Liverpool Match Posts

04 Dec 2025 09:36:21
Having slept on it, I still can not for the life of me understand moving Wirtz to left wing in that second half. The man was our best player on the park in that first half, connecting with the offensive players, and genuinely being a nuisance for the opposition on the ball and off the ball.

So, what do we do in the second half? We move him to left wing and focus our play down the right side? I get that Salah and Szobo are there, but there was so little happening on the left. We completely isolated our best player that first half, and it is only when he wandered central that we managed to get our goal.

We are so one dimensional in our play. We just pass the ball from right to left, then left to right, in front of the opposition and in the slowest manner possible. Hoping to displace an opposition that, due to the slow tempo, doesn't even have to move that much. Look, I am not a Pro License coach (Only Uefa C) but if even I can see that the style and philosophy is unsuitable, then how can our coaches not see it? We were losing 9 out of 12 recently, and we are still persisting with this?

Honestly, some of Slot's decision making this season, from tactical shape to substitutions have been bonkers. There is no plan in place. Something is clearly wrong with Isak too, he looked happy to stand central, surrounded by players and not move to receive the ball. But, when Eki comes on, immediately his is on the move, trying to connect with those around him while on occasion taking on players. Genuinely looks like Isak's knees have gone, which simply can not be the case.

I swear, it is almost like Slot wants to lose his job at this point. How can you maintain with the same style, system and players when it is clearly not working, and costing you matches?

04 Dec 2025 21:37:04
In my opinion it was a big mistake to spend 125 million on Isak, simply cos Hugo Ekitike is the better team player and will score the most goals, I think that we should make Hugo as our main striker and then signed a 2nd striker similar to Jota, both team players, think Slot is on the way out, we lose a couple of games and its goodbye slot.

04 Dec 2025 07:01:06
“T’is the season to be jolly”, well it’s not after watching that last night, the 1st half was one of the worst I’ve watched for a while and that takes some beating as our performances this season have been ?, roll on Leeds…. ho, ho, ho or should it be go, go, go Arne, all the best everyone, stay safe.

04 Dec 2025 08:28:03
Quite honestly our football play has gone from high octane and entertainment, to quite slow (almost static), no real pressuring opponents and lacking creativity - as many have said, pass sideways and repeat.

I feel for the team, including Salah, who are playing the tactics as instructed and it’s just not entertaining.

I chose Liverpool as my team at age 4 / 5 years old (quite a while ago now! ) and will never stop supporting - but please start playing entertaining football again!

Anfield currently is no longer a fortress - it’s a place other teams come to win away points.

03 Dec 2025 22:41:41
If that’s not proof that slot has no clue what he’s doing then nothing will. He played the identical tactics today as he did against Westham even though both teams are completely different in every way. The bloke has lost the plot.

03 Dec 2025 22:47:46
I've said it before, doing the same thing over and over and expected a different outcome is the sign of madness!

03 Dec 2025 22:47:56
Just listened to his interview after the game . just spoke a load of nonsense really.

03 Dec 2025 22:57:25
I felt sorry for Arne seeing his post match interview. He had that haunted look about him.

Tactically we’ve been asking for more solidity, and in playing Gomez and Robbo you get that, but you lose something going forwards.

The real problems though are out wide left and right, if the fullbacks offer nothing the other wide men need to. Cody just doesn’t do enough tonight, Mo looks shot, and Szoboszlai played well enough but drifts inside. As a result we created little, and a few defences lapses left us open to concede.

03 Dec 2025 22:39:08
I think the biggest takeaway is that Wirtz needs to play through the middle as the primary creator. We looked so much better in the last 10-15 minutes when he was back centrally.

03 Dec 2025 22:31:13
V poor performance hardly deserved the point. Started so slow whatever bit of feel good factor from weekend evaporated within the 1st 15mins of passing sideways across the back.
Sunderland look a well drilled+ well motivated team but they would test your patience with faking head injuries, at least 6 times they went down.

03 Dec 2025 22:44:57
Still doesn't make up for the fact that we were absolutely abysmal again Digger mate this id getting beyond a joke they surly have to say enough is enough and sack him.

03 Dec 2025 22:30:02
Pathetic yet again. For me he has Togo.

03 Dec 2025 22:24:43
Slot will come up with nonsense stats after the match:
“We created 10,000 chances… Easily our best performance of the season… blah blah blah! ”.

03 Dec 2025 22:22:22
Well, too little too late i'm afraid. Played subuteo for the first half and got a sense of urgency in the last ten minutes. Felt slobby was backing out of ever challenge which could of led to more, and Chiesa saved our blushes at the end.

Performances continue to be a worry. I don't know what's more frustrating at this point, skys constant switching to other matches or knowing that those players are capable of so much more.

03 Dec 2025 22:22:14
Much better performance all round I thought until I realised we were in red. Poor tactics poor physical shape just really bad.

03 Dec 2025 22:20:52
Would be nice to read a club statement along the lines of thank you for what you have done . but you have pressed the self destruct button and your are relieved of duties

We are away to Leeds next . they may not be great but they run and are physical . what's going to happen there?!

So many pictures tonight of Sunderland players. sweating and breathing heavy . all our players looked like they just started the game .

I just don't get what slot is seeing to want to continue.

Ironically the player he blatantly refuses to give proper minutes and a chnace to . may have saved his job with that last minute clearance .

03 Dec 2025 22:20:27
Unless there's a change with a better man coming in this is a complete write off of a season. We are watching the same thing, every match, every week, for months.
In what world does slot deserve geuhi or seumenyo to again paper over what dross we're watching.
We look a terrible side and every player has regressed under slot.

Sobs looked the best of a bad bunch because of his unbelievable workrate and natural quality.
To play like that at anfield against Sunderland is terrible. Dross bin football and it's never called out by the media.

03 Dec 2025 22:19:38
Move the ball around with pace, full back overlapping, getting crosses into box. Win against west ham

Then revert back to slow side to side passes. Nothing from the game we see against West ham.

Not willing to cross the ball when in good areas. The 1 or 2 time we actually cross, nobody is going for the ball in the box, all stood at edge of area.

Baiting the press when the crowd is trying to push the team on, slowing the game down to stand still. And the movement of the ball is so slow that there is absolutely no use to bait the press as the sunderland players will easily get back to their positions before we can string 2-3 forward passes together.

Got a goal down then start to play desperation football again. Start crossing the ball from all sort of areas and giving it away easily.

It is just painful to watch knowing we have the quality to be much better than this.