Topic: Joël Matip (Job Joël André Matip)

[bogrollsbike]

Should play with a Dickie bow on he's that class.

[ScouserCal]

Gonna have a fantastic partnership with that Van Dijk lad from Jan 1st 

Made a fantastic start to his Liverpool career.

Thought exact same thing during the game ha.

Matip a quality quality defender, knows when to play and when to get rid.

Hopefully our annual buy from Saints is Van Dijk this year 

[King Klopp.]

Gonna have a fantastic partnership with that Van Dijk lad from Jan 1st 

Made a fantastic start to his Liverpool career.

Would certainly be an interesting partnership that. Doubt Jurgen would want to spend £40m on a CB though.

[BarryCrocker]

Gonna have a fantastic partnership with that Van Dijk lad from Jan 1st 

Made a fantastic start to his Liverpool career.

Why would Klopp spunk 30-40m on a PL player when he could get someone like Tah from the Bundesliga for a fraction of the cost.

[Zoomers]

All those headers won.... Absolute monster.

[King Klopp.]

Why would Klopp spunk 30-40m on a PL player when he could get someone like Tah from the Bundesliga for a fraction of the cost.

You're crazy if you think Tah would be cheap.

[jillcwhomever]

He was very good today.

[Smellytrabs]

I think he has the potential to be the best centre-half we've had since Hansen. The guy just oozes class, every decision is right, every ball finds a man. Absolute quality.

[Max_powers]

Why would Klopp spunk 30-40m on a PL player when he could get someone like Tah from the Bundesliga for a fraction of the cost.

He did you know, spunk 30-40m pounds on PL player this year. I also don't think Tah is as good as Van Dijk. Van Dijk and Matip both dominated today's game.

[Upinsmoke]

He's boss

Got a bit annoyed with everyone knocking one out over Dijk when we've got our own Rolls Royce and it's disrespectful to Lovren too. Who hasn't done much wrong since Jurgen came in.

[Haggis36]

One of our best signings in ages - I knew he was highly rated but was he this imposing in Germany? I don't think he's looked phased by a single thing he's come up against so far, just exudes such calm which I think translates through to the rest of our players. Lovren has done well, but imagine if we could clone Matip? We'd be unbeatable! I love as well that we can go long stretches without being tested but he never seems to lose concentration or focus. Just an absolute rock.

[Garnier]

Put him at Centre Forward and play some long balls to him. He'll win them all

Good touch for a big man and all that

[SpionBob]

Possibly the best value signing of the season so far for any premier league team.

[AaronSingh25]

I really do love a ball playing center back. A Roll's royce of a player.

[TepidT2O]

He reads the game so damned well doesn't he.

That's his chief strength

[King Klopp.]

Playing like a £35m centre back. Seriously, if that's the type of fees being paid for Luiz, Stones, Mustafi etc then he is worth that as well.

Free transfer. Unreal business.

[pyroparty]

He's fucking brilliant and our defence is excellent. Funny the "Liverpool cant defend" stuff, I've got no worries about our defence at all. Been to Spurs, Chelsea and Southampton and they've created 3 excellent chances between them and thats it!

[TepidT2O]

We defend from open play extremely well.

Compare to last season when we continually got caught on the break, almost never happens this season..

[PoetryInMotion]

He's fucking brilliant and our defence is excellent. Funny the "Liverpool cant defend" stuff, I've got no worries about our defence at all. Been to Spurs, Chelsea and Southampton and they've created 3 excellent chances between them and thats it!

Only Swansea created enough chances to actually share spoils with us so far. We've been dominant in all other games

[monkeyharris]

He's Alan Hansen
Class as.. Positional knowledge par excellence

[MULLENEDWINE]

What a lad.

Even when he's falling over and on his arse, he's in control.

Best CB signing for a long time.

[ThePeetmix]

We defend from open play extremely well.

Compare to last season when we continually got caught on the break, almost never happens this season..

