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Brentford away a couple of months ago would have been a lot harder. They have fallen off a bit the last few weeks.
The Bigfooty Liverpool Thread
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- Apr 2, 2000
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Just keep winning, just keep winning, just keep winning.
Spot on.
It's a long season and earlier on results were outdoing performances. Lately you could almost say the opposite - because despite some dodgy defending, we are creating enough that we should be scoring 3 or more each game.
Then the overarching point is that this is a very good side but not as exceptional as at least 3 of Klopp's while he was there. Full back areas are a weakness rather than strength now. And our starting attackers as a collective were more reliable when we had prime Bobby and Mane. Diaz, Gakpo, Jota and Nunez all offer us something but are flawed for either efficiency or durability.
Despite all that we are having a great season and the frustrating run was inevitable. The title race will be fairly close and I felt that way a month ago. We remain in an enviable position.
- Apr 20, 2001
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Always dangerous as they multiple avenues to goals but at least they won’t park the bus.
- Oct 20, 2014
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Does Mo shit the bed in the big games? It seems that way.
Look, I love Mo but in big games and finals he’s been ineffective.
Look, I love Mo but in big games and finals he’s been ineffective.
- Mar 4, 2002
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Define big games… do you mean big games as in parked bus, low-block tag and scrap games like on the weekend?
Yes he hasn’t fired in UCL finals, but one of those he was slammed to ground and injured early…
Yes he hasn’t fired in UCL finals, but one of those he was slammed to ground and injured early…
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Salah is literally one of the best big game players I’ve ever seen.
I'd start Darwin, at least get a proper no.9 out there
Diogo just can't be relied upon, sadly
Diogo just can't be relied upon, sadly
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Jota only just getting back into it..
Same old Jota, always (well, half the time) injured.
If his body had been durable I think we'd have collected a couple more important trophies.
He's only played more than 22 PL games for us one season (and often he comes off the bench for the same reason he missed matches: injury-associated lack of fitness).
A delight to watch when he's out there.
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Love Gakkers, Jota, Nunez and Diaz but yeah none of them are anywhere near the levels Mane and Bobby were at.
Mane/Bobby/Mo that was some attack.
Imagine having prime Mane and Bobby in this squad. The title race would be done and we would be looking at our best ever points total in a season.
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Really? His record against all our biggest rivals has been huge? Scores for fun against United, has scored big goals against City. Scored in a CL final, sure a penalty, but that is big time pressure and he tucked it away.
Mo is so consistent, I dont think it matters if its a world cup final or a kick about in his backyard with his daughter, he's gonna score a goal haha
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****. Sake.
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I dont know about that actually. I think we'd be futher in front than we are of course but that 99 points team under Klopp was better than this current one easily.
Fab, Hendo, Gini is better than Grav, Mac, Szo and Matip was in his prime as was Robbo.
But yeah if we had Mane and Bobby in their prime, this title race would be done.
I still love our position though, hopefully we can make it count. A win against Brentford would be absolutely huge!
If we can just maintain that 7 point gap to heap pressure on Arsenal, one slip and suddenly we can make 9-10 points and it becomes real difficult from there.
If you had prime Bobby/Mane in this squad but had a couple of the others as depth options, I'm very confident we'd be on track for 100 points.
We're on track for 89 points with this average. Those two at their best would add 10 or more points across a season I think.
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Yes, UCL finals and against the good bus parkers. Hopefully, he proves me wrong against Everton.Define big games… do you mean big games as in parked bus, low-block tag and scrap games like on the weekend?
Yes he hasn’t fired in UCL finals, but one of those he was slammed to ground and injured early…
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Clearly we must have different definitions of ‘big game’ if you take issue with the above stats.
Arguably one of the best big game players we have seen in the premier league
One week in and four weeks out doo dah doo dah.
We're probably keeping him for the time being because it looks like this season will be the last for Nunez, but if decent offer came in during the summer I might be tempted.
I ****ing love the guy, my favourite player at the moment, but this just isn't acceptable anymore. He's a professional footballer, he's paid to play. Either something is wrong with his preparation and recovery or his body just isn't built for football at this level. I would be putting the hard word on him to be honest that something needs to change between now and the end of the season or he is done here.
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Haaland has just signed a 9 year contract with City, if reports are to be believed. And then there's Liverpool, still trying to come to terms with Salah, an 8 year servant of the club who is in the final 6 months of his contract and who is basically knocking down the door for a new contract.
Any chance we can get some owners with ambition? I'm not asking for 9 year contracts or Mbappe, just ****ing nail down our 3 uncontracted players and get in a left fullback, FFS.
If the day comes when they finally sell to an owner who will invest to match the size of the club, I will celebrate as if we've won the quadruple.
****ing can't stand these tightass campaigner.S.
Any chance we can get some owners with ambition? I'm not asking for 9 year contracts or Mbappe, just ****ing nail down our 3 uncontracted players and get in a left fullback, FFS.
If the day comes when they finally sell to an owner who will invest to match the size of the club, I will celebrate as if we've won the quadruple.
****ing can't stand these tightass campaigner.S.
