Topic: Liverpool 0 - Real Madrid 3 FT

[theredguy03]

Real Madrid deserved the win. The third goal was so bad it nearly made me vomit!

[Zephyr]

Why the fuck whenever we play a team like Real Madrid we end up making journeymen like Ronaldo and Benzema look like Bobby Zamora!?

[TheTeflonJohn]

Bent over, lubed up and penetrated, then tickled on the tummy with a playful ruffle of the hair.

[exiledintheUSA]

Taught a footbal lesson tonight, one which will hold the youg players in great stead.  We will qualify from the group on 9 pts.

[clinical]

Lallana was brilliant for 20 mins there.

[Tentacles.]

Reasons to be cheerful ?   anyone ?

Ludo just won, gives us another out for this group

[naka]

Thought Madrid taught us how to pressurise, our team was pedestrian and was effectively owned by Madrid.
We are struggling badly
Brendan needs to sort it out defensively or he could be one under severe pressure .
Really disappointing nightmare

[classycarra]

Before the shit throwing starts I just wanted to say, fair play to Real Madrid. Class above tonight. Superb performance. Untouchable tonight.

Yep, pretty much this. No shame in losing to the holders, and we've been lucky with the Basel result. On to the league where we only play a handful of games against teams a level above us. Plenty to play for this season still, and coming out of this group would be a nice achievement to build on

[Licky]

Drab and predictable, all we need now is somebody to tell us that he can't fault the effort and character of his team.

[The Milk Tray Man]

Luckily Real Madrid declared at half time so 2 nd half meaningless really. Miles off Real Madrids standard.

[indlfc]

Do you pre type these threads and just hit post as soon as the ref blows the whistle?

There was nothing else to do in the last few minutes anyway

[kiwiscouser]

The Sky commentary was pathetic!
I really hope that gary neville contracts ebola!!

i wish we would contract Arbeloa!!

[Reds Flag]

Drew the 2nd half...

A good lesson for our players and a level for them to aspire to. I'm sure Brendan and the team will be watching the video of the match several times over. We will learn from it.

On the plus side, Ludogorets have beaten Basel, so if we can beat Basel at home and Ludogorets away we can still finish 2nd.

[tommy LFC]

Taking Balotelli off at half time.... that's a strong message to send.

[Upinsmoke]

Its where we are. Lets take whatever we can from this, and cement our Champions League place for next season so we can learn.

What can you take from it? We couldn't be arsed defending and we will do the same in the Spain unless the manager changes something. Which he hasn't in over a year so I doubt 13 days will make a difference.

[kennedy81]

Ludogorets won

must have been a last gasp winner.
could be massive that.

[Runcornred92]

At least it wasn't more than 3 in the end, that was the only positive. Game raised even more questions about our defense and the way Rodgers sets us up for games. He seems incapable of changing it we play the same way against every single team and how how were we knackered after 20 minutes of pressing? I know we don't have a Kuyt anymore but that was dreadful to see our pressing over and done with after 20 minutes.

[Tumbleweed]

ludogorets 1-0

That better not be a lie 

/keyboard warrior

[johnny74]

Hopefully the end of Balotelli.

[tylerjnorton]

Madrid really couldn't have cared less about the second half. Couldn't even be bother to pretend. It was played like an International friendly, or even a fucking testimonial.

Might be petty, but it pissed me off. Seemed a bit disrespectful.

Respect is earned. This group hasn't earned any from Europe. Why would they stay on the gas with the game in hand and more important ones at the weekend?

[kasperoff]

Balotelli looking like a car crash of a transfer. Like playing with 10 men.

[Zlen]

Nice of Real not to continue ripping us up in the second half.
We got nicely schooled, who knows if it'll do any good.
God I miss Suarez, only for having a genuine world class attacking threat you can rely on.

[RedEire]

Should have added one or two top players in the summer, instead of 9/10 average/good players.

sign this man up and sack Brendan! 

[Kingstopic]

i wish we had a midfielder like isco. Twiffic player.

[JerseyKloppite]

Gerrin. Ludogorets 1 up.

Massive for us this.

Ludo go 2nd on GD, we drop to third, but if we pick up 6 points in the next three games odds are we go through.

