re: OFFICIAL LFC 16/17 Season Long Thread - Piss off, Gunners!!

Can we take a shot that's not right at the keeper?

Frustrating to not win, but it was a betterment performance overall than in recent weeks... Let's just keep it rolling

At least Klopp had some fight in him

We started an 18 year old at RB on Martial. Best midfielder was on the bench. Best attacker at AFCON. Best CB locked in a FIFA battle with Cameroon.

We should all be over the moon with this result. I know I am. Everyone else to play at Anfield where we haven't lost a game in over a year. Come on you smash and grab Reds!

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This is where I disagree

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agree to disagree...

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We should've lost 3-1 (at least)

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using your hypothetical, then we should have tied 3-3... Wij fricked up on the header, and the clear shot at the end that he dribbled to De Gea...

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We did absolutely nothing to deserve 3 points.

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sure we did... we scored a goal, then we protected it for 50+ minutes... we just need 10-12 and we get 3 points....

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I'm very happy with it, considering how handicapped we were with Matip, Cou, Mane, and Clyne out.

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and that's cool... i'm not VERY happy, just happy... and sorta relieved... got out of Old Trafford with at least a point, but very much could/should have been 3...

either way, we are positioned to end up top 4, and depending on Diego and Chelsea's fallout, may be able to get some results here in the near future and push for a title.... either way, we need a top 4, to get back into European football and to help with key signings in the summer...

That's how I was I see it. Happy with the draw. We were a Simon Mignolet away from losing pretty bad. Lucky not have lost.

Was traveling so I wasn't able to watch until last night.

If you had told me before the game that we got a point, I would have been happy with it. Without Clyne, without our best attacking talents and our best CB...I mean, that's a pretty good result.

Thoughts -

We kept 5 back a LOT, especially early on, but also for every long stretches throughout the game. Clearly we told TAA not to go forward until certain points.

Can had a jeckle and hyde game. Had some REALLY bad touches, passes, and dribbles (including a late dribble nearing midfield where an easy pass puts Liverpool in for a 4 on 3 break). But also did a great job pressing, harassing, and muscling Pogba and others off the ball. But his passing has been horrible for a few weeks now.

I don't know if I necessarily agree that we are lucky it wasn't 3-1 United. We had just as many good chances, I think the key is that some of their chances were earlier which would have changed the game (and likely means it never becomes so open ended that we get our chances). United are lucky that Wij basically couldn't put away two great chances, one of which was better than any chance they had all game.

Lovren and Klavan were so concerned about Zlatan that they were pulled into bad positions constantly and giving room for Myk and others to run. I was particularly displeased by their lack of tactical intellingence at times tracking things like that. We found ourselves outnumbered several times in the box due to this as well.

We just need to pull out the wins at Anfield from this point against the big goys (and not @#$ the bed against the lower table teams) and see where the chips fall. We can't control what Chelsea does and doesn't do (other than our match) so we'll just have to hope.

Speaking of the match with Chelsea - we had better hope Cou is able to start - we are desperately in need of creativity in attack.

Final thought - one of my problems with Firmino being the wide forward instead of up top - he's not very good shooting from wide. His shot when Cou sprung him was just bad. Easy save from DDG.

TAA definitely grew into the game. By 20 minutes he settled just fine, and in those last 10 minutes before the goal he was making some monster tackles.

This should explain it