LIVERPOOL VS CHELSEA SAT 5.30 KICK OFF

[jimbolala]

Right , never started one of these before so unsure of the protocol.

Anyhow, we need a decent game against Chelsea to clear the bitterness of last night away.

We should go solid, play Gomez at rb and Milner at lb with Ming in nets.

 

Midfield is an issue, might end up with Can,Henderson and Coutinho there.

Up front its Mane,Firmino and Salah.

Hopefully the lads are angry and up for a fight, looking forwards to seeing Salah smile agin as he proves Chelsea wrong

2-1 to us i think

Edited November 22, 2017 by jimbolala

[Cobs]

They’ll bring their bus. We’ll smash it.

 

1-0 Milner (pen) ‘89

[Molby]

Need to win the game in the first 22 mins or we may lose 3 or 4 - 1

[downunder]

Need to win the game in the first 22 mins or we may lose 3 or 4 - 1

 

Huddersfield just a blip :-)

[meredithmathieson]

Left back is a problem for this one:

 

Stick with Moreno, on the basis that he can't be that bad again?

 

Or go for Milner, who is match savvy but slow.

 

Or throw Robertson in?

 

Think I'd go for Milner, but that memory from the Spurs game when Son ripped him for pace makes me uneasy with Hazard/Willian running at him on Saturday.

[Conrad]

Don’t see Milner starting at left back

I hope Matip is fit

 

Lallana bench maybe?

Can for Henderson

[Hassony]

I'd drop morneo and play Robertson

 

Can has to come for this

 

Massive game

[Case]

I'd rest Salah. He looks jiggered.

[Hassony]

I'd rest Salah. He looks jiggered.

Against Chelsea? Are you mad?

 

He would have been waiting for this game for a long time

[Case]

Bring him on for Moreno on 30

[Will]

Double Agents

           

In advance of our Saturday evening visit from Chelsea, YNWA looks at the careers of some of those few who have represented both blue and red.

           

Current double agents

Mohamed Salah joined the reds for an initial €42m from Roma last July, so far notching an amazing fourteen times in nineteen outings. He had joined Roma from Chelsea for a reported €15m in August 2016 after a successful loan spell, netting 34 times in total in 83 games.

           

Daniel Sturridge signed from Chelsea for £12m in January 2013. He has so far scored an impressive 55 times in his first 96 reds games. He had joined the Blues from Manchester City for an initial £3.5m fee in July 2009, netting 24 times in 96 games, with only 49 being starts, and helping to claim the League and FA Cup double in his first season. Michael Beale is Under-21’s Manager at the Academy, having joined in September 2012 as Youth Development Lead Coach for the Under-15’s and Under-16’s. He had previously spent a decade at Chelsea, working full-time as Youth Development Officer and Under-14’s coach.

           

Dominic Solanke signed from Chelsea in July for a fee yet to be determined, so far making nine senior appearances from the bench, as well as starting once. Although he has yet to score a senior goal, he has already made his senior England debut since moving to L4. He had started out with Chelsea’s Under-8’s side, but only made their first team once.

           

The management

Brendan Rodgers was invited by manager José Mourinho to join Chelsea as Head Youth Coach in 2004, being promoted to Manager of the reserves two years later, staying in that role until taking over as Watford boss in November 2008. He arrived at Anfield from Swansea City in June 2012, guiding us to 85 wins in 166 matches before being sacked in October 2015.

           

Glen Driscoll arrived at Anfield as Head of Performance that same summer, leaving along with Rodgers. He had joined Chelsea in 2003, working in a variety of roles including Head of Fitness, Head Physiotherapist and Head of Injury Prevention, moving on to work alongside Rodgers again at Swansea in 2011.

           

Rafael Benítez arrived from Valencia in June 2004 and took charge of the reds on 350 occasions, winning 194 times and leading us to the European Cup, FA Cup, UEFA Super Cup and FA Community Shield as well as three other finals. He left the club “by mutual consent” in June 2010. He was appointed Chelsea’s Interim Manager in November 2012, guiding them to the UEFA Europa League and Champions League qualification as they won 28 of his 48 games in charge before leaving the following May. His long-time staff accompanied him to the Bridge, including goalkeeping coach Xavi Valero and trainer Paco de Miguel who also worked with him at Anfield.

