Topic: FT Liverpool 2 v Swansea 3 [Llorente 48', 52' Firmino 55' 69', Sigurd 74']

[CallumLFC]

What the hell was with the long ball approach in the end?

[sonny crockett]

It's over. Gonna be a huge struggle maintaining top four with teams around us.

The writing has been on the wall for weeks. You'd be an idiot if you couldn't see this coming.

[Gerry83]

Going to be fun in here. This game is the perfect example of why we havent won the league in decades. Conceding 3 at home to Swansea -- can only laugh.

Hopefully give the league cup and FA cup more attention now

[EstonianRed]

Let the shitstorm start

[Reese]

Lol.

Literally all you can say. We better step it up. That's unforgivable.

Not sure why Matip did not start and the same issues with that midfield 3.

At least Firmino looks good again!

[sminp]

Awful result. Awful defending and I've no idea why we persist with Sturridge, he offers us nothing these days.

[garumn]

Will be a scrap for top 4 then. I haven't felt this deflated after a game since Hodgson.

[Clint Eastwood]

Need to find another way of winning. We're shite now. Gap between us and Chelsea much too big now.

[RedInside]

Not our year again, battle for fourth starts right now

[DHKopper]

Disgusting result. Utterly disgusting. We must have a serious attitude problem, it's the only way to explain how we can probably be the best team in Europe at big league games yet struggle so much v utterly horrendous sides and make no mistake, they are a dreadful side which doesn't say much good about us! In a good position for top 4 still thankfully but it's going to be a big battle and we better not sulk because the title has gone. Naturally we'll beat Chelsea in our next league game then lose v Hull after.

The moaners can have all the fun in the world tonight and the players and managers deserve all the criticism. Fuck sake. The time of the season where everyone is meant to be extra motivated, more focused etc and we turn up and play like that. Utter shit.

Couldn't have put it any better.

[sms1986]

So this will probably drowned out by a million posts by the time I post it, but this is just one defeat. Even when 2-0 down and playing badly, we fought back to equalise. We're not at full strength right now, and we probably showed Swansea too much respect.

The title race is not over, top four is still very much on and we have a bright future regardless of today's loss.

[art03]

    Too many players having an off day. Each making so many individual errors and as the way it goes, every mistake we make results in a goal for Swansea.

[Simplexity]

Oh well thats the title gone and probably top 4, can't be too angry we are simply not very good.

[Paul_h]

oh dear.

all Gerrard's fault..

[Snoopy29]

Awesome game well done lads.

[ToneLa]

What happened lads?

I needed it today. Even a draw. I really did.

I saw little snatches that heartened me. Llanana, Studge, showed passion.

Klavan mate...  Hendo looked shite I'm sad to say, defensive mistakes all round, what's the matter, arrogance at Anfield, what? I was even singing YNWA at my telly and I'm not at Anfield and I've spent today crying my eyes out. I hope the fans rally and I hope the players deliver cause the next three are massive

my solace is Klopp looked as furious as I feel sad. Everything passes, even the bad things, especially the bad things.

YNWA

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[stevienash]

Hmm not good at all.

Leaves and shuts door behind him

Leave this thread to explode

[Pie Eyed]

Back to our old habit of giving gifts to the fucking needy, at the bottom of the league.

Sloppy and lazy from us.

Yet another game where we absolutely fail against a 10-man defence.

We need a fucking plan for these games (Man U, Plymouth, Swansea, etc. et-fucking-cetera)

[Trump's tiny tiny hands]

The squad is fine lads.

[pyroparty]

Say goodbye to top 4.

While everyone is rightly fucked off can we please stop utter nonsense like this? We'll still be in the top 4 at the end of the weekend for crying out loud. Though yes it will be a big battle.

[Zlen]

So much was wrong here, but it has to be said, with full confidence in his abilities to guide us to trophies, that Klopp fucked up by not buying another player to bridge Mane's absence and by insisting on the most pedestrian, unintelligent and slow midfield ever - led by Emre Can who probably has no idea how he's even playing for Liverpool, let alone regularly.

[rafathegaffa83]

