Topic: Half time: Brighton 1-2 Liverpool

[Ghost Town]

Chew on that Brighton. Didn't even bother to wait till the 2nd half to turn this around

So many half time whinges posts being rewritten

[Working Class Hen-Pecked Hero]

I was waiting to see how they were going to bump us with that pen. Even with Doms shirt getting ragged off

[Funky_Gibbons]

Lucky. Klopp is too stubborn. This system and MAC experiment as a 6 is not working.

This system isn’t working? Despite our only loss in about 20 games being last week against Spurs.

[Fromola]

Disgraceful until the equaliser.

Lack of a proper DM is killing us at times but where is the urgency? Strolling about like dickheads

If we win though it's a great result but wake the fuck up.

[rushyman]

Erm....

Where's the red card please?

That was a clear dogso. As clear as you want

[Fitzy.]

Dreadful half of football.

Not really.

[Zimagic]

We don't have to play like this, we're allowed start the match at the same time as the other team.

Back to feeling we are up to any challenge, no matter how badly we are playing.

[Higgins79]

We’re really good at football when we play fast. We’re really average at football when we play slow.

[KirkVanHouten]

Quite poor until we conceded. All our luck has come from pressing, which is good. Just a bit concerning how bad we are at building from the back with possession.

[PIPA23]

the Tottenham fiasco fucked us big time...

losing interest in the league after that...

great comeback before the half time, hope mo will get a hattrick and we get the 3 points

[Barneylfc∗]

Why are they not down to 10 men for clear DOGSO?

[TepidT2O]

Quite poor until we conceded. All our luck has come from pressing, which is good. Just a bit concerning how bad we are at building from the back with possession.

Atrocious ..stank the place out.

Still big work to do at half time

[NarutoReds]

Seriously, I thought we are going to lose this game. Hahahahhaa!!!

Salah says fuck no.

[mullyred94]

Erm....

Where's the red card please?

That was a clear dogso. As clear as you want

Outside the box its a pen, inside its a yellow cos of the penalty. I have no idea why.

If VVD tackled Isak in the box instead of outside he would have gotten a yellow.

[leroy]

Cos its a pen " double jeopardy " and all that.

No the rules are very clear. That's only if they attempted to play the ball.

Where a player commits an offence against an opponent within their own penalty area which denies an opponent an obvious goal-scoring opportunity and the referee awards a penalty kick, the offender is cautioned if the offence was an attempt to play the ball or a challenge for the ball; in all other circumstances (e.g. holding, pulling, pushing, no possibility to play the ball etc.), the offending player must be sent off.

[medley]

When is Andre flying in for his medical?

That was really poor from us across the board and somehow we are winning. Fair play to the lads for forcing the errors but my lord was that ponderous and slow

[dirkster]

Horrible goal to give away, but stuck in there to go into the lead for half time. Salah hat trick coming up me thinks. He looks in the mood...

[Egyptian36]

I think we actually played really well. Safe until Brighton get tired from pressing but the mistake for their goal made us look we didn't have a plan.

[xbugawugax]

opponent score first and you know how it will end right.

im putting all my savings on nunez with the 3rd.

the commentary and var team better be put on suicide watch. no way they wont want to fuck us over in the 2nd half.

[Cruiser]

Giving the ball away and struggling to get a grip.

But we're winning 

[RedSince86]

When we turn it on teams cannot handle us, that 5 mins showed.

Carragher is awful on Comms, so fucking long-winded and his play calling on that penalty was irritating AF, trying to make out it wasn't a Penalty.

[vicar]

First 35 mins or so of that game we were terrible. No impetus, let them dictate a slow speed. Then a lazy pass from Virgil and Macca was just no alive to it and I think ali will be disappointed. But it woke us up a little.

Great first goal from nothing, then finally started to put pressure on them which paid off. As for the penalty - well it was two penalties. But I dont understand how its not a red card? He doesnt try to play the ball and stops a clear goals scoring opportunity, thats a definition of a red isnt it?

We have better footballers, when playing a pace they can't live with us. Need to inject that into the second half and take the game away from them.

[Zimagic]

Erm....

Where's the red card please?

That was a clear dogso. As clear as you want

Maybe the double thingy was the reason? No red if it's a penalty? No idea.

[Persephone]

The quintessential Liverpool scoreline of the season so far. Anyone putting money on it ending up 1-3?

For large parts of that half we were very lackadaisical, and we're lucky that Brighton only scored 1. The frontline and Szobo looked good but everyone else hadn't been up for it. Robbo and VVD with some awful passes putting MacAllister under awful pressure.

Maybe Endo for Elliott to shore up that midfield?

[KevLFC]

Mcallister as a defensive mid is not working. Not sure why Endo is not playing but we would be more solid with him in there

[Sheer Magnetism]

Lethargic for 25 minutes and then, once again, the goal woke us up and we were going for everything, nipping at their heels. Mac Allister's not had a great game. I don't blame him for the goal but he probably should have been booked a few minutes before when he hacked down one of their players after getting run past like he wasn't there.

Ultimately, we're still missing that DM sentinel who can position himself in front of the defence and cut out through balls, because they were having a lot of success with them in the early part of the game.

[Fitzy.]

Lucky. Klopp is too stubborn. This system and MAC experiment as a 6 is not working.

You’re overdoing it. Liverpool’s form this season has been great with the ‘experiment’.

[cdav]

Cos its a pen " double jeopardy " and all that.

Thats only if you make a play for the ball, which he doesn't. Its a clear red

[Schmidt]

Erm....

Where's the red card please?

That was a clear dogso. As clear as you want

They tend not to give red cards for that in the box to be fair.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Not sure about their goal. Should macallistar do better or is the pass even on?maybe it's a symptom of a new player still getting used to how we play.

Admittedly I didn't see it very well.

It was all on Mac Allister for me. He doesn't realise Adringa is there and waits for the ball to come to him rather than meeting it.

[StevoHimself]

Not really.

Yes, really.

[Kenny's Jacket]

That was a clear red card for the penalty, not even mentioned!

How can an attack that warrants two pens, not be spotted by the ref 

[chromed]

I've actually watched Brighton's previous 2 games and I thought to myself that they looked dreadful playing out from the back and if they were to try it against us we'd be all over them and would have a lot of joy. For the first 40 mins I couldn't believe what I was watching as they looked incredible playing out  and our press couldn't get anywhere near them, and then boom that happens.

I personally think Mac Allister is having a bit of a stinker, obviously switched off for their goal, and there was another chance where we lost the ball and he just jogged back whilst their player ran through our midfield and had a shot. I'd get Endo on rather soon in place of Macca.

That old saying in football, but the next goal is crucial.

[Cruiser]

Have that you rock eating Southern seagull c*nts.

 

[rushyman]

Hilarious they took that pen to VAR. What an obvious ploy

Was as easy a decision as you want

[wemmick]

Harvey is a brilliant young player. That dummy changed the momentum of the half. Great awareness.

[killer-heels]

Seriously, I thought we are going to lose this game. Hahahahhaa!!!

Salah says fuck no.

To be fair the game hasnt finished yet and i considered that when i wrote my abusive seagull post.

[Father Ted]

Real turnaround as we looked pretty flat before the goal. If it wasn’t for last week shenanigans I’m sure they’d have found a way to avoid giving that penalty.

Step up the pace a bit 2nd half, and less aimless passing it around between defenders.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Cos its a pen " double jeopardy " and all that.

Double jeopardy doesn't come into it if it's a deliberate foul.

[mullyred94]

Not really.

Up until the first 35 minutes or so it was, the pressing created both goals which was the only thing that was good imo.

No intensity for most of the half.