Tottenham v. Liverpool - EPL - Nov 1st [R]

No one scores on 4 out of 4 clear chances at goal. What's the best team strikerate in the prem?

2-0 was a possibility. 4-0 is ridiculous.

 

That is your crafty logic. Not mine.
Don't try to project your assumptions on my words.

 

You make no ********ing sense, at all, ever. If we're not 100% perfect at everything you have a god damn go at the team.

If I were not a moderator, I would be cursing you left and right every match thread. You'd be on my ignore list, and I'd be reporting your posts.

NO ONE. I repeat NO ONE wants to read your "the sky is falling", "I'm going to cry b.c we didn't play PERFECT ********ING SOCCER bullish" every match.

Seriously, start putting some gaps in between your viewing and your posting.

 

A fairly dull game of football resulted in a bad result for us lot today. It's frustrating but that's football, we have to take both sides of the coin.

We seemed lackadasical and sluggish all game really

However, at times we played some lovely football. Jamie was unlucky to put the ball in his own net, and taking into account the goals he's saved us from conceding, i think i'll let it slide


Most undeserved result of the season so far without a doubt. But your right, all we can do is get on with it. I feel any negativity directed at Rafa or either of the substitutes isn't going to help anything, we should have won today, we didn't, but that's football. We've got three games coming up that we should hopefully win, and then let's see where we are at the end of November

 

I just watched us kick the shit out of Spurs with a load of tired ass footballers and no Torres.

Funny enough, I didn't go try and slash my forearms after we got robbed for two fluky goals.

I don't know about the rest of you fair-weather ********s. But, I'll be supporting the best team in the Premiership this afternoon. The rest of ya can go cry into your hands about "lost chances".

This is, by far, the best season I've watched as a Liverpool supporter. And, most of you are on a mission to ruin it for yourselves and the rest of us.

Bug off.

 

Horrible game, but it's not the end of the world. If we had won it, then we would be saying "We've still got a long way to go in the season". So, I look at it that way: We've still got a long way to go in the season. A loss was going to come at some point. Let's learn from it and keep moving forward. I think the dynamics will truly change when Torres is back. Let's just win the rest of them until he's back.

 

We had 4-5 clear chanced, 2 of which hit the cross bar. A few inches to the left and down and that's your 3-0 from those chances alone. Not counting the rest.

But this argument is pointless really. The points are gone and the game is over.

 

I'm sorry that I'm giving Tottenham some ********ing credit. We didn't take advantage of our domination throughout the first 70 minutes. When Keane came off our control of the game started to lapse. Tottenham pressured us in the final third like they hadn't all game. We gave up a fluke own goal, and then gave up a poorly defended goal in stoppage time to lose.

You're so ********ing irrational from the other side of the coin. I'm the ********ing irrational one from the other side. The fact of the matter is: I know I'm ********ing irrational at times, but this isn't one of them, and come off your high horse. Why don't you give up your mod status and curse at me?

Dirk Kuyt scored a fabulous goal. The irony is we had many chances better than his to score in the match including one for Kuyt that we should have taken advantage of: we didn't. We dropped points. So does everyone else. But I don't understand that even when I'm not that negative, and think we should have played better and give credit to the opposition you still act ridiculous.

We'll bounce back at home against Atletico. Stop being such a militant against pessism. If you want non-stop happiness, go watch some Barney.

 

Bound to lose sometime

4 games in a row with out the best striker in the world 2-1-1

Might regret this as a lost chance later but they fought back well in the end and gotta give them that credit.

Babel -- again pretty shite as lead dog

Luck runs out --- didn't deserve to lose but heck we had some great fight backs of our own in recent late wins.

Arbeloa sux a great sucking

Not Pepe's best day -- not blaming him for the goals but the corner doesn't come if he gets out on the previous cross.

Let's start a new win streak on Tuesday

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Those two statements stand in direct opposition of each other. We blew it. Tottenham earned it? Which one? Pick one. Again, you make NFS.

And, again, not one of your posts has the slightest bit of a reference to actual game events or play. You talk in generalized statements with words like "good" , "bad", "great", "poor". None of it actually relates to the game. It's all just your emotional response to not winning. It's called being a poor sport - if you don't know.

 

The first part of your post is where you're off. They are garbage and they played bad. They barely pressured for 15 mins and were gifted two goals by some fckups (which happens in football). The deserved 0 points and no credit. I would have rather they played well and won. That way I could say well, they deserved it and we didn't. But that's not the case.

The second part I agree with the exception of the 3rd part of the game. 3rd part of the 2nd half would be more accurate, not of the entire game.

 

I didn't say we blew it. From the get-go after the game I gave credit to Spurs. We didn't play up to our potential, especially in the final third.

