Topic: CL: R Mad 1 vs 0 Liverpool Benzema 78’

[JRed]

Never really expected us to go through but to not even look like scoring was very disappointing. Just no belief or energy.
Trent’s passing/crossing was dreadful. Alisson was by far our MOM, no one else really did anything of note.

[DelTrotter]

We had one shot on goal after Nunez went off.

Utterly bizarre tactics and substitutions.

Yep, we might not be great with him but christ we have absolutely nothing without him. Was also quite clearly by far our best attacker on the night so just made no sense on any level unless it was medical but then perhaps if he's that injured he shouldn't be starting a dead rubber.

[KevLFC]

FT: Real Madrid 1-0 Liverpool
xG: 2.28-0.41

Agg: 6-2 (3.96-2.62)

The second leg wasn’t close.

Liverpool’s worst attacking display away in a Champions League game since Napoli in 2018.

attack was awful tonight

Really? Seen a few bad away ones since then, like Atletico away pre covid.

[Caps4444]

Hard to see how we can raise performances to sneak 4th.

If we don’t beat City, Chelsea could beat us and leapfrog us.

[BornRedSince76]

First game against Fulham, the signs were there and we have been humilated time and time again in the league. 

First game in Europe, another sign was given, that our midfielders and defence are not good enough. What do we do? Just buy Gakpo. Amazingly pathetic club and Real Madrid's bitch we have turned to. This is what Porto feel everytime they meet us previously.

I have never criticised Klopp but given Kostas and Carvalho a few seconds or minutes is really a nice way to build up their confidence.

If you think we’re a pathetic club why don’t you fuck off and support someone else. Knob.

[Mister Flip Flop]

Yeah unless FSG pull their fucking finger out, we're done for. This team has experienced the highest of highs and it now starting to show its age. Without significant investment, we will go back to 2011 level. Klopp cannot keep working miracles.

FSG won't change their model. FFP failure and then the failure of the ESL have seen to that. We are playing a 3 years away from 40 James Milner against the best side in the world and that a reflection on where we are as a club.

[cipher]

We are Liverpool, but we were never doing anything against RM given the difference in the midfields, and that includes if everyone was healthy.  At least the players can finally concentrate on one goal and hopefully pull out a top 4 finish.

Unless FSG rebuilds the midfield for Klopp this summer we will continue to struggle in many games next year.

[Tonyh8su]

I'm genuinely in shock here that that's what they served up.

[andrewd3]

In the history of this competition we've only not been knocked out 6 times but this one hurts.

[stockdam]

Some of our passing tonight was very poor. Also we shat ourselves when pressed. Our midfield was nowhere to be seen although Milner did try but the setup was wrong.

Without a midfield we won’t compete against the best teams.

Konate needs to waken up sometimes. He stood and watched their goal unfold in front of him.

[Zlen]

Completely outplayed by a better team. Slightly humiliating and quite a bit concerning. Farewell to Champions League for a while. Hopefully a hungrier Liverpool team plays in it next time.

[TheShanklyGates]

Possibly the most pathetic performance I've ever watched. What was the point in even turning up there? No effort whatsoever

Felt a lot like the Real Madrid games from the 14/15 season where we rolled out the red carpet for them at Anfield and playing a weakened team at the Bernabeu with the sole aim of not getting smashed.

The rebuilding job that this side needs is comparable to the one Klopp had back then too.

[smicer07]

I'm genuinely in shock here that that's what they served up.

Really? Haven't you seen us this season?

[Lynndenberries]

Bollox.

Which part? We created very little and once again have been incredibly sloppy in the final third. The most frustrating part is we often get into good positions, but play a bad pass, the wrong pass, and take too long to make a decision. Complete lack of conviction, which to be fair could be down to confidence, but worrisome nonetheless.

[thejbs]

Dont get the Darwin sub tonight nor at the weekend.

No complaints about the result. We were bang average.

[JJ Red]

Its the lack of a suitable mentality that is most frustrating.

They can't hide it because we know how good they can be if they can be bothered.

For me this team is completely done and that is truly tragic because they should have at least been able to maintain a much higher level for another 1-2 years. They aren't that old FFS!

From a normal starting lineup this season i would only be keeping; Alisson, Kounate, Robbo, Bajcetic, Thiago, Elliott, Nunez, Gakpo, and Salah (even Salah is dicey). The rest have run their race here IMO.

If we don't get major surgery, beginning on day one of the transfer window in the summer, then we're looking at years away from the top table.

No-one jumps off a fucking perch like us do they?!

[RedBec1993]

They were beaten before they took off given Henderson and Thiago were left behind. We haven't got the players to compete against them in midfield. Milner at 37, Oxlade Chamberlain.

Was quite wild to throw Harvey into the midfield when we’re chasing a game.. against a Midfield of Camvinga, Kroos and Modric.

[b_joseph]

Erm no. Klopp needs the CL revenue to rebuild. FSG won't cough up the difference.

napoli built the best team in europe with modest funds.

Its not impossible to find good players. You just have to get the right ones for what youre doing and move on the old ones who cant cut it anymore.


Madrid see us like how we used to see Arsenal. Its quite dramatic but were not good enough to compete against them at this time

[andy07]

Simply not good enough. We will be playing Europa League football next season if we are lucky.  Who is to blame for allowing us to have no midfield is anyone’s guess.

[johnny74]

Hardest game that we could possibly play and it looked as if we didn't believe we could pass the ball.

Playing them is like playing computer chess on the hardest level.

