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What a weird game. 4-1 Les Bleus. And yet it felt like Norway had all the pressure and France could barely put a chance together. It comes down to a tale of two keepers. Theirs was crap. Beaten by three long distance shots, none of which were particularly unsaveable and a header that again wasn’t exactly in the corner. (He was very handy off his line in his defence.) Ours? Magic. Magic Mike again. A penalty save and more than a few great saves, just as Norway were building pressure. But it’s a good day when you can play indifferently and win 4-1. How ironic that, having wanted Deschamps gone for the last 8 years because he was squandering the talent in the team, now that he’s going he’s got the team purring. One last dance together, DD.
The End. End of the season, thank God. But also the end of an era. Robbo and Mo weren’t the first to leave and won’t be the last, but this feels like the break - the next Liverpool team will be something new, not an evolution of the force of nature we’ve grown used to since 2015. This expensively, exquisitely assembled squad has been stripped of any identity or belief, reduced to playing for moments and not getting enough of them to go our way. No one’s having fun anymore, including the manager. The only plan seems to be to run less, which is good because not one of the players can be arsed to do it anymore. Slot’s going to be sacked. It’s inevitable on this evidence. The only questions are how long it takes and how much more damage he does to this club before he does. Mo and Robbo were standard bearers for this club’s identity. Heart, desire, talent. They had it all. They leave a club that doesn’t look like it has any of it anymore. The beginning? It is now - but of what?
Makes a change for Slot to be out-coached by a better manager instead of a novice. And he was comprehensively out-coached. Villa came with a very clear plan, unlike us, and they methodically picked us apart. It seemed like our only