03 Nov 2026 16:56:27
Ed001 if we replayed the Arsenal game, what would you do to get us the result. Or do you believe we're just not at the level yet to beat that Arsenal side set up like that?
There's a lot of praise for that Arsenal side but Brighton showed you can get at them at score against them.
{Ed001's Note - if Isak puts some effort in, we would have got a result. That was the main difference, not talking about the penalty either, his all round game is just so poor at the moment.}
03 Nov 2026 19:20:18
Ed001 tryoni grew into the game and it spoke highly to the lad that as soon as he went off, centrally we lost more control and balance. I'm hoping we buy a top midfielder in January and this young lad is given the same grace as Bradley to flourish there.
{Ed001's Note - he was very good, we need to give him plenty of time.}
03 Nov 2026 20:20:57
interesting take on the match Ed01.
I didn't notice that so much re Isak. I thought, probably like most, that Isak wasn't given a lot of supply.
What could he have done to affect the result positively do you think? To make obvious to the untrained eye that is?
{Ed001's Note - make runs.}
03 Nov 2026 21:13:44
Isak will score goals for us for sure, but I don't think a goal mouth predator is the right profile of striker for Liverpool.
03 Nov 2026 21:19:18
Faithinworrks, I think Isak is an all rounder. He just need to trust his body more and actually put in the effort.
03 Nov 2026 22:00:13
Isak has scored 6 PL goals from 8 PL games (7 starts) that's not a bad conversion rate considering he does not take the penalties like Salah did, at Newcastle his highest PL goals in a season was 23 (5 pens), the problem the team has is not giving him more chances to score, Newcastle could provide the service, no reasons why LFC cant. Ekiteke scored 11 PL goals from 28 games last season.
Isak scored 3 PL goals from 14 apps last season, now has circa double the goals from less appearances than last PL season.
The best profile any forward can have is to score goals, scoring goals is the most important commodity in any game of football, if you don't score you don't win a PL game.
03 Nov 2026 22:03:57
Isak on his own is not enough.
We need goals from other players too.
When we have had really good teams in recent years, it is not just one player on his own.
When we had Torres as he had his best season with us, we had goals from Gerrard, Alonso in midfield.
When we had Suarez, Sterling and Sturridge we had 2 of them hitting double figures.
Salah, Mane, Firmino pretty obvious they all chipped in.
Salah in his last good season 24-25 he hit 29 in the league. Luis Diaz got 13 goals. Gakpo got 10. Diogo R. I. P. he got 6 and so did Szoboszlai. Nunez and Macca got 5 each.
So unless Isak has a player in the mould of Suarez to play off there's just not been the input yet from Wirtz and Barcola. Wirtz may never be that guy. When we had Coutinho he would still score.
Barcola is potentially a very good player but asking him to be something he's not is just not going to happen.
Iraola has to find the right formula.
03 Nov 2026 23:10:27
The issue against Arsenal, in my opinion, was playing into their hands; they're more than happy to sit back and defend for 70 minutes. That's why they've got 17 CB's. We shouldn't have been afraid to give up a little possession in the second half for the sake of stretching them out, creating some space and catching them on the counter, like we did against Brighton, CB's do not like backpedalling, something Brighton actually showed themselves when they got 3 against the gooners. Brighton were also high pressing and aggressively looking for turnovers in the final 3rd which was hugely beneficial, but something I thnk we're still a ways off mastering.
We didn't play to our strengths, for example, Barcola, lightning quick, does anybody remember how many lightning quick runs he made in behind? I've a short memory but I don't think the lad was at a full stretch at any point in the game. There was one or two moments early in the first half, I think that was it, I only really remember him trying to beat settled defenders head on after that, something he's not great at.
Isak's best asset is his timing, particularly when he's arriving into the box, how much of that did we see? Not enough. You put those 2 things together, and the ideal scenario is actually Barcola bombing down the wing, receiving an early ball on the run in behind, preferably down the right-hand side and looking for Isaks run into the box to deliver an early cross. How many times did that happen?
Sure Barcola is dangerous form the left side too of course, and did manage to find pockets of space at times, but they were those little tiny pockets you get on jeans that live inside a bigger pocket, you know the one that nobody knows what it's used for except that one time you got 2 quid stuck in it and never managed to get it back out so your misses ended up throwing that pair out because you can hear it banging around in the washing machine every time she does a load and it was doing her head in but I really miss them jeans, they were favourite pair, and they don't even make them anymore.
What was the question?
03 Nov 2026 23:19:00
Andoni in his press conference tonight said he has not made a complaint about the referee on sunday, his reply when asked was " i have not got any time to make a complaint "
Well Done Andoni telling them to shove it where the Sun doesn't shine? they have always purposefully ignored LFC, you ignore them.
Gravenberch injury may be a blessing in disguise, for adding a midfielder in the winter transfer window, our last notable winter signing was VVD. Gravenberch has been out of sorts but an out of sorts Ryan is still far better than prime McConnell.
03 Nov 2026 23:59:47
I thought we signed Gakpo. And Diaz in the winter?
04 Nov 2026 05:57:19
Along with mancity for cheating we need to ban Arsenal for being anti-football club. Like every game 30-40% of time ball is out of the field.
04 Nov 2026 07:04:55
Just like some thought Lallana, Lambert and Balotelli would replace the goals scored by Suarez, We spunked money on Bracola, Isak and Wirtz to replace the numbers by Salah. Unfortunately it is not happening atm. If wirtz was even 10% of what coutinho did for us, we would be competing for the league by now.
04 Nov 2026 07:25:51
he could also have done more with the chances he had, Arsenal players went to ground straight whenever it looked like he was about to take a shot, could have just faked it. i mean either way, get the goalkeeper to work at least.