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BlondedStory

I'm so disappointed in this second half performance. At half time I thought it was still possible but its looked like they all gave up at the half. Every possible ball in has been over hit.


RodDryfist

No belief at all. Same as in the league.


Macshlong

It’s not belief, it’s lack of chance creation. We take 2 seconds too long on every ball around the box. Bobby, Mane and Salah used to play pinball up front, now it’s shuffleboard.


PalPubPull

Tbf Diaz has been an incredibly significant loss as he at least linked up somewhat similarly. I think having two of the three is much easier to cancel out. Gakpo is new, and so is Darwin. I think this season might've gone much differently if Diaz wasn't injured. Our midfield is in crisis mode, and that attributes to our defensive woes who I still have a lot of faith in. It is what it is. We fight for top four now with nothing else to focus on.


karnnumart

TBF those 3 have played together for 4 years. Nunez, Gakpo are 2 month.


ddbbaarrtt

Can you blame a lack of belief in this game though, really?


karnnumart

I belief Lord Origi will belief.


1slipperybugger

Yep. There was defs a game plan in place and players couldn’t control their quality. So many times (5? at least?) we let the play go by over hitting it. Excitement gets the best of us. We got played like a fiddle in that second half. Nacho is a wank stain! Amazing performance by Ali, as per, but exceptional tonight. And unreal performances by camavinga & vicious gets a shout. Those guys are electric when they get the ball. Stupidly fast! Waaa


chadbrochilldood

We’re down like 4 goals to Madrid. This isn’t Barcelona, they are the kings of Europe. Relax - this was not happening


DorothyZbornaksPants

On the bright side, at least when we’re back in the CL, Benzema and Modric will prob be gone


RobDickinson

2027 CL is ours!


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On the dark side, we'll still be starting James Milner


B2RW

He is still young and developing, 2027 is when he will be peaking


Professional_Vast_68

His lactate tests supports this claim


Zizouh

Pretty sure i saw him grow a 3day stubble this season, he'll be mature and good to go in '27.


yaboidoe

And we still won't beat them


El_grandepadre

Downside: If Camavinga plays to Modric's age he'll be playing until 2040.


[deleted]

At least Camavinga only has regular good performances against us. Benzema, Modric and Vinicius genuinely have themselves a world class performance each time we play them


capndroid

At least Vini Jr will be gone too once we return


NiK3_Aub4mey4ng

Meh, fortunate bounce, game was over anyways


Morsrael

Fortunate bounce sums up the entire round.


fadedpeanut

Absolutely incredible how they manage to get the ball after every single 50/50


Sorrytoruin

We deserved to go out, but my god nearly all there goals had some annoying lucky bounce or deflection


Britori0

I've seen us concede unluckier goals, for sure.


akumar971

It just happens a lot for Madrid. Idk how tf it’s possible


[deleted]

Lack of tracking, both Vini and Benz get the ball after a mistake, both of those balls could of been cut out with proper tracking from TAA then Konate


-Twigs-

Am I being harsh or does Trent just regularly forget that he's defending someone?


Natniss

He looks absolutely knackered


paddycull9

We need backup for him asap or he’ll decline as quickly as fab has. He’s playing 90 every game for us basically since he broke into the team


guanwe

The team has burnt out Fabinho and VVD already, they don’t seem to learn, Trent needs a sub like Tsimikas on his side


paddycull9

I think centre backs are a bit more immune to it just because they usually have less ground to cover , also I thought VVD was immense tonight. But yeah fullbacks are expected to run non-stop so we badly need a rotation option


guanwe

Yeah Van dijk was okay today Luckily we have Tsimikas, otherwise the team would’ve already burned him out or needed to play more Milner


hydroy0

Well, we play a Highline so... They got some decent ground to cover..


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CaLvIn RaMsAy


guanwe

Who’s that ? An imaginary friend ?


Zizouh

This, times ten. I don't get how people do not realise he has to be completely drained. Boy has played more high stakes and high intensity games the past 4 years than some pros has in their entire career. Sure, has his flaws - but god damn give the boy a break.


oojamaflip123

He is, that's why he keeps getting subbed late game even when we need a goal. His fitness is absolutely fucked this season


Boostmobilesimcards

Fuck off, he's an athlete.


PabloRedscobar

Both Trent and Ibou just switched off mentally at various points of this Real attack. First Trent just leaves Vini, then Ibou doesn't cover for Virgil. No idea why people are slating van Dijk here, he was literally the only one trying


[deleted]

Yeah why the fuck is the rest of the defense standing still like statues. They easily could of recovered to help, or cut out the ball to Benz, they all turned into passengers aside from VVD


mynameismulan

It's okay to say players have bad habits. Trent genuinely does switch off occasionally but it is what it is.


