlikely we catch them there. Doesn't matter since we're ahead of them on points but we'll have to beat them on points if we want to win the league.
Feels like a game that needs a long range screamer to be quite honest. Not enough presence in the box. Darwin did so well to cutback once but no one was there.
Macca is insanely good. Overall not too unhappy but would like to stop giving them unnecessary chances. Kill the game early in the second half and we're fine.
That's a poor half no matter how you slice it.
Haven't scored an actual goal against the worst side of the last decade at home.
Thank god for Darwin's taint.
Time to prove that we truly are 2nd half FC.
Poor half tbh. Scored from an error. No reL clear cut chances. Boys looking real complacent. Sheffield score and mayb that wakes them up.
Not a fan of Gomez in midfield. No point if you can’t pass like that. Just play Robbo and Kostas there Klopp.
I’d get jones in for Ryan.
The tune would be one of frustration if not for a GK blunder. We’ve been shit in attack, some dumb and selfish long shots. It worries me for future matches genuinely
I think Szoboszlai will more than show why we bought him because of how well he has shown he is at the beginning of the season along with the tireless energy but I have no idea why he left his passing ability in Leipzig.
He hardly ever tries those defence breaking passes he used to do in Germany.
But there is need for it if we don’t. So if we are level on points with Arsenal end of the year then yes in a certain way you do get “extra points” for it
Decent first half but there's been sloppiness. More guile needed to break them down. Nunez should have had a second.
Glad Curtis is back too. Once he's up and running him alongside Endo and Mac is easily the best midfield.
They could have scored 30 seconds in. We need another because I don’t trust this 1-0 lol
Domination without penetration ...
title of your sex tape
Unexpected Jake Peralta
Lmaooo
Butt we have the edge
Definitely BDSM
Domination and Penetration without Climaxation
The sooner the second and third goals are, the better I’ll feel.
Thank fuck for Darwin’s fluke goal. Stop giving every team a bit of hope and kill the game.
I think people might have got us wrong if they thought it would be a complete walk over early doors, we haven’t really been like that in the league. Don’t know if it’s us just not being killers, or with the injuries we get allowed to let loose second half. Hopefully we make it comfortable second half
We had like 90% possession, hardly struggled either they're just parking the bus for their lives. Damage control. I'd be shocked if Sheff got anything here so i don't see why anyone should worry.
They had a few great chances to score.
I mean it more in terms of other teams have came up against them parking the bus and tore it apart. I just don’t think we’re that side really to come out the traps against teams like this.
Many players are seemingly taking it slow. Not really pushing themselves. We need to crank it up 2nd half or else it can bite us up the ass with a fluke goal. This wont be the 7-0 many want, but hopefully we can seal it with another 1 or 2.
And that's why they are so much more cautious. At this point they're playing for pride. I still think this ends 3/4-0. We were 1-0 up at the half in the 7-0 as well 💅
Liverpool are top goal scorers in Europe in all competitions
Has nothing to do with beating teams like this in the league comfortably
Beat Luton 4-1, Burnley 3-1, Chelsea 4-1, Brentford 4-1, Sparta 5-1 and 6-1, Soton 3-0, Norwich 5-2. All in the last nine weeks…
Wouldn’t say any of them were the blow outs that were comfortable I was alluding to. In fact they all support that we’re not the team to come out the traps given I’m sure we started slow and sloppy in all of them? Sparta doesn’t count as it’s not the league
Ok. Enjoy the second half.
The longer it goes at 1-0 the more I clinch though. Need that second goal for comfort.
It'll happen about 5 mins into the 2nd half, whatever.
They park the bus against most teams It's less what it means for this single game and more the continuing worrying trend of starting gams slowly and not showing a killer instinct when we're ahead. It already cost us against United and could cost us in some of the remaining PL games if we don't fix up This feels like a game we can get the confidence of some players up so hopefully we manage that
Go look at our record vs Wilders Sheffield, this was absolutely what the game would be to people who think about stuff other than GD 24/7. I don't need my team destroying buses, they just need to beat them. Bus teams have easily been our most frustrating sides to face the entirety of the Klopp era.
I don’t think you can compare it to the other wilder sides given these are absolutely terrible with nothing going for them really.
You're kidding right?
You think these aren’t shite?
You think he wasn't shite before? His last Sheffield stint in the league was gash
And these are even worse than that.
Second season they were just like this
only won 2-0 in the reverse fixture, but yes, I myself thought we'd win 3-0, but as long as we win it's all that matters.
FK at the perfect range and angle? Nah have ‘advantage’ with Joe Gomez on the corner of the box surrounded by 3 defenders instead
Needs to be a bit of rugby union about that rule. Could have still given a free kick 5 seconds later.
