Author Topic: Half time: Real Madrid 2-0 Liverpool (Read 7735 times)

d.arn · « **Reply #120 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:51:52 pm »

Can't remember the last time we were outplayed like this. Nowhere close to the level required. Need a significant improvement in the second just to stay in the tie.

BER · « **Reply #121 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:00 pm »

There's obviously magnets in the football.

TALBERT · « **Reply #122 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:03 pm »

Gini and Naby looked absolutely wank

Need Henderson

Ziltoid · « **Reply #123 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:06 pm »

We were shit but Mcmanaman can fucking do one. Never heard so much shite spouted on that Mane shove and foul.

JackWard33 · « **Reply #124 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:10 pm »

Quote from: gerrardisgod on April 6, 2021, 08:49:15 pm

Keita will get the flak, but Wijnaldum has been atrocious.

He has.
As have Trent, Robertson and Phillips ... could probably go on

Most of them look lost

johnj147 · « **Reply #125 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:15 pm »

Quote from: moloch on April 6, 2021, 08:51:08 pm

Boys versus men stuff.

it' has been embarrassing.

TSC · « **Reply #126 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:16 pm »

Horror show all round so far.

zip · « **Reply #127 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:18 pm »

Odd how Keita is ahead of Jones in the pecking order. Regardless, leaving Thiago out was a mistake.

Kekule · « **Reply #128 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:28 pm »

We’ve been completely outclassed, it’s not often you can say that about this team in recent years. Bee look like what we are, a side low on confidence, out of form and with a makeshift defence.

It will need to be a marked improvement if we’re still in with a shout come 90 minutes.

lukeb1981 · « **Reply #129 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:29 pm »

Quote from: AndyMuller on April 6, 2021, 08:49:26 pm

Wait, did Keita come off injured or something? I was only half watching and heard Thiagos name.

He was shite but id say injured the way he came out of defense that time with the ball on the break and just hit a sideward pass , he was subbed just after or Klopp was just sick of the lack of effort - Gini is having a shocker as well.

redalways · « **Reply #130 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:30 pm »

Can someone shut McManaman up?

LiverBirdKop · « **Reply #131 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:34 pm »

Boys against men.

Exposing our lack of pace at the back and in midfield. Embarrassing stuff.

Sarge · « **Reply #132 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:39 pm »

Very odd decision not starting Thiago after the Arsenal game, Naby was a bit undone to be honest he was off the pace and not the game he should be starting expecially after such a long lay off.

Klopp its on you that one. In saying that we have been slow, sloppy and not at it at all.

proudred · « **Reply #133 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:39 pm »

Vinicius Jr just standing behind Taa exploiting the space. If there was a reliable sub for Taa he should be subbed imo.Passing has been diabolical.

Sheer Magnetism · « **Reply #134 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:46 pm »

Incidentally, I know it's a training pitch but it's absolutely tiny. Little wonder they can play those long passes at will when we're maintaining a high line.

Macphisto80 · « **Reply #135 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:49 pm »

Getting taken off before half time in a CL quarter final. If that's not injury related, it's worse for the player.

OkieRedman · « **Reply #136 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:51 pm »

Keith has hardly any minutes over the last month. No clue why he starts on the biggest maych of thr season. Can not think of a worse performance from Wijnaldum...

I really feel for Fab so far. Surrounded by players shitting themselves.

4pool · « **Reply #137 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:51 pm »

No Bobby, no Party...

AndyMuller · « **Reply #138 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:55 pm »

Genuinely don’t see the point in starting Gini for the remainder of the season. He is off and playing like he knows it too.

Ratboy3G · « **Reply #139 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:56 pm »

Someone tell Real they are supposed to be shite, as that's pretty much all I've heard in the build up to this.
I thought they'd been superb at not letting us play, pressed us and not let us settle. You can't let a player with the quality of Kroos have that much time on the ball.
Anyway, we can get back into this.
Come on Redmen!!!

LovelyCushionedHeader · « **Reply #140 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:58 pm »

Genuinely though Keita was the playing the best out of our midfielders, at least on the ball.. Says more about the other two than him though.

Played absolutely terribly, yet its just two defensive mistakes that have cost us.

Clint Eastwood · « **Reply #141 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:52:59 pm »

I get it’s an empty stadium but you don’t need an atmosphere to fucking close down a man.

