22 Dec 2021 19:00:23
Our squads players aren’t the best we know that but i’m disappointed with that team it’s a trophy we’re favourites for why not go full strength and rotate for Leeds. A semi final on the line! I’d be asking questions if a trophy isn’t delivered this season.

22 Dec 2021 19:10:27
Rotate for Leeds? And if we don’t get 3 points that day we’re 7 behind city? I’m surprised beck isn’t playing left back to help out kostas with robbos ban. Also abit underwhelmed Gordon is on the bench so neco plays who is probably better suited to the rw role but he’s not the talent that Gordon is.

22 Dec 2021 19:15:06
Leeds has to be the priority and the best place to play young players is in these competitions, league and champions league always take priority over domestic cups. If we be lose tonight it’s not going to have any bearing on the rest of the season.

22 Dec 2021 19:48:49
There’s a semi final on the line. Mane, Trent and Salah could have played. If Minamino Neco etc can’t come in for a team playing awfully at home in the league i don’t know why we have them.

22 Dec 2021 20:12:51
I had tickets for tonight with my son fall through this morning. Looking at the game so far it’s actually softened the blow as the boy was devastated.

22 Dec 2021 20:14:00
The rewards for winning the League Cup are the young lads who need experience getting game time and the opportunity to learn without having to worry about a win being vital.

If it stands Williams and Morton and Koumetio and Woltman etc for next season (or this season in the PL or CL for that matter) then that’s the real benefit for the club.

22 Dec 2021 20:36:27
No the reward is the trophy. None of those players have a long term future at the club. There’s a loan system if they need games. Where are all the young players we threw away cup games for the last few years now? When the final is on in a few months no one will care Koumetio got a start.

22 Dec 2021 20:40:52
Zagreb get s grip. If Liverpool win the League cup but lose the league and CL it will have been a very poor season.

22 Dec 2021 20:50:52
But it would be a better season than not winning anything again. Klopps 3rd last season, we need to start picking up more trophies.

22 Dec 2021 20:52:37
Mark that would mean every season under Klopp bar 2 have been very poor.

22 Dec 2021 21:32:56
I have to say that I disagree Zagreb. Player welfare comes first and giving experience to youngsters of playing for their club at Anfield trumps playing games in Division 2 or the Scottish premier league.

To state that none of them has a future at Liverpool says a bit more about the fans than the players imho.

22 Dec 2021 21:41:22
Need to sack him the Zagreb. He's absolutely rubbish. Get rid. Only 4 trophies. Man's a fraud.

22 Dec 2021 21:42:43
Cheers Liverpool. Boys devastated again 🤣.

22 Dec 2021 22:00:42
Say you have no footballing knowledge without saying you have no footballing knowledge.

22 Dec 2021 22:04:42
How's that for you Zagreb? Don't be handing your C. V in anytime soon mate 😀😀.

22 Dec 2021 22:08:48
Say you’re on a high horse or live in an ivory tower without saying you’re on a high horse or live in an ivory tower 🙄.

22 Dec 2021 22:10:41
Well we got our semi final and rested players for Leeds, win win! It would be good if we can win the league cup again it has been too long since we have won one of the domestic cups, and I think this would be great for the team morale in that if we were to win it all of the squad would have played a big role.

22 Dec 2021 22:30:34
Rested players, got through, but of excitement for the fans. Job done.

22 Dec 2021 22:46:29
I think Zagreb needs to support another team. If you want a team that takes the league cup seriously then it will invariably be a team that has no chance in the league or champions league.
It’s a chance to blood youngsters alongside a few fringe players and the odd first teamer.
As the game panned out with Taki getting an injury time equaliser and Kelleher the penalty hero I’d say it’s job done. Got through and given some fringe players and kids a boost.
That being said I wouldn’t have minded if we’d lost tonight we have to think of the bigger picture and risking too many first team players in the middle of a C.V. crisis to get to a Carabau Cup semi is just ludicrous.

22 Dec 2021 23:19:21
None of them players have a future at our club😆😆. fans are nuts these days, immensely proud of both the players and the brilliant anfield fans tonight.

22 Dec 2021 23:41:40
The fact that Klopp made the substitutions in the 2nd half that he did shows he takes the competition a bit more seriously than many fans think.
We've drawn Arsenal in the semi which is about the most favourable draw we could have asked for. I don't know if the LC semis are still a 2 game affair or whether it's 1 nowadays, but that's a good opportunity of a Wembley final.
Arsenal will put out a strong team for that, I reckon Klopp will match them, depending on availability during these difficult times.

22 Dec 2021 23:58:57
JK - missed a beaut! or hopefully I misread your comment and you did actually make it but your boy didn't!?

to the OP - I just can't agree at all with the sentiment that you go all out in the competition. There is a reason City had won it so many years in a row and that is because they have the best depth and can rotate, LIKE EVERY CLUB DOES IN THIS COMPETITION, with the least impact on their top-end performance. You want to know how important this competition is? How about when we had our top team off for the CLub World Cup and the Coconut cup decided that we should still have our game scheduled within 24 hours of our CWC match? yeah that shows you right there how much esteem this competition is held in by its own organizers.

Winning this trophy is a bonus and undoubtedly brings positive benefits if you can win it. But I won't be losing any sleep at all over the results in this comp and rather just look forward to seeing fellahs we don't normally see go out there and do themselves and the club proud. Klopp probably did go too heavy with the kids in the first half, but it's a learning experience. Not a crying opportunity heehee

top team here and then rotate for Leeds, in the prem, where every dropped point is a nail in the coffin for FSG? lol, you must be having a laugh mate.

23 Dec 2021 01:25:08
Fans excellent tonight. James Maddison posted on his Instagram after the game Anfield best atmosphere in England.

{Ed0666's Note - I bet those Leicester fans loved reading that 😂

23 Dec 2021 04:21:45
I live on a high horse in an ivory tower. 😎.

23 Dec 2021 07:05:54
That made lol thunderbird 🤣.

23 Dec 2021 08:05:45
Maddison is thicker than a Boxing Day turd in fairness to him.

23 Dec 2021 08:56:06
Faith me and my boy both missed it. I made the cardinal sin of telling him last week the tickets were secured and we were heading up to the game as part of an Xmas treat. Him being disappointed yesterday morning is an understatement so I’m now in back pedalling mode trying to get tickets with the likely option of paying out for hospitality to make a 12 year old happy.

Thunderbird nice reply 🤣 👏. I don’t suppose you have any VIP tickets in that Tower of yours?