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Liverpool v Everton. 28th Jan at 20.00.

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Can we narrow it down to one scapegoat each and team it up with your preferred sauce on a breakfast roll please.

I'll go first.

PIENAAR and HP brown sauce.

BARRY
An absolute shambles of a performance from him containing no redeeming features whatsoever. Passing diabolical.

DADDIES KETCHUP
Yummy on bacon.
 

Butters mater, you need to stop tip toeing around a subject and tell it like it is!!

Well, they were mate. They were atrocious. Jagielka, Alcaraz and Pienaar looked at best about 20% fit, while Barry didn't get out of a jog all game. He was Osman-esque in midfield. He's been brilliant this season, but in this, the most important of games... dear oh dear.
 
It was a ridiculous game. We had amazing possession stats, amazing passing stats (and it wasn't like that was only amongst the back four) away from home and deservedly lost 4-0. Yes, we could have scored 3 or 4, but so could they 3 or 4 more (and their chances were better than ours, 7-0 is not unrealistic given the game). That's weird. It doesn't happen and I know of no other game where a team has dominated so much of those stats and yet felt so outplayed.

In that, I feel we might not be far away. You can guarantee Liverpool would prefer to have outpassed and outpossessed us. We missed Distin's pace and Coleman's ability to expose their left side when they push too far forward. But we're not far away.

I am not even sure I was that bothered Lukaku went off. We can't rely on him - great player as he is - at the moment.

So it was weird.
 
We were truly dreadful, no two ways about it. RS thoroughly deserved their win and defended superbly - it could have been 8-0. How many shots did we have on target? About three, and only one of those really troubled Mignolet. We fart about too much in front of goal for my liking - too many passes out wide when a shot might be on the cards, especially at 4-0 down ffs. Even speculatively into a packed defence might result in a richocet into the net/to another blue shirt/out for a corner. Only Mirallas shone imo, although McGeady looks promising. If we'd been at full strength things might have been different. We are having a nightmare re injuries to key players lately. I really feel for Lukaku and Oviedo, and send my best wishes to both if they happen to be reading this from their sick beds. We will be back though. That's a lesson learned. Martinez is a great manager and one day his moment of revenge against RS will come. Fourth spot might be difficult now, but maybe 5th is still within reach.
 

Naismith is a disgrace, worst player at the club always said that makes Osman look like Xavi.

and to think we could of flogged him for peanuts and got someone like piatti in for £2 mil as a good squad player.

Hardly his fault he was put up there in those circumstances, but I'm inclined to agree. He's not good enough and should be applying his trade for a team towards the bottom half of the league.
 
It was a ridiculous game. We had amazing possession stats, amazing passing stats (and it wasn't like that was only amongst the back four) away from home and deservedly lost 4-0. Yes, we could have scored 3 or 4, but so could they 3 or 4 more (and their chances were better than ours, 7-0 is not unrealistic given the game). That's weird. It doesn't happen and I know of no other game where a team has dominated so much of those stats and yet felt so outplayed.

In that, I feel we might not be far away. You can guarantee Liverpool would prefer to have outpassed and outpossessed us. We missed Distin's pace and Coleman's ability to expose their left side when they push too far forward. But we're not far away.

I am not even sure I was that bothered Lukaku went off. We can't rely on him - great player as he is - at the moment.

So it was weird.

Good post.
 

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