           

Bolo Zenden joined Chelsea from Barcelona for £7.5m in August 2001, netting four times in 59 games before being loaned out to Middlesbrough, whom he later joined on a free transfer. He arrived at Anfield in July 2005 on another free and struck twice in 47 senior reds games, as injury hampered his career at Anfield. He helped us to claim the UEFA Super Cup and FA Community Shield, as well as reach the Champions League Final in his brief time with the reds. Bolo left the club in July 2007 to join Olympique de Marseille, and joined Chelsea as Assistant Manager under Benítez in November 2012.

           

Wing-half Bobby Campbell made only 25 reds appearances between 1959 and 1961, during our spell in the Second Division. He was later manager of Chelsea for three years, taking them to the Second Division title in 1989, and a fifth-place finish in the top flight the following season. Christian Purslow was appointed as the reds’ Managing Director in June 2009 to replace Rick Parry. He stood down in October 2010 after the sale of the club to New England Sports Ventures. He joined Chelsea as Head of Global Commercial Activities in October 2014.

                       

Other recent double agents

Fabio Borini signed from Roma for £10.4m in July 2012, netting just three times in 38 outings as well as suffering two serious injuries, moving on to Sunderland for £8m in August 2015. He signed for Chelsea from Bologna in the summer of 2007, becoming the top scorer for the reserves before making his senior debut in September 2009. He failed to score in eight first-team outings before moving to Parma in the summer of 2011 after a successful loan spell with Swansea City.

                       

Glen Johnson joined Chelsea for £6m from West Ham United in July 2003 to become the first signing of the Roman Abramovich era. He netted four goals in 71 outings, but joined Portsmouth on loan in August 2006 before signing on permanently a year later. He joined the reds from Pompey for a whopping £17.5m in June 2009, notching nine times in 200 reds outings, including the winner in our League meeting at Stamford Bridge in November 2011. He signed for Stoke City in July 2015 after his contract had expired.

           

Fernando Torres moved to Chelsea for a British record transfer fee of £50m on deadline day in January 2011. He had bagged an impressive 81 goals in 142 reds games following his then club record £20.2m capture from Club Atlético de Madrid in July 2007. He netted 46 times in 171 games for his new outfit, helping them to win the UEFA Champions League in 2012 and UEFA Europa League a year later. He joined AC Milan on a two-year loan in August 2014, making the move permanent the following January before immediately returning to Spain to join his first love. Victor Moses left Stamford Bridge to join the reds on loan in September 2013, scoring on his reds bow at Swansea City, but only once more in 22 outings in total. He has so far netted ten times in 44 games for the Blues since moving from Wigan Athletic for £9m in August 2012, spending most of his time away from the Bridge.

           

Steve Clarke signed for Chelsea for £442,000 in February 1987 from St. Mirren. He notched ten times in 421 games, helping them to claim the FA Cup, League Cup, European Cup Winners’ Cup and Full Members Cup. In 2005, he was voted into Chelsea’s centenary XI, occupying the right-back berth. After coaching under Ruud Gullit at Newcastle United, he returned to Stamford Bridge, becoming Assistant Manager under José Mourinho in 2004, leaving in the summer of 2008 after helping the Blues to claim two League titles, the FA Cup and two League Cups. He was appointed as a first-team coach at Anfield by Kenny Dalglish in January 2011, moving on to take over as Head Coach at West Bromwich Albion in June 2012.

           

Joe Cole joined Chelsea from West Ham United for £6.6m in August 2003, bagging forty goals in 262 games in west London, helping them to claim three League titles, two FA Cups, League Cup and the FA Community Shield. He notched just five times in 42 reds outings after joining on a free transfer in July 2010, moving back to Upton Park for free in January 2013. Midfielder Raúl Meireles signed from his hometown club Porto for £11.5m in August 2010. He bagged five goals in 44 matches, with all these strikes coming in a six-game spell following Kenny Dalglish’s return as Manager. He moved to Stamford Bridge for £12m after just a year at Anfield, and netted six times in 48 outings before signing for Fenerbahçe SK for €10m in September 2012.

