Liverpool v Spurs (h)

[Doc_Piptorious]

Oh and Diaz is a ****ing warrior of a player too.

[Doc_Piptorious]

In terms of the performance, was great to be at the game, it’s so different than being on here reading about all the half baked tacticalmoans and groans () just enjoying the sporting contest.
Also a treat getting to see Spurs go full Spurs

The pluses, Diaz, first start and his movement and attitude make a huge difference. Hope he has no after effects from that tackle, he was definitely less influential after it. Gakpo, looks a player and that front three could be incredible with a decent midfield behind it.

We started (obvs) very strong. We looked like we could score at will. Fabinho was getting so much space and time on the ball.

The worries for me are the formation. It doesn’t quite work. Robbo is being sacrificed to protect Trent. Robbo was solid for 25 mins or so, then got caught in possession 3 times when Spurs went to 2 up front, which was part of the momentum shift. Look at the positions of the back 3 on Kanes goal. All over the place. Trent clearly has a future in midfield, but we aren’t tactically astute enough to cover him without and particularly with Elliot as one of the three - bright but lightweight. I’d say we’d need to play 3CBs - but we then lose Robbo raids down the left….

The other big worry was Nunez. He was awful. The ball just bouncing off him, clueless in possession. Just everything up too early for headers, can’t pick a pass in attack. Rank. He has regressed as the season has gone on and needs a strong pre-season. He is 5th choice up front now. Rumours that his comms are miles off as he doesn’t speak English well yet fit, but he needs to kick on in a big way.

Anyway, it was all about the last few mins, was absolutely the most depressinglypredictable thing ever to see Richarlison score and I was set to accept the 3-3 we’d barely created anything second half. To witness the raw euphoria of their equaliser right in front of us and to then steal the win a minute later was sooooooo sweet. The atmos was incredible. Is out crippled the guy next to me landing on his ankle . It’s the best way to win.

Had no idea how Jotas goal came about so seeing Lucas Mouras assist made some sense of it all this morning.

Ref was awful all game. They got FK ever time they hit the deck, and the treatment Salah gets is just baffling (he was good first half also in that 3).

YNWA

Those two things stood out along with how once of good period ended how easily Spurs started to look towards exploiting the fact we had to constantly sacrifice a player to cover TAA.

TAA may look better because we are having other players cover for him, but we are getting caught cold in other positions as someone is constanmtly having to cover thge right flank and then someone from the lefty is having to shove in to cover that gap.

Scary thing about that is how predictable and obvious it looks from the stand once you start noticing it so is something I think better teams could exploit more easily than Spurs did.


Nunez had one of those games where a player looks to be trying too hard to make things work and then rushing every touch he attempted on the ball instead of just taking his time and trying to do the simple thing each time until he caught up with the game tempo. He lacked in any natural support too which only helped to make him look worse again.

Do like his attitude though. He ****s up and he straight away will try again and again. Guy has fight in him and looks to have the sort of mentality that will see him not shy away after a set back. Need to find a way to give him steady minutes next season in a defind position rather than a season like this one where he is all over the place within a mostly misfiring team.

He has a really good workrate too, which is something that does not show when watching on tv. He makes tons of runs and does try to chase back and harry players that are on the ball. There is a player there we just need to get him up to speed with the team when we finally get a fully functioning unit of a team.


That functioning unit is very much not there though. Was shocking at times how many players seemed to lose their heads, senior players at that, when Spurs put us under pressure. Misplacing passes, not quite going in for 50/50s and so on.

Jones was a treat to watch at times though. Guy does a hell of a lot of the donkey work and does it really well. He is hard to press, he presses well, good in his duels and is keeping his head up to watch play more than I recall him doing in past seasons. Really like how he seems to glide between the lines too, if we get better players into the midfield around him I have a sneaky feeling he will be a much better foil to higher quality players than what many might think. He is very much a watch from the stand type player than he is a watch on tv player. He stays fit and has a full pre season and it would not surprise me to see him become a real contender to be a starter at LCM next season and he might well change Klopp's plans for who we buy this summer if he can keep it up until the end of the season.



Ref was an effing joke. Salah was getting tackled like it was a game of rugby or a wrestling bout and getting nothing. Lot of off the ball rough treatment on Salah as well that did not get flagged.

