20 Oct 2025 08:31:44
4 losses and the messiah is now the issue not the players?
Walk tall like a mountain when your winning then explode like a volcano when you loose. I was just happy to see a great game tbh. Yes the win is great for us but ill show some class and won't berate the players who get paid thousands to turn up and fall.
Who knows maybe next year
It be UTD saying its our year lol
Anyway peace out.
20 Oct 2025 08:51:42
Don’t think that the general views on here are what most normal fans are thinking reddevil. This is a place for the great unwashed to have their daily dose of therapeutic team bashing.
Those of us with any sense, humility and idea about the game and its nuances are still confident we’ll come good.
You guys got a bit lucky we didn’t have our finishing boots on and took advantage of some poor defending. Fair play. We’ve got no choice but to take it on the chin and move on.
20 Oct 2025 09:13:46
I think people are losing their heads with Slot because of two fundamental problems. 1) He is picking players who are not playing very well. 2) Our midfielders are being told to play like strikers.
We hadn't lost a game until he started dropping Wirtz and Ekitike. With those two on the pitch together we look dangerous. The players who came in for them (Mac Allister and Isak) don't look sharp at all. Salah also does not deserve his place in the team, so Frimpong and Chiesa should be given more chances to start on the right.
Onto the other point, what is going on with our midfield set up? Yesterday we were basically playing a 4-1-5 and this has been a feature since Macca came into the team, as Wirtz is intelligent enough to come looking for the ball. Mac Allister and Szoboszlai were so bloody high up (literally alongside the front 3) that we weren't capitalising on the gaping hole Fernandes and Casemiro left in the middle of the park. After Wirtz and Jones came on it changed the game because both of them came deeper and actually stood in the space. Then both of them turned and drove us forward by running past their non-existent midfield. It was too little too late though.
I am not going to call for the managers head when we're 4th in October and only 4 points off the top, but this next week is huge. We simply have to beat Frankfurt and Brentford. If we don't, I'm not sure Slot will see Christmas. The Jota incident is no doubt weighing heavy on a few of the players and a slow start was to be expected. Grief affects everyone differently. But what it doesn't explain is the tactical decisions from Slot or the baffling team selections.
As a side note, I've hammered Konate all season, so I should praise him when it's earned. He was excellent yesterday and carried the team defensively.
20 Oct 2025 09:46:43
The great unwashed ey. Can you see us over your nose robbo?
20 Oct 2025 09:47:12
Same with Jones, gets a bit of flack and rightly so but made a massive difference when he came on. He also tried to stir an almost silent Kop into supporting the team more.
20 Oct 2025 09:52:35
I back Slot and the process
I still think it’s odd to make subs where we end of up Endo and Jones as our 6/ 8…. or like today’s game we end up with Jones and Wirtz as our 6/ 8.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an elite team make changes in a game that compromises so many key positions on the pitch in order to get as many players forward as possible
It makes me think Slot is chasing results. I’d much prefer attention to performance especially as we’re a new team and trying to build chemistry.
20 Oct 2025 10:14:16
Sorry but Konate was marking Maguire for the last goal.
Not strong enough in the air I’m afraid. A lob cross to the back post for the “slower than a glacier” Maguire should not result in a free header.
Konate is not good enough.
20 Oct 2025 10:23:08
Robbo - the things that really irritates me is that Salah and Mac Allister have capable replacements that are never given the chance. Every game I watch, I know that Mac Allister is going to play poorly and be replaced by Jones around the hour mark who always seems to make much more of an impact. Every game, Salah does absolutely nothing. Every time Chiesa plays, he makes an impact.
In defence I can forgive Slot to some degree (purely looking at selections, not tactics here) because there is no replacement for Konate or Virgil (I'm not sure on throwing Gomez in, personally) .
There are things a blind man can see but every game, Slot does the same thing and I know what's going to happen and lots of us do. It's the sheer bloody mindedness of Slot that is really starting to grate.
20 Oct 2025 10:26:56
My issue with Slot is that I don't think he knows how to play each player.
Let's take yesterday for example. From the few things I know from ManU is that they play counter attacks and that they literally do not have a midfield (yesterday was not the exception) .
If Liverpool decides to play aggresively, he should have played the same tactics as yesterday BUT playing Wirtz instead of Macca and playing Ekitike instead of Isak to exploit the midfield that everyone should know ManU do not have.
If you play more conservative, worrying about counters, then you put the same lineup except for Isak, since Ekitike can press better than Isak and could have been better alongside Szobo on the tip BUT also clearly instruct Macca to hold the double pivot to protect the backline.
Nonetheless, the issue is not only Slot. The players carry a lot of blame too. How come the player that on the ground can get up and just outrun everyone to score? Kerkez has played bad, but yesterday literally he was overload and didn't have any help (i don't know if it was by design) . Van Dijk is not playing at the level he is used to, and I don't if he is affected by Kerkez or viceversa.
Finally, can the team please stop conceding goals from set pieces or follow ups from those set pieces? Now, I'm always expecting the worst whenever there is a set piece against us and I'm tired of it.
20 Oct 2025 10:46:17
Leave it out Robbo. Everybody is entitled to their opinion. What makes you a fountain of wisdom all of a sudden?
Nuances of football? Give me a break.
20 Oct 2025 11:00:33
@Reddevilfan, you thought that was a great game? Maybe cos you won so I can understand that. For me, that was not a great game. Utd are were poor (a midfield with no pace and no legs, for starters) BUT we played so much crap (no press, no midfield shape on/ off the ball) that we made Utd look competent at best, something they most definitely are not. If either team played a team that knew what it was doing, we both get smoked as both teams have been already. That's why our perf. (forget the result) was even more awful than it looks.
As for Slot, Im not Slot out in any way shape or form and won't be. However, he is doing way too many things that people simply do not understand. A manager can do something I disagree with while at the same time, understanding why he did it. That is not what is happening here and it is very painful to watch.
20 Oct 2025 10:31:06
Albert Einstein say Insanity is doing the same thing while expecting different result.
20 Oct 2025 12:49:32
I just don’t understand how all of you can go from the elation of winning the league, then the further elation of the unbelievable transfer window, then 5 wins in a row, beating Arsenal at home etc etc, to the over the top negativity and drivel I’m seeing on this site.
It’s disappointing I get it, nobody likes losing especially at home and especially at home to that lot but it happens. It shouldn’t but it does.
This 4 game run has been a horrible experience for all of us but does it warrant going from ‘it’s so good to be a Liverpool fan right now’ to ‘Slot doesn’t know what he’s doing and should be sacked, Salah should be dropped forever, it’s all doom and gloom, we’ll be lucky to get top 6?’
Not for me. I choose life.