           

Yossi Benayoun signed from West Ham United for £5m in July 2007. He bagged 29 goals in 134 reds games, including hat-tricks against Beşiktaş JK, Havant & Waterlooville and Burnley. He was sold to Chelsea in July 2010 for a reported £5m, netting once in 24 outings as he suffered with injury as well as spending much of his time out on loan at Arsenal and then West Ham United. He moved on to Queens Park Rangers in December 2013.

           

Direct from the Bridge to L4

Midfielder Nigel Spackman was signed from Chelsea for £400,000 in February 1987, after 179 games and fourteen goals for the Blues, including being on the losing side nine months earlier as his soon-to-be boss King Kenny clinched the League title at Stamford Bridge. Among his finest appearances in a red shirt were his debut as a sub in the 1987 Littlewoods Cup Semi-final win over Southampton, and the 5-0 drubbing of Nottingham Forest in April 1988 as he helped us to clinch the title that season. He never scored for us in his 63 first-team games, although he did hit the post twice in our 1-0 defeat of Manchester United in September 1988. After moving on to Queens Park Rangers in February 1989, he later returned to Chelsea to play under Glenn Hoddle, making a further 88 appearances for the Blues.

           

Tony Hateley became our record transfer when he joined us from Chelsea in July 1967 for the then-princely sum of £96,000, having bagged six goals in 27 League games for the Blues after arriving from Notts County for £100,000 in October 1966. He got off to a flyer at Anfield, grabbing 27 goals in 52 appearances in his first season. Unfortunately, injuries took their toll, and he was sold to Coventry City only fifteen months after arriving at the club, and a total of 28 strikes in 56 outings. He was a fine header of the ball in his prime, as was his son, England international striker Mark.

           

Moving in the opposite direction

Outside-left Alf Hanson made 177 reds appearances before moving to Chelsea in July 1938 for £7,500. He had arrived at Anfield from Bootle in November 1931, and was also an England baseball international! He scored nine times in 45 League games for the Blues.

           

A popular wool

Joey Jones was a fans’ favourite in the 1970’s, playing exactly a hundred first-team games, mostly at left-back. He was immortalised in a famous banner at the European Cup Final in Rome in 1977, “Joey ate the frogs legs, made the Swiss roll, now he’s munching Gladbach”. After rejoining Wrexham in 1978, he later moved on to Chelsea, helping them to promotion back to the top division in 1984. He struck twice in 78 League games for the Blues.

           

A speedy reds career

David Speedie got off to a blistering start by scoring on his debut at Manchester United, and then grabbing a brace against Everton six days later. He came from Coventry City for £700,000 in January 1991, whom he had joined after a successful five years with Chelsea in the mid-1980’s, scoring 64 times in 205 games for the West London outfit, whom he had also played for in our 1986 title-decider. He nabbed six goals in fourteen reds games in all before moving to Blackburn Rovers after just seven months at Anfield. Keeper Alec Chamberlain had loan spells at both clubs during the 1990’s, without making the first team in either instance.

           

Other double agents

Nicolas Anelka moved to Stamford Bridge from Bolton Wanderers in January 2008 in a £15m deal, notching 59 times in 185 outings for the Blues, helping them to claim the League, two FA Cups and FA Community Shield before joining Chinese side Shanghai Shenhua in December 2011. He struck five times in 22 reds games while on loan at Anfield from Paris Saint-Germain in the second half of the 2001/02 season.

