[COC] Stoke (A): Match Thread

[Irishnev]

Firmino's lacksidasical passing grates.

Said that in the middle of the Ibe celebrations but he seems to under hit so many passes.

[gratziani]

Charlie Adam to cock that stat up then

[danperkins]

Would be nice to see Firmino actually going in for a 50-50 challenge... avoids every tackle it's very frustrating.

[redmike65]

Ah bollox.

[fidget]

Put a coat on Mark - you'll catch your death

[danperkins]

What a save! Midget team we have.

[Gibbo]

Survived to half time

[shanks69]

ht
positives = the score and performance

negatives = more injuries

[Muddled]

A deserved lead at half time. Should be more but given our unfortunate run of injuries and losing our two best performers of the night, I'd take that. We're Jekyll and Hyde.

[redmike65]

Phew!

Well almost everything that could go wrong injury wise has gone wrong and yet for the most part Liverpool have played Stoke off the park using their own game against them!

Imagine that with Benteke up front. Nope you can't.

[Fredo]

I thought we played superbly given the circumstances. Allen gets a lot of stick in here but he was majestic in that first half. One of our better players but to be fair, the whole team played well.

[Nicey]

Great first half well deserved lead..Lallana and Milner have been awesome

[Buzzo]

We've been good.

How must Big Chris be feeling? Nil-nil, sat on the bench the only fit centre forward in the squad. Coutinho goes down injured. Klopp looks to the bench... Big Chris unzips his tracky...

And Klopp sends on Jordan Ibe.

[gratziani]

Good half from the boys all round.

[Buzzo]

Doop