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06 Apr 2019 08:19:17
Regarding last night's game -
I don't think I've been as happy to see a player score this season as much as Henderson yesterday. He was absolutely superb last night and you could just see pure, unadulterated joy from every fibre of his being when he celebrated.
I haven't been his biggest fan over the years, largely due to not fully understanding exactly what he does for the team, but there is no question he changed the game last night.
A question for Ed - Henderson looked great making runs into the box, and his timing was excellent - has he ever been considered for this role regularly?
{Ed001's Note - it was his role until injury problems mate.}
1.) 06 Apr 2019 09:34:26
Top class cm. One of the best around. I would say the most underrated too.
Big shout to klopp for starting keita and his tactics down the left.
Couldnt watch the game. Too much pressure but i kept checking in.
2.) 06 Apr 2019 09:43:17
Robbiesline you got to watch it mate it’s part of the ride you’ll back after and think why did I miss that ðŸ‘ðŸ».
3.) 06 Apr 2019 09:55:02
In the 14/ 15 season when Hendo was first made captain he played a very attacking box to box midfield role and was superb. 7 goals and 15 assists that season. His vision for a pass is superb and his runs off the ball are fantastic. Klopp mainly converted him to a deeper role because of injuries, and partially because nobody else in the squad was anywhere near his tactical level of understanding.
4.) 06 Apr 2019 09:55:21
for me, Hendo is one of Top 10 CMs in the PL (and no, it isn't red tinted glasses Ed025). His injuries no doubt has costs him his pace, durability, endurance, but last night of a reminder of what he brings to the team when unleashed.
Fabinho is a better DM than him no doubt, but in the 2-3 years Hendo had played in that role, he has been very good.
I just hope that when claims the PL and CL this season (fingers crossed! ), he'll be given the due recognition as a captain and player.
5.) 06 Apr 2019 10:28:20
Top 5 cms in prem for me.
6.) 06 Apr 2019 10:32:34
And i know longthing. But if we play at night i can never get to sleep afterwards. My body aches as i am literally clenched for 90 mins. i've been through the heart break too many times dude. Last season's final.
That chelsea game. I have never felt so empty after watching a game. I cried after thr ucl final last year but losing tp chelsea left me with a stone in my chest.
But winning the biggun in 2005 balances it out. And the treble season, i was walking on air.
7.) 06 Apr 2019 11:27:33
The way he set his body up to shoot it was never going to miss. Those easy chances though do get missed sometimes usually by players who have started celebrating in their heads before touching the ball. Hendo is reliable and professional. Was always going to score. I also liked the way he was pointing to where he wanted the ball when Firmino looked up.
8.) 06 Apr 2019 12:36:52
Robbieline--I completely agree. I kept flicking between channels and checking the score as I just couldn't take it! But then, as Longthing76 said, I regretted not watching it all the way through. Its part of the ride. I am going to try and watch it all now.
Unless that was the reason we won? Maybe I should keep doing it. this season is messing me up!
9.) 06 Apr 2019 13:25:38
Spot on, MK. People (somne conveniently) forget what a force Hendo was as a CAM in the 13/ 14 and 14/ 15 seasons. He was such a force in both seasons that City were VERY keen on him till he singed his big contract. In fact, I remember a game vs City in the 14/ 15 season at Anfield where he scored a scorcher (Cou got the second in a 2-1 win) and he (and Joe Allen) bossed Yaya Toure and Fernandinho off the pitch that Sunday afternoon.
It is his injuries and change of position (something he did for the team to the detriment of his own game) that has slowed him down which is why he is not as effective as he can be at times. Last night, he was unleashed and people may just see the goal BUT what people did not see prolly, is his awareness.
Notice that he was the ONLY player on the pitch backing up the play when Bobbie chased a lost cause. He recognized the situation and knew that Bobbie could only play the ball across into that space hence broke his neck to get there. It's called game intelligence/ awareness, something his embarrassing detractors know very little about.
27 Aug 2021 03:32:40
Atletico are well-drilled but are otherwise, frankly, a rank average team. They have no outlet to get them up the pitch apart from Carrasco, who is also mediocre. Adrian doing what he did, as well as Salah and Mané showing the world how not NOT to finish, were the only reasons we didn’t smash them 6-0 in the previous encounter.
10 Aug 2021 10:26:18
Zeddicus, no need to be snarky. My opinion is that Liverpool should be targeting among the best players around now. We have an unreal football team, and should be focusing on two additions a year to improve the first team and therefore the squad, with the remaining places given to promising youngsters from the academy. I don’t see any of the names mentioned improving our first team. If we don’t have the money to improve the first team directly, wait and look for future avenues to do so.
10 Aug 2021 08:20:23
If it is financially impossible to sign Saul this summer, we should just leave it. None of the above mentioned (Bowen, Sanches, Aouar) are good enough for us.
06 Aug 2021 15:06:21
Bissouma is a really good player, he would certainly be one I’d target if Saul was just not possible (which it seems is the case) .
06 Aug 2021 14:28:55
Spaceman - The Athletic and TIFO are stocked with Football Manager obsessives who think the entire game revolves around stats and formations. Listening to the guys at TIFO try to analyse football is a painful experience I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Don’t forget they were among the first to attempt to justify Southgate leaving out Trent for the Euros. Ignore their ‘recommendations’.
12 Aug 2022 08:43:31
AW - The fans have had a huge part to play in Barca’s mess, without a doubt. As you say, Barcelona fans are crybabies - possibly the biggest bunch of crybabies in Europe. They would vote out a president without a second thought if that president did not pacify their ridiculous demands. However, I’ve read a number of articles saying Messi was paid £460million by the club over the course of his last 3 seasons at Barca, and that Griezmann’s weekly earnings from Barcelona alone were around €800k. Whatever pressure there was from fans, financial mismanagement on that scale should land directors in jail for a significant period. Astonishingly poor governance. Their downfall will be an enjoyable one.
12 Aug 2022 06:28:00
A simple example of system failure. A hyper-successful generation of players win everything, the fans demand more, one of the best players of all time leverages his position to practically own the club, fans demand more, president placates said player otherwise he’s voted out, president spends without limits otherwise he’s voted out, president tries to make fans happy otherwise he’s voted out. Repeat.
The above said, fans did not force Barcelona to spend nearly half a billion on Coutinho, Dembele and Griezmann.
10 Aug 2022 16:31:21
Flash, why do you assume others with differing opinions are so dense and stupid? Whatever viewpoint Klopp sees the game from, I can say quite confidently that he was wrong to start Firmino at the weekend. It’s nothing to do with the latter not scoring goals or doing flashy tricks, it’s about his increasingly poor showings where he is struggling to do basic things, especially with the ball. Whilst Klopp gets most things right, he makes mistakes like everyone else, most notably when it comes to the faith he retains in some of the players who have brought him success, a number of whom should have been moved on two years ago.
10 Aug 2022 06:05:31
It’s a phenomenal record, as is our general record under Klopp. No one is under any illusion that we are anything other than a superb team, but it does make one wonder what else we might have achieved, and still could, had the team been equipped with just a little bit more.
06 Aug 2022 16:12:27
A poor start from a group of players experienced enough to know better and be fully prepared for opposition like that. I’ve said it for ages, the technical floor of our team is far too distant from its ceiling.
For the first time I can remember, Klopp sounded like an absolute idiot with some of his comments after the game. If he was perhaps a bit more aggressive and proactive in replacing players who have clearly needed replacing for a number of seasons (Keita, Chamberlain, Milner, Henderson, Firmino), we’d actually have everything we need in order to go one further and win the league instead of letting City mop up 4 titles to our 1.