           

Scottish inside-forward Willie Fagan and legendary red Billy Liddell both guested for the Blues during the Second World War. Fagan signed from Preston North End for £8,000 in October 1937, netting 57 goals in 182 reds games that helped fire us to the League title in 1947 and the FA Cup Final three years later, before moving to Belfast Distillery in January 1952. Liddell joined the reds in July 1938 while still only sixteen, and left the club 23 years later, having struck 228 times in 534 games. Their only club honour was the League title in 1947, although they both also played in the FA Cup Final three years later.

           

Right-half Ted Savage made 105 reds appearances after signing from Lincoln City in May 1931, scoring his only two goals for us on his debut, as a forward, against Grimsby Town. He moved to Old Trafford in December 1937 and also guested for Chelsea during wartime. Matt Busby signed for the reds from Manchester City for £8,000 in March 1936 and made 125 appearances, many as captain. Chelsea were one of several clubs he guested for during the war. Jamie Redknapp recently spent some time training Chelsea’s reserves while working towards his coaching badges.

[Will]

Down Memory Lane

           

YNWA looks back at past memorable home League encounters as we prepare to welcome Chelsea for their 76th visit in the League on Saturday. Our overall home League record against the Blues is good, reading 47 wins, seventeen draws and eleven defeats to date.

           

Most recently

We drew 1-1 last January, with Simon Mignolet saving a Diego Costa penalty. Dejan Lovren reached a century of reds games. David Luiz gave the eventual champions the lead from a free-kick, with Gini Wijnaldum heading in the equaliser. We were held by the same score in May 2016 when Christian Benteke headed in his tenth and last reds goal, an injury time equaliser. Eden Hazard had given the Blues a half-time lead, the most recent of his five strikes past us to date.

           

We cruelly lost 2-0 in April 2014 to damage our title charge. Steven Gerrard’s slip let Demba Ba in to open the scoring just before half time, as the reds struggled to break down the Blues’ massed defence. Willian added a late breakaway second. Seven months later, we went down 2-1 with Emre Can opening the scoring with a deflected strike that was his first goal for the club. Gary Cahill’s equaliser was the first goal to be given at Anfield using goal-line technology. Diego Costa bagged the second-half winner, although we were denied a strong late penalty claim for handball.

           

We drew 2-2 in April 2013, with Oscar opening the scoring for the visitors before the break with a header from a corner. Daniel Sturridge equalised after having already hit the post since coming off the bench at half time. Eden Hazard converted a penalty after Luis Suárez handballed in the area, one of his four goals past us to date. Suárez then headed in a stoppage-time equaliser. However, headlines were dominated by Suárez biting Branislav Ivanović’s arm as they challenged for a ball in the area, an offence for which he was later banned for ten matches.

           

Three days after losing out to the Blues in the FA Cup Final at Wembley, we saw off Chelsea 4-1 at Anfield in May 2012 with the reds wearing special ‘Seeing Is Believing’ sponsored kits. Michael Essien’s own goal following fine work from Luis Suárez opened the scoring, with Jordan Henderson doubling our lead after one of many errors forced on John Terry. Daniel Agger headed in from a corner before Fernando Torres and Stewart Downing each hit the woodwork, with Downing then placing a spot-kick onto the post, a club record seventh penalty miss of the season, excluding shoot-outs. Ramires pulled a goal back for the visitors before Jonjo Shelvey completed the scoring.

           

Other recent encounters

Yossi Benayoun played his 134th and final reds game, prior to joining Chelsea in the summer, as we meekly lost 2-0 in May 2010, a result that ensured we could not qualify for the following season’s Champions League and left the visitors odds on favourites to claim their fourth League title. Didier Drogba pounced on a stray Steven Gerrard back-pass to open the scoring with one of his eleven goals past us, with Frank Lampard also on target with the last of his eight strikes against the reds.

           

Lampard was sent off as we won 2-0 in February 2009 thanks to two late Fernando Torres goals to secure our 200th win in the Premier League, after Xabi Alonso had hit the crossbar. José Bosingwa amazingly escaped punishment for an assault on Benayoun right in front of the assistant referee in stoppage time.

