PBP: EPL - Liverpool FC vs Manchester United FC - Dec 16, 2018 [R]

Agreed, he has been building up to this and put in a couple really good performances recently... but this was a complete display. Made somewhat easier due to the opposing midfield, I’m sure.

 

I'm sure that the opposing midfield made things easier for him, but today was just proof of his inherent quality. Some players take longer to adapt to their new surroundings and I guess it goes double to get used to a Klopp system, particularly in midfield.
I'm sure they were nothing but bs rumours, but I saw on a few occasions that there were rumblings about him leaving. Which made me laugh considering how long he's been at the club. At any rate, that was a top display on his part and as mentioned, one that clearly highlighted why some here were desperate for us to sign him.

 

I dont buy Mourinho's excuse that this Man Utd team is not good enough. Napoli don't have world class players and yet they went to Anfield and matched this Liverpool team. They're simply a better coached team. You bring Fellaini on for what??

F*** you David Moyes for buying Fellaini!!!!

 

So now what? Questions for United after today's humiliating loss.

www.bbc.com/sport/football/46587034

 

and it was only talk

 

This autocorrect pest, meant "liar" previously as opposed to list. And if it was only just talk and he has blatantly lied for no reason at all, then by rights he should step down immediately.
Even if everyone and their mothers are claiming for United to adopt a more modern structure, Woodward answers to no one, besides the Glazers (very unlikely it would come from them) and there's really no sense in him saying anything at all, only for it to be complete bs.
It does not even make sense tbh: if anything, the fact that he lied should put even more pressure on him, given our current situation which is deteriorating by the day. What seems apparent is that somehow Woodward is perhaps befuddled by this mess with Mourinho and does not know what to do: his moves and decision are not just bizarre, but contradictory (from the moment he decided to keep him in but refused to back him to the fullest extent).
Woodward also said that he'd get to work in earnest on that, after the Carrington expansion was completed. No telling exactly when that will be other than some time in 2019. We'll see, I suppose...

 

Thank god i missed the match ... Jose wont be fired until end of season..

 

No new conclusions can be drawn from this horrid performance. We knew we’d get hammered and we did. One could argue two big deflections but in reality they were taking shots all night and we bothered Alisson once.

The only question is when, not whether, to sack Mourinho. Even it meant giving it to Carrick to see out the season, we should sack Mori ho on Monday.

 

With football this dire you have to wonder if José Mourinho is enjoying it

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ing-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

 

No new conclusions can be drawn from this horrid performance. We knew we’d get hammered and we did. One could argue two big deflections but in reality they were taking shots all night and we bothered Alisson once.

The only question is when, not whether, to sack Mourinho. Even it meant giving it to Carrick to see out the season, we should sack Mourinho on Monday.

 

The one we wanted.

www.goal.com/en-us/news/fabinho-was-absolutely-outstanding-against-manchester-united/z93hitf47f3n10yqzv7nweg5i

 

Things is matic and AH is protecting the back three cum back five but they are getting shredded so fellaini comes in to protect the two who are protecting the back five (four) smdh

I enjoyed the game however. Liverpool put on quite a show. The pass by fabunho could only be attempted by pp who was stuck on the bench. Instead as one poster said before we played more of a 7-0-3 formation. Genius at work..m

 

And he claims the board and Woodward do not get him what he wants. I strongly doubt Woodward sat in his office with a huge erection thinking of signing Matic.

 

My favourite part of Mourinho's post match press conference was when he made a point in singling out Fabinho (along with Robertson) as the type of player he likes.
Could not even get mad and was incredulous at the balls on that man to make such a statement.
Fabinho was there for the taking and he wanted to come to United, but Mourinho snubbed him for Matic (at around the same price, I might add). That is what I mean by him being the biggest troll there is. Like he's having his own private joke at the fans' expense...

Fabinho's (relatively slow) progression at Pool, once again, highlights the value of patience and doing actual coaching, something Mourinho is incapable of. Just like he did with Robertson last season, Klopp took his time with Fabinho to integrate him properly into the team. And yesterday, he reaped the fruits of his work with the guy. And did it pay huge dividends.
If Mourinho could have worked the same way with Fred, he probably would have started coming into his own by now. But Mourinho instead is using him as a pawn in his games with the board. That's what we're dealing with.

 

We got shredded, as expected, but I thought Bailly and Lindelof actually looked decent against a pretty ferocious trio of forwards.

The breakdown was in our utter inability to string passes together and create any kind of sustained pressure that would pin Liverpool back.

Give this squad a proper manager and we might have nicked a result against what I thought was a good but not really special Liverpool side.

 

Agree with gatekeeper2.. 2 deflected shots done us...

 

Dont know what gk said but we didn't get done by two deflected shots. Actually we are lucky it was not a wider margin

 

Watching the game alone clearly showed that Pool deserved to win. Looking at the shot count stat alone (36 v 6, I believe in Pool's favor) again demonstrated that this was never a close game. Dave was the busier of the 2 keepers, with Alisson hardly troubled, except for his mistake which led to the goal.
if you shoot enough times, logic tells you that you'll eventually knock one or two in. Pool played the odds and it worked to their benefit. That's it really....

 

No playmaker, no problem for Pool.

www.bbc.com/sport/football/46584842

Obviously have already covered Fabinho's huge influence on yesterday's game, but what was maddening is the fact that Mourinho, via his decisions, made it that much easier for their midfield.
Defensively we always knew that Matic, Herrera and Lingard were going to be stretched. But offensively, that trio had little to offer in terms of passing and creativity.
And if course, when Mourinho introduced Fellaini with both Pogba and Mata available, that was all she wrote and it was only a matter of time, as it proved. But the choice of bringing Fellaini on epitomizes what Mourinho is all about and how he envisions the game.
As mentioned pregame, if he really wanted to be clever with Fellaini, he would have started him in Lukaku's stead. With Rashford alongside him and the proper support in midfield, things would not have been so easy and predictable for Pool.

 

unclear What you are disagreeing with but I'm totally with you on that last paragraph. in fact I believe all of the outfield players for Liverpool had a shot

In the context of the game on a standalone basis it was very embarrassing.

In the context of the game as part of the season leading up to now this game is a culmination of the crap that we have been.

Hard to see it's getting any better. This is demoralizing.

 

With this shit show, the fcking perch is about to get crowded again

 

Thanks Liverpool

 

A Christmas miracle. Thank you baby Jesus. Poch tapped to succeed.