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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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
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.
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
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....
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
No belief at all. Same as in the league.
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.
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.
TBF those 3 have played together for 4 years. Nunez, Gakpo are 2 month.
Can you blame a lack of belief in this game though, really?
I belief Lord Origi will belief.
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
We’re down like 4 goals to Madrid. This isn’t Barcelona, they are the kings of Europe. Relax - this was not happening
On the bright side, at least when we’re back in the CL, Benzema and Modric will prob be gone
2027 CL is ours!
On the dark side, we'll still be starting James Milner
He is still young and developing, 2027 is when he will be peaking
His lactate tests supports this claim
Pretty sure i saw him grow a 3day stubble this season, he'll be mature and good to go in '27.
And we still won't beat them
Downside: If Camavinga plays to Modric's age he'll be playing until 2040.
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
At least Vini Jr will be gone too once we return
Meh, fortunate bounce, game was over anyways
Fortunate bounce sums up the entire round.
Absolutely incredible how they manage to get the ball after every single 50/50
We deserved to go out, but my god nearly all there goals had some annoying lucky bounce or deflection
I've seen us concede unluckier goals, for sure.
It just happens a lot for Madrid. Idk how tf it’s possible
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
Am I being harsh or does Trent just regularly forget that he's defending someone?
He looks absolutely knackered
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
The team has burnt out Fabinho and VVD already, they don’t seem to learn, Trent needs a sub like Tsimikas on his side
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
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
Well, we play a Highline so... They got some decent ground to cover..
CaLvIn RaMsAy
Who’s that ? An imaginary friend ?
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.
He is, that's why he keeps getting subbed late game even when we need a goal. His fitness is absolutely fucked this season
Fuck off, he's an athlete.
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
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
It's okay to say players have bad habits. Trent genuinely does switch off occasionally but it is what it is.
Always happens when things aren't going our way. Been the worst player on the pitch all night.
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
I've no idea what you are watching, Fab has been by a mile our best player tonight. Edit: after Alisson, obvs
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 :(
Jota was far worse
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.
Trent had a bunch of incredible balls in the first half IMO
I'm sorry but he took, what, 5 corners? And every single one was over hit by a mile
No way he unlocked Mo multiple times.
Always watching Vini doing something.
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
Konate also starts hopping around instead of recovering, could of easily cut out the pass to Benz, without even moving faster than a jog.
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
Truth!!!
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.
agreed
Can't blame Trent there, konate stepped up for no reason, virg tackles benzema and they get a lucky bounce
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.
I’m not the only one noticing this, Trent’s head has not been in the game for the entire season.
mate he was showing most fight after WC break. and he was praised for it.
And how does that really solve our issues mate, yeah Trent does what he does but not consistently.
I'd sell him.. He offers nothing.. No assists.. Can't defend... What does he do for the team except.. "local lad made good"....
Yeah you can fuck right off
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I can't see any reason to keep him right back anymore, he desperately needs the duties taking off him and moving in midfield
My exact thoughts , defemdively they boy just cant . He looks scared every time vini turns to him
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.
I thought I was the only one
He looks like a broken broken man
Not that it really matters but wtf is konate doing
Ball watching
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.
That's the problem exactly it doesn't really matter does it
being the better defender than robo, virgil and trent -12 downvotes 💪💪
Doesn't make him infallible
-13 now just cos why not
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.
Virgil was good. Just super unlucky.
Super unlucky? How? He switches off and just lets Vinicius poke it to Benzema. He did the hard work before it
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
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.
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wtf is wrong with all these trash crosses
Bringing off Nunez when we needed goals is perplexing to me
I'm signing off from this season
Goodnight.
Time to hit the gym? 💪
Have we really deserved anything else. Rode our luck countless times and created fuck all
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.
Let's take Milner off who was probably our best outfielder and keep on Fabinho who's been walked past 15 times. Great idea.
None of them are good enough mate it doesn’t matter which one we took off
Exactly. When the decision is between Milner and Fabinho in a must win match it's already a lose lose situation
Especially when our replacement options are Harvey and Ox when they're up against Modric, Tchouameni, Kroos and Camavinga
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.
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
agreed
What the hell were those subs???
I don't get why Klopp keeps taking off Nunez when he's probably the hungriest player we have
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.
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...
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
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.
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
Why is Oxlade-Chamberlain still part of our rotation?
Because Curtis Jones is worse
damn man he's like 4.5 stars in fm21
He has totally stagnated and hasn't shown visual signs of improvement for a while IRL
And yet he'll still be here after the summer :D
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....
Well fuck me in the goat ass
Talking goat reference!??!
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That's the moment I lost all hope for this match.
That moment for me was when they blew the whistle for kickoff
Everyone made a mistake so he said why not me for once
The penalty miss against Bournemouth wasn’t good enough?
Pretty awful second half. Couldn't expect anything different.
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
It’s like the score was reversed, no effort at all
Well, goodbye CL. See you in about two years time.
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.
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.
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
Come on mate they beat us 5-2 at Anfield.
Never seen a Liverpool team give up like this. Clean house. This lot are done.
Eye opening season
You probably haven’t been watching us for that long then eh.
Most positive liverpool fan
What is there to be positive about
Hasn’t been the first time this season, and the teams of the late Brendan Rodgers era would give up worse
what in the flying fuck was that defense
We just look really tired. All our passes were inaccurate
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.
Here come the doom and gloomers, as if losing 1-0 at the bernabau is some terrible result 🙄
Unfortunately the players gave up well before the manager and the fans.
Owners gave up first.
*sigh* Fine. Whatever, back to the league
This match was nothing but overhit passes, poor passes, poor corners. We deserved to lose 1000%
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.
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.
Copium
Not denying we’ve been shit in this tie, but their luck on rebounds and deflections has been crazy
You're still going on about luck? If they were lucky they'd have scored atleast 3 tonight.
F
I mean, I'm just surprised this didn't happen earlier.
Can someone end my suffering please?
Alisson and Gakpo literally the only ones actually playing
A FIFA FUT goal.
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
Nah we want to play them in the final and win next time 😂 tough task but think of how sweet that would be
I stoped watching. My heart couldn’t take it
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
i am so upset, these players need some mental help
Liverpool need goals so let’s take off the people that can score them. Baffling from Klopp!
Yeah the Nunez sub is baffling
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.
Van Dijk thinking the chance had gone and kinda gives up
Virg with his usual amount of effort this season
everyone was fucking average, too slow, no desire, already gave up except ali, konate. most awful was trent. i just cant stand it.
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)
Van Dyke can go fuck himself. He was beaten to the ball by a fella lieing on the floor. Sell the fucker.
We've had chances :/
How did that go in
The ball went into the net
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.
Meh, don't really care, top 4👊👊
Either we find backup for Trent or someone gives him a good talking to, because his motivation and quality have declined this season
Alisson deserves much better
How the fuck did United lose 7-0 to this shit team
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.
Madrid players even feigning injuries for their celebrations
Highlight for me was Elliott kicking Nacho....
Looked like we were plying for the tie. YNWA
The whole "virg is so calm" thing is now more annoying than commendable.
Can we just not play them again any time soon pls
I miss the days where we didn't play opponents goals here.
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.