           

Torres bagged his first reds goal in August 2007 as we were held to a 1-1 draw thanks to a ludicrous penalty converted by Lampard that was awarded by referee Rob Styles against Steve Finnan. Peter Crouch was playing his hundredth game for the club. We won convincingly, 2-0, seven months earlier, thanks to Jermaine Pennant’s first reds goal, which followed an early Dirk Kuyt strike. This secured Rafael Benítez’s 56th win in his hundredth League game in charge, so equalling Bill Shankly’s record. This was also Jose Mourinho’s hundredth League match as Chelsea boss.

           

Champions

We clinched our seventh League title with a 2-1 win in April 1966, thanks to a Roger Hunt brace despite a Bert Murray equaliser after an hour.

           

Other recent defeats

Future red Joe Cole bagged the only goal of the game on New Year’s Day 2005, largely against the run of play. He had previously scored the only goal at Stamford Bridge as the Blues secured only their second ever League double over us, and first since 1919. Xabi Alonso had his ankle broken in this game. Nine months later we suffered our worst home defeat since December 1969 as we were thumped 4-1 with Steven Gerrard drawing us level after Djimi Traoré had conceded a penalty to hand the Blues the lead. This was their third consecutive League victory in L4, with Lampard and Cole again on target, along with Damien Duff and Geremi.

           

The opening game of the season in August 2003 brought a 2-1 defeat, with Michael Owen scoring a twice-taken penalty, our 300th League goal since Gérard Houllier took sole charge. Steve Finnan and Harry Kewell made their official reds debuts in this game. Future red Glen Johnson played his first League game for the visitors, for whom Juan Sebastián Verón netted before Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored the last of his seven goals past us.

           

Patrik Berger not so Blue

We won 5-1 in September 1996 with Patrik Berger netting a brace, to add to strikes from John Barnes and Robbie Fowler and an Andy Myers own goal, when he knelt down to head back towards his keeper, with Frank Leboeuf bagging a late consolation. This was the 129th consecutive reds game Robbie had played in, but he then sat out a European Cup Winners’ Cup second leg against Finns Myllykosken Pallo-47. Eleven months later, Berger scored his only reds hat-trick in our 4-2 win, with Robbie Fowler netting late on. Gianfranco Zola struck for the visitors, with Gus Poyet converting a penalty. Stig Inge Bjørnebye played his hundredth League game for us, while Chelsea’s Bernard Lambourde was sent off with the score still level at 1-1.

           

Winning and losing runs

Bob Paisley secured his hundredth League victory as reds boss in October 1978 as goals from David Johnson and Kenny Dalglish gave us a 2-0 win. This was Bob’s 179th League game as Manager, five games less than it took Bill Shankly to achieve the same feat, with many of his wins coming in the Second Division. We suffered our fourteenth consecutive League game without a win in March 1954, with Eric Anderson scoring a late equaliser to ensure we got something out of the game. Unsurprisingly given such a terrible run, we were relegated that season having finished bottom.

           

We lost 2-1 in February 1992, with Ronnie Rosenthal netting for the reds after Vinnie Jones had put the visitors ahead. Rosenthal then hit the bar when clean through before Dennis Wise put the Blues ahead again with one of his four goals past us, with Bruce Grobbelaar saving a late spot-kick taken by Wise. Graeme Souness received his Manager of the Month award prior to the game as we suffered our first defeat in fourteen League fixtures. This was Chelsea’s first League win at Anfield since December 1935.

           

Debutants

Billy Liddell scored direct from a corner on his League debut in September 1946. He in fact scored twice, with Bill Jones bagging his first two reds goals. Willie Fagan also struck twice, with Jack Balmer rounding out the scoring in our 7-4 win. Keeper Charlie Ashcroft made the first of his 89 reds appearances in this game, with Bob Paisley also making his first League outing. Alex Machin bagged a brace for the visitors, with Len Goulden and Jimmy Argue also on target. Seven years earlier, Cyril Done netted in his first reds game to hand us a 1-0 win with Matt Busby playing his 125th and final reds game, but the season was soon abandoned.

