Topic: CL: Spartak 1 v Liverpool 1 (Fernando 23', Coutinho 30')

[1892tillforever]

Ref added another 34 secs for the lad who went down in injury time. Odd.

Could have added 34 minutes, wouldn't have made a difference. Can't believe we couldn't beat such a bad side.

[jepovic]

Can absolutely lousy, replaced by Gini who promptly goes hiding.

We have to score on those chances though. Salah, Firmino, Sturridge should have scored.

Henderson did well, and I can't complain about the back four. Our full backs created lots of chances.

Karius loves the bench apparently.

[elsewhere]

Thankfully our group is the weakest in CL. Maribor and Spartak wins at home will get us there.
1-1 was my guess before the match. We struggle to score and almost always find a way to concede, terrible combo.

[lgvkarlos]

This game has 3 rules and refs can never fucking call them right. Guy is down for 2 minutes you add on 2 more minutes. It's not hard. And another one where a blatant penalty is ignored.

No real threat of not going through but this was one of the most frustrating games I've ever watched.

Foul everywhere else on the pitch.

[LallanaInPyjamas]

Disappointing not to win after dominating and playing pretty well but we're fine in the group.

I'm sure people's posts will reflect this.....

We're fine in terms of getting through but I think finishing first is going to be a big ask.

How much that matters, I guess we will see.

[Caston]

I'm plalacing that one on the shoulders of Klopp. The subs came way too late yet again and taking Mane off while keeping Firmino on was just strange. Karius shouldn't be anywhere near our first team as well.

Yep it’s Klopps fault we couldn’t finish 2 of our 100 chances.

[Asam]

The good news is that we are probably the best team in the group, we have nothing to fear except our own ability to gift easy goals/chances away.

And none of our forwards can head a ball properly

[Gnurglan]

1-1. Disappointing. We owned the game, we created some really good chances and we should have won. Both Firmino and Salah should have scored from their headers. We should have scored from the 5 vs 2 near the end of the first half. The performance was good, unfortunately our attackers didn't get the job done tonight. No panic though. Four more games to go.

[TALBERT]

Glad the Ox stayed on the bench

[S.Red please]

We're fucking shite aren't we. That was one of the worst performances I've seen from a Liverpool side.

[nick_8589]

Russian teams are without a doubt some of the worst going, dives and time wasting from the start of the second half, we should have won the game, at the same time Russia is always a bad place to go.

On the bright side we stuff Maribor home and away, beat these at Anfeild and as long as we don't loose to Sevilla we're pretty much trough aren't we???

[Caligula?]

How can you blame Klopp? If a professional player cannot pass the ball properly a few yards?

We concede in every match we play. We should just start games already 1 or 2 down so we know what we're up against from the start. It's beyong sickening now.

[jillcwhomever]

Firmino poor game, Sturridge woeful when he came on.

Henderson was sensational especially the last half an hour.

The timekeeping from the ref made my fucking blood boil. 8.5 minutes ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! c*nt.

I should have timed how long the goalkeeper alone was down for then there were two others who were rolling around the floor, then add the subs coming on. The ref was a disgrace, lost complete control of the game.

[cdav]

Imagine the day we have the same conversion rate as the opponents seem to have against us- we'll be winning by 9 or 10 most weeks. Yet again so, so fruatrating to play well enough to win and come away with a point. We really could/should be 6 points better off in the league and top with maximum points.

Henderson MOTM for me, played very well again

[Oddball]

We need a striker who can consistently score goals, no doubt about that now.

No we dont...well that was the line from a lot of people, we didnt need one as we had

Bobby
Mane
Salad
Ings
Origi
Solanke
Sturridge


We do, we need one who can put away chance after chance.

[Fitzy.]

Drawing against a bunch of part time farmers, cant get much worse than this.

Is this racist or just ignorant?

[ScubaSteve]

We need a striker who's clinical....it's not rocket science

Poor finishing lets us down again

[kennedy81]

Disappointing not to win after dominating and playing pretty well but we're fine in the group.

I'm sure people's posts will reflect this.....

Haha yeah.

Hard not to feel frustrated after that, but we'll be fine. We'll need to be more ruthless though in future. At least the defence got a nice rest.

