KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum If you want to blame someone, BLAME MIGNOLET!

Mig is flapping at the moment due to the defence being under constant pressure due to the [oops] poor midfield not being able to keep the ball and protect the back 5

nah i just think he is one of these punchy nervous keepers..could have smoked a cigar and easily caught negredo's and etoo's shots ,really are two o.g's in all fairness.

Migs job is to stop shots from entering the goal, not ensuring the midfield and defence is playing well. MIGs failed at his job. He is flapping for some reason or other, it makes no difference why, the point is, he is flapping and he shouldn't be because that is not what good keepers do.

when a keeper is exposed for long enough by a weak defensive system he will eventually flap at something. confidence is a big factor, and when keepers get nervous, they get twitchy.

Yes but when a keeper faces a grand total of 11 shots on target (official stats) and allows 4 past him and 2 of those due to floppy hands, i think we are well within our rights to question his performance in those two matches.

yea he certainly has to claim some responsibility. but uncertainty is contagious in teams.

dare i say it has filtered down from the manager?

"blah blah agenda, blah blah, not a liverpool fan, cough splutter, glad when we lose" repeat infinitum.

I dunno flames, against city i thought the team looked confident and were prepared to go for the win. This was lacking a bit against Chelsea but i don't think it filtered down from BR, i would say it filtered down from the fact the squad knew we had the likes of Smith and Rossiter on the bench who clearly are not good enough yet.

i thought we looked awful last night. we looked better against city but i always get the sense that we cant believe we are competing against top teams, we seem to have an inferiority complex these days.

we just had no legs..it was all down to tiredness..chelsea were much fresher than us

Haven't read any of the comments under this thread so I am possibly going to regurgitate what others have said. Migs will be the first to hold his hands up and admit that he should have done better, just like he should have done against City. However to blame an individual player on the loss of these two games, well I find that just disappointed as to how people can be so small-minded - its not the Liverpool way. People don't seem to realise that behind Suarez, Mignolet has been one of our more consistent performers, and has helped us get to where we are today. Few examples, penalty save on debut, MOTM performance against Everton, and even his save yesterday in the Chelsea game. So lets not lower ourselves to this blaming game. It's a team sport, Liverpool as a team did not deserve anything from the Chelsea game, therefore the team should be blamed as a whole.