killerp » Sun Oct 02, 2016 8:35 am wrote:Swansea deserved better than to lose to a dodgy penalty. They took the game to us and reminded our players to take all opposition seriously.
We were on course for another Burnley in the first half....
I think we need to be realistic, no team breezes through an entire league campaign brushing everyone aside, not in this country anyway, every championship winning side from 1888 onwards has had (on occasion) to ride their luck and dig out a result and that's what we did yesterday.
As others have mentioned 12 months ago we would have 100% lost that game, we were away from home and at a place that is a bit of a bogey ground for us, we went a goal down, passes weren't sticking, loose balls seemed to be falling for their players, our keeper was flapping at crosses, they were creating chances and we lost a player early through injury. To say things weren't going our way would be a bit of an understatement.
To top it all off Swansea were especially up for it because their managers job was on the line yet the players didn't throw the towel in mentally.
Our players learned an important lesson yesterday, just because you are not playing well and things are going against you doesn't mean you can't still win the game. I think yesterday was a good illustration of what Klopp has been trying to instil into our players, you can play poorly, Lady Luck can kick you in the nuts but if you show heart, desire and determination you can still come out on top.
That battling win probably did more for this group of players than a comfortable 4-0 victory, this team knows that on its day it can brush anyone aside but now it knows that it can dig out results in difficult circumstances too.