Topic: PL: Liverpool 3 v Nottingham Forest 2 Jota 47&55, Mo 70, Williams 50', Gibney 70

[Baby Huey]

That was Konate with the pass

I thought that was the best pass in the game.

[Bread]

Nottingham Forest identified a weakness and capitalised on it. Everything good they did came via a long throw. They exploited it, though it should be noted that both of their goals came via wicked deflections, so I wouldn't say their finishing was particularly good. On the other hand, we exploited their weakness on set pieces, and quite frankly, we could have had double the amount of goals we did score.

I think we deserved the 3 points ultimately, but Forest showed spirit. Hopefully they continue to show that spirit and pick up some results to send our blue neighbours down.

[darragh85]

A bit of a mess defensively. Van dijk isn't at the races at all and not organising. Robertson was tucked in far too much on the first goal. Normally van dijk would spot that quickly and shout  at him to correct it

[BER]

We're going to waste a lot of time on this system aren't we.

[killer-heels]

First half i thought we saw what we are lacking, which is the ability to carry the ball and take on defenders, forcing them to commit.

[dramared]

Not glamour, never quite got to playing football. Praise NF they wanted exactly what they got without the points. We got another 3 points at anfield. Move on.
If you cant play great, get points.

[lgvkarlos]

Not glamour, never quite got to playing football. Praise NF they wanted exactly what they got without the points. We got another 3 points at anfield. Move on.
If you cant play great, get points.

👌

[HardworkDedication]

What's the beef between Gerrard and Klopp or is Jeff Stelling mischief making? I did see the footage and it looked like they didn't acknowledge each other.

[Samie]

What beef? They've always spoken highly of each other.

[dramared]

probably met atleast 6 times earlier that day, you dont need to wank him off everytime. oh. that might get me a ban

[SinceSixtyFive]

probably met atleast 6 times earlier that day, you dont need to wank him off everytime. oh. that might get me a ban

Sorry? Who's doing what now?

Asking for a friend 

[Coolie High]

Very little to complain about, only thing we really struggled with was their long throws, not many teams have a player capable of throwing the ball as long, and even then the likelihood you create as many chances as they did today from a throw is rare.

Remember Stoke stayed so long in the league because of their unorthodox throwback style of play, that style of playing is a dying breed in this league even with teams that come straight from the championship, in terms of open play though they created very little.

The most important thing is we got the win, and i get the feeling we can win all the rest of our games for this season, may have left it just a little too late to get the top 4 though, but its promising for the next season with the added boost of new signings to come in.

[Schmidt]

If they don't get a bunch of jammy deflections we cruise to an easy win I think, but they fluked goals at just the right times to keep them buoyant and us a bit on edge, making it a tougher end to the game than it needed to be.

A month ago that game ends 1-2/1-3 IMO.

[Coolie High]

If they don't get a bunch of jammy deflections we cruise to an easy win I think, but they fluked goals at just the right times to keep them buoyant and us a bit on edge, making it a tougher end to the game than it needed to be.

A month ago that game ends 1-2/1-3 IMO.

A month ago we go in  to halftime 1-0 down.

[robertobaggio37]

What's the beef between Gerrard and Klopp or is Jeff Stelling mischief making? I did see the footage and it looked like they didn't acknowledge each other.

Stevie’s pissed because he went above and beyond to land Bellingham only for the club to fuck him over

[bird_lfc]

A couple of months ago we would have lost that. Being pegged back twice can really knock a team but credit to the boys for that. Let’s keep building on it

[Knight]

Why isn't Elliot getting minutes in the right sided 8 role? It's perfect for him now Trent is staying behind the ball most of the time. And Henderson's main strengths are being neutered.

[Lynndenberries]

Need that to be a draw really. That would leave us 7 points behind Newcastle with 7 to play.

Don’t want to get sucked into it, but it’s not that crazy if we take care of business. We need a lot of help from the relegation candidates though. I don’t think they’ll lose more than 1 or 2 overall, but I could see them struggling to score and ending up with a fair amount of draws

[The G in Gerrard]

Need that to be a draw really. That would leave us 7 points behind Newcastle with 7 to play.

