Topic: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1

[NarutoReds]

Brighton are playing better and much more entertaining than Man United.

I hope they will do well and climbing up the table higher this season than United.

[fowlermagic]

Scraped the three points there as not sure we deserved them but thankfully Brighton regressed in the second half , which left us grab the three points. We were a little easy to play through as they found the gaps between our porous lines. Thankfully our defenders were on point most of the time but shouldn't be that exposed, better teams would have taken full advantage. McAllister was excellent and would love to see us add one more world class option alongside him. Imagine a Mascherano in there and we would be romping this title. A couple of fresh legs should have come on a lot earlier too but excellent result that could go along way this season.

[QC]

Mac Allister is 100% elite.

[Irishred1]

Why did Coote decide to move those balls behind the goal ?

he is so odd

[Bastion Of Invincibility]

Imagine most of our supporters' nerves are frayed beyond repair from watching us constantly concede first, battle horrid cheating, incompetent refs and somehow pull out winners through sheer will. I don't know how they keep doing it, they're all heroes and mentality monsters.

[Pat The Red]

That was why we signed Mac, superb display, no panic.
Just about got out of jail at the back and now we can all sit back and hope for a few red cards, injuries etc in the dullest nilnil.

As for Coote, the yellow card waving ballboy...Just What The Actual F**K 

[Fruity]

Big win though a bit tense at the end, struggled to eat my easter egg.

[Stockholm Syndrome]

Scraped the three points there as not sure we deserved them but thankfully Brighton regressed in the second half , which left us grab the three points. We were a little easy to play through as they found the gaps between our porous lines. Thankfully our defenders were on point most of the time but shouldn't be that exposed, better teams would have taken full advantage. McAllister was excellent and would love to see us add one more world class option alongside him. Imagine a Mascherano in there and we would be romping this title. A couple of fresh legs should have come on a lot earlier too but excellent result that could go along way this season.

We had 30 shots to their 9. We absolutely 100% deserved it. We absolutely dominated them

[coolbyrne]

Great result after the break and against a tricky team. I was worried going into it that maybe we'd need a game to get back into rhythm, and after Welbeck scored, it felt like it was going to go the way I feared. But my goodness Mac Allister is something special. I'm hoping Salah shakes off more rust as the games go on, because we don't have many left! Still nervy at the end there, but a very well-deserved 3 points. Was glad to have been the first game today- get it out of the way and maybe put some pressure on the 2 teams below us.

[Ray K]

Is that 26 points from a losing position?

As Andrew Beasley pointed out on Twitter, one more point than the Ev have in total 

[Boaty McBoatface]

Game management has gone to shit. The fact that we didn't even attempt to take it to the corner flag in the last 5 minutes, is concerning. I mean, it didn't even enter their heads that it was an option. Milner would have been quietly tut-tutting to himself on the Brighton bench I'm sure.

[The Final Third]

We had 30 shots to their 9. We absolutely 100% deserved it. We absolutely dominated them

Aye..xG was:

Liverpool (2.98) 2-1 (0.51) Brighton

[Mister Flip Flop]

Between David Coote being an absolute c*nt and Salah wasting a good 71 chances, that should have been way more comfortable than it was. Mac Allister was comfortably the best player on the pitch today, but shout out to Szoboszlai as well who I also thought was excellent and showing signs of his early season form.

As an audition goes, can't say I liked what I saw from this De Zerbi team. Tidy in the middle, but toothless in the final third and the constant shithousery, timewasting and diving is something I could do without.

Don't want him anywhere the club. Can't stand managers that encourage their players to cheat and act like shithouses.

[Red_Mist]

A word of advice, never listen to the match on the radio. Can’t take nine more of them. Absolute torture.

Anyway, great win in the end. Hope the other two draw.

[Mister Flip Flop]

Scraped the three points there as not sure we deserved them but thankfully Brighton regressed in the second half , which left us grab the three points. We were a little easy to play through as they found the gaps between our porous lines. Thankfully our defenders were on point most of the time but shouldn't be that exposed, better teams would have taken full advantage. McAllister was excellent and would love to see us add one more world class option alongside him. Imagine a Mascherano in there and we would be romping this title. A couple of fresh legs should have come on a lot earlier too but excellent result that could go along way this season.

We dominated them for most of the match, of course we deserved it. Honestly i don't know what game people are watching sometimes.

