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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: Darwin Núñez (Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro)

« Last post by Cpt_Reina on Today at 04:46:21 am »

The thing is you don't trust Nunez to do anything. You don't trust him to lead our attack, you don't trust him to counter attack and you don't trust him against a low block.

The thing is the stats don't back that up. For his two seasons at Liverpool he has been pretty much bang on a League goal every 180 minutes. So a goal every other game if he played the full 90 every week. So around 19 League goals per season despite not being a regular penalty taker for us.

At Benfica in his second season he scored a League goal every 76 minutes which is prolific.

So from the age of 21-24 he has scored a League goal every 123 minutes. So if he played 90 minutes in every game he would average out at just under 28 League goals per season from the age of 21-24.

Amazing how a player you wouldn't trust to play in an under 9's 5 a side has a record like that?

But he isn't scoring 19 league goals a season is he?! He has 20 league goals TOTAL between his two seasons.

The per90 stats don't work like that in reality do they? He's not playing 90mins every game, nobody does. And he's not scoring 19 league goals a season despite what the per90 stats claim, he's scoring an average of 10 goals a season.

What are we doing here? Seriously.

People are sacrificing actual factual output in favour of theoretical output and somehow claiming the high ground?

If Darwin's underlying numbers are so elite why aren't they translating to league goals? If they're so good why isn't he *actually* scoring more? If he doesn't have issues with putting the ball in the net why doesn't he have more than 9 league goals last year and 11 this? Bad luck? That's what all the analysis and incredibly detailed number crunching comes down to? Just bad luck? Not very scientific.

Could it perhaps be because, just possibly, just maybe, there are elements in his play that the numbers you're looking at aren't showing?Could it possibly be because they're interpretive but not necessarily 100% transferable to the reality of what we're actually seeing from him?

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by mrantarctica on Today at 04:40:13 am »

Not having a go at you but the term ‘lost the dressing room’ has to be one of the most inane phrases in football

But no, I highly doubt it. Althogh maybe an arugment could be made to the fact he hasn’t seemed his same engaged self at times in the last month and has looked like a man who can’t wait to get out at times, maybe that rubs off on the players too.

I think he's given everything he's got to give and there's nothing left. This is where the players, who he's really carried and owe a lot to him, pull their socks up and carry him and the club over the line. Players like Ali, VVD, Robbo, Trent, Salah have just been so far off it recently, that it's embarrassing. They need and must do better in the remaining games. I hope they can stand up and bring the younger or less experienced players with them.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: The Title Race 2023/24- Jurgen's Last Dance

« Last post by mrantarctica on Today at 04:36:39 am »

John, we can only control what is in our influence, from the early start of the season we’ve been conceding and chasing games, not controlling games, but chasing games - that’s not sustainable for a campaign.
Sure you can argue refereeing decisions, every fan, team and club can and will do, but make no mistakes about it, our porous defence, our profligate tendencies in front of goal almost on a half by half basis, and even though we put in some solid numbers ( though the porous bit at the back meant we had to), we couldn’t sustain it.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, and on reflection, we’ve been walking a tightrope all season and we just haven’t really seen it and looking at some of the disharmony that has reared its head, maybe that’s what tipped us over on that precarious tightrope we’ve been on.

Some down souls out there today, regular faces you get a smile from, this time it was a shrug and an air disappointment, people still carrying Wednesday with them and many hitting the same notes - it wasn’t sustainable and we became predictable over these final 2 months.

A new brush sweeps clean, they say, and perhaps that’s what we need in both the playing and coaching staff.

The king is dead, long live the king.

Both the Egyptian one and the German one perhaps?

I think there'll be time to reflect at the end of the season. We've taken a number of knocks in the the recent weeks which have dented hopes. I hope the players can pick themselves up once again just for these last games and bring us some wins and go out with pride and courage and a bit of a bang

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: The Title Race 2023/24- Jurgen's Last Dance

« Last post by mrantarctica on Today at 04:33:11 am »

Villa's draw tonight means that our season has all but ended officially.

Time to play the kids.