[El Lobo]

Not sure what people expected to be honest, we were never gonna go gung ho or we’d have lost 5-2 again. Great. We needed the first goal, we had chances, didn’t take them, fizzled out. Not sure it needs the communal misery porn wankfest that’s coming, we know where the problems are and the team who have won 4 of the last 7 European Cups pretty ruthlessly exposed them. Quelle surprise.

[killer-heels]

Some of our passing tonight was very poor. Also we shat ourselves when pressed. Our midfield was nowhere to be seen although Milner did try but the setup was wrong.

Without a midfield we won’t compete against the best teams.

Konate needs to waken up sometimes. He stood and watched their goal unfold in front of him.

He did but overall thought him and Virgil played well. Mad how they played on the weekend.

[Ravishing Rick Dude]

Expected result, which makes it less painful but more depressing.

We could've played for 10 hours and wouldn't score a single goal.

[kezzy]

Never laid a glove on them, had no threat going forward and our passing and corners was woeful.  Need some serious investment in the summer.   

[Keith Lard]

Fair result to be honest. Damage done at Anfield and we didn’t have the legs in midfield to have a fair shot at a comeback. No Hendo and Bajcetic sealed our fate.

Time to channel all the energy in getting top 4. We need the revenues to rebuild. Looking forward to Thiago and Diaz returning for the final stretch of the season.

[DonkeyWan]

Not sure what folk were expecting, I think people keep thinking Liverpool of last year are going to kick into gear. The team in it's current guise is done, tonight was really about damage limitation. Klopp knew that, hence pulling Nunez off. The tie was lost at Anfield, it was never recoverable.  I expect Klopp will be equally as cautious at the weekend as he manages this team to the summer, limping along hoping to pull off fourth while planning changes.

[M7 Heckler]

Erm no. Klopp needs the CL revenue to rebuild. FSG won't cough up the difference.

We have won a prem and a cl and bought Elliot and carvalho- Our signings aren’t attached to revenues. Being out of the CL will have little impact on our activity in the transfer market I fear

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Some of our passing tonight was very poor. Also we shat ourselves when pressed. Our midfield was nowhere to be seen although Milner did try but the setup was wrong.

Without a midfield we won’t compete against the best teams.

Konate needs to waken up sometimes. He stood and watched their goal unfold in front of him.

It's a sad indictment on the whole team when a 37 year old veteran is showing the most passion and effort, what has happened to Trent?, he just looks like he doesn't give a fuck.

[Lynndenberries]

Yep, we might not be great with him but christ we have absolutely nothing without him. Was also quite clearly by far our best attacker on the night so just made no sense on any level unless it was medical but then perhaps if he's that injured he shouldn't be starting a dead rubber.

Yup. One of many reasons we need Diaz back. I love Jota and am lukewarm on Gakpo, but either way, they are slow. We made our mark with pace in attack.

[smicer07]

Simply not good enough. We will be playing Europa League football next season if we are lucky.  Who is to blame for allowing us to have no midfield is anyone’s guess.

Grow a pair, we're not that far off 4th.

[Sharado]

The rebuilding job that this side needs is comparable to the one Klopp had back then too.

It absolutely is. A whole new midfield. A couple of new defenders too. God knows in the attack, because we seem to want to do everything we can to negate the fact we signed an electric number 9 the summer just gone.

[Garlicbread]

At this point you wonder if just fixing the midfield will sort everything out.

[kasperoff]

How we’ve got into such a state in midfield is an absolute travesty. We’ve sickeningly complacent across the whole club. Taking knock out stage CL for granted is criminal. As was pissing away being top of the league in January and not spending money on the defence. They’ll be all out mutiny if the funds aren’t available for a refresh in the summer.

Game itself was shit and showed we are miles off getting anywhere near a CL final for years. We’ve just pumped that squad for all it’s worth and run it into the ground. Any lingering mystique has been blown away with defeats to some absolute dross.

[Saus76]

Toothless attempt. Mentally we are fucked. A massive rebuild is needed now and the repairing of confidence of others.

A big fuck off to John W Henry who has let a wonderful Klopp team regress.

[Ste08]

We don't deserve to be anywhere near this competition and it might just be our last time in it for a while. Hard to see any sort of positives. Always felt we would look back at the last few years with deep regret and thats where i'm at with it all. When you strike gold you have to invest and go all in because when it's gone it's very hard to get it back.

[AndyMuller]

Sick of Real Madrid.

[Mister Flip Flop]

Fucking shite! A season out of CL might be a good for the rebuild

  FSG won't spend money when we are in it and you think they will when we aren't ?

If we are lucky we'll have 100m for transfers this summer if we finish 4th

They've sold the best manager we've had in my lifetime short.

[Haggis36]

Last summer increasingly looking like a real sliding doors situation - with each passing week this looks far more like a terminal decline than it does a blip (or "transition season", as we'd seemingly like to call it).

I honestly don't know where we go from here? We're totally unrecognisable. Insipid. Lazy. Gutless. And desperately lacking in quality.

Rip it up and start again.

[Jshooters]

Let’s be honest the damage was done in the first leg. Don’t think there’s too much point going overboard about tonight with a lot of options missing in midfield (which we already know is our weakest area). Had we gone in 1 up at half time we may have had some belief but it was always going to be a tall order.

Sick to death of Real and Benzema the nonce or whatever it is he is.

He’s definitely one of them.

Or something.

He’s defo not alright but commentators behave as if he’s just some amazing footballer.

Which he is.

But he’s also a fucking sex pest.

Actually can he just fuck off because regardless how good he is at football he doesn’t deserve to live in normal society

[thejbs]

One massive positive is we have the best keeper in the world.