[HardworkDedication]

The first game after an international break is never without issues, but at least we have it out of the way now. On to the next. Macca MOtM for me.

I agree and I also think us playing every 3-4 days will help us with our rhythm especially if we can keep our players fit.

[vicar]

Should have been out of sight by half time. Felt like Salah could have scored 3 in the first half alone?

I do get caught up thinking refs are shit when at the game and usually after watching back think I got a bit too carried away in the ground, but today, I genuinely think Coote was possibly the worst referee in the league and that is some challenge. I will obviously watch back, but he was just awful, inconsistent within minutes.

[Stockholm Syndrome]

Between David Coote being an absolute c*nt and Salah wasting a good 71 chances, that should have been way more comfortable than it was. Mac Allister was comfortably the best player on the pitch today, but shout out to Szoboszlai as well who I also thought was excellent and showing signs of his early season form.

As an audition goes, can't say I liked what I saw from this De Zerbi team. Tidy in the middle, but toothless in the final third and the constant shithousery, timewasting and diving is something I could do without.

They move very quickly but without much purpose or self preservation if this match is anything to go by.

And the shithouse tactics.

Again look at the shots and XG of the game and it tells a really story about how they played

[newterp]

Brighton better play with this energy against Arsenal and Abu Dhabi.

[Butcher Knife Roberto]

Dom really stepped it up in the second half, was good to see. In fact the whole midfield clicked well after the break, seemed a bit more cohesive for that really important 25 minutes or so when we just went up the gears. Endo was solid as well, doing the dirty work and keeping his tactical booking until he really needed to use it. And Macca, oh sweet Macca, that ball for Mo, sublime.... what a player we have.

Speaking of Mo, super goal but thought he was too selfish at times today. Still, he gets a free pass because, well, it's Mo y'know. Defence was a bit here and there, although Jarell kept his head when we were under real pressure towards the end and Conor continues to improve. I do think that Kostas must have either tried it on with Ulla or he's absolutely on his way for reasons unknown, because I can't understand why we're persevering with the Gomez left back experiment. Centre back, yes, right back, yeah if we need to. But he ain't a LB. Still, we broke a bit of a bogey team today, so it would be harsh to criticise too much.

Oh, and they can keep de Zerbi, not bought on him at all as a potential replacement for Klopp. They were set up like a one trick pony, and giving away chances to us left, right and centre. Only rustiness on our part and possibly the worst referee I have ever seen stopped them from being on the receiving end of an absolute spanking. No thank you.

[HardworkDedication]

Paul Gorst@ptgorst·13m
De Zerbi asked about his future: "Today we played without Mitoma, Pedro, March...Gilmour, I would like to play against Liverpool without seven injured players. I have to accept we have to keep the focus on the last 9 games."


Have you forgotten how many injuries we have? 

[Cafe De Paris]

Big win though a bit tense at the end, struggled to eat my easter egg.

[fowlermagic]

We had 30 shots to their 9. We absolutely 100% deserved it. We absolutely dominated them

Did we? Didn't exactly dominate the possession as was probably the lowest against any  midtable side the past few months. The shot count was impressive but think their keeper had to only pull out one or two good saves as most of shots were off target. Anyway delighted we won but if that was a dominant performance then we got different standards as we should be bossing these sides with 65% plus possession, more clear cut chances and if our frontline was a little more aware of better placed teammates we would have put them to bed earlier. Can't wait for Jota to get back.

[Knight]

Did we? Didn't exactly dominate the possession as was probably the lowest against any  midtable side the past few months. The shot count was impressive but think their keeper had to only pull out one or two good saves as most of shots were off target. Anyway delighted we won but if that was a dominant performance then we got different standards as we should be bossing these sides with 65% plus possession, more clear cut chances and if our frontline was a little more aware of better placed teammates we would have put them to bed earlier. Can't wait for Jota to get back.

Possession is irrelevant unless you create chances with it or are already winning and are managing the game. We created way more than them and obviously deserved to win.

[Stockholm Syndrome]

Did we? Didn't exactly dominate the possession as was probably the lowest against any  midtable side the past few months. The shot count was impressive but think their keeper had to only pull out one or two good saves as most of shots were off target. Anyway delighted we won but if that was a dominant performance then we got different standards as we should be bossing these sides with 65% plus possession, more clear cut chances and if our frontline was a little more aware of better placed teammates we would have put them to bed earlier. Can't wait for Jota to get back.