           

Bill Kinghorn made his reds bow in a 2-1 win in August 1938, with future boss Phil Taylor netting twice in our season opener. We recorded our biggest ever win over the Blues in April 1935, as we thumped them 6-0, with Vic Wright and South African Berry Nieuwenhuys grabbing two apiece. Fred Howe and Lance Carr also scored. This partly made up for our 4-1 defeat in that season’s earlier League game at Stamford Bridge. Centre-half Tom ‘Tiny’ Bradshaw was making his 200th League appearance for the club, while left-half John Browning was making his senior bow. John Miller made his reds debut in October 1919, when Chelsea completed their first League double over the reds by winning 1-0.

           

Late, late goals

Vladimír Šmicer struck a dramatic last-gasp goal from Emile Heskey’s cross in March 2002, to keep our League title hopes alive as we won 1-0. Seven months later, Chelsea again succumbed to a last-minute winner, as Michael Owen finally broke the deadlock after Heskey’s strike came back off an upright.

           

Gordon Hodgson

Legendary forward Gordon Hodgson played his 377th and final reds game as we lost 3-2 in December 1935, with Fred Howe and Berry Nieuwenhuys on the scoresheet. Eric Oakton struck twice, with Harry Burgess bagging one of his nine goals against the reds. Hodgson had previously scored a hat-trick as we saw off the West London outfit 3-1 in September 1930.

           

Other trebles

Fred Pagnam scored a first-half hat-trick as we won 3-2 in February 1915. Donald Mackinlay put through his own net, with Harold Halse scoring the last of his four goals against the reds and Bobby Thomson also netting for the Blues as Elisha Scott saved a late penalty from Robert Abrams. Inside-right James Stewart scored three in our 5-1 trouncing in January 1910, with Jack Parkinson netting the other two.

           

Thrown away

Billy Lacey netted as we lost 2-1 in March 1913. However, the reds were later accused of throwing the match, with Football League official HG Norris saying, “Never in their career have they given a worse exhibition.” Outside-right Arthur Goddard made his 400th reds outing in this game.

           

Other memorable encounters

Chelsea had both Marcel Desailly and Dennis Wise sent off in October 1999, for last-gasp challenges on Michael Owen and Erik Meijer respectively. David Thompson pounced from a free-kick to net the game’s only goal. Pierluigi Casiraghi bagged his only Chelsea goal a year earlier. Phil Babb attempted to prevent the goal but only succeeded in wrapping his legs around a post at the Anfield Road end, causing grown men around the ground to wince in sympathy, and he was taken off shortly after. Jamie Redknapp equalised for the reds late on.

           

Robbie Fowler played his hundredth League game in March 1996, netting as we won 2-0 with Mark Wright also on target. In September 1992, Dean Saunders, who scored, injured Paul Elliott in a challenge that ended his career, for which Deano was later unsuccessfully sued. Jamie Redknapp netted our last-minute winner, while this was Saunders’ final reds game before moving to Aston Villa. Gordon Durie struck first, one of his five goals past us, as we came from behind to win 2-1 in a live televised Sunday game in December 1987 thanks to a John Aldridge penalty and goal from Steve McMahon, who notched in his third consecutive match.

           

Alun Evans netted the only goal of the game in October 1970, with Bobby Graham breaking his leg. Forward Phil Chisnall bagged his second and final reds goal as we won 2-0 in April 1965, with Geoff Strong adding the second. Jimmy Payne grabbed his first reds goal in a 1-1 draw in October 1948, when Scottish left-winger Doug McAvoy made his second and final senior reds appearance. Outside-left Gordon Gunson struck his 26th and final reds goal in our 3-0 victory on Boxing Day in 1932, with centre-half Tom ‘Tiny’ Bradshaw and centre-forward Harold Barton also netting. Forward Ted Hancock struck his first reds goal as we won 2-1 in April 1932, with Gordon Hodgson also on target. Danny Shone, Jimmy Walsh and Joseph Keetley all struck on New Year’s Day 1924 as we won 3-1. This was Keetley’s second and final reds goal.

