KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum CONFIRMED TEAM & MATCH THREAD V SPURS

LIVERPOOL: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Milner, Mane, Salah, Firmino.

SUBS: Mignolet, Fabinho, Lovren, Keita, Lallana, Shaqiri, Origi.

the Brexit Midfield. Be arsed with it. We spent over a million pounds in the summer for midfield positions and we're starting with the midfield from last season in the biggest games. They can perform well on their day but it shows a lack of bottle in my opinion. Fabinho is by far and away our best midfielder and he isnt starting? Got to question this and hope it pays off.

I don't get why Fab isn't starting, his physicality will be needed with Sissoko and the likes of of Alli breaking.

Hoping for a win, but not inspired by the MF, 2-1 win.

Did you predict that 2nd goal as well? Impressive

Hope Klopp finally gets it that he can't play 2 never mind 3 of Henderson, Wij and Milner at the same time in the middle of the park!

Fab needs to play all remaining games now. He is top class.

Agree, Fab really helped by winning the ball and passing forward when he came on, I don't know why Klopp is so reluctant to play him? I guess while we keep winning he will keep playing with Milner/Wij/Hendo.

Could also be that he's looking at April, we've got a game every 3 or 4 days I think. Agree though, we're so much better with him on the pitch.
Virgil saved our arses again today, and what a lovely ball from Robertson.

Yeah, our midfield was overrun today especially in the second half, and you could see it mounting towards the end of the first half. Wignaldum needs a rest, but collectively our midfield look very unsure if they should be playing to our defence or our attack. Fabinho was a breath of fresh air and should have been started, or at least brought on at half time.
Anyway we got lucky and its onward and hopefully upward, in fact we seem to have the luck of fiendish title winners! When needs must the Devil rides!

We played well in the first half but then it all went bad. I think it's pressure, we are trying to defend too much relying on our defence and Salah is really way off the mark.

It all looked fine during the first 20-25 minutes until Pochettino from the stands commanded Moura and Rose to get back more and participate in their defence a bit.

Klopp never found a countermove for that change of tactics from Spurs.

He should have done something already at half time, but didn't even try. Should have seen that it was a personnel problem (not the first time with that midfield).

Bad game from our manager, but we got through with a strike of luck.

Oh, and Salah was terrible yesterday - apart from his participation in the 2-1 goal. He makes it so hard for himself and is now on a mission to score - which he doesn't look to do at any time soon. Why he didn't pass the ball to someone else in a better position and in form (Mané) at a number of times is mindboggling to say the very least.