19 Mar 2026 11:21:28.
Let’s see if we’ve turned our 6480th corner this season or if we have another horrendous performance at the weekend. Nothing about Slot convinces me anything will change from our regular pattern. I don’t particularly care if he wins the CL, I still feel a real change is needed. It was all about the Anfield atmosphere yesterday and nothing to do with any profound change or tweak Slot made.
The contrast in his character is so bizarre, changed from cool and calm to doing roly polys on the touchline, I’d normally enjoy the passion, but there’s just something about him and his excuses for everything that you just can’t warm to.
He’s like the fat kid who you don’t really want to play with, but you need someone to go in goal.
19 Mar 2026 12:08:49
The stadium was rapturous and at boiling point throughout the game. Surely, Slot would have fed into that as much as the players; he even said so himself after the game. Why would that strike you as 'bizarre'? Or do you think that's an excuse too?
Also, saying that it was simply about the Anfield atmosphere and nothing to do with any changes he made, you do know that he was the one who set the team out as a 4-4-2 with the box midfield, and that was actually kind of important to us winning the game? A lot of factors came into play in that performance last night, but to say that Slot had nothing to do with it and was just free-riding the atmosphere and coasting to a win is a lot more bizarre than the behaviour you are describing.
19 Mar 2026 12:42:12
When we play bad it's never Slot's fault.
When we play well it's well done, Slot, as he set the team up.
19 Mar 2026 12:42:35
PB, did the players step up and put in a huge performance? You can't have it both ways, mate. You can't say they're at fault for the poor performances and it's not Slot's fault, then when we put in a great performance it's all Slot.
19 Mar 2026 12:51:45
Call me hard-nosed, but I don't believe teams just "turn corners" after one game. Slot got a response out of them, but that's not sustainable. You can only improve things in the long-term by changing the coaching, training, and tactics. All of these things are still flawed at Slot's Liverpool, so my position on Slot remains unchanged.
19 Mar 2026 13:19:10
Weird bunch on here. We just won a game to get us through to the CL quarters, and you are arguing about who is not responsible for that win.
19 Mar 2026 13:47:59
It's a combination of both Slot and players who are responsible for that performance last night, and every performance that came before it. It's not binary.
Last night the players fed off the crowd, but, equally, the crowd fed off the players.
We will probably have to wait for PSG at home before we get the same energy from both players and support.
19 Mar 2026 13:53:57
Bob, I counted 6481. I propose you check your numbers, mate.
19 Mar 2026 14:02:30
It made a nice change watching us and actually enjoying it. That's rare this season. Hopefully, this continues, but I'm not holding my breath.
19 Mar 2026 14:50:43
Where did I say that it was all Slot? I clearly said 'A lot of factors came into play in that performance last night', if you had cared to read my post, I never said that all the credit should be attributed to Slot, I simply said that he should take some of the credit for doing his job and setting the team up tactically for success, he played his part in the game and wasn't a free rider surfing on the crest of an Anfield groundswell like bob le ponge claimed. That is the precise point that I take issue with.
When we play badly, I have never exonerated Slot from blame, just as I have never exempted the players or Hughes/Edwards from blame. I think it's a combination of all of these things, rather than insisting that Slot doesn't have a clue and he's solely responsible for everything good or bad.
In that sense I feel that the quip directed at me is pretty unfair, JK, seeing as I have never argued either of those things.
19 Mar 2026 14:59:01
Slot is the manager, so he has an input on good and bad performances, as do the players.
Why do we always have to find someone to blame? Sometimes things don't go your way in life; it just is what it is. I hate this Americanised blame culture we live in today, where everyone wants to feel aggrieved, and everyone wants to blame everyone else for it.
We were great last night for a number of reasons. Why we haven't been great all season is for a number of reasons, too. It's football. It's not linear, and you don't always get what you want, but we love it anyway. At least we used to.
19 Mar 2026 15:48:20
That's all I've been saying all season, Rome.
19 Mar 2026 15:36:20
"I feel that the quip directed at me is pretty unfair"
Pat calm down mate, you're happy enough to challenge other posters comments so don't get all triggered and offended when someone challenges yours.
Its a site for debate mate. Don't fall into Beckers territory where you're forcing your opinion on everyone and then leaving the site every few weeks when he spits his dummy out.
19 Mar 2026 16:06:51
There were no major tweaks to the setup yesterday. Anybody who thinks otherwise is clutching at straws for the sake of backing Slot. We played a poor side from a second-rate league, who have an abysmal away record in Europe and were happy to play for a draw. They've lost 13/15 away games and qualified in position 20/24. We literally couldn't have got an easier draw. Yesterday was nothing more than what should be expected. The problem is the season's been so poor that it makes a good performance against a rubbish team look 10 times better than it was.
If we go out and do the same to PSG, then you've got something to write home about, but for now, the Slot fanboys need to get a grip and assess the situation for what it was. If we do turn a corner, I'll have no problem giving credit where it's due, but taking 1 good performance against a team that didn't show up as some sort of marker for major improvement is a wildly out of context analysis.
19 Mar 2026 16:15:28
I actually liked Slot all animated, jumping up now, kicking every ball, because that's how the fans usually are. We live it. Hopefully that's the catalyst to just go at teams from now on. We don't wanna wait 20 mins for a shot, etc.
19 Mar 2026 16:42:55
I'm perfectly okay with debate, but when you attribute opinions to me that I have never expressed, am I supposed to take it on the chin like a good sport?
19 Mar 2026 17:01:16
Pat, please point out where I have attributed opinions to you that you have never expressed.
I think you're getting confused with the comment below mine that says PB.
19 Mar 2026 17:09:29
Chewy, I'm not sure anybody on here was saying that it means we've turned a corner or made huge strides towards a major improvement. We're simply expressing enjoyment of an enjoyable game. Nobody said anything about blowing Brighton away (though Brighton haven't exactly offered a huge challenge this year, probably the best game Salah has played all season was against Brighton in the cup a few weeks ago).
I would disagree with your suggestion that Slot didn't make any tweaks. If you notice the positions the players took up on and off the ball, we didn't have huge gaping holes between the lines in or out of possession, which made pressing so much easier when we lost the ball.
Salah didn't start out so wide, which helped him immensely. Dom and Wirtz were always offering an option for Macca and Grav.
I think it's perfectly fine for us all to have opinions, but if all it takes for somebody to be called a 'Slot fanboy' is to suggest that he does good things sometimes and not so good things other times, then I guess I'm a toxically positive Slot fanboy. I still don't get why it's wrong to support the coach while he's still in charge of the team, though. I want the team to do well whoever is in charge, and the suggestion that all we need to do is dump the coach and everything will be rosy is just not something I can subscribe to.
19 Mar 2026 18:02:17
I'm not here to argue about whether people are entitled to have opinions or if we have the right to label each other in respect to our particular stance on a subject. That's a given. No idea why you're even trying to steer the conversation in that direction. We're here to talk football, so like I said, address the situation for what it is.
You're nitpicking, and completely ignoring 90% of my comment, which was about the fact that we played one of the worst teams left in the competition, who didn't really show up, have a shocking away record, played most of the game without their main man, didn't have a single fan in the stadium, and would have been delighted with a draw...
Do you really think Salah playing 6 feet to his left outweighed all of that?
20 Mar 2026 05:50:28
I'm guessing you couldn't point it out then, Pat.
This day and age it's easy to get offended if you're constantly looking to be offended.