Liverpool FC 6-1 Watford FC - 06/11/2016

Meh! This is some top work old son. Many, many congratulations.

I tip my hornet hat to you.

http://www.empireofthekop.com/2016/...ol-out-of-himself-before-the-liverpool-clash/

 

Same here. Mostly southern plastic scousers who have never been to a game.

I can't get over how overboard people are about how good Liverpool were. It's a case of we were diabolical. Not event the likes of Sunderland would have got that much of a battering.

MOTD did some it up when they said we helped in our own downfall. Trying to dribble the ball out from the back and losing it due to our non-existent midfield not wanting the ball. Igalho and Deeney weren't up against world class defenders but it made no difference, no fecker got the ball up to them anyway.

It was embarrassing. Six goals scored against us, with no effort to try and stop them.

Cheque book needs to come out in the next window. Perayra and Capoue need to have a long hard look at themselves. At present they appear to think they're untouchable and a shoe in for the first 11.

 

I've just been asking them whether they haven't got any work to do.

We're supposed to be bloody working, not wasting time talking about football.

 

I was talking to some spurs and arsenal fans and we were trying to work out when Watford last let in more than 5. Turns out it was against spurs in 1994 sauce.

Since then spurs have conceded 6 or more goals on at least 3 occasions, and Arsenal at least 4 times.

It happens. Better to happen against a top end team than anyone else. It's how we react to it after the international break that is my main concern now.

 

Absolutely agree, that was a really disappointing performance/result.

I don't think we have been playing well in the past few games regardless of the results.

Liverpool are unbelievable at the minute and Coutinho is class.

It's all about the reaction.

 

Well that was a poor effort all round. Yesterday I fully expected to loose, the last few games provided little evidence we could give a Liverpool side in that sort of form trouble and so it proved. However there is no reason to make it so easy for them the way we did, an appalling effort all over the pitch. However the central midfield deserves special condemnation for their utter failure to provide anything in the shape of defensive cover or support for the attackers. The problems of Deeney and Iggy are well known to us but at the moment they are been feed scraps, the central midfield isn't creating chances and isn't getting up to support the forwards. It showed last week as well, start of the season a ball laid off would find a midfielder running on to it but no longer. Defensively the same, three at the back requires midfielders and wingbacks to drop back to provide the cover, not to let opposition waltz past you, we were a shambles yesterday and if it had been eight or nine we couldn't have complained. Someone here ( I think) said it was like watching an FA Cup third round tie where a non league side turn up and get beat, don't get me wrong, Liverpool were good but we made them look so much better.

 

I cannot understand why an experienced coach, would be so na*ve and underprepare his side in such a way. Look at how Middlesbrough or Burnley take on the big sides. They make themselves very hard to beat.

We played suicide football. I've been concerned over our slide in form since the United match. We've picked up more points than our performances have merited, which has fooled everyone. I am not seeing a steady improvement, in fact the exact opposite.

Who knows what the thrashing will have on the belief of the side. We played ridiculous football all over the pitch. Trying to walk out with the ball and little flicks here and there.

Why is Mazzarri still insisting on three at the back when he has injuries? No Cathcart or Prodl. In what Universe is playing a wing back in a back 3 a good idea?

It was unprofessional from start to finish.....and only a handful of players could be bothered to applaud the fans after the game. That is even more shameful.

Right now I'm more than a bit concerned at how things are going. I just have a really horrible gut feeling about it all.

 

Firmino looks like one of those "women" you might have the misfortune of waking up next to after a night out in Bangkok

 

Being entirely serious, the way Klopp plays leaves his teams open to injuries.

An injury to Coutinho and Firminho/Mane and they'd look incredibly average.

Burnley would have knocked three past us yesterday.

 

It's that Keith Weller,tap tap tapping on my window!

 

A simply awful performance yesterday. No heart, little effort, and ultimately abject surrender. We may be 8th, but I fear for this side. We have been poor since the Man Utd win, but fortunately have picked up points.
The midfield is woeful atm, the decimated defence (the sooner Prodl and Cathcart are back the better) are all over the place, and the 2 forwards huff and puff (well Troy does) with little reward. Success looks like a great player, but he seems to get injured every couple of weeks. Okaka - is he the answer? 10 minutes of football and out for 6 weeks............As for Ighalo, I think he had the golden year, and that's it. He's spent, and now can't hit a cows arse with a banjo.
For all the excitement about being 8th, we are only 5 points way from Hull in 18th. Roll on the 19th and Leicester. Hmmm.

