This is painful but only because (and I'm not a Liverpool fan) I know that the replay of Gerrard slipping is going to become one of those replays that defines a guy's career. Gerrard doesn't deserve that...but it's coming. Fuckin tragic, really.
jmcc5400 said:
[SIZE=medium]Gerrard’s miscue felt like Bill Buckner, if Bill Buckner had grown up in Boston and was commemorating the 25th anniversary of his cousin’s tragic death at Fenway at the time the grounder went through his legs. [/SIZE]
jmcc5400 said:
[SIZE=medium]Gerrard’s miscue felt like Bill Buckner, if Bill Buckner had grown up in Boston and was commemorating the 25th anniversary of his cousin’s tragic death at Fenway at the time the grounder went through his legs. [/SIZE]
SoxFanInCali said:Well, if he'd gotten the result at home against the team at the bottom of the table last week, he'd be the overwhelming favorite to win the title right now.
[SIZE=11.199999809265137px]Um, Mr. Rodgers? I've watched a lot of your team this season and I disagree that "any team" can sit back and defend. Yours cannot. If Liverpool tried to play like Chelsea did today they would be undone by their lack of talent in the back four. [/SIZE]"I think there were two buses parked today, never mind one," Rodgers told Sky TV.
"It was like a back six with three midfield players in front of that. That's 10, with the goalkeeper, for 90 minutes consistently behind the ball.
"It's the nature of how Chelsea play. They've got some wonderful players but they play a defensive game and hope to hit you on the counter-attack or with a mistake."
"Anyone can ask a team to just sit back and defend on the edge of the box."
PedroSpecialK said:I love Mourinho. In a WWE Heel kind of way, but I love him.
He's a complete asshole and he's a hypocrite with what he spouts in the media, but damn. The man get results and knows how to stymie any attack.
To be honest, while Liverpool's first half was subpar, they played the second as well as anyone can play against a good team parking the bus. They could easily have converted one of those chances if they had executed better or if one those shots had fallen in. Luck - which lest we forget was plentiful for Liverpool this season- was for Chelsea this time around and it won on an error. Otherwise it very well may have been a draw.fletcherpost said:It was never gonna be easy but Rogers knew what he was up against, he watched the Athletico match. He knows Jose, he knows Chelsea. it seemed the team didn't execute Plan A well and had no plan B. If a team parks the bus you need to stretch them somehow. There was a lot more 'foot on the ball' today than i've seen recently from Liverpool. Slowed things down when they should have been using their pace. None of the players in red had a great game today and that's criminal at this stage of the league campaign. They seemed afraid. Shame for Gerrard, it really is. he might not get a better chance to win the League and it could be his error that makes the difference.
'Mon the fuckin Palace.
I don't think it's that impressive. Chelsea was one of the few teams who presented Liverpool with a withdrawn line and a closed defense. Liverpool's offense is good but it's always tough to break down a closed defense. And if you compare Liverpool with Atletico you see that Chelsea felt Liverpool's pressure far more than Atletico's.PedroSpecialK said:No question that Chelsea got lucky to get the victory, but there was nothing really threatening generated by Liverpool aside from Allen's volley that Schwarzer palmed away and Sakho's shot over the net.
To hold fort like that against the league's best attack, with a CB making his debut partnered with a guy who hasn't played CB for a season, is impressive. I can't recall being more frustrated watching a match this year - and Aspas... what a whiff of a signing he was.
jmcc5400 said:
[SIZE=medium]Gerrard’s miscue felt like Bill Buckner, if Bill Buckner had grown up in Boston and was commemorating the 25th anniversary of his cousin’s tragic death at Fenway at the time the grounder went through his legs. [/SIZE]
Nick Kaufman said:To be honest, while Liverpool's first half was subpar, they played the second as well as anyone can play against a good team parking the bus. They could easily have converted one of those chances if they had executed better or if one those shots had fallen in. Luck - which lest we forget was plentiful for Liverpool this season- was for Chelsea this time around and it won on an error. Otherwise it very well may have been a draw.
cjdmadcow said:To help alleviate my poor mood, I took myself off today down to the English south-coast and the seaside town of Brighton for a couple of days.
One of the first people I saw as I got off the train this morning was a fat fucker wearing a Chelsea shirt. Just what I needed...felt like throwing myself off the pier but then thought better of it...and threw him off instead *
*One of these things isn't true.
I'm pleased I haven't taken this loss as badly as I thought I might...maybe I'm finally growing up (says CJD, age 53)
SoxFanInCali said:Yeah, I've been trying to remind myself that if you would have told me at the beginning of the season that we would have a top 3 finish wrapped up with 3 games to go, I would have been ecstatic.
It's not really working.
DennyDoyle'sBoil said:This was a game where the team that needed one point played like a team that needed three and the team that needed three points played for a draw.
All hindsight, obviously. I guess the response would be "Liverpool only play one way," but I think that's nonsense. I think it was just impatience.
unless they can hammer Newcastle and Palace by a combined +12 or so, yeaJayMags71 said:Is it correct to assume that Liverpool need to win out, AND need a mistake from City to win the title? That seems like a bridge too far.
PedroSpecialK said:unless they can hammer Newcastle and Palace by a combined +12 or so, yea
JayMags71 said:Considering Liverpool's and City's respective fixture lists, I'm not sure playing for the draw was the smart play. It's generally been understood that Liverpool needed to win all of its fixtures.
Odds you are correct: 100%.SoxFanInCali said:I am not counting on either Villa or West Ham to get anything at the Emirates.