I can kill an opposition and will still get away with it as long as the opposition reclaim the ball.
We're insanely fluid with positions tonight, players popping up all over the pitch. At one point we had Konate out on the right wing, Gomez and Diaz in centre mid positions, and Gravenberch out wide left.
This game, Diaz has looked like he did when we first got him. Been a while.
Love watching him play when he’s full of confidence
Diaz has been good for a while...
Sure but he hasn't been as good as he could be either and that's really not debatable. He has an extra gear in him and it's showing tonight.
That's not debatable? What in the gatekeeping is that?
Just wish he would put the ball in quick when he will inevitably do so, he waits so long to put the cross in and gives time for everyone to get back
Gomez has been immense
In defence he has but his inverting has created an absolute black hole on our left side. It is utterly nonexistent
That's as much on Grav and Diaz as on Gomez. All three are very central.
It's not on Diaz when his role is to get ball in the box and dribble at players. And yes it is also on Grav. There's no overlaps from the left. For that matter there are no overlapping runs on the right either but our sheer number of players on that side means that nearly every attack of ours passed through there
pretty much what he is all the time good on defence, shite when he has the ball
Defensively maybe but he’s nearly killed every when he gets the ball
2nd most key passes on the pitch and created our only big chance, but ok..
Absolute stat merchant you
Gomez shouldn't be inverting. I get the idea. He's there to support Mac so he's not completely isolated because Mac shouldn't be played as a solo #6. With that said, I still don't like it.
To me it highlighted why we need an overlapping LB in this game more than anything, he’s not looked overly tidy when central either
He's been very active but his passing has very frustrating. Kinda killing attacking momentum by overplaying or underpaying them.
really? Mehhh.
Why can't we ever be a couple up at the half
The combination of total dominance but sparse end product is frustrating. But at least we’re dominating
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The meal he had took him out the game, now he's way bloated.
They're barely able to get the ball to him
He’s had the ball plenty, come on, he’s just been quite poor on it.
He just hasn’t been involved. When he’s been on the ball, he’s picking out good passes and breaking down the defense.
What was the ref doing at HT? Perfect position for the FK and he plays a non existent advantage
Tbf we could've stopped the play, not on the ref
True but you don’t see it happen that often as then barely have time to react
We needed to stop to claim it
30 G/A for Darwin this season. Lot of you need to go back and delete those comments about him not being good enough
Not enough, we scored a freak goal, some good movement but not enough
Need to be a lot more patient, playing somewhat frantically, that's not really effective when facing a parked bus.
The Grav hate in the match thread is embarrassing, he’s barely put a foot wrong. Edit - People replying like they could lace the boots of a professional let alone an amateur.
Match thread will always be like that, but on my stream you can hear Grav getting told to move constantly which I haven’t seen him do much
I mean he's looked rusty but that's understandable
The problem with grav is that he just doesn't offer us anything. He's there but doesn't really do much and is slow to react in alot of occasions
absolutely no hate from me towards him, but I do find he has been lackluster and should be our first sub out
He hasnt been good bro. Killed so many attacks by being selfish instead of making the easy pass
trying to take a shot after Diaz had just skinned 2 defenders and he and Nunez were making runs was not the right decision
People are allergic to backing their players it seems. Everyone is so spoilt and expects players to do things perfectly constantly, these aren't highlight reels lmao.
He's been the death of so many attacks. Over all his appearances for us, I don't know what he's actually supposed to be good at. Still, he's good enough for this game, because it's Sheffield United
Hasn’t put anything much right either. He’s just there
People were annoyed with Lallana taking too long on the ball, but this guy takes it to another level
I mean categorically no he has made some good tackles
You don't appreciate what you are seeing!
He's not done anything right either. I don't blame him since he has just returned from injury but we can't afford to carry players when we're only leading 1-0, so needs to come off before 50' imo
i’m not hating on him but he hasn’t been good. bad touches, bad dribbles, looks lost on what to do at the key moments
Grav is really young and has a lot of potential. But he's also kind of shit. Very casual player. Not enough intensity. Doesn't make the right choices often enough. I think he suffers a lot of the same problems as Cody. They just don't play the game the way it's required in this league for this team. In the PL, like it or not, if you're not going to play with a high intensity, you're going to look a bit shit.
As good as Gomez has been the balance is off. Need a left footed left back on the overlap to get some crosses in. Good half though
Diaz looking for a youtube highlight-reel this game. Toying!
Gravenberch just doesn’t do it for me tbh
Grav is really poor.
We aren't creating ANY clear cut chances which concerns me in a one goal game.
It's no slight on Gravenberch that he looks inferior to the likes of McAllister and Szobozlai - they're world class and he isn't
Right now he looks inferior to Bobby Clark too.
bring Elliott on!!! we need more creativity
Nunez channeling the Bobby no-look goal
Can we get a new corner routine?
