Atalanta 1st leg at home Thursday 8pm

[Buzzo]

Yeah, this is it. Been a bad season for the strikers. Mo's injuries, Jota's injuries, Diaz's injuries (and he isn't that prolific) and Nunez is so inconsistant. If you're going to expose your defence to go on the attack you have to be scoring more from the chances you have. To be fair we're not normally as **** as we've been today but it's definitely the difference between winning the league and coming second or third.

The paradox is we’ve scored 125 goals. But we’ve been poor in clutch moments within big games.

Diaz v City…

[BobTheCharmer]

Yeah, this is it. Been a bad season for the strikers. Mo's injuries, Jota's injuries, Diaz's injuries (and he isn't that prolific) and Nunez is so inconsistant. If you're going to expose your defence to go on the attack you have to be scoring more from the chances you have. To be fair we're not normally as **** as we've been today but it's definitely the difference between winning the league and coming second or third.

I'd go full wild card and start danns.

[Kenneth]

I’ve already made my views on the league chances clear but I did not expect us to suffer like that against the sixth placed team in Italy. And they didn’t do it by being typically Italian, they played super high with the front five and we could not find a pass other than chucking it long to Elliott and Gakpo as makeshift wingers. The rigidity of Klopp’s system has obviously helped us over the years but when we face a team with an effective game plan, we’re screwed and usually rely on individual quality to pull us out of the fire. It can’t work every time.

[Buzzo]

What is the strongest team? I really have no idea. Gomez at right back is awful. There's a start. 10 more to go. Your turn.

Yeah………..

It’s a good question.

Becker

Bradley Quansah/Konate Virgil Robbo

Trent Endo Macca

Salah Jota Diaz

[Venton]

The paradox is we’ve scored 125 goals. But we’ve been poor in clutch moments within big games.

Diaz v City…

We batter terrible teams which is where the vast majority of the goals come from. Half-decent teams it's a lot tighter and decent teams beat us or draw the majority of the time.

But, we need to acknowledge this, if we take our clear cut chances at a better rate it's a different story, and in a lot of the games this season our forwards haven't done that.

[Venton]

I'd go full wild card and start danns.

Trouble is putting kids in **** teams does them more harm them good in my view. Don't want to infect them with that!

[Tatterdemalion]

Seems like we are too wasteful up front and too exposed at the back; basically if we don't fire up front it doesn't work. I always had the impression Nunez was a Klopp impulse buy and that his desire to do that has had a lot to do with the backroom turnover. There is a good player in there, but he needs to have instinct coached into him. Salah - sorry - trading on past glories. Scores a lot, yes, but his conversion ratio is surely pretty **** now. A more lethal player would get a lot more now. My point is that we end up taking a lot of risks at the back because we are not firing up front.

[Buzzo]

We batter terrible teams which is where the vast majority of the goals come from. Half-decent teams it's a lot tighter and decent teams beat us or draw the majority of the time.

But, we need to acknowledge this, if we take our clear cut chances at a better rate it's a different story, and in a lot of the games this season our forwards haven't done that.

We’ve been good this season, everything points to that. We’ve only lost 2 in the league. One of them with 9 men and a rotten ref.

But. We need to finish the season strong, and that does mean taking chances in tight games

Tonight smacked of complacency.

[danperkins]

We have been great this season but have a poor record vs top 6 this season, its weird. We just haven't been good vs decent sides but bashed alot of the lesser sides.

[BobTheCharmer]

Trouble is putting kids in **** teams does them more harm them good in my view. Don't want to infect them with that!

I know that. But sometimes you need adversity or a full blown injury crisis to get a chance. He had a chance and impacted games. Hasn't had a sniff since. **** gapko off.

[Buzzo]

Szoboslai gives up on the chance after his mistake. Criminal.

[Tatterdemalion]

I actually still can't believe how much we've ****ed ourselves

In this game and the league. Notwithstanding some truly awful ref decisions.

[BootRoom]

Psychologically it's a lot easier to move onto a new manager if this season ends with a damp squib, which looks like it is going to be the case.

[Kenneth]

I need to watch this back to work out what was going on at the back. Kostas went awol for the first, but how did the CBs just vanish for a couple of goals, like, they were nowhere near? It looked like Virgil and Konate did a lot of Jogging tonight.

[BobTheCharmer]

Gomez was really bad for their last goal. Dozy ****er.