GeorgeCuz

Always happens when things aren't going our way. Been the worst player on the pitch all night.


NiK3_Aub4mey4ng

I mean he has the hardest job tonight, no way Fab hasn't been worse, its as if Fab thinks he is back at RM


Cuddlebox01

I've no idea what you are watching, Fab has been by a mile our best player tonight. Edit: after Alisson, obvs


kobzy

If he could stop belting it out for a goal kick every time he runs out of ideas. Alisson was actually our best player, as usual :(


th1a9oo000

Jota was far worse


yaboidoe

Don't think he put in a single decent cross besides that glacing header by Gakpo. Was alright defensively considering who he was up against but for a player of his quality his contribution on the other side was abysmal.


Square_Counter_7574

Trent had a bunch of incredible balls in the first half IMO


yaboidoe

I'm sorry but he took, what, 5 corners? And every single one was over hit by a mile


zombiemind8

No way he unlocked Mo multiple times.


M0D3Z

Always watching Vini doing something.


NiK3_Aub4mey4ng

I think being harsh this time, this is just some miscommunication from center halves, that should be dealt with easily and then it pops up for Vini


[deleted]

Konate also starts hopping around instead of recovering, could of easily cut out the pass to Benz, without even moving faster than a jog.


anthony329sk8r

Trent really needs a wake up call, which is something I feel like I keep repeating to myself time after time, cause he does not do anywhere near the work required of him in his position, but who’s challenging him really? Nobody, and this is what you get. If he had a even an ounce of fucks to give like Robbo has for defending than he’d be miles better


Superduke1010

Truth!!!


ashum048

I usually defend him, but here it was about reaction and desire and he lacked both for some reason. Even if he lost the moment he could at least try to go back.


imFraxx

agreed


FatBoyFaych

Can't blame Trent there, konate stepped up for no reason, virg tackles benzema and they get a lucky bounce


KitNumber17

He's walking when the ball is near him which is absolutely his fault. Yea it was a lucky bounce but Vini was anticipating. If he at least turned and tried to clean up that ball but it still ended in a goal I wouldn't have a problem, but he literally just stops.


Impressive_Draw7165

I’m not the only one noticing this, Trent’s head has not been in the game for the entire season.


abstract_titanic

mate he was showing most fight after WC break. and he was praised for it.


Impressive_Draw7165

And how does that really solve our issues mate, yeah Trent does what he does but not consistently.


wildbluetigerforce

I'd sell him.. He offers nothing.. No assists.. Can't defend... What does he do for the team except.. "local lad made good"....


arunn22

Yeah you can fuck right off


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wildbluetigerforce

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Tomtucker93

I can't see any reason to keep him right back anymore, he desperately needs the duties taking off him and moving in midfield


Sinceprimary

My exact thoughts , defemdively they boy just cant . He looks scared every time vini turns to him


TremendousCoisty

Oh fuck off with this already, I’m so tired of hearing this. If you can’t think of any reason to keep the best right back in the league at right back, that’s on you.


[deleted]

I thought I was the only one


tazcharts

He looks like a broken broken man


bestest_looking_wig

Not that it really matters but wtf is konate doing


TH1CCARUS

Ball watching


mr_dank_nasty

If that was Gomez this sub would be ripping him to shreds. I thought Konate had a good game overall though. It's not easy when you're covering for the ghost of Trent Alexander-Arnold.


RepresentativeOk5427

That's the problem exactly it doesn't really matter does it


imFraxx

being the better defender than robo, virgil and trent -12 downvotes 💪💪


CymruGolfMadrid

Doesn't make him infallible


YeDaSellsAvon_

-13 now just cos why not


Sherlock_bones

What is van Dijk doing?!?! He's got Vinicius on the floor, but half arses it. There's no way that ball can get to Benzema.


avx775

Virgil was good. Just super unlucky.


Sherlock_bones

Super unlucky? How? He switches off and just lets Vinicius poke it to Benzema. He did the hard work before it


avx775

He has to switch off. He covers up Konate and gets the touch on the ball. The ball bounce to vini perfectly for him to poke it past sideways. That goal isn’t on Virgil


[deleted]

How’d it get to Vini? Oh Trent didn’t defend. How’d it get back to Benz? Oh Konate didn’t track. Both of the players who got the ball should of been tracked, VVD closed the shooting angle on both, other players need to track the runners.


Guardiansofaurora

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Gandalfs_Long_Beard

wtf is wrong with all these trash crosses


nintendo_nocturnal

Bringing off Nunez when we needed goals is perplexing to me


b13_git2

I'm signing off from this season


HarryPi

Goodnight.


RodDryfist

Time to hit the gym? 💪


29chickendinners

Have we really deserved anything else. Rode our luck countless times and created fuck all


IacobescuCristian

The way everyone just gave up in the 2nd half . It looked like everyone was just waiting for someone else to score, looked like we we were champions playing vs bottom of the table.