I'm sorry that you are unable to understand the fact that I believe that one team can fail to take advantage of their chances and one team can take advantage of theirs...at the same time. Liverpool didn't blow it. They couldn't get the second goal and as the time ticked off the clock the self-belief of Tottenham grew. If they could push the ball up, maybe they could steal a point. After they scored the goal to tie it, they pushed even harder, playing aggressively. They had one point and they wanted two more. And they ended up getting it.

I don't know where you get this elitist priggish attitude but it's ridiculous. I can love Liverpool, believe in them, and be critical of them. I'm a realist. This is a game many expected to win but I respected Tottenham and felt that it would be a draw.

 

I've supported the team for going on a decade which I know is a pittance compared to some. But I feel there is a bit of elitism based on whether you are a mod or a regular. I've made quite a lot of posts, what makes me a regular or not.

And even if I wasn't a regular, why should I be treated differently depending on regular status or not?

And lastly, besides the Atletico Madrid game which I admit I was more than a little of a pain in the ass afterwards, when have I been such a terrible supporter?

 

It was very interesting that Liverpool totally and absolutely dominated this game until exactly the point that Robbie Keane was substituted. After he went off the game turned on its head. Now, let me say that Im not saying that this was definitely the reason that the game turned but it was very obvious that Liverpool lost their shape when Babel came on.

One of the very impressive things about Liverpool this season is how they defend from the front. Keane and Gerard have been excellent at dropping deep and clogging up the midfield. This prevents teams (specifically deep lying holding midfielders) from having easy possession, and getting a rhythm going. This was particularly clear against Chelsea last week.

Now, in my opinion the Keane substitute had several implications.

- It gave the opposing fans a lift and stirred up a bit of atmosphere in the ground. Their old boy got subbed off early. Great!
- It opened up the centre of Liverpool's team and system. Babel does many things fantastically well, but he doesnt drop deep and clog the midfield the way Gerard and Keane have been doing in tandem. This allowed Spurs to start playing through Liverpool and this is exactly what started to happen.
- Bringing on Babel for Keane was also, in my opinion, a signal from the Liverpool management that they are happy to sit on their lead. Babel is a pacey attacker who is very different from Keane in many ways, but he is specifically different in that he would seemingly excel in a 'counter-attacking' system where his pace is very dangerous. Spurs immediately upped their tempo after the Keane sub and I think they interpreted this sub in exactly that way.

In many situations I can understand the logic of a move like that, such as in a game where it is much more even, but not in this case. Liverpool were totally dominant. Absolutely totally 100% on top. So given this is the case it baffles me why Benitez would change the system or the personnel and almost invite Tottenham to start attacking them - which is exactly what they did. I just dont get it.

 

Comments like that you should simply ignore. I disagree with some of the things you've said in this thread but a response like the one you received is surely unwarranted. It has no merit.
Just because someone posts regularly on an internet forum, it doesn't make them more or less of a Liverpool fan.

Also, I wonder how many of the people that actually leverage posting records on internet forums have actually been to a Liverpool game or even how long they've been supporters for.

 

I understand that and appreciate that. We can disagree and be civil about it. Re : post count, I agree, I post on several other boards for different sports and have quite a few posts and the people I dislike the most are the regulars who bring post counts into things. I've never been to Anfield. I've never been able to afford to fly back to England. I wanted my graduation gift from high school to be a trip to Anfield for that Christmas but my parents(especially my mum) were not keen on me going alone.

Now I have to sit back and wait for the guaranteed phone call from my mum's brother about how his Spurs shocked the world. Sigh.

My match comms are unfiltered play by play. CSCC there has been at least one match where I've done the comms by myself. If you'd like to volunteer your services to do them all, by all means do so. I know there must not be much for you to do in the Great White North.

 

First of all -- can I state the obvious. This is our fifth match in the last 14 days and we went 3-1-1 without Torres. First defeat in 25 games in the course of all friendlies, league and Cup competitions. Not a damn bad start to a season. YNWA

Oh, and lets stop all this stupid bickering about good and bad supporters, please lads.

 

What he's doing is showing that your elitism is hypocritical: the strength of your support has nothing to do with how many times you've been to Anfield or how many times you've posted. All of us love Liverpool, we laugh, scream and cry depending on their success and we all can tell you where we were when we came from 3-nil down to become European Champions for the fifth time.

Everyone loves the club in different ways: there is no right or wrong way to love Liverpool. If you don't like my comms, I suggest you put me on ignore, and that goes for anyone else. You have a means of completely ignoring me. Yes, I can be negative. But I argue that some people are overly positive in turn.

 

You're all bad supporters. End of.

 

We can all agree to tell this Bitter to piss off, right?

 

That's it lads! Unite!

 

I curse you to eat my mum's egg curry.

Every day. For a month.