Author Topic: EL: Ata 0 vs 1 Liv (3-1) Mo 7’ (Read 16831 times)

RedBlakey · « **Reply #200 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:04 pm »

When was the last time we scored from open play?!?!

Nick110581 · « **Reply #201 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:05 pm »

Konate is so poor on the ball.

ArcticRed · « **Reply #202 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:07 pm »

No movement. No precision. No ability to get past a man. One team played with effort and intensity, and it wasn't the team needing goals.
We've really fallen off a cliff lately for some reason.

Gnurglan · « **Reply #203 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:07 pm »

A win, but we are out 1-3.
A disappointing performance. We never managed to open them up. It was that one chance for Salah where he really should have scored in the first half. Thought we were too slow in our passing. Every player who received the ball was facing our goal. Their player always rigjt behind, making it a physical battle or we had to play the ball back again. We never had any sustained pressure. A tactical win for Atalanta. Congrats to them. They deserved to go through.

Zinc · « **Reply #204 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:08 pm »

Damage was done last week with how we played last week. No way back from that tonight. Overall they deserved it.

To end on a positive note - hey, at least we didn't concede tonight

MJD-L4 · « **Reply #205 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:17 pm »

Genuinely feels like some of these players have checked out for the season.

TALBERT · « **Reply #206 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:20 pm »

Nunez at 0 v 0

Salah at 3 v 1

That’s where we were beaten

Tonyh8su · « **Reply #207 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:25 pm »

Pathetic. Absolutely nauseatingly so. My stomach was actually turning from 70 mins onwards when we just continuously passed it between Alison, VVD, Konate and MacAllister at the 18 yard line.

We gave up.

And ironically our subs killed the game but for us.

Would've helped if the referee gave us a hand with all their gamesmanship but we deserved absolutely nothing on that second half display. And I'll be honest, I'm absolutely fucking fuming. Feel so sorry for those of ours who travelled there tonight. That display was nothing short of pathetic.

gjr1 · « **Reply #208 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:29 pm »

2nd half was a tough watch.

Not sure what the game plan was.

DarkOfTheManatee · « **Reply #209 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:31 pm »

The tie turned on two moments: the Szoboszlai mistake that gave Atalanta the third at Anfield, and then the Salah miss here. Pre-AFCON he'd have buried that, and we have 45+ minutes to score just once against a rattled Atalanta to level the tie.

In the second half we just seemed completely out of ideas and belief - aimless punt after aimless punt, and the frequent gulf between defence and attack meant we rarely seemed to try and knit together moves. The limpness of the performance was actually much more concerning than if we'd squandered a bunch of chances. We seem like a side who is already done with this season.

Very difficult to see us taking maximum points from the series of PL away games like this, although I suppose if we can grind out six more 1-0 wins that wouldn't be so bad...

JRed · « **Reply #210 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:34 pm »

Hope the new manager realises what a massive job he has in his hands.

TheFinalBoss · « **Reply #211 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:34 pm »

That was one of the most boring games of football I've ever seen, I thought I was watching a pre season game played in The United States or Singapore instead of a Europa League Quarter Final

Zimagic · « **Reply #212 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:34 pm »

Another game (tie) we had all the chances we needed to win in the first half and didn't take them.
Fair dues to Atalanta, but that's a tie we should have won.

When was our last goal from open play? Brighton?
Hell of a time to forget how to score.

cissesbeard · « **Reply #213 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:39 pm »

Quote from: MJD-L4 on April 18, 2024, 09:57:15 pm

Looking at getting knocked out of Jurgen's last chance to win a European Trophy with us and I've just watched Alisson, Virgil & Konate play a rondo amongst themselves for 45 minutes.

Pathetic from a lot of those players tonight.

They should be embarrassed.

was frustrating as hell watching that 'GET THE FUCKING BALL FORWARD'
they were soft, no one wanted to take responsibility

QC · « **Reply #214 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:40 pm »

We no longer have any elite attackers capable of turning a game.

Johnny Aldridge · « **Reply #215 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:40 pm »

Where’s the hunger?

b_joseph · « **Reply #216 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:42 pm »

Quote from: RedDeadRejection on April 18, 2024, 09:58:52 pm

Wtf was with Ali holding on to the ball? Same with Kelleher last week

Looking for people to pass to but they are hiding.

A few english teams this week have looked awful at passing the ball. Moving off the ball and pressing up the field.

PhiLFC#1 · « **Reply #217 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:48 pm »

I can accept losing but I'm so disappointed with the attitude of them all to not even care or put the effort in. This isn't how I think of our team under Klopp and it's sad that it ends like this instead of having a nice send off.

Butcher Knife Roberto · « **Reply #218 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:51 pm »

Last week destroyed us but at least we won tonight and kept a clean sheet. I hope those who took part in that shitshow last week take a look in the mirror and consider what could have been.

As for Atalanta, I really don't see what all the fuss is about. They'll get walloped in the next round and forgotten about, mid table dross at best who were lucky and got us in a dip in form. The team we put out tonight destroys them at Anfield, end of fucking story.

The league. Get it fucking done.

