1.) 25 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 08:05:57
Ed, what do you think of Joel Matip’s performances this season? I thought that Sunday was his best ever performance in a Liverpool shirt with the exception of the CL final and Barcelona. He was getting in the way of everything.

{Ed001's Note - you mean other than when he was completely out of position in open play? He was excellent on dead balls but on open play he was awful. The rest of the season he has been excellent.}


2.) 25 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 10:18:02
I read reviews online about him being man of the match. And I thought he was terrible let’s mount go for the chance at the end and didn’t mark Abraham for the header. He had a terrible game but looked good because he threw into challenges and won balls in the air. Media are so clueless, even Carragher was praising him.


3.) 25 Sep 2019
25 Sep 2019 19:30:41
Nathlfc, you are correct. I watched the game back and Matip was poor. On the Mount chance, Matip is not even looking at Mount or check to see whoever was likely going to receive the ball. He was looking at Alonso the whole time with Batshuayi in the middle and Mount near place. There was only one place Alonso could cross the ball and had Matip been more aware and not ball-watching, he could have smothered Mount and the chance.

Instead, Mount nearly equalizes. Same with Abraham's header. Matip keeps watching the crosser while Abraham makes the run for the header and beats him to it easily. On the Kante goal, yes Fab got done for pace by Kante BUT Matip whould have come across and fill the whole left by VVD who tracked a runner to the left.

Matip was poor in that game and people thinking he was MOTM just shows how much people only care about MOTD highlight reels of his clearances and headers.