Matip has been a key part of that. Very good at marking strikers, gets really tight to them without being over aggressive. Loves to just wrap his long legs around the forward and poke the ball away. :p

[Floydy]

lovely little deft snatch of the ball their in the second half, pure etiquette & grace.
Fuck wearing a dicke bow for games he should come in a fucking TuTu.

[pathetic]

Love how he was always asking for the ball and getting forward. Played some quality passes you would usually expect from a midfielder. Definitely the best CB we have signed in years. Oh, and for free .

[hesbighesred]

I really do love a ball playing center back. A Roll's royce of a player.

I said this in the post match thread but Roll's Royce doesn't quite do him justice - he's more like one of those 70s Citroen DS's, he has this air of almost gallic flair and not giving a shitness. Just oozes calm and he's a bit of an original too, he has the je ne sais quoi that Rollers, for me, lack.

I'd go so far as to say that, right now, he's probably the one player we have who could walk into any other team in the world. He's phenomenal, I love him.

[hesbighesred]

Even when he's falling over and on his arse, he's in control.

Spotted that. 9 out of 10 players lose it when they slip, and are so desperate to make amends that they'd go charging in, failing to notice that Lovren was there (and great recovery by him, too). Instead Matip realises that the best place to be is where he is, calmly controls the attempted cut-back, and sets us off on the attack again. He's the Thierry Henry of defenders.

[Kopenhagen]

Yeah, I'm ready to anoint him "world class."

[SerbianScouser]

Where the hell was he all of our lives?

[Koparoo]

Loving all this awe for Matip. To me he is the standout player week after week. So calm, such reading of the play, positioning is remarkable (as noted, even when he's on his arse!)... And his ability to head the ball away...

What a difference he is making. [Just imagine once JK has a couple more seasons to shape our defense more to his liking!!]

Long may it last.

[xbugawugax]

would love to see his heat map in the saints game

thought he was playing more as a DM. Hendo was covering behind him at some occasions.

his stroll into the midfield is freaking majestic.

[jooneyisdagod]

He's utterly superb. Nothing else to be said.

[vagabond]

Sensational footballer. Want to see more of him running with the ball. It opens up so much space for our midfield.

[Lofty Ambitions]

I've missed this calm confidence in our defence since Big Sami left. What a gem of a player, with so many years in front of him yet too

[Rush 82]

Superb, absolutely superb. 

Steal of the transfer window across the League.

So calm, so assured, what a pleasure to watch him in action

[Hazell]

Dirtbag

I got two tickets for Gelsenkirchen baby

Glad someone got it!

[Solomon Grundy]

I've said it before, but he's more Hansen than Hyypia for me.

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[an fear dearg]

The thing I love about him is he's a 'on his feet' defender. If you compare him to the likes of Skertl and Sakho much of their defending involves retrieving tackles. Joel doesn't allow that to happen due to his reading of the game and his altiming of the tackle. He is outstanding and can be the very best that I've seen and I've seen big Sami and Hansen. I reckon if the right money was offered for big Virgil then they would be imperious together

[meady1981]

Just read this on twitter and after youtubing the song (I'm too cool to know it), I'm fully behind this.

We've got a center haaaaalf
His name is Joel Mateeeeep
He comes from Camerooooon
And he plays it, into feet
-Adele, Rolling in the Deep

[edge]

Just read this on twitter and after youtubing the song (I'm too cool to know it), I'm fully behind this.

We've got a center haaaaalf
His name is Joel Mateeeeep
He comes from Camerooooon
And he plays it, into feet
-Adele, Rolling in the Deep

[88_RED]

Spotted that. 9 out of 10 players lose it when they slip, and are so desperate to make amends that they'd go charging in, failing to notice that Lovren was there (and great recovery by him, too). Instead Matip realises that the best place to be is where he is, calmly controls the attempted cut-back, and sets us off on the attack again. He's the Thierry Henry of defenders.