KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Can we win the league this year?

Is it possible? Yes
Is it likely? No

We are running out of steam and getting bailed out by gomez and VVD game after game. I say on current form a loss is more likely than the next 4-0 win.

Also we trying to catch city which is like trying to catch up to a Kenyan olympic runner with 500m of surgically enchanced parts. If we are to win the league we need some screw ups and injuries for them and luck on our side.

I say no.
Lack of goals in the team...seems to have swapped free scoring for tight defence..not a bad thing but invites teams to swamp lfc and seem to rely alot on resilience of vvd gomez and robertson.Wave after wave every game.
Looks like salah is a ronny rosenthial player not a genuine kenny dalglish who can do it consistently every season.

if our attack was like last year and our defence like this year, we would be in with a shout.

After tonights game it's a no from me. We will get closer to City but still plenty of points behind.

We are more defensive than last year as a team. Last year we were playing with 4 attacking players, the forward 3 with either Coutinho, Ox and even Can was more forward going. Problem is our midfield hasn't improved enough though I feel Shaq could bring more, Fabinho is still taking too long on the ball and Keita has been missing since the first game. If Keita could be as expected, then it would be a major improvement, in fact, Klopp really believed in his capabilities to have waited a full season to get him on board. We have only seen glimpses so far unlike Jorginho and Toriera who have improved their teams immediately.

Agreed.
Arsenal were faster, sharper and won more challenges than us. Very lucky AGAIN to get something out of a game.
Klopp set up the side to not lose and was fortunate to get away with it.

You could also say that we were unfortunate to not win. We hade a perfectly legitimate goal disallowed.

And with our goalscoring luck from last year we would probably have banged in at least 3 with the chances we created and missed yesterday.

But our midfield hasn't improved with our defence since last year. Klopp must feel strange about that, because he waited a full year on Keita, and Fabinho came with such a good reputation. Keita doesn't seem to be any better than what we already had, and Fab is plain slow.

But I guess that's what you can get if you go shopping outside the UK. Leagues are a bit slower, which can mask a players' slowness and he can get away with it. I mean some players just adapt instantly and get on with it - Like Torreira and Jorginho.

We will just have to hope that those 2 improve and turn out good in the end, because I can't see us spending that kind of money on yet another central midfielder in the near future.

The feeling about Keita and Fab is a bit discouraging at the moment really.

The up side is that not all our games in PL will be like yesterday, and we have already played the other top rivals once without a loss. I hope we can get back to dominating other teams as soon as possible. And CL games aren't that fast and tough all the time either. We have a good opportunity in our group with the players at hand, and with time Klopp will hopefully get Keita and Fab going as good as they can.

Thinking back about national german teams then Lfc are now almost a replica of them...klop has good defence now and games are usually won by 1 goal and not so free scoring.

That performance yesterday doesn't make a challenge any easier that's for sure, nor does it boost ones confidence either. There was three points there for us yesterday, had we gone for it, but we went for the draw, not the stuff of title winners IMO. However there's enough games to play and City are likely to slip up at some point, also we could potentially take three points off them at their place, but we'll have to have the bottle to go for it. Somehow I feel yesterday says something about us that I find disconcerting, and I have to say my optimism has taken a hit. Arsenal were playing with a cobbled up defence, yet we played for a draw??? If it was raining soup would you go out with a fork in your hand?

yea all good points. It just seems that we never solve all our problems at once.