You don't have 3 times the shots that a team without dominating.

On possession as well, it was 55% to 45% so we even beat them there too

We had 9 shots on target to their 3 so again 3 times the good chances

XG of 2.98 to 0.51

We beat them on every metric and in terms of chances, significantly so

We dominated them

[has gone odd]

Nerve wracking as it gets , yet performance was solid. Tonnes of chances to bury the game, but I'll take this.

Was Diaz really offside, looked utter fuckin level to me, perhaps need a very strong magnifier for that hair's width.

[Nick110581]

Should have killed it with the 3rd but fucked around like we did against United

[jepovic]

Brighton are playing better and much more entertaining than Man United.

I hope they will do well and climbing up the table higher this season than United.

Entertaining sure, but I dont think they were particularly good. We should have won easily with better finishing and fresher players. They need to play better to have a chance against Arsenal and City

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Did we? Didn't exactly dominate the possession as was probably the lowest against any  midtable side the past few months. The shot count was impressive but think their keeper had to only pull out one or two good saves as most of shots were off target. Anyway delighted we won but if that was a dominant performance then we got different standards as we should be bossing these sides with 65% plus possession, more clear cut chances and if our frontline was a little more aware of better placed teammates we would have put them to bed earlier. Can't wait for Jota to get back.

This is just ridiculous and shows a huge mis-understanding of football.

Brighton aren't your ordinary mid-table team. They average 62.3% possession this season, which is second to only Man City and ahead of our 60.3%. Having more of the ball against them was an achievement in itself.

[Schmarn]

Always going to be rusty after the break. Job done, move on.

Expect us to be more precise against Sheff Utd. Get that game won early.

[fowlermagic]

Possession is irrelevant unless you create chances with it or are already winning and are managing the game. We created way more than them and obviously deserved to win.

Well we didn't manage the game very well did we? Pretty much had to rely on Kelleher to pull out a good save near the end and our possession was a lot lower than most of the home games we had this season. We got slowly out of the starting blocks, had to rely on a Brighton mistake for our equaliser and the crowd atmosphere definitely didn't reflect a dominating performance, rather more like a nervous one. As I said the likes of Arsenal n City would have taken advantage of us today, so let's learn from the game as we need to be a lot better if we want to win the title. More "dominant" performances like today will lead to dropping point. Let's start with Utd next week where 30 shots should be converted into three or four goals at least.

[singerj]

Scraped the three points there as not sure we deserved them but thankfully Brighton regressed in the second half , which left us grab the three points. We were a little easy to play through as they found the gaps between our porous lines. Thankfully our defenders were on point most of the time but shouldn't be that exposed, better teams would have taken full advantage. McAllister was excellent and would love to see us add one more world class option alongside him. Imagine a Mascherano in there and we would be romping this title. A couple of fresh legs should have come on a lot earlier too but excellent result that could go along way this season.

xG was 2.8-0.4. We smashed them.

[number 168]

Nerve wracking as it gets , yet performance was solid. Tonnes of chances to bury the game, but I'll take this.

Was Diaz really offside, looked utter fuckin level to me, perhaps need a very strong magnifier for that hair's width.

Four years ago the PL stated that they would make the lines thicker to try and avoid these ridiculous millimeter decisions, and later that VAR would not get involved with their micrometer.  Unfortunatley they just can't help themselves and carry on ruining the game. They shoud focus on teams like Brighton spending 90 minutes trying to con the ref.

[Samie]

[Tonyh8su]

Paul Gorst@ptgorst·13m
De Zerbi asked about his future: "Today we played without Mitoma, Pedro, March...Gilmour, I would like to play against Liverpool without seven injured players. I have to accept we have to keep the focus on the last 9 games."


Have you forgotten how many injuries we have? 

Ali, Trent, Konate, Robertson, Jota….

[RedG13]

That was very dominant performance. Good win.

[disgraced cake]

Great win from behind against 12 men. Mac Allister was unbelievable again

[Samie]

[redbyrdz]

If an offside player has a shot on goal that the keeper tips behind, but there is no flag, because they're waiting for a potential var reviwev....should they get a corner?

[jepovic]

Playing without a LB hurts our attack so much. Szobo and Diaz got nothing in first half .
Inverting Gomez is not working.