Yep and can't drop points at West Ham.

[Garlicbread]

Don’t want to get sucked into it, but it’s not that crazy if we take care of business. We need a lot of help from the relegation candidates though. I don’t think they’ll lose more than 1 or 2 overall, but I could see them struggling to score and ending up with a fair amount of draws

Newcastle still got Tottenham, Arsenal and Chelsea left to play. Plus a trip to Goodison soon.

But we still need to do our job in the remaining games.

[Lubeh]

A win is a win at this stage , as others have said a draw for spurs and newcastle we are 7 points behind them, atm we are 3 behind spurs so its doable especially as both sides seem dodgy atm , we can do this !!

[Garlicbread]

A win is a win at this stage , as others have said a draw for spurs and newcastle we are 7 points behind them, atm we are 3 behind spurs so its doable especially as both sides seem dodgy atm , we can do this !!

We play Spurs at Anfield before the month is over  too.

[Schmidt]

Why isn't Elliot getting minutes in the right sided 8 role? It's perfect for him now Trent is staying behind the ball most of the time. And Henderson's main strengths are being neutered.

Elliot wants to be a forward cutting in all the time, I don't think he and Mo work together particularly well most of the time. One of Henderson's strengths is that he adapts to the players around him, whereas Elliot tends to largely play the same way every game regardless of personnel or opposition.

[buttersstotch]

Elliot wants to be a forward cutting in all the time, I don't think he and Mo work together particularly well most of the time. One of Henderson's strengths is that he adapts to the players around him, whereas Elliot tends to largely play the same way every game regardless of personnel or opposition.

I think it is more to do with height and physicality, plus the defensive side of Elliot's game is not the strongest. We become quite a small team very quickly. I wonder if this new set up might suit Elliott better playing as the wide right attacker though.

[4pool]

Steve Hunter on the LFC broadcast mentioned before the match he was walking into the ground and a steward told him he'd take three 1-0 wins for our next three matches. Neil Mellor said he'd agree. We have the goal differential we just need to get the three points every match and move up the table.



Of course, winning by a goal doesn't satisfy everyone as evidence of any post match thread.   

[NarutoReds]

Nunez and Diaz add more to our game, both of them.

I was hoping for Gakpo to score too actually.

That acrobatic effort by Awoniyi, stunned me half dead. Hahhahahhaha!!!   

And special mention to Jota, with four goals in two games after failing to score in his previous 32 appearances for the club.

[ScouserAtHeart]

Both their goals came off deflections. The second one was deflected twice

[redbyrdz]

Steve Hunter on the LFC broadcast mentioned before the match he was walking into the ground and a steward told him he'd take three 1-0 wins for our next three matches. Neil Mellor said he'd agree. We have the goal differential we just need to get the three points every match and move up the table.



Of course, winning by a goal doesn't satisfy everyone as evidence of any post match thread.   

I don't mind winning 1-0, but leading 1-0 during the match seems a recipe for disaster...

[RedKenWah]

I did think first half for the amount of possession we had and clear pitch domination we didn’t capitalise on it whatsoever which was shocking. Then to score but then throw the lead away due to a long throw in and also some wild deflections, it’s not great. The wild deflections I would say Robbo and Konate need to face the ball and not instinctively hide away from it. If they’d done that then they would have blocked those shots. Turning away led to them not controlling their limbs and well 2 deflected goals which if not deflected I think Alisson is saving them both with no issues.

All in all though despite that we won, got 3 points and are pushing for something to end the season on.

[Fromola]

Steve Hunter on the LFC broadcast mentioned before the match he was walking into the ground and a steward told him he'd take three 1-0 wins for our next three matches. Neil Mellor said he'd agree. We have the goal differential we just need to get the three points every match and move up the table.



Of course, winning by a goal doesn't satisfy everyone as evidence of any post match thread.   

I'd always take a 1-0 win in any PL match (unless we're specifically chasing goal difference at the end of the season).

I expected us to turn Leeds and Forest over easily, but it won't always turn out like that. Our problem this season, partly, is we're not grinding wins out. We either batter teams or are clinging on desperately to a lead if we do win. Our high points total seasons were always built on clean sheets and winning games to nil. We've lost the art of the 1-0 or the comfortable 2-0 this season, we just haven't had them because we've been so easy to score against or create good chances against.