Heritage · « **Reply #219 on:** April 18, 2024, 09:59:59 pm »

Also for those of you saying ohhh pathetic, embarrassing, and all this carry-on... Show some respect for the opposition and some respect for our players. No need to have a meltdown about today's match, we knew what was coming.

HullReD · « **Reply #220 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:04 pm »

Quote from: Romford_Red on April 18, 2024, 09:56:07 pm

That's the most uninspiring half of football I've seen us play in a long, long time.

Totally, when mo missed that more than easy chance that was that. Absolutely nothing in the second half, no passion no pace side to side passing then back to the keeper.

masher · « **Reply #221 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:09 pm »

The sad part is how we threw in the towel, for the love of god I wouldnt mind use Allardyce tactics in last 15-20 mins, lump it to Nunez and put people around him in the hope that something falls their way. Far better than the crap we had to witness.

Crimson · « **Reply #222 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:13 pm »

What the hell is going on. Everyone bar Ali look like they've never touched a ball before.

Nothing like constantly seeing us pass it around the backline with zero urgency, only to smash it blindly into the middle causing a break against. Fucking hell...

Carras Left Foot · « **Reply #223 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:17 pm »

Players checked out, Jurgen has clearly run out of steam. Sad to see but hopefully we can reset for the last few games of the season

Coolie High · « **Reply #224 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:19 pm »

MNAA · « **Reply #225 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:22 pm »

We probably could have gotten a better outcome playing like prime Wimbledon. Playing the ball across your own goal for 45 mins made things easy for Atalanta. As if we learned nothing from the 1st leg

GreatEx · « **Reply #226 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:23 pm »

Essentially three games without a goal; hard to get excited about scoring from the broken handball rule.

Clean sheet is the only positive, otherwise this team is completely stuffed and the season can't end soon enough.

rossipersempre · « **Reply #227 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:23 pm »

No point analysing that. The fairytale send off in Dublin is no more. Gutted really.

mc_red22 · « **Reply #228 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:25 pm »

That was embarrassing to watch. West Ham put up more of a fight against Leverkusen. Szoboszlai shouldn’t be near the starting 11 for the rest of the season and we might as well go back to playing the kids up top. Sick of seeing us refuse to shoot just to make 2 more passes and give the ball away. Somebody grow a pair and fucking shoot!

spider-neil · « **Reply #229 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:30 pm »

I fully agree with the tactic of keeping it tight for one half but in the second we had to go for it more. No one had the willingness to try something. Everyone was scared stiff of giving the ball away.

JJ Red · « **Reply #230 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:31 pm »

How we can look far more tired than Atalanta at the end, after the effort they put in, is fucking amazing.

Mentality midgets back with a vengeance it seems.

We are so fucking easy to play against at the moment. It helps that we are almost guaranteed not to score!

Saltashscouse · « **Reply #231 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:37 pm »

Atalanta just man marked us out of the game . We just didn’t have a clue how to play past their pressing
Shocking tactics from Klopp to be fair

Tonyh8su · « **Reply #232 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:42 pm »

Quote from: TALBERT on April 18, 2024, 09:59:20 pm

Nunez at 0 v 0

Salah at 3 v 1

That’s where we were beaten

I'd probably say spending about 30 minutes of play passing it between our Keeperand defence instead of trying to advance the ball also did it.

Or 70 million lobbed balls directly into their keepers hands every single time without fail.

Banquo's Ghost · « **Reply #233 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:45 pm »

You could physically feel the belief drain away when Mo missed that sitter.

I’m not a professional football coach, and not up on the modern tactical game, but I do feel that “can’t defend, can’t score” may not be the premium strategy for winning football matches?

Nonetheless, congratulations to Atalanta - they soundly beat us over two legs, and worked immensely hard to do so.

iamnant · « **Reply #234 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:47 pm »

Missed the goal and started watching from the 15th minute and within 5-10 minutes you could just tell we weren't scoring anymore.

No goals from open play in the last 3 matches is worrying.

stockdam · « **Reply #235 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:50 pm »

Not one of our players was able to cope with being marked. Alisson had more of the ball than anyone else.
Atalanta were strong and disciplined and we had no answer. That was a poor way to get dumped out. Our midfield and attack are suddenly looking poor apart from Mac Allister.

Caligula? · « **Reply #236 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:53 pm »

It's almost as if some of these players suspect they'll be shipped out under a new man and have just stopped giving a fuck anymore.

vladis voice · « **Reply #237 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:00:54 pm »

They are horrible to play against but we just been out-competed over the two legs, and more worryingly allowed that to happen to us

medley · « **Reply #238 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:01:02 pm »

What a waste of time. We got the early advantage and pressed quite well in the first half leading to some good turn overs in possession. Created small amount of chances but promising going into the second half at least

The 2nd half is one of the most disappointing viewings as I've had in awhile. We had no answer to their man marking and we had no alternative ideas in order to bypass it. I'd be almost tempted just to leave the ball at Alisson's feet, push the whole team forward for the last 15 minutes on the goal kicks and look for knock downs advanced in their area. Anything would have been better than that.

Christ

amir87 · « **Reply #239 on:** April 18, 2024, 10:01:12 pm »

Rumour has it Alisson still has his foot on the ball.