[chadrtc]

I don't watch any of those things so couldn't give a ****.

Entirely in fitting with todays society.

[Doc_Piptorious]

I was there also with my eldest, as was Shaggy! Where were you sat? Got home at 12:30 (zzzzz) cracking game.

Was in 104 as Michelle sits there as she has club related tickets through her job so I get in as her guest. She had the option of a box after she moved to Liverpool for work, but she is very much a sing her head off in the middle of a crowd person so she got a season ticket and her guest pass instead. Her match buddy Bob she met through happenstance as he has been going to Anfield for seven decades now and now he is part of her match day crew and vice versa after she got her spot on the Kop seven years ago. Real old school born in Vauxhall and still in Vauxhall scouser that man is. A real gent with great tales to tell about the club and city.

Shaggy was there was he? That ****er has a bout against me scheduled as per the boxing thread.

If I knew he was there I could have sorted him out around Concert Square before I went on to Manchester two minutes later.

Was a cracking game as where I was sat was very much a no moaner zone (again that is probably the Michelle effect and her wild eyes scaring folk ) so when Spurs scored, then scored again and then scored again the mood around me was one of defiance rather than deflation.

I love being at games though be it at Anfield, the Gaelic grounds or Thomond up in Limerick or at Turners Cross or Musgrave Park down here in Cork. I kick, head and puck every ball/sliotar and generally have a great time getting sucked into the spectacle. Very much a if I cannot compete myself then I am channelling what I wish I could do and every gram of wanting to win into my watching of the game.

I'm the same if I turn up at any of my old ABCs or go to an amatuer tournament, I will the the guy who at some point is throwing short punches or hooks if I am ringside whilst wishing I could be doing what the guy or girl I am supporting is doing.


Then the final whistle or bell goes and a switch goes off and I go back to being mellow.

[Rafa Justice]

What about the men on the women’s games? Adults covering youth football? Humans commentating on the horse racing. Don’t get me started on Robot Wars.

Surely we need some consistency?

I don't watch any of those things so couldn't give a ****.

[Buzzo]

In terms of the performance, was great to be at the game, it’s so different than being on here reading about all the half baked tacticalmoans and groans () just enjoying the sporting contest.
Also a treat getting to see Spurs go full Spurs

The pluses, Diaz, first start and his movement and attitude make a huge difference. Hope he has no after effects from that tackle, he was definitely less influential after it. Gakpo, looks a player and that front three could be incredible with a decent midfield behind it.

We started (obvs) very strong. We looked like we could score at will. Fabinho was getting so much space and time on the ball.

The worries for me are the formation. It doesn’t quite work. Robbo is being sacrificed to protect Trent. Robbo was solid for 25 mins or so, then got caught in possession 3 times when Spurs went to 2 up front, which was part of the momentum shift. Look at the positions of the back 3 on Kanes goal. All over the place. Trent clearly has a future in midfield, but we aren’t tactically astute enough to cover him without and particularly with Elliot as one of the three - bright but lightweight. I’d say we’d need to play 3CBs - but we then lose Robbo raids down the left….

The other big worry was Nunez. He was awful. The ball just bouncing off him, clueless in possession. Just everything up too early for headers, can’t pick a pass in attack. Rank. He has regressed as the season has gone on and needs a strong pre-season. He is 5th choice up front now. Rumours that his comms are miles off as he doesn’t speak English well yet fit, but he needs to kick on in a big way.

Anyway, it was all about the last few mins, was absolutely the most depressinglypredictable thing ever to see Richarlison score and I was set to accept the 3-3 we’d barely created anything second half. To witness the raw euphoria of their equaliser right in front of us and to then steal the win a minute later was sooooooo sweet. The atmos was incredible. Is out crippled the guy next to me landing on his ankle . It’s the best way to win.

Had no idea how Jotas goal came about so seeing Lucas Mouras assist made some sense of it all this morning.

Ref was awful all game. They got FK ever time they hit the deck, and the treatment Salah gets is just baffling (he was good first half also in that 3).

YNWA

[SB]

What a game. First time at a game for a bit and was a whirlwind weekend.