 

I'll say it for the third time today - 5pts after 11 games is a massive gap. Huge. There are 9 teams between us and the relegation zone. With the best will in the world and even if we lost every game it would likely take until Christmas for us to enter the bottom three. Chill out.

 

All those claiming 'disgrace' and 'shameful' need to get over themselves! We were beaten by a much better team - yes, we didn't defend well but Liverpool were ruthless, exciting and clinical, fully deserving to be top of the league. A much better team than has been pedalled out in recent years. It's not often I applaud the opposition but I did this yesterday, including those subbed by Klopp - and I wasn't the only Watford fan doing so either.

That the Watford fans were magnificent in defeat showed how they resigned themselves that we were being pummelled and took it into our stride ('We've had a shot' bouncing when we got our first corner - after cheering it as if we'd scored, 'We're gonna win 6-5', '5-0 and you've ****ed it up' and so on) with humour. I overheard some Liverpool fans on the way out saying that we were the best away fans they'd had for a very long time.

As for the team, they'll need to get it out their system and move on. What else can they do? We escaped injuries last season, so it'll be tougher this time around. Mazzarri will need to sort a few things out but I think he can. I would like us to be the teams that turned out against West Ham & Man Utd and not those who turned up against Hull & Burnley, but survival is the key first & foremost.

The whole thing was disappointing, not disgraceful. I sort of enjoyed the day at Anfield (result & performance aside of course, but there's no point in ranting about either) We're in the top half of the table, we're not Luton and we're not where we were a few years ago flirting with relegation from the championship and bankruptcy. We'll get the odd nosebleed or two in this division, as did Bournemouth last year (6-1 defeat by Man City) but we'll survive.

 

He reminded me of one of the characters out of Apocalypto

 

To put it into perspective...which was the most surprising result of the weekend? Liverpool stuffing us 6-1, or Everton being mullered 5-0 at Chelsea? Koeman wore the expression of someone who'd gone out for a pleasant round of golf & been partnered with Tiger Woods in his pomp. Everton had current international defenders floundering around like men in quicksand looking shell-shocked. When players that Liverpool & Chelsea have at their disposal turn it on, they can hammer anyone in the Prem on a given day...including each other sometimes!
Listening to the Sky commentary, it was stated more than once before the 1st goal that we were being "incredibly brave" by trying to press Liverpool in their own half. Would we have the stamina, discipline & skill to make it work? Clearly not, but if we'd sat back & tried to nullify them, then we'd probably have lost by 3-0 having never ventured beyond the half-way line.

I agree playing Janmaat as one of 3 CBs was "optimistic" at best. If WM did not want to move away from a back 3, then maybe he should have picked Kabasele or Mariappa, played Janmaat RWB, moving Amrabat to LWB, as he's played a lot of his career on the left, with Pereyra as a slightly more attacking CM than Behrami & Capoue.
However, asking either of those 2 "back-up" CBs to come in for this game may have seemed to him the bigger risk.

Lets see what side he picks & how it reacts against Leicester.

 

Never quite sure with you but do you actually really mean that last sentence?

 

Yes. If we line up vs Leicester with Deeney and Ighalo up top and the same lineup other than enforced changes, I'm out for the foreseeable

 

If we line up vs Leicester with Deeney and Ighalo up top and the same lineup other than enforced changes, then I hope Wally catches a nasty illness that makes his **** drop off

 

That's the spirit. Fickle doesn't even come close. I'm as disappointed when I see comments like that as I am with some performances. maybe you should pack it in altogether so somebody can have your seat who will support us know matter what happens

 

That person is not queuing up to take my seat. Don't delude yourself.

 

I hope we beat Leicester. They are a bigger club than Liverpool so it would be more of an achievement.

 

But will you want to watch every game thereafter, even if it's horrible?

 

The thing is, we probably will. It would be typical Watford. Beat Man UTd and Leicester but lose to Burnley and Liverpool. We just can't seem to get up for the **** games.

 

There's tickets available for Leicester as STHs give up their seats, I've kept an eye on it today and I've seen 10 or so seats pop up - there's seats for two people next to each other in 4 blocks.

 

More people who've had enough

 

You are quite right. Whenever I've put my season tickets up for resale / exchange with the ticket office, they have never been resold. They are plumb seats in the SEJ. So it's myth that people are queuing up to take the seats.

 

I just can't get enough, as a wise man once said.

 

It's getting hotter