[Notorious IT]

Great second half performance. We looked much more fluid without Balotelli. Saw some fluid one-twos in their box. Our players tried their best, they were just not good enough for matching the champions.

And Fair play to Ancelotti for taking the foot of the gas, he had the chance to completely destroy us, but choose not to.

Feel for Balotelli, he just isn't cut out for this level . Lacks that something between the ears.

They took their foot off it 2nd half, we never created anything.

Should have added one or two top players in the summer, instead of 9/10 average/good players.

This is what we have to do in future windows.

[perspectiveplease]

There are times when we just have to put our hands up and say there was nothing we could do. This is one of those times. Last season they still would have beaten us, only difference is the game would have ended in some sort of mad scoreline like 2-3 or 3-4. Take away that attack and this is what we're left with. Yes, our defense is absolutely tragic and at least one of those goals could have been prevented, but they were just too good for us and there can really be no complaining about it. I don't expect it to change either, our defensive problems are only getting worse as well. In years before what we lacked in class we made up for in team-spirit and unity, no better example of that than the Champions League in 2004/05. This team at times shows no sign of it, no togetherness, no cohesion, their heads drop too easily. It's very disappointing to see.

Oh, and Balotelli. If he really did swap shirts at half time, then honestly I've had it with him. He offers next to nothing on the pitch, and it seems as if the only thing he's contributing to this squad is what he has been doing best for years - disrupting the team spirit. It's becoming clearer and clearer that he's looking like a failed experiment, and it would probably be best for all parties if we just got rid of in the Winter transfer window. Even Brendan didn't want him here, he was a last-ditch desperation signing.

I hope you wrote that all very quickly after the match and hadn't stopped watching the game prior to FT to analyse.

[Gerry83]

We were crap . They were good.
We're an average team. They're a brilliant team.
Same old problems tonight exposed. Brendan has his work cut out with this lot.

[Guz-kop]

We are struggling this season but would've struggled last season also.

This is a Real side that won 4-0 away at Bayern last year. They were very good tonight, really very good and fair play to them.

We need two more wins to get out of the group, lets hope we get that.

Need to build some momentum domestically this weekend.

[Phil_88]

 we lost to the most expensive side in history and reigning European champions , missing our goalscorer and having glen Johnson at rb, we played better than we have done recently but real were just better, need to do some serious defending work though

[rob1408]

There was nothing else to do in the last few minutes anyway

Perhaps you could of used those minutes to think rather than post your normal inane shite ?

[bam09]

If we don't get that goal early we just become so much weaker as a side. It seems like too much is riding on that initial 15 minute burst of flying about the pitch.

[Lethul]

Horrible from everyone except maybe Coutinho and Sterling.

Im flabbergasted that Skrtel did not even try to challenge Ronaldo for the first goal.

[sminp]

If you'd offered us the same points as Basel before the match I'd have been delighted

[Butcher Knife Roberto]

Intelligent substitutions from Brendan, thought Emre Can was really good when he came on, as was Lallana. Much better performance all round in the second half but there was a lingering suspicion that Madrid took their feet off the gas a bit. Still, it was something to take from the game.

Definitely a case of work in progress against the real deal. No disgrace in only shipping 3 against the best team in Europe. We'll do better in the Bernabeu. Ideally without Balotelli. My autocorrect just changed it to baloney. I think that just about sums him up.

[Nick110581]

Mario could prove disruptive. He's going to sulk.

[Kingstopic]

Nice of Real not to continue ripping us up in the second half.
We got nicely schooled, who knows if it'll do any good.
God I miss Suarez, only for having a genuine world class attacking threat you can rely on.

I hope suarez tears them a new one on saturday.

[Snail]

Oh well.

[Tentacles.]

Ludo 1-0 Basel http://www.sportinglife.com/football/live/match-commentary/325351/ludogorets-v-basel

HUGEEEEE result for us

[Adeemo]

Suck it up, take it on the chin etc, amazingly it's turned out to be a pretty good night for us with Basel losing.

Having said that though, we've sold the 3rd best player in the world, spent well over £100million and not brought in a single world class player.