Cork to Limerick on Saturday evening. Go to the Limerick vs Clare game at the Gaelic Grounds.

Clare won by a point and some poor man died in the stand just after the game started.


Then Limerick to Dublin that night for some sleep and onto a ferry first thing Sunday morning, Picked up at Holyhead and up to Liverpool. Had time for a bite to eat and a freshen up at my friend's apartemt in the Colonades.

Then off to the game with the ****ing lunatics that is Michelle and her match buddy Bob. 90 minutes plus time added on of Michelle's thinking she is coaching the team and her roaring at opposition players. Spurs pull three goals back and she is baying for London blood and still convinced we are having them.

Turns out her never quit, never take a step back mentality (why I love her to death) is right.

Winner goes in and the Kop ****ing explodes. Michelle busy roaring at Richarlison and informing him how did he like that in colourful terms. The fact he cannot hear her does not come into it.


Match ends, some banter, some hugs and then off like a pair of banshees on the M62 as Michelle is giving me a lift to Manc airport so I can catch the flight to Cork. Master Of Puppets blasting up the M62, **** yeah Strut around Manc airport in a Liverpool top, get on the plane. In Cork airport car park by 10pm or so.

My Cork lift (Michelle's sister) tells me that SoHo is closing (new owners coming in but the open air roof top bar will not be reopening so get dragged into SoHo and up to Perch ( the roof top bar in SoHo). On fumes at this point but rude not to say goodbye to Perch or that is how I rationalised it. George Thorogood is playing at some point causing a singalong and the ordering of bourbon, scotch and beer for a lot of people happens.

Had to then spend the night in Douglas to the east of Cork city as my jaded carcass ended up there with no way home to North county Cork unless I wanted to get gouged for a 50km trip by a taxi charging gone midnight prices with a bank holiday top up


Then up early this morning, taxi from Douglas to Parnell Place bus station in Cork city, 7:25 bus up the N20 to Mallow, then get a taxi from there (next spot would have been closer to harder to get a taxi), home by 8:40, shower, some porridge, and now waiting for my ****ed up body to conk out as pushed things a tad

Might feel like death today, but if you feel like death if means you ain't dead.

Hahaha good on you old fella.

[chadrtc]

Which channel does he commentate on? I watch more iptv now than Sky or BT Sports due to the standard of commentary and shoehorning of women into the men's games.

What about the men on the women’s games? Adults covering youth football? Humans commentating on the horse racing. Don’t get me started on Robot Wars.

Surely we need some consistency?

[Rafa Justice]

After listening to Drury on Optus sports for the past 5, 6, 7 whatever many years, I'm now having to suffer skysports and finally got to listen to tyler and neville. They should seriously not be doing liverpool matches. I dont understand. Considering they're both UTD fans, why do they even agree to do liverpool? There were plenty of big teams playing they could go do.

Which channel does he commentate on? I watch more iptv now than Sky or BT Sports due to the standard of commentary and shoehorning of women into the men's games.

[S-RED]

No surprise that the ref that hates us with a passion gets twice the mount of our games now that Webb is in control.

You are not telling me thats a coincidence.....

thrown in the fact he is ****ing incompetant & what hope is there.

**** me a billion $$ sport reliant on people not fit to do their job & don't even get me started on VaR; WHAT THE ACTUAL ****!!!

[vlahka]

After listening to Drury on Optus sports for the past 5, 6, 7 whatever many years, I'm now having to suffer skysports and finally got to listen to tyler and neville. They should seriously not be doing liverpool matches. I dont understand. Considering they're both UTD fans, why do they even agree to do liverpool? There were plenty of big teams playing they could go do.

[Buzzo]

What a game. First time at a game for a bit and was a whirlwind weekend.

Cork to Limerick on Saturday evening. Go to the Limerick vs Clare game at the Gaelic Grounds.

Clare won by a point and some poor man died in the stand just after the game started.

Then Limerick to Dublin that night for some sleep and onto a ferry first thing Sunday morning, Picked up at Holyhead and up to Liverpool. Had time for a bite to eat and a freshen up at my friend's apartemt in the Colonades.

Then off to the game with the ****ing lunatics that is Michelle and her match buddy Bob. 90 minutes plus time added on of Michelle's thinking she is coaching the team and her roaring at opposition players. Spurs pull three goals back and she is baying for London blood and still convinced we are having them.