I don't think the elite players look at it like that. It is entirely plausible that Tottenham and Man Utd could beat Arsenal in their home games, meaning that Arsenal end up with 83 points, which we still have a shout at beating. I think it's pretty much impossible that Man City will end up with less points than that, but stranger things have happened in the league.

The key thing is to not look at what's going on elsewhere. The players need to really buckle down and get 3 more wins under the belt to finish the season strongly. A new manager is going to be coming in, and for many players, their place at Liverpool is going to be under scrutiny. What better time to get themselves focussed and give it everything they've got?

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by Dim Glas on Today at 04:27:17 am »

Does anyone have the feeling that Klopp lost the changing room in the past month?
How else can you explain the attitude of the once mentality monsters who roamed Anfield?
Which led the total collapse of their performance.

Not having a go at you but the term ‘lost the dressing room’ has to be one of the most inane phrases in football

But no, I highly doubt it. Althogh maybe an arugment could be made to the fact he hasn’t seemed his same engaged self at times in the last month and has looked like a man who can’t wait to get out at times, maybe that rubs off on the players too.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by mrantarctica on Today at 04:24:25 am »

Does anyone have the feeling that Klopp lost the changing room in the past month?
How else can you explain the attitude of the once mentality monsters who roamed Anfield?
Which led the total collapse of their performance.

Don't think so to be honest. I think possibly we just had a few set backs and it really knocked the stuffing out of a bunch of young players who were probably running on fumes at that stage anyway, due to the amount of injuries we've had. When that happens, it's absolutely possible that the team just doesn't click, players play tentatively and look shadows of their former selves. Having so many away games didn't help either. I don't think it was anything to do with the manager or players not trying - it just sometimes comes down to the fact that we were probably a bit short on confidence and things didn't go our way this time.

It's been a gruelling season, and the players have fought pretty hard to get as deep into competitions as they have. At the point that we had just drawn to City, we were still at the top of the table (I think Arsenal only ahead on goal difference) and were still in all the competitions. Since then we've really just had a number of bad performances and set backs. That Man Utd loss in the FA cup and the Atalanta loss really knocked the stuffing out of us and I wonder if the players have just collectively lost a bit of hope from there. They are young players as well that need to learn that to be at the very top, you have to keep going no matter what. You can't afford to stop and look at the table or worry about what could have been. The very best of the best are always looking to push the boundaries of how far they can go and how well they can play, no matter what has just happened the game before. Hopefully they can learn from it and get back to winning ways soon

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by Egyptian36 on Today at 04:14:27 am »

Does anyone have the feeling that Klopp lost the changing room in the past month?
How else can you explain the attitude of the once mentality monsters who roamed Anfield?
Which led the total collapse of their performance.

Injuries = less rotation = players tired physically and mentally

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: The corruption fallacy - they’re all out to get us!

« Last post by lobsterboy on Today at 03:55:14 am »

I want to get behind the new fella but what's the point these days?
It's bent, rigged and refereed by corrupt Manc bastards.
Pointless watching it.
No matter how good we are they will continue to fuck us over.
We aren't reffed to the same rules, haven't been since SKY got in bed with the Mancs but now it's worse than ever. 
Elbowing our players, ruling out fair goals, letting opponents foul with impunity, ruling out any goal of ours they can.
Not worth watching.
All the soccer am bantz c*nts are welcome to the farce.
I'd rather watch paint dry and it's better for my health.

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Media and Arts / Re: The RAWK Film Thread

« Last post by kavah on Today at 03:29:14 am »

Me and the lad went to 'Monkey Man' yesterday. Pretty good.  Kind of a John Wick, Kill Bill hybrid. Nothing groundbreaking to be honest but we both enjoyed it.
Now I've never been to India but I think Patel gave us a great feeling of being right there in a claustrophobic, bustling sweating underbelly of a major City in India.
Fuck me though, my head was spinning when it finished due to the shaky cam and frantic editing.

Watching that later, just read it was filmed in Batam which is a short ferry ride from Singapore, which you'd never guess.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by jckliew on Today at 03:14:49 am »

Does anyone have the feeling that Klopp lost the changing room in the past month?
How else can you explain the attitude of the once mentality monsters who roamed Anfield?
Which led the total collapse of their performance.