Lad · « **Reply #142 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:01 pm »

Quote from: Ghost Town on April 6, 2021, 08:48:55 pm

Men against boys. Just haven't got going tonight. Slow, slow, slow. Absolutely no supply to the attackers; mistake after mistake and nerve-ridden rabbit in headlights performance.

Shame really. We're better than this, but not tonight so far.

MacMannamanananana is a tedious, slimy, slippery gobshite.

Don't know what your problem with Macca is...only saying what we are all thinking and seeing.

Medellin · « **Reply #143 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:06 pm »

Pull yer socks up lads will yez..plenty to play for.

lgvkarlos · « **Reply #144 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:11 pm »

My son and I both were shocked when we saw naby starting, some absolute shocking performances out there.
Madrid were Tactically and technically superior, come on Jurgen take the f##king handbrake off.

Big Dirk · « **Reply #145 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:11 pm »

Keita has been a myth of a player can’t believe some of the hype on here about him...he will be gone in the summer.

rafathegaffa83 · « **Reply #146 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:13 pm »

They've been the far better side. We can't get hold of the ball.

Trendisnotdestiny · « **Reply #147 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:13 pm »

The thing that gets to me --- is that when our pressing was not working early (and Real grew confidently into the game), it looked like we settled for that, instead of working harder to imprint the game. This should be fucking slugfest -- instead we're pissing the ball away in our half and not able to break through Modric and Kroos...

Its bizarre..

Simplexity · « **Reply #148 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:19 pm »

Quote from: Macphisto80 on April 6, 2021, 08:52:49 pm

Getting taken off before half time in a CL quarter final. If that's not injury related, it's worse for the player.

He was lucky to last as long as he did if not injured.

Damian V · « **Reply #149 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:20 pm »

Fair play to Zidane and Madrid. They've got us in a chokehold.

Actually a game where Bobby could be handy as there's no one to keep hold of the ball...

Ghost Town · « **Reply #150 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:23 pm »

So many bad performances and yet people just have to focus on a scapegoat.

Win as a team lose as a team

red1977 · « **Reply #151 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:24 pm »

Knocking it about nicely aren't we?.

cormorant · « **Reply #152 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:31 pm »

That was bloody awful, especially Keita and Trent. The tie could be out of sight very, very quickly. But on the positive side, we're only a quarter of the way through. Get an away goal, concede no more than one in the 2nd half and we've got a chance. Not looking likely, but stranger things have happened.

rushyman · « **Reply #153 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:33 pm »

Owen said before the game ‘the badge carries you at this stage’

That’s usually spot on.

Not today. Very seldom seen us made to look so inferior

Paul-LFC · « **Reply #154 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:34 pm »

We've been absolutely crap so far, but having said that - it was a clear foul on Mane before their second.

Had the ref done his job properly they don't get the chance to score that second goal.

Mister Flip Flop · « **Reply #155 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:35 pm »

Horror show. Keita is finished at the club.

thaddeus · « **Reply #156 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:37 pm »

There's losing the ball under pressure and then there's just sloppy passing. It feels like there's been far too much of the latter - even Gini laying simple balls to nobody.

We've tactically made it too easy for Real as well, slow attacks that let them fall into their deep shape and get tight to our forwards and then not cutting off the age old tactic of firing the ball in behind Trent where just Nat is left to cover a third of the pitch by himself.

I'm guessing Naby went off with a knock but he was struggling anyway. Strange game to finally rest Thiago for and hopefully his presence can salvage something in the second half.

vicar · « **Reply #157 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:39 pm »

Sadly Keita not up to speed, had one run in the game and otherwise not engaged. No pressure on Kroos, ball over the top is simple against our defence at the moment.
Whole team is looking like strangers at the moment. I no Jota is on form but I think Bobby would be more suited to this.

Madrid have learned lessons on the games we have been poor in this season, no one in commentary is really mentioning it but at times Real are playing 6 across the back and then launching forward to behind Trent. Quite a conservative approach but clearly working.

Foul on Mane is blatant and poor from the officials not surprised he has complained. I hope the ref looks at that at half time and sees his mistake.

Big second half now. Need to keep calm and get one back.

lukeb1981 · « **Reply #158 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:41 pm »

Quote from: redalways on April 6, 2021, 08:52:30 pm

Can someone shut McManaman up?

Choke the c*nt with his scarf

ToneLa · « **Reply #159 on:** April 6, 2021, 08:53:42 pm »

plz sacrifice Gini for Bobby