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Just another day at the office !! At least Moyseee has kept his ridiculously bad record at Anfield intact !! Today was the first time Everton have scored at Anfield in 5 matches !! Cracking goal though.

Nice to get a win over our neighbours. First half was good, Grav and Ekitike took their goals well. It is good to see that other players are scoring goals apart from Salah. Last season we were over reliant on Salah. I'm sure Isak will begin to chip in goals soon.

2nd half was average and I thought he we fekin go again when they got a goal back. Glad it stayed 2-1 for once and not needing a last minute winner.

I'd rest majority midweek, give other lads a chance.

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sat Sep 20, 2025 12:52 pm wrote:

redshade » Fri Sep 19, 2025 9:32 pm wrote:So we host our neighbours here for a tough encounter. They've had a decent start to the season and are buzzing with Grealish.

Expecting a edgy match and hoping we seal this one convincingly.

Hopefully Isak to get his first goal.

Early days yet but City face Arsenal and if they win we could be 6 points ahead of Arsenal.

Your last sentence is the key to our entire season imo. We need to create a gap.
To be fair to Arsenal as it stands they are only 3 points behind us [which is nothing with 95% of the season to go] plus they've played us away, United away, Forest [who were no push-overs last year] and after tomorrow they'll have another of their toughest fixtures out of the way as well. If they turn City over they'll be in great shape.This is why we need to win today and why we need to keep on winning,
Our title success last year was built on us getting our noses ahead, building a lead and then letting scoreboard pressure do the rest, putting distance between us and the other title contenders early doors, putting them under pressure every time they take to the field is the key to everything imo. As you say this could already be a pivotal weekend.

I agree that we need to create a gap, it seems that's the only way we can win the league. That's how we won it the last two times actually. We seem to be at our best until December/January, after that our form dips, sometimes more sometimes less but our form always drops.

I wouldn't be happy if Arsenal loses tomorrow though. The last thing we want to do is underestimate Man City, if they pick up form they'll be difficult to stop. Even last season I was more afraid of City than Arsenal tbh. As long as City is as far away from us as possible I'll be happy. A draw between the two would be the best for us and it will take us 5 points clear away from any serious rivals.

Yup we all know what City are capable of, Haaland looks hungry this season. When they lost consecutively I thought their problems still persist. They've come back with couple of decent wins, the Napoli win was a solid result. Donnaruma imo is a important signing for them, class keeper.

It is early but we will get a good idea where both teams sort of stand. I still feel Arsenal are the bigger threat, they are desperate for the title and are fed up of being bridesmaids. A draw would be perfect result for us, but if City scrape a win I'd still be chuffed.

Like lads said we just need to maintain a gap, let pressure build on the rest.

Something isn't quite right atm, opposition teams are seeing far too much of the ball for my liking, don't get me wrong you are not going to dominate every game from starting gun to tape, teams are going to invariably have spells in games but what we are seeing constitutes more than spells in my book.
One thing i've noticed when someone get us on the back foot is that we lose a hell of a lot of 50/50's in a relatively short space of time, once momentum starts to go against us we can't win a tackle to save our lives, another thing we do is give the ball away so-so cheaply it's untrue, when we are on the back foot instead of recognizing that we need to take the sting out of the game (and the opposition) for 5 minutes by keeping the ball we do the exact opposite, someone will try a fancy flick that has about a 1 in 10 chance of coming off, Ally will try one of those long wellies up to Mo etc etc. We always seem to end up in some sort of weird doom-loop where we help the opposition not hinder them.
When momentum starts to go against us someone needs to recognize it and get the message out that -
A) losing a 50/50 tackle in the next 5 minutes will be considered a criminal offence
B) the entire purpose of the game will now change, the idea is not to score a goal but to keep the ball, for the next 5 minutes under these new rules losing possession is akin to conceding a goal, don't worry about the nets, don't worry about which way you are passing it, don't worry about boring everyone sh.1.tless it's only 5 minutes just keep the fv.ck.ing ball. Anyone who tries a difficult or speculative pass or even takes a shot at goal in those 5 minutes gets substituted, no if's or but's.
Mourinho's Chelsea were masters of shutting a game down when momentum started to go against them but they used the dark arts feigning injuries etc, we don't need to do that we can achieve the same thing by just keeping the ball and getting stuck in.
I'm not saying this will solve all our issues but it will definitely help.