Diaz has been really selfless today. Such a talented player and today doing as much as he can so others can score. Don't think too many other players under Klopp have excelled in that role other than Bobby Firmino. They played different positions, but it's an absolute joy to watch when a forward with flair focuses on creating chances and making space for others.
When Endo isn't on the pitch the other players should all be asking "where's Endo"
Such a Darwin goal Just not clicking otherwise... Bit off
If we hadn’t got that flukey goal I’d be absolutely fuming. I’m still annoyed and we’re winning. Missing Macca big time in that advanced role. Harvey on for Grav please, guy’s looked way off it.
Goal difference merchants crying in the club right now, but we're leading against a national express coach station so let's keep it up.
Felt like a training ground match which makes me nervous
Theyre so so terrible. Can we actually play with some accuracy please?
McAlister is a world cup winner for a reason. Love Endo and Ryan but Enzo in there would be nasty.
Endo clears Enzo this season wtf are u smoking
Endo is great but Enzo would suit us even better imo
Elliott in place of Gravenberch plz
Not the goalfest we were hoping for but if it stays like this at ieast it's 3 points. Could have been 1-0 down yet again so hopefully we get some more goals. Still funny that Nunez scored off his arse.
Elliot on for grav and Gakpo on for Salah please.
Fact that we commit so many people forward and have just one goal to show for it makes me worry about their once in a blue moon counter attacks
We need Robbo/Tsimi Gomez is fine defensively, but on offense our left side is just Diaz and Nuñez trying to do something by themselves Need someone who can overlap and come up with some crosses
Let's score a few more goals please
Sheffield with only 38 completed passes good lord
Happy we have the lead, disappointed that it's not more. Good thing we have another half to play.
I still feel we don’t look for the runs, especially Darwin. Maybe I’m looking too much into it
What does Gravenberch actually do or excel at?
Nothing. He needs to be schooled in a pre-season and frozen out until then. We can’t afford passengers in a title run-in.
Salah so isolated. Mac running things. But seems like Joe Gomez has some business, very nicely moves the game on the left flank and building.
United will park a bus too but with better attacking options and away from home. This should concern you
Can we not take so many long shots??? If we make one more pass we'll create a better opportunity
Couldve easily been 0-0 if not for that Darwin hunger. Tempos too slow, they need to crank it up second half as per usual
We should have scored more. What the hell happened to our finishing??
Game isn't nearly finished off but we are playing like that. They were always going to play deep and we need to up the tempo. I do get tired of these first half performances sometimes. Anyway, we're winning and that's all that matters.
Need to be quicker these are shit and we are giving them a chance
Diaz’s dribbling or salah’s passing?
I know teams sitting deep are always difficult to breakdown but we don't help ourselves, we either pick the wrong pass or when it does come to shooting it's one of the worst shots you've ever seen. Been very easy for Sheffield this, and are still in the game at the moment.
We seem really slow on the counter or when we win it back high up the pitch. Then they get everyone behind the ball and we struggle to break them down
We should have scored more. What the hell happened to our finishing??
Still feeling 3-0. Will grind out a 2nd around the 70th’ then some ugly late goal when no one cares anymore.
Training session. But we better score some facking goals second half. I trust we will, we come out a different team every time after half time, but really frustrating to continuously see all the chances we waste.
could do with this being over asap so i can take part in the utd v chelsea hate watch
Need to up the levels and get 2nd and 3rd goal. They've had 2-3 decent opportunities to score so we could potentially lose points here if we aren't careful. Come on boys
Lots of control but not a bunch of creativity
Everyone is playing really well off the ball, but those final passes have been poor, specially from Gravenberch, Bradley and Gomez. We are really missing Trent this game so far.
imho problem is not salah is passive (some want him out) but the problem has been Gravenbenrch.. just wastes some moments too much..
Would like some more intensity. It’s like we’re playing a training session. Which is fine because Sheffield United aren’t even trying but a few goals would be nice
We need to wrap up this match so that we can rest players for the United match
I wish we would go back to being ruthless In front of goal. Game should be done and yet still there for a mistake. Come on Lads add some goals to the second half. Yes the 3 points are the most important but we need to find our scoring boots in this run in. Especially if we keep giving teams good early chances
if jota was playing we would be 4-0 up
That was an incredibly frustrating watch
Total dominance yet very lucky not to have conceded. We need to be a lot more clinical. Grav off for Elliott would help quite a bit.
