04 Nov 2025 00:26:56
What I enjoyed the most about last match besides the more obvious things about the form of individual players (mo looking like one of the best players in the world again, macca looking closer to his usual self)
Macca celebrating winning a foul after the corner where onana threw him to the floor
Dom engaging in multiple occasions of rubbishhousery and gamesmanship, like he was taking a page out of robbo's playbook
Ekitike's furious and cathartic celebration after his offside goal
The drive to win and close out a game that we saw time and time again last year, even at one up we looked completely in control, two up and you knew it was curtains, we could allow villa to have the ball in our third, not surrender dangerous chances and then get on our bikes to counter with relative ease
To the folks on here saying slot had lost the dressing room, this was definitive proof that you were mistaken.
And Dom ...what a brilliant player. He has all the technical qualities you would want from a top player but more importantly all the intangible ones too. Motm by a country mile.
04 Nov 2025 01:18:26
Thinking about Dom, he received a lot of criticism last season and the season before that he was inconsistent, didn't have enough "output", I hate that phrase by the way lol
I can see Wirtz having a similar trajectory in our team. There's no rush other than expectations.
04 Nov 2025 07:43:31
People getting too excited after the last game…. Let’s be real, we scored because they made mistakes. Real and city are going to be a much tougher tests so if we can get through these unscathed then I might think there is some light at the end of the tunnel. However, at the moment I’m still not convinced.
04 Nov 2025 09:18:09
They made mistakes but this was because of our strategic high press. We created multiple chances because of the press, did you miss those? If we struggled going forward all game and created nothing besides those two goals then you might have a valid point.
04 Nov 2025 09:34:52
Faith, my guess is it's hard for Dom to have consistent output in the final third when he's running full pelt across the pitch all game, he's commented on this before. That he somehow manages to produce quality and workrate from first minute to 90th now is actually insane. The trivela that he hit to Salah in the 80th or so minute was nuts, as were his max effort sprints in the closing stages of the game.
By the same token wirtz having to chase the game so often or drop deep and drive forward to get us up the field means he might be a bit gassed when he gets the ball in the final third in the same phase of play.
04 Nov 2025 09:55:35
"Let’s be real, we scored because they made mistakes. ".
@Chaosengine, and other teams didn't score because we made mistakes under pressure or do things only go one way for you? Btw, that was like the 3rd time they had coughed up the ball against our press so it wasn't like a one off occurrence now, was it?
In addition, we created chances without them passing us the ball either, we defended their long balls and set-pieces and took our chances when they came while shutting them out bar the shot by Rodgers against the post in the first 5 mins, the only dangerous attempt they had.
But let's ignore all the above and just boil down our win to "Well, Villa made mistakes" or my fav, "Villa played into our hands", as if that is the first time Villa have tried to pass the ball out the back.
04 Nov 2025 11:34:46
Ok, would it be preferable to say 'the way Villa play played into our hands'? ?
Villa did make mistakes and it wasn't all down to our press. Martinez had time on the ball before passing it to Salah for the first goal. He wasn't pressed into the mistake. Villa also played through the press a few times early in the game.
I agree with Chaosengine. Madrid and City will have more quality than Villa and we are not the Klopp side that won the League and CL in terms of a controlled press and being defensively sound.
04 Nov 2025 12:34:29
I’m actually a bit concerned about Ekitike’s attitude. There was the stupid celebration against Southampton where he should’ve just pointed to Chiesa and ran straight to him but decided to promote himself instead and now against Villa the aggressive celebration. It looks to me that he’s annoyed at being dropped and is making it all about him.
I hate players celebrating with aggression like that it’s all very petulant and Richarlison to me. I’d much rather a player smile and run to the crowd and his team mates. Scoring a goal is a happy time why would you not smile?
That being said I’m hoping it’s just because of the situation we found ourselves in and he was just saying ‘have that’. We don’t need a player causing issues because he doesn’t play every minute of every game. He’s at one of the biggest clubs in the world it comes with the territory.
04 Nov 2025 13:02:06
We may not be the Klopp side that won the League and CL in terms of a controlled press and being defensively sound but we are the Slot side thay won the League last season in terms of a controlled press and being defensively sound. And we did see hints of that returning when we played against AV.
04 Nov 2025 15:52:24
I wouldn't disagree with you, Dracred.
I will add that we were more solid in midfield and pressed better under Klopp. I was saying, maybe pointlessly, that we haven't suddenly become the title winning side of Klopp.
Or Slot, for that matter.
Where you are right is about it being 'a hint' of returning to last season.
Madrid and City also have more quality than Villa and might be able to pass through us more easily.
05 Nov 2025 01:17:36
We made Real Madrid look average.
Shame we can’t play them in the group stage next season Bradley was going for the treble - Mbappe 2024, Vinicius 2025 and Bellingham 2026.
06 Nov 2025 00:26:39
we scored because of their mistakes? well, I have a great post about this, regarding luck lol
Patrik - Dom is awesome aye. I remember saying in his first season that he has all the tools to excel in a Liverpool midfield. just needed time to adapt and learn from him mistakes,
Lol I feel like I sound like a broken record when talking about the club and our players lol TIME!