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sun Sep 21, 2025 8:41 am wrote:Something isn't quite right atm, opposition teams are seeing far too much of the ball for my liking, don't get me wrong you are not going to dominate every game from starting gun to tape, teams are going to invariably have spells in games but what we are seeing constitutes more than spells in my book.
One thing i've noticed when someone get us on the back foot is that we lose a hell of a lot of 50/50's in a relatively short space of time, once momentum starts to go against us we can't win a tackle to save our lives, another thing we do is give the ball away so-so cheaply it's untrue, when we are on the back foot instead of recognizing that we need to take the sting out of the game (and the opposition) for 5 minutes by keeping the ball we do the exact opposite, someone will try a fancy flick that has about a 1 in 10 chance of coming off, Ally will try one of those long wellies up to Mo etc etc. We always seem to end up in some sort of weird doom-loop where we help the opposition not hinder them.
When momentum starts to go against us someone needs to recognize it and get the message out that -
A) losing a 50/50 tackle in the next 5 minutes will be considered a criminal offence
B) the entire purpose of the game will now change, the idea is not to score a goal but to keep the ball, for the next 5 minutes under these new rules losing possession is akin to conceding a goal, don't worry about the nets, don't worry about which way you are passing it, don't worry about boring everyone sh.1.tless it's only 5 minutes just keep the fv.ck.ing ball. Anyone who tries a difficult or speculative pass or even takes a shot at goal in those 5 minutes gets substituted, no if's or but's.
Mourinho's Chelsea were masters of shutting a game down when momentum started to go against them but they used the dark arts feigning injuries etc, we don't need to do that we can achieve the same thing by just keeping the ball and getting stuck in.
I'm not saying this will solve all our issues but it will definitely help.

Good post

There's a pattern occurring here and I dont think its a coincidence. Work hard the first 30 mins, try to get the rewards, then try to control and see out the game. We are going to be playing at least 60 games this season, we dropped off a cliff 30 games into the Premier season last year, and it cost us the UCL, and the Caraboa cup.

I think we are trying to pace ourselves better this season.. teams like PSG haven't got the same level of teams to play week in week out and it showed when we played them in the UCL, they had more energy all over the park than us. We've got a better squad now, and I think we can honestly challange for all 4 trophies if we are smart.

UvS xR4GEx » Mon Sep 22, 2025 6:16 pm wrote:There's a pattern occurring here and I dont think its a coincidence. Work hard the first 30 mins, try to get the rewards, then try to control and see out the game. We are going to be playing at least 60 games this season, we dropped off a cliff 30 games into the Premier season last year, and it cost us the UCL, and the Caraboa cup.

I think we are trying to pace ourselves better this season.. teams like PSG haven't got the same level of teams to play week in week out and it showed when we played them in the UCL, they had more energy all over the park than us. We've got a better squad now, and I think we can honestly challange for all 4 trophies if we are smart.

I think and I hope this is exactly right.  Under Klopp our squad was too small, the same core team players were overplayed and we fell  apart in the final 7 games of the season.

We have the depth of quality and numbers now, so rotating the players and aiming for 60 minute periods should preserve player freshness and reduce injury. Note the difference between freshness and fitness.

I'm all for it.

Our energy levels did fall off a cliff last spring but i don't think what we saw against Palace in the Charity Shield then against Bournemouth, Newcastle, Burnley, Atletico, Everton etc etc was some sort of master plan, only a complete idiot would design a master plan around throwing away 2 goal leads and stoppage time winners.
We are clearly in a bit of a transitional phase, we lost a lot of stalwarts in the summer like Diogo, Trent, Lucho, Darwin, Harvey, Caoimhin, Jarrell Q, Ben Doak etc and have had to bring a fair few new faces in. we are just struggling a tadge to make all the pieces fit atm but we will get it right, we've signed too many good players for it not to. The good thing is we are still winning even though we are trying and tweaking things and are clearly not the finished article.