Topic: Half time: Liverpool 0-1 Crystal Palace

[Simplexity]

45 minutes left of our season potentially. Exciting!

Nothing about us scream league winners. We are simply not good enough.

[Gili Gulu]

Number of times I've seen Palace players either run past a Liverpool player to get to a ball first, or run up to a Liverpool player and take the ball off him is absolutely amazing.

One team is going for a title, the other has nothing to play for, which is which?

Konate, very poor for their goal, seems to me to be panicking every time we're under pressure.
Again our finishing has been terrible, just for once put your laces through the ball and connect properly.

Robertson has been our best outlet, he's looked up for the challenge.

[us_col]

Elliott has to come on. Jones giving nothing.

[Adeemo]

Have to take a risk and bring Trent and Diogo on.

[lgvkarlos]

Midfield been bullied again , I’d get Endo off

Running in lead boots, looks f#cked. Thats on the coaches to see it, Jones been no better.

Szob, Elliott  need to come on, cant believe Clarke isn't on the bench (way better than grav at the moment)

[Brain Potter]

I sometimes wish I had no interest in football and spent my spare time bird watching or collecting train numbers on Crewe Station platform     

[moloch]

It’s obvious that we’ve run out of gas. Can’t see us winning anything unfortunately.

[Caps4444]

You can’t keep turning round going behind.  It will catch up with you. We are not in form, winning today could cha be our momentum…..but I’d be astonished if we won it from here….unfortuantely.

[Mighty_Red]

Really poor from us and does feel like we have a few players massively out of form at the moment.

Most of the team are out of form. Its been mostly Macca and Diaz for the past month that does not win you enough games.

[S]

Season ender if we don't pull this out of the bag. Huge 45mins coming up.

That was Thursday.

[jillcwhomever]

You won't see Palace put in that type of effort against anyone else this season. Game raising cnuts

Salah looks drunk

Absolute rubbish that, Palace always try and give City a game.

[jacobs chains]

What the fuck was that?

Surprised you have to ask given how many times we've seen it.

[Butcher Knife Roberto]

“Oh you’ll see a response this weekend”

Pathetic half. Absolutely pathetic.

Midfield maestro Will fucking Hughes bossing our midfield single handedly.

We're making him look like peak Pirlo in there, it's embarassing.

[RyanBabel19]

You won't see Palace put in that type of effort against anyone else this season. Game raising cnuts

Salah looks drunk

Everyone knows we are starting games like a 1500 m runner in a 100m race

And to be honest they did this vs City, just got outclassed

[skipper757]

You won't see Palace put in that type of effort against anyone else this season. Game raising cnuts

Salah looks drunk

They drew at City and scored 5 minutes in against them at home.  Just that City came back.  They do better against City than most.  Even won at the Etihad in 18/19?

It's not Palace's problem that we cannot defend worth a lick, and our attack is broken.  They're not even making the right decisions at times, and Olise has fucked up a couple of counterattacks.

We're losing not because Palace are game-raisers against us.  We're losing because we were abysmal for 45 minutes.

[Adam_LFC]

Salah yet again has been awful since his injury and the afcon by and large.

[Higgins79]

So so so poor, can’t believe what I’m seeing. There’s a title to be won and we’re playing with no desire. 45 mins to save the season. Get Trent, Jota and Elliott on.

[Peabee]

forget about it. mentality isnt there.

Clearly. 

[Studgotelli]

That VVD slip, 10 years later lmao fortunately we’re still in the game

[DelTrotter]

This feels like a Diogoat Jota game where we look spent and he somehow does it all.

[Mister Flip Flop]

Everyone looks absolutely shot. If we can someone get a win or draw here i'd play the kids against Atalanta or else we are losing away to Fulham next weekend

[mickeydocs]

Sick and tired of this team.

Sick and tired of a team that has gone way beyond our hopes and expectations at the start of the season?

[Stockholm Syndrome]

It’s obvious that we’ve run out of gas. Can’t see us winning anything unfortunately.

Anything more you mean

[stockdam]

Gotta change this. TAA, Elliott, Szoboszlai and Jota need to come on. We can win this but not on the first half performance.

[Robinred]

Second best physically, and second best to second balls. In our pomp we’ve physically dominated teams. Now it’s vice versa.

Even our passing - so often crisp and decisive, is wayward, sloppy and under or over-hit. In truth we’re a pale shadow of our best, and when a player like Will Hughes has been so effective it’s telling.

Someone said teams raise their game v us. That’s always been true, and it’s no excuse for this drop off in form.

[Caps4444]

Last week really hurt us mentally…..

[Draex]

Insanity is our Identity.

[MJD-L4]

We've been pretty crap since the City game to be honest.

Anything other than maximum points today and I think it's season over.

[JackWard33]

It’s mystifying Elliott isn’t on the pitch in midfield 

[OkieRedman]

We dominated City and the next real match after that was the FA cup at OT. It has all gone off the boil after that. They can't get it out of their minds. Fear of losing the ball and being countered on.  They know they will concede so they are not brave on the ball.

[Number 7]

It’s just so saddening to see us like this.
There seems to be just nothing left in the tank.

Coupled with the fact that some players are just so off the required level.

[Coolie High]

Sick and tired of a team that has gone way beyond our hopes and expectations at the start of the season?

They haven’t really gone beyond my hopes and expectations, I expected a title challenge.

[mickeydocs]

45 minutes left of our season potentially. Exciting!

Nothing about us scream league winners. We are simply not good enough.

That's fine, we are early in a new cycle and ahead of everyone's expectation, competing with teams that have outspent us by ridiculous amounts.

[fallenhd]

What we need is a semblance of structure. klopp and Co are just too stubborn. We're too easy to play thru. We seem to have no structure at all defensively and have an attack that seems to be setup to get the best of Mo atm who isn't in good form.

Our counterpress is also absoulute crazy. Loss the ball and just press full 100. Dont worry if you vacate your position and leave miles of room in behind.

Atm. We're not setup properly at all. It seems our approach is to let the players figure it out and adapt on the pitch and if it doesn't work, we'll show them where they went wrong at half time.

[Fitzy.]

We’ve hit the bar and Diaz very close. We don’t need to be great here to win. Just a little more competent.

[rowan_d]

The air has just gone out of this team. Can just about get away with constantly starting games badly and going behind early when you're riding the crest of a wave, but it's a killer when you're not.

[Peabee]

I sometimes wish I had no interest in football and spent my spare time bird watching or collecting train numbers on Crewe Station platform 

I'll bring the flask of coffee. You bring the biscuits.

[gamble]

burnt out... sad end to the season

[Knight]

He's not brilliant at all. He has a few good attributes but has no killer ball and is defensively weak. A good squad player, that is all he will ever be.

He’s defensively very good these days. You’re 18 months behind. His forward passing has been awful today though so I’m not gonna argue re the passing.

[stockdam]

We’re always tired.. why aren’t any of the other teams in the league tired?

Tiredness is an excuse. We need to mark and pass better.