[stockdam]

Shouldn't have even been a stoppage anyway.
Ref shouldn't be stopping play just because a defender fancied a rest as we were attacking.

I agree. If a player is not injured then you play on. What next; a player sits down because they are tired.

[koptommy93]

Dreadful result against a dreadful side. What else is there to say?

[ToneLa]

We're fucking shite aren't we. That was one of the worst performances I've seen from a Liverpool side.

Did you miss us under Hodgson?

[sms1986]

come on, your never going to win in Moscow , if any of those shots went in they would have been disallowed.

What happened between 2002 and now?

[Kekule]

Changed our shooting tactic from the 45 I see. First half it was straight at the keeper, second half it was either straight at the keeper or lashed over the bar.  The much vaunted front four decided to have one of those nights. We can't afford another one, we need three wins from four to qualify. You'd like to think we're good enough to get them, but someone needs to start showing some composure in the last 20 yards of the pitch.

[jamie_c]

We are unluckiest team ever. Full stop.

Not sure what's unlucky about getting free headers and putting them straight at the keeper when you have the whole fucking goal to aim at.

It's shit play

[Marcel]

I mean, we should qualify. If we finish like that every game we won't qualify - but I don't think we will finish like that every game.

[keano7]

Ref added another 34 secs for the lad who went down in injury time. Odd.

We could still be playing til midnight and still not score. Decision making in the final third was absolutely dreadful. What the fuck has happened to Bobby Firmino? Confidence has dropped off a cliff since Arsenal.

[JackWard33]

Moreno continues his great form, thought he was excellent all night.

He honestly was - didn't put a foot wrong. Constant option down the left. Really good as he has been all season

[TomDcs]

The penalty not being called was the main factor in this game.

Lack of clinical finishing was. Oh and why did we take Mane off?!

[JustDan]

A few good moments but fairly disappointing from us.

The ref though.. does he not know the rules? Border-lining on stuff that should be looked into surely.
.. stopping play when one of their players goes down with cramp/ a hammy? Never seen anything like it.
Wasn't counting but 8 minutes didn't seem enough in the first place, but I know for sure 30 secs on top of that wasn't enough after their player was down for at least a couple mins of added time.

[the_red_pill]

Not about being unlucky. It's lack of confidence and lack of focus.
Throw in the defensive issues and there's just no way we can grind for wins. This should have been a 0-1. Our draws sofar should have been 1-goal winning margins.

[Dull Tools]

Fucking clueless, every bit as bad as the 2014-15 CL campaign. If the team is consistently playing less than the sum of its parts, when do we start to question the manager?

Karius not good enough. Can should fuck off to Juventus as he so clearly wants to be there. Ref was a disgrace adding so little time on.

Fucking hell mate. Calm down. We just need our guys to calm down in front of goal. They are snatching at all of their chances.

[Lone Star Red]

Frustrating, but could be worse. Point away in Europe isn't the worst thing in the world. Just need to best them and Maribor at home and we're in the final 16.

[nick_8589]

We're fucking shite aren't we. That was one of the worst performances I've seen from a Liverpool side.

I take it you've been watching us for about two weeks then?

[CallumLFC]

Spartak are fucking turd. Bit bemusing how we made it look like such hard work against them.

Watch Sevilla take care of them with ease when they visit them.

[Adam_LFC]

Never thought I would see it but Klopp's subs are worse than Rodgers'

[Red Raw]

Spartak were shite and should have been punished.  I guess we need a couple more games to get everyone on the same page.

Frustrating - and nowhere near enough ET.   

[d.arn]

Well, that was frustrating. Seems we need a decent striker, in addition to defensive signings. If you can't score from about 5 chances from within the six yard box, you don't win games. Not even against a cramped up team that puts the ball of play more often than they hit a team mate.

[Brain Potter]

We are unluckiest team ever. Full stop.

We aren't unlucky. It's piss poor finishing, decision making, final balls. Nothing to do with luck.

[hesbighesred]

Mane should have stayed on. Strange sub.

Performance isn't the only reason for making subs. Chances are it was a calculation based on fitness.

[RobbieRedman]

We actually can't even rely on our front men now... worrying.

it might help them if we would stop making it so difficult by gifting goals away