[growler]

Ward

Arnold - Matip - Gomez - Robertson

Milner - gini

 

Front 4.

 

f*** it. Need to break the cycle. Get some players in with heart and balls.

[Hightown Phil]

James Milner in midfield with a fella who could barely stand up on Tuesday night?

 

Not for me Clive.

[Ombudsam]

Ward

Arnold - Matip - Gomez - Robertson

Milner - gini

Front 4.

f*** it. Need to break the cycle. Get some players in with heart and balls.

Big non-dairy testicles.

[jimbolala]

So Milner on his own in midfield?

Miss Marple has more balls than Gini the ghost.

Im certainly for playing milner but ffs give the guy a hand.

[Cobs]

Is Lallana back yet?

[Hightown Phil]

So Milner on his own in midfield?

Miss Marple has more balls than Gini the ghost.

Im certainly for playing milner but ffs give the guy a hand.

He’s played in midfield and bar Maribor away he’s been pretty rubbish. I genuinely have no idea why anyone would want him there, he just isn’t good enough.

[Hassony]

He’s played in midfield and bar Maribor away he’s been pretty rubbish. I genuinely have no idea why anyone would want him there, he just isn’t good enough.

As always, some players get better when they're not playing

 

Also I know Hendo was poor against Seville, but we've been in good form prior to that second half, no need for wholesale changes just because of one bad half (down mainly to one thick individual)

[downunder]

As always, some players get better when they're not playing

 

Also I know Hendo was poor against Seville, but we've been in good form prior to that second half, no need for wholesale changes just because of one bad half (down mainly to one thick individual)

 

if we didn't let the third in, no one would be talking about the midfield. I am with you, one player who had an awful 10 minutes has made most think collectively we were poor.

[Sion]

I think its maybe the opposite. Moreno making two howlers has masked how much we got over run in the first twenty mins of the 2nd half. We couldn't keep hold of the ball. Meaning Coutinho Salah and Firmino all struggled to influence the game.

[downunder]

I think its maybe the opposite. Moreno making two howlers has masked how much we got over run in the first twenty mins of the 2nd half. We couldn't keep hold of the ball. Meaning Coutinho Salah and Firmino all struggled to influence the game.

 

Hadn't thought of it that way, but i still blame Moreno 100%!!

[Hassony]

I think its maybe the opposite. Moreno making two howlers has masked how much we got over run in the first twenty mins of the 2nd half. We couldn't keep hold of the ball. Meaning Coutinho Salah and Firmino all struggled to influence the game.

Thank God for Moreno in that case

[Case]

I think its maybe the opposite. Moreno making two howlers has masked how much we got over run in the first twenty mins of the 2nd half. We couldn't keep hold of the ball. Meaning Coutinho Salah and Firmino all struggled to influence the game.

They, and Mane, didn't work anywhere near hard enough in the first 10 of the second half as they did, brilliantly, throughout the first. They're less culpable than most and definitely than public enemy no. Moreno, but they contributed to what happened too.

[Earl Hafler]

I think its maybe the opposite. Moreno making two howlers has masked how much we got over run in the first twenty mins of the 2nd half. We couldn't keep hold of the ball. Meaning Coutinho Salah and Firmino all struggled to influence the game.

Yeah. The midfield was poor during the first half and they should have equalised after our first. Sevilla weren’t pressing the forwards in that first half.

Also, we scored from two set pieces, something we’ve not been doing enough of for some time. Two sucker punches during a period when they were the dominant team.

 

Klopp encouraged the team to continue playing as they had been....and they did; the forwards continued to play like nothing had changed despite Sevilla pressing us back and playing with more urgency. The flicks and fancy passes kept going straight to Sevilla players, our midfield and defence had no respite and we know what can happen in such circumstances. I think part of Moreno’s better form during the last few months has been due to us slowing things down, taking some pressure off the defence. That went out of the window during the second half.

 

I’d prefer to see Gomez start because he can probably cope better with Alonso. Maybe use Trent at right mid during the second half to rest Salah or Mané