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I know I’ll get hammered for this but I found it an interesting read.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/47449256

Fire away!

Sensible comments there, you'll be in trouble !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxTKbzH15O8

The difference is we are not playing at all well...defensively we are sound but further forward we look like we have run out of ideas, which means more draws whilst City always find a way.

I've resigned myself to another close call, however i'd be overjoyed if we did prevail in the end. It's going to take Man City slipping up in a couple of games because I just can't see how we don't drop more points the way we are playing.

Klopp has to be bold in his selections and go for the win. Playing the likes of Origi instead of Shaqiri defies belief...Shaqiri is a dead ball specialist, something we are lacking and he is a creator, unlike Origi.

Bringing Lallana on instead of Keita, shows a distinct lack of faith in Keita from Klopp, after all the fanfare he gave for him.

Klopp seems stumped in the most important moments...certainly since he's been at the club.

Klopp has made some strange substitutions, we are far more solid this season, but some of our attacking threat has been lost as our MF is far more conservative.

It's like Souness said at the weekend, as a defender you would love that MF infront of you protecting you, but as an attacker, you'd hate them behind you as they are not creating chances.

I think Klopp needs to let them go now and go for it, it's do or die, when you look at how solid our defence is, we could have took off Wij or Hendo and brought on Keita or Shaq to put the pressure on Everton and get some creativity in for the forwards, someone who would run at everton and create space.

Yeah time to let em go for it. Doesn’t matter if we let a few more goals in if we start scoring more.

I think that covers a lot of what fans are concerned about.

Agree with most of the above but it seems to me that we've all been saying or at least thinking the same thing for the past 4 months. But still, here we are a point off City.
Regardless of how everyone thinks we're playing we're obviously doing something right.

Well we do it right today, and wrong tomorrow, and we forget what we did yesterday, be it right or wrong! Klopp's acting like a man suffering from stage fright. Some of his decisions are inexplicable.

Was it the fans who had only one shot from 35 yards at OT? Is it the fans who missed 2 clear chances against Everton? Is it the fans who have only 3 attackers in the team and our highest scoring midfielder looks lost and being left out of the team all the time? Is it the fans who replaced Mane by Lallana when we needed to score? Is it the fans who need to replace Firmino by Origi which no team would buy for 2 seasons? Is it the fans who are complaining about the wind and making a fool out of themselves? That said, it's probably true that fans want a trophy more than the club.

I don't buy that whatsoever but I don't think its bottle either, it's just the tools we have arent as sharp as City's and therefore they took the lead on us. We have a good first 11 but the bench is poor, there is no game changers in there may be Shaqiri but he has started games and came off the bench before and looked poor. It's just a bad moment as klopp would say. Players shouldn't be feeling pressure when quarter of the season still to play. I understand if it was 3 or 4 games to go but this far out?