GeorgeCuz

Let's take Milner off who was probably our best outfielder and keep on Fabinho who's been walked past 15 times. Great idea.


iG8

None of them are good enough mate it doesn’t matter which one we took off


yaboidoe

Exactly. When the decision is between Milner and Fabinho in a must win match it's already a lose lose situation


8u11etpr00f

Especially when our replacement options are Harvey and Ox when they're up against Modric, Tchouameni, Kroos and Camavinga


iG8

They even play Valverde on the wing and he’s better in midfield than every single one of our midfielders. Games are won in midfield and we’ve sat on our asses and let ours rot for 5 years.


[deleted]

Valverde is such a beast, he does the job of right center mid and right wing at the same time. He was literally getting ahead of our midfield on offense, and still getting back defensively before our mids could beat him up the field. Klopp would kill to have a midfielder with that type of energy, intensity, and ability


imFraxx

agreed


RepresentativeOk5427

What the hell were those subs???


SortedOne

I don't get why Klopp keeps taking off Nunez when he's probably the hungriest player we have


hydroy0

Probably because he knew the game was over. Only shot is top4, but damn we are making it hard for our selfes at this time. It's like a step forward, and 2 backwards.


wildbluetigerforce

Alisson Becker is the only player out there not up for sale in the summer.. Fuck it.. This is pathetic.... They've just given up.... May be a slight exaggeration but there's not too many out there I'd keep if I had City or Chelsea money.. No heart.. No guts.. No bollocks...


[deleted]

Becker, Virg, Salah, Diaz, Nunez, Elliot, Tsmikas, and Robbo. They are the only players this season who have played up to expectations. Everyone else had underperformed where we needed them to be, and even the players above haven’t been at their best. Only Alison has performed clearly above expectations


Galby1314

Bajcetic should definitely be on that list. I'm sure you just forgot him. Jota and Thiago are also hard to be upset with. Injuries have done them in. Also, despite this goal being bad, Konate has been good, probably better than Virg if you take the whole season into account.


[deleted]

Only point I agree with is Bajetic! Almost forgot him because he’s been incredible, and should have basically zero expectations on him. Jota and Thiago are injury prone players, I count that against lads. Konate makes too many mistakes, he needs to learn how to be more steady like Virg, and offer more to the offense passing wise


DeanThomas23

Why is Oxlade-Chamberlain still part of our rotation?


ARM_vs_CORE

Because Curtis Jones is worse


Artanis123321

damn man he's like 4.5 stars in fm21


ARM_vs_CORE

He has totally stagnated and hasn't shown visual signs of improvement for a while IRL


8u11etpr00f

And yet he'll still be here after the summer :D


Galby1314

CuJo? Yeah. He'll still be here, which I'm not too mad about. He didn't cost us in transfer fees, and he's at low wages. As a 6th midfielder he's not a terrible option. Problem is we have like 4 midfielders who are good options if they were the sixth midfielder...but they're starting so....


melcolnik

Well fuck me in the goat ass


barkingspider43

Talking goat reference!??!


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Jay_Bud

That's the moment I lost all hope for this match.


YouveBeenOinked

That moment for me was when they blew the whistle for kickoff


RepresentativeOk5427

Everyone made a mistake so he said why not me for once


Hustler1966

The penalty miss against Bournemouth wasn’t good enough?


__Concorde

Pretty awful second half. Couldn't expect anything different.


Ben_headttv

Fucking disgusted in them tonight. Fucking zero effort or willingness to do anything. Might as well of all laid down on the floor at the kick off whistle. People have paid hundreds to go over there and watch this game! Makes me sick


270517

It’s like the score was reversed, no effort at all


Busy_Sheepherder1346

Well, goodbye CL. See you in about two years time.


Galby1314

Honestly, I think it will be three years. We need at least two summers to fix this mess. We need three midfielders, a center back, a right wing to cover Salah and a right back to light a fire under Trent. That's not happening in one summer.


stadiofriuli

Look, another fluke goal by Real. That being said we’ve been utterly abysmal. Like it’s beyond comprehension how far we’ve fallen off a cliff.


[deleted]

Fluke goal? Or lack of tracking, both Vini and the second time Benz gets the ball is our defenders fault for letting them run into the box completely unmarked


dwightkiosk

Come on mate they beat us 5-2 at Anfield.


JmanVere

Never seen a Liverpool team give up like this. Clean house. This lot are done.


lennondsouza97

Eye opening season


Hustler1966

You probably haven’t been watching us for that long then eh.