Turns out her never quit, never take a step back mentality (why I love her to death) is right.

Winner goes in and the Kop ****ing explodes. Michelle busy roaring at Richarlison and informing him how did he like that in colourful terms. The fact he cannot hear her does not come into it.

Match ends, some banter, some hugs and then off like a pair of banshees on the M62 as Michelle is giving me a lift to Manc airport so I can catch the flight to Cork. Master Of Puppets blasting up the M62, **** yeah Strut around Manc airport in a Liverpool top, get on the plane. In Cork airport car park by 10pm or so.

My Cork lift (Michelle's sister) tells me that SoHo is closing (new owners coming in but the open air roof top bar will not be reopening so get dragged into SoHo and up to Perch ( the roof top bar in SoHo). On fumes at this point but rude not to say goodbye to Perch or that is how I rationalised it. George Thorogood is playing at some point causing a singalong and the ordering of bourbon, scotch and beer for a lot of people happens.

Had to then spend the night in Douglas to the east of Cork city as my jaded carcass ended up there with no way home to North county Cork unless I wanted to get gouged for a 50km trip by a taxi charging gone midnight prices with a bank holiday top up

Then up early this morning, taxi from Douglas to Parnell Place bus station in Cork city, 7:25 bus up the N20 to Mallow, then get a taxi from there (next spot would have been closer to harder to get a taxi), home by 8:40, shower, some porridge, and now waiting for my ****ed up body to conk out as pushed things a tad

Might feel like death today, but if you feel like death if means you ain't dead.

I was there also with my eldest, as was Shaggy! Where were you sat? Got home at 12:30 (zzzzz) cracking game.

[Kenneth]

Morning

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[Doc_Piptorious]

What a game. First time at a game for a bit and was a whirlwind weekend.

Cork to Limerick on Saturday evening. Go to the Limerick vs Clare game at the Gaelic Grounds.

Clare won by a point and some poor man died in the stand just after the game started.


Then Limerick to Dublin that night for some sleep and onto a ferry first thing Sunday morning, Picked up at Holyhead and up to Liverpool. Had time for a bite to eat and a freshen up at my friend's apartemt in the Colonades.

Then off to the game with the ****ing lunatics that is Michelle and her match buddy Bob. 90 minutes plus time added on of Michelle's thinking she is coaching the team and her roaring at opposition players. Spurs pull three goals back and she is baying for London blood and still convinced we are having them.

Turns out her never quit, never take a step back mentality (why I love her to death) is right.

Winner goes in and the Kop ****ing explodes. Michelle busy roaring at Richarlison and informing him how did he like that in colourful terms. The fact he cannot hear her does not come into it.


Match ends, some banter, some hugs and then off like a pair of banshees on the M62 as Michelle is giving me a lift to Manc airport so I can catch the flight to Cork. Master Of Puppets blasting up the M62, **** yeah Strut around Manc airport in a Liverpool top, get on the plane. In Cork airport car park by 10pm or so.

My Cork lift (Michelle's sister) tells me that SoHo is closing (new owners coming in but the open air roof top bar will not be reopening so get dragged into SoHo and up to Perch ( the roof top bar in SoHo). On fumes at this point but rude not to say goodbye to Perch or that is how I rationalised it. George Thorogood is playing at some point causing a singalong and the ordering of bourbon, scotch and beer for a lot of people happens.

Had to then spend the night in Douglas to the east of Cork city as my jaded carcass ended up there with no way home to North county Cork unless I wanted to get gouged for a 50km trip by a taxi charging gone midnight prices with a bank holiday top up


Then up early this morning, taxi from Douglas to Parnell Place bus station in Cork city, 7:25 bus up the N20 to Mallow, then get a taxi from there (next spot would have been closer to harder to get a taxi), home by 8:40, shower, some porridge, and now waiting for my ****ed up body to conk out as pushed things a tad

Might feel like death today, but if you feel like death if means you ain't dead.

[Norbs]

I thought I saw Robbo start to venture in to the middle of the pitch, much the same as Trent was earlier in the season. Trent struggled and perhaps Robbo will do the same at first