Liverpool’s records against teams in the bottom three over the past decade

2006/07

Sheffield Utd 4-0 W / 1-1 D
Charlton 2-2 D/0-3 W
Watford 2-0 W/0-3 W

2007/08

Reading 2-1 W/ 3-1 L
Birmingham 0-0 D / 2-2 D
Derby 6-0 W / 1-2 W

2008/09

Boro 2-1 W/ 2-0 L
WBA 3-0 W / 2-0 W
Newcastle 3-0 W /5 -1 W

2009/10

Portsmouth 4-1 W / 2-0 L
Burnley 4-0W / 0-4 W
Hull 6-1 W /0-0 D

2010/11

Birmingham 5-0 W / 0-0D
Blackpool 2-1 L / 2-1 L
West Ham 3-0 W / 3-1 L

2011/12

Bolton 3-1 W / 3-1 L
Blackburn 1-1 W / 2-3 W
Wolves 2-1 W /0-3 W

2012/13

Wigan 3-0 W / 0-4 W
QPR 1-0 W / 0-3 W
Reading 1-0 W /0-0 D

2013/14

Norwich 5-1 W / 2-3 W
Fulham  4-0 W / 2-3 W
Cardiff 3-1 W / 3-6 W

2014/15

Hull - D- 0-0 / 1-0 L
QPR W 2-1 / 2-3 W
Burnley W 1-0 /0-1 W

2015/16

Newcastle 2-2 D/ 2-0 L
Norwich 1-1 D / 4-5 W
Villa 3-2 W /0-6 W

Time and time again, we simply don’t get it done against these sides

And Kevin Friend should be demoted for that advantage decision alone. An ape could have got that right

Awful decision, but we were just as bad as it for the majority of the game. We've looked tired and sloppy since early December.

[Kenny's Jacket]

4th most likely gone

WTF?

[nutmeg94]

Well that was fucking depressing

[Fiasco]

There seems to be a real attitude problem with the squad when it comes to the lesser sides. There has been for years, but I genuinely thought it would have been eradicated by now. Losing against Burnley, Bournemouth and Swansea in one season is fucking unacceptable.

[Nick110581]

Why didn't Matip come on at half time?

[Father Ted]

Conceded NINE goals to Burnley, Bournemouth and Swansea....

Staggering.

[FLRed67]

Need more quality in the side.

Can, Lovren, Clyne. Not really good enough for a side that wants to win the league.

How many times did Clyne get the ball in the first half, absolutely acres of space? No end product. Not once.

Can has looked off the pace since he came to the EPL. Actually regressing, at this point.

Only Lovren knows what he is doing, sometimes.

Henderson had a horror show.

Summer transfer window is huge.

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

Disgusting result. Utterly disgusting. We must have a serious attitude problem.

We really did expect to turn up and win, dreadful attitude all round. We only even tried when 2 down. They score with every shot on target, how many times now?

Pathetic

[The Final Third]

The shitest sides are our Achilles heel..go figure. Firmino's goals the only positive in that.

[clinical]

Lallana has been a revelation in midfield. Why move him out of it!!

[Redman0151]

Fucking embarrassing. We've been shite for a while now, scraping by.

Club spent no money in the summer, happy to spend no money in January. Now we don't have the depth for a long season in 3 competitions.

Keeper not good enough, CBs not good enough, Can has been shite this year, absolutely nobody to replace Mane. We're relying on a half fit coutinho to create something, and Lallana is shafted out wide where he's nowhere near his best

[Je99ers]

This has been coming, we've been way below par for the past month or so.

That seem when Klopp tried to start rotating players in cup and league games, unfortunately he just never kept kept them in a smooth translation.

[BarryCrocker]

Well that was complete and utter shite.

Dropping points at home against the team who've never won at Anfield and who are were 30 points below us.

Firmino was the only positive. Henderson (general play) and Millner (set pieces) where shocking. Possibly 10 points behind Chelsea means a CL spot is now our best bet.

Another year over and we haven't even seen the end of January.

[Caligula?]

We're not good enough to win the title. The sooner we adjust expectations the better, getting a place in the top 4 has to be the priority now. A performance like this has been coming over the last month or so as well, we've been getting worse and worse. Absolute buffoonery and ineptitude to go 3-2 down when we've just got ourselves back to 2-2. I honestly thought we'd go on to win it after doing all the hard work of getting back into it. Our defense looked as bad as anything we've seen over the last couple of years too. It's hard to describe the feeling after that. Felt worse when we conceded late on to United last weekend, now it's just a bit of disbelief.

[thisyearisouryear]

Not just that we conseed to many goals its the manner in which they let them in and a major reason why we are not winning the title this season, that was poor.

Good luck MODs.

Forget that. We have a battle for Top 4 on our hands.

[Chavvie]

Awful result. Awful defending and I've no idea why we persist with Sturridge, he offers us nothing these days.

What the fuck has Sturridge got to do with that?

[88_RED]

Gonna be a long fucking weekend..

[S]

Very poor, apart from that small period after their second goal. Fully deserved by Swansea.

I had hoped we would finish in the top four this season. Unless we see a drastic improvement though that's simply not going to happen. We drop an embarrassing amount of points against teams we should be hammering. No excuses about referees or injuries, we're just not good enough.

[Desert Red Fox]

Fuck off. I'm tired of us managing to play great against top teams and then fucking it all up against minnows. I'm tired of that. Year after year, the same fucking shit happens.

And it's far from "oh, it's just a bad day at the office, it happens, let's move on" - it feels like it's been happening a lot recently, huh? Just one win in 2017 and it isn't even in the PL.

Moaning or not, both Klopp and the team deserve criticism for today.