West Ham and Spurs is definitely a case of just win the games by any means which gives us a platform for the last few.

[spider-neil]

The first goal was really poor organisation. Everyone is drawn to the ball by the flank and a simple ball round the corner takes about three of our players out of the game and Forest have acres of space to run into. No time to work on this on the training ground as we have a midweek game.

[spider-neil]

I'd always take a 1-0 win in any PL match (unless we're specifically chasing goal difference at the end of the season).

I expected us to turn Leeds and Forest over easily, but it won't always turn out like that. Our problem this season, partly, is we're not grinding wins out. We either batter teams or are clinging on desperately to a lead if we do win.


West Ham and Spurs is definitely a case of just win the games by any means.

I don’t expect any easy games against struggling teams with the way this season has gone.

[Fromola]

I don’t expect any easy games against struggling teams with the way this season has gone.

I rarely do but I just think Leeds and Forest have been that poor when i've seen them recently, that we're well capable of turning them over (and also losing to them which we did before Christmas).

Forest have really raised their game against us this season and we've struggled against them. They haven't been as open as they have in other games. Leeds only ever play one way and when we're at it they're ideal opponents.

[Fromola]

In other seasons we were excellent at defending them. Not sure what has happened this one.

Yeah, it's been a real struggle since Brentford. There was a spell after that where every corner was a goal or a free header for someone.

The big issue with the team this season has been a lack of legs and structural issues around that. Set pieces are your basics though and fundamentals. It took Klopp a while when he took over to fix that after the complete lack of defensive nous he inherited from Rodgers. West Ham and Moyes next who always give you the aerial bombardment.

[has gone odd]

Fairly negative response in here to the performance, not the result.

Thought we played excellent bar the 2 shitty goals. Forest were going for it in the 2nd, they need points badly and played like they wanted them. We played them off the park bar the clinical finish in the first. Better than a lot of the crap we seen us do this season, that is for sure!

Am concerned with VVD though, he seems totally off the boil these days. Felt like he would have another 2-3 seasons in the tank but that injury has had a nasty effect.

[Andy82lfc]

What's the beef between Gerrard and Klopp or is Jeff Stelling mischief making? I did see the footage and it looked like they didn't acknowledge each other.

Jeff Stelling? I don’t understand why you would listen to what some sky sports twat who’s job it is to create conflict and speculation (never mind being a c*nt pusher for betting apps) when the video is right there in front of your actual eyeballs!! 

For me Klopp is with Pep clearly in game mode coming out to start the match chatting with him. Gerrard obviously sees this (if he does we don’t actually know if he was even looking up) and politely doesn’t bother him but maybe ready to smile/acknowledge if Klopp looks up.

The world and media has gone mad with desperation trying to cause click bait and attention at anything these days.

[Crosby Nick]

I don’t expect any easy games against struggling teams with the way this season has gone.

Yeah we’re at that point in the season where you can’t take anything for granted.

Although…Fulham and Brentford are two of the very few teams with nothing to play for. I’d say having them at home at this stage in the season isn’t bad.

[Andy @ Allerton!]

Win an exciting game and everyone moans like gobshites

Welcome to the modern football fan.

I had a great day, we played some great stuff, Forest went at it and a proper game of football occurred. End to end stuff and we won!

If you want to moan then you do you, kids

Great day out at fucking 3 O'Clock on a fucking Saturday!! YAY!!! YAY!! And once again may I say YAY!!

Have it!

[rocco]

Win an exciting game and everyone moans like gobshites

Welcome to the modern football fan.

I had a great day, we played some great stuff, Forest went at it and a proper game of football occurred. End to end stuff and we won!

If you want to moan then you do you, kids

Great day out at fucking 3 O'Clock on a fucking Saturday!! YAY!!! YAY!! And once again may I say YAY!!

Have it!

That’s it , enjoy it every part of the day .

[Hazell]

Both their goals came off deflections. The second one was deflected twice

I did do a bit of a Guardiola when the second went in.