Frustrating thing is if we'd won today we'd have some leeway with our tough away games coming up.

Forest, Brentford, Bournemouth and City are the next 4.

Probably need to win 3 of those now.

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as i said clearly doesnt trust some of that lot on the bench and if thats the case seriously need addressing asap. back the man ffs.
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You think he’s asked for players and been told no?
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no, but i think maybe tonight he questions why he didnt make the subs and comes to the realisation he needs more options in the def mid and in def.

and then relays that to the dof forgot his name...

strong words from vvd and AMA and spot on.

Liverpool defender Virgil van Dijk speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live: "It could have been a lot worse if we are absolutely honest with ourselves. They had a big chance in the end that could have been a lot worse than where we are now. I'm definitely disappointed with dropping points at home but it is what is and we have to move on and we will."

"We found the 2-1 and then it is about trying to manage the game and keep the ball for longer than three and four passes. We lost the ball too easily at times and then we were more open than we should have been. We're not perfect, we're still learning and we have to learn from this as well."

On whether they came into the game underestimating Manchester United: "That's all the media. Media talk. It's nothing to do with us. We prepared for a very tough game like we have seen today. We didn't think any of that."

On being in a strong position when you look at the league table: "We look at the next game, we don't look at the league table."
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Liverpool midfielder Alexis Mac Allister, talking to Sky Sports, said: "The result is not good enough. The performance was not as good as we wanted but at the end of the day it was a fair result.

"We didn't play as we wanted and conceded too many chances and had opportunities to score more goals.

"The effort was there, the mentality was there because we came back but when you're 2-1 at 75 minutes you have to defend better and we couldn't do it so we have to think about what we did wrong and move on."

comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
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Frustrating thing is if we'd won today we'd have some leeway with our tough away games coming up.

Forest, Brentford, Bournemouth and City are the next 4.

Probably need to win 3 of those now.
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Yeah I had us drawing one of those and we probably will which will eat into our cushion.

It felt like the Newcastle game where we fought back to 3-2 then conceded in poor fashion. So disappointing.

West Ham aside, when was the last time we put in a really good performance? Not sure spurs counts considering we conceded 3.

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comment by The Welsh Xavi (U15412)
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Frustrating thing is if we'd won today we'd have some leeway with our tough away games coming up.

Forest, Brentford, Bournemouth and City are the next 4.

Probably need to win 3 of those now.
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Yeah I had us drawing one of those and we probably will which will eat into our cushion.
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Arsenal have Spurs, Villa, Wolves, City so few chances to drop points there.

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comment by Inbefore (U20589)
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as i said clearly doesnt trust some of that lot on the bench and if thats the case seriously need addressing asap. back the man ffs.
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You think he’s asked for players and been told no?
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no, but i think maybe tonight he questions why he didnt make the subs and comes to the realisation he needs more options in the def mid and in def.
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I don't understand this "he should have made subs" angle. Doesn't make sense to me tbh. Can you explain it to me?

comment by Fred Slot (U3979)
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It felt like the Newcastle game where we fought back to 3-2 then conceded in poor fashion. So disappointing.

West Ham aside, when was the last time we put in a really good performance? Not sure spurs counts considering we conceded 3.
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Spurs definitely counts, the performance was excellent.

The stat before the game stated we'd scored the same amount of goals in the last six games as United had all season(21). They were playing well going into the game.

comment by Fred Slot (U3979)
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It felt like the Newcastle game where we fought back to 3-2 then conceded in poor fashion. So disappointing.

West Ham aside, when was the last time we put in a really good performance? Not sure spurs counts considering we conceded 3.
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Just like Newcastle game when you have a slender lead then bring on the DM. That game and today we just kept Endo on the bench and it has cost us.

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comment by Inbefore (U20589)
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as i said clearly doesnt trust some of that lot on the bench and if thats the case seriously need addressing asap. back the man ffs.
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You think he’s asked for players and been told no?
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no, but i think maybe tonight he questions why he didnt make the subs and comes to the realisation he needs more options in the def mid and in def.
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I don't understand this "he should have made subs" angle. Doesn't make sense to me tbh. Can you explain it to me?
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he stuck with konate looking like he had cement in his boots, most our team gassed at 60 mins midfield at about 50 % capacity. Yet Endo and Quansah remained on the bench he made 4 subs out of a possible 5.. and our bench was as strong as it can be minus szob?

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comment by Inbefore (U20589)
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as i said clearly doesnt trust some of that lot on the bench and if thats the case seriously need addressing asap. back the man ffs.
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You think he’s asked for players and been told no?
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no, but i think maybe tonight he questions why he didnt make the subs and comes to the realisation he needs more options in the def mid and in def.
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I don't understand this "he should have made subs" angle. Doesn't make sense to me tbh. Can you explain it to me?
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Well for me TAA should have been replaced earlier as he was having an awful game, depending on Bradley's fitness of course. I'd also have stuck with the original sub choice of Gakpo going off, putting Diaz out left, despite Gakpo scoring and it probably would have been wise to put Elliott in for Jones earlier, rather than Jota.

Easy to say in hindsight however.

Only caught the last 20 minutes but knew it’d be tough today
How did rest of game go? We/they deserve to win ?

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Only caught the last 20 minutes but knew it’d be tough today
How did rest of game go? We/they deserve to win ?
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Liverpool slightly the better team playing an average game, United playing a great game for them made it close to even. Draw probably a fair result.

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Liverpool slightly the better team playing an average game, United playing a great game for them made it close to even. Draw probably a fair result.
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TOOR

Need to let these minnows have a performance at one of the big teams

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one of our worse games of the season, they were the better team for the majority of it. we still created enough to win it and with some subs prob could have held on the the 2-1 or 3-1 if we werent giving up gd chances like fks to our non set piece specialists who i dont think has ever scored a freekick for us.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofjir54UJic

this is the only thing he should be stood over a free kick for.

not this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeR9acjyqN0

Newcastle game felt different was it was a second half team performance with guts and courage to fight our way back not once or twice away to quality opposition. Felt

Today we were crap for the entirety and just weren’t up for the fight for long periods. Nearly got out of jail due to the penalty but didn’t and didn’t deserve to either against poor quality opposition at home. United played well but we let them.

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Newcastle game felt different was it was a second half team performance with guts and courage to fight our way back not once or twice away to quality opposition. Felt

Today we were crap for the entirety and just weren’t up for the fight for long periods. Nearly got out of jail due to the penalty but didn’t and didn’t deserve to either against poor quality opposition at home. United played well but we let them.
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this, most the team looked to have the flu the way they were playing. hope that was the case itd explain a lot.

I get a draw today wasn't what you wanted and looking at your fixtures might have a wee bit worry but I am certain that the other teams will defo drop points as well

Felt proud of the team after the Newcastle game that should read.

Meant to add that it's one game? I'd assume the other teams would swap places in a second

newcastle were brilliant and to a lesser extent utd definitely turned up today for once. not as gd a team obvs but they turned up and we turned.

didnt*

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I get a draw today wasn't what you wanted and looking at your fixtures might have a wee bit worry but I am certain that the other teams will defo drop points as well
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we have to hope, city and arsenal are capable of 16 game runs tho, both did it last season as we dropped off.

Least Szobo will be back next game.

Definitely missed his energy today