Why all the doom mongers? Show me ANY great team in any league over the past half century that didn't get the occasional draw!
Ancelloti set them up superbly to defend,.he's not a 3 times CL winner for nothing.
8 points clear in the PL and top of our CL group at Christmas. This is the best Liverpool team I've ever seen in my 35 years of watching us. We are simply incredible.
People are rightly concerned because Salzburg is now going to be a twat of a place to go right in the middle of a hectic schedule and if we had put in anything better than our worst performance of the season last night the likelihood is that we’d have avoided it.
Do I think we’ll lose to Salzburg and go out? No, probably not, but that ground is likely to be like a fucking bear pit now and they score goals for fun, you’d imagine if it turned into a shoot out style scenario that we’d be better at it than they would but it’s not really a situation that you want on the last group game.
We didn’t play well yesterday, I don’t really follow the line of thought that links that to our various one goal wins recently as if something has eventually given because in the vast majority of those matches (Palace aside) we should have won by far more given the chances we’d created, if anything was to give in those games the likelihood is that it would be us scoring more goals rather than the result not being a win.
But it’s totally okay to be a little frustrated with the result, performance, a touch anxious that we have to go to what’s likely to be a difficult place and get a result and a touch concerned that if we don’t get that result it’s likely to have a negative effect amongst the players and fan base as getting knocked out of the group stage tends to do.
The trouble is that people often want things to be black and white. We’re either great or shit, you’re either supportive or a ‘bed wetter’ when the reality is always likely to be somewhere between the two. If you make the legitimate point that you’d rather not have to go to Salzburg and get a result then someone will inevitably quote it and ask why you don’t have faith in the team to get that result, when in all likelihood you do have that faith, but you’re just aware that football is a funny game and a scenario which could have been avoided by playing a bit better is now a possibility.