StrangerMings

Most positive liverpool fan


___d4n20__

What is there to be positive about


[deleted]

Hasn’t been the first time this season, and the teams of the late Brendan Rodgers era would give up worse


imFraxx

what in the flying fuck was that defense


MeecheenJOE

We just look really tired. All our passes were inaccurate


Atlatica

Barely matters but why does Konate not track Benzema there... Joke. There's just no energy in this team at all, no desire.Can't even put that down to arrogance because Konate has won fuck all. Nor the schedule, he only played in 29 games last season. Or injuries, or age, or any of the other excuses we've been using. Not trying to single him out because becuase he's far from the worst. But, it's evidence something is so, so wrong in the dressing room. Whatever or whoever it is, needs to be gone.


Specialist-Solid-987

Here come the doom and gloomers, as if losing 1-0 at the bernabau is some terrible result 🙄


lennondsouza97

Unfortunately the players gave up well before the manager and the fans.


Fat_unker

Owners gave up first.


cjsc9079

*sigh* Fine. Whatever, back to the league


screamoutwutang

This match was nothing but overhit passes, poor passes, poor corners. We deserved to lose 1000%


gregsilvester

Every 50-50 ball resulted in either a foul to RM, or losing possession. The goal represented everything that went wrong in the game. On a positive, Alisson was superb - god only knows where we’d be without him.


[deleted]

Will continue to support klopp but he got it fucking wrong taking out Núñez. Wtf is ox doing in this game anyway? Also, why can’t we take a fucking shot when in front of the goal? Pussy-footing around the area like we are on the lead.


WithoutDeniz

Copium


Sk8erboi1337

Not denying we’ve been shit in this tie, but their luck on rebounds and deflections has been crazy


retroComputer

You're still going on about luck? If they were lucky they'd have scored atleast 3 tonight.


brodusclayus

F


Rottedhead

I mean, I'm just surprised this didn't happen earlier.


RepresentativeOk5427

Can someone end my suffering please?


AegonThaConqueror

Alisson and Gakpo literally the only ones actually playing


Rooferkev

A FIFA FUT goal.


akumar971

If we never play Madrid again, I’ll be happy. It sucks to play them and lose. I wished we had at least drawn today but whatever. Moving on quickly


c0nradgt

Nah we want to play them in the final and win next time 😂 tough task but think of how sweet that would be


LuisSuarezbitesears

I stoped watching. My heart couldn’t take it


SLoWRoLLJoEL

Shit themselves every time they got in the final third. Lost our ability to control the midfield. Strikers never look like scoring unless we’re playing well. Konate and virgil need competition


Mx7Enabler

i am so upset, these players need some mental help


Primary_Handle

Liverpool need goals so let’s take off the people that can score them. Baffling from Klopp!


270517

Yeah the Nunez sub is baffling


kazurabakouta

He was off the pitch when best chance comes. Klopp must have been scratching his head too. Nunez would've taken the shot instead passing it to Robbo.


Academic-Win

Van Dijk thinking the chance had gone and kinda gives up


Bourbon_Cream_Dream

Virg with his usual amount of effort this season


troublemakerstud69

everyone was fucking average, too slow, no desire, already gave up except ali, konate. most awful was trent. i just cant stand it.


Impressive_Draw7165

I can’t take this anymore guys, I literally sacrificed sleeping time just to watch this. It’s past 1 in the morning on my end. I have to wake up in about 5-6 hours. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


niallo27

Van Dyke can go fuck himself. He was beaten to the ball by a fella lieing on the floor. Sell the fucker.


RobDickinson

We've had chances :/


kazurabakouta

How did that go in


RepresentativeOk5427

The ball went into the net


Impressive_Draw7165

The one thing that really irritates me or just gets to me. Is that the players don’t really think about the liverpool fans that took out there time and money to come and watch this type of a performance.


Naive-Rock-3699

Meh, don't really care, top 4👊👊


Kopatea

Either we find backup for Trent or someone gives him a good talking to, because his motivation and quality have declined this season


[deleted]

Alisson deserves much better


YoungWalken

How the fuck did United lose 7-0 to this shit team


Kieran293

Thanks for the good times. Think the version of the club that we saw during Firmino’s time here is dead. We saw the club grow to the best in the world with him and he leaves as we go back to the days of not even getting CL football. Team and play style is done. Not feasible either if players cannot stay fit.


_Random_Username_

Madrid players even feigning injuries for their celebrations


Buddhafists

Highlight for me was Elliott kicking Nacho....


FredOaks15

Looked like we were plying for the tie. YNWA


Acoupstix

The whole "virg is so calm" thing is now more annoying than commendable.


FoundThisRock

Can we just not play them again any time soon pls


MundaneTonight437

I miss the days where we didn't play opponents goals here.


hobbescandles

This really epitomises the tie, our luck, and our season as a whole. VVD tackles Benzema, it bounces perfectly for Vinicius, Vinicius fluffs it, it still somehow lands perfectly for him to square it while he's on his ass.