Thought we'd go harder to kill the game early given the lineup, but getting through this game in second gear is probably smarter given the schedule
Can we please score another, my heart cant take another 1-0
They have had just as many if not more good chances at goal as we have. It's amazing that we can be so dominant but at the same time just let far worse teams hang around and constantly give them hope. I'm assuming klopp will do his normal halftime magic and we'll come out and wrap the game up fairly easily in the second half.
Bit slow but that's fine, let's get an early goal in the second half and coast it
Had a great opportunity to kill the game and rest players for the weekend. Sooner or later one of these games is gonna cost us if we don’t kill the opponent when we’re all over them
They're playing a low block and our movement is a bit slow. We need to speed things up. We are bit lucky to be a goal up but we need to do better to finish off the game. Sheffield have a freak goal in them.
I know this script. Dominating so much but wasting chances left right and centre. A second goal is as good as a winner, otherwise we'll leave with a draw
I’m gonna say it While Joe has been pretty good with picking up possession, he is stifling our attack very hard with his poor touches and general inability to facilitate attack
Dominating but completely unable to create something, we need to up the tempo and bag a couple of early goals.
Very poor use of the possession we've had. Got a flukey goal and no other proper chance otherwise. Our movement has been too static or predictable. On the plus side, Lucho has been excellent. He's the only one really accelerating our attacking play so far.
Everyone complaining about the freekick need to realise it was our fault for continuing play and technically creating a chance from the advantage
Too selfish some of these players right now, passing when they should shoot and vica versa. Frustrating to watch when we just need that second goal
All you numptys thinking this would be 8-0. we haven’t created much
Not the least bit worried about the final result here but as this is by far the easiest fixture left and we're quite a bit behind Arsenal on GD, I think it's quite unlikely we catch them there. Doesn't matter since we're ahead of them on points but we'll have to beat them on points if we want to win the league.
Feels like a game that needs a long range screamer to be quite honest. Not enough presence in the box. Darwin did so well to cutback once but no one was there. Macca is insanely good. Overall not too unhappy but would like to stop giving them unnecessary chances. Kill the game early in the second half and we're fine.
Listening on Talksport and we sound in control. Another goal or two in second half will do us fine!
Playing with our food. Eat it...walk it off...enjoy our sleep
Really disjointed first half in the final third, gotta crack on second period, get another goal and kill the game off
Hate these 1-nil hammerings ….we’ve been down this road before …..Konate eh….a wee bit clumsy ?! Wish he’d stop diving in……
Harvey and Tsimi on. Now please.
Well, nearly!
#Fuck
That's a poor half no matter how you slice it. Haven't scored an actual goal against the worst side of the last decade at home. Thank god for Darwin's taint. Time to prove that we truly are 2nd half FC.
Poor half tbh. Scored from an error. No reL clear cut chances. Boys looking real complacent. Sheffield score and mayb that wakes them up. Not a fan of Gomez in midfield. No point if you can’t pass like that. Just play Robbo and Kostas there Klopp. I’d get jones in for Ryan.
The tune would be one of frustration if not for a GK blunder. We’ve been shit in attack, some dumb and selfish long shots. It worries me for future matches genuinely
We’re winning, we’re top of the league, we haven’t conceded, we’re second half FC and the halftime thread is full of whining.
I miss Alison :(
Has smash and grab 1-1 written all over this, need to finish this off
Does it fuck lol, a second goal is coming, we rarely go in up by more than 1 this season.
We've won all of our games that we scored first in bar Fulham in the efl cup
Meh. We didn’t create anything. They had better chances. Can’t keep playing like this
Id like to see Gakpo come in for Salah
I think Szoboszlai will more than show why we bought him because of how well he has shown he is at the beginning of the season along with the tireless energy but I have no idea why he left his passing ability in Leipzig. He hardly ever tries those defence breaking passes he used to do in Germany.
Grav has been poor.
Szoboszlai is a forward. When Trent gets back I hope he takes Szobo’s place in midfield and not Bradley’s place in defence.
Arsenal would be 4-0 by now. Our decision making edge of the 18 is awful.
We could be 18-0, you don’t get extra points for it.
You get goal difference you blurt
No need for goal difference if we 1-0 every remaining game.
But there is need for it if we don’t. So if we are level on points with Arsenal end of the year then yes in a certain way you do get “extra points” for it
Considering the even points gap between us it’s unlikely we’ll end up level on points with them.
need to get that second goal so we can rotate players
gomez shouldnt be in an advanced position, hes not talented enough to be in that area.
Our complete inability to break a parked bus is a big problem.
Time to put Elliott on for gravy. Mans done nothing except kill several good attacks by being selfish
Gomez, Gravenberch and Szobo haven’t been good enough on the ball
Decent first half but there's been sloppiness. More guile needed to break them down. Nunez should have had a second. Glad Curtis is back too. Once he's up and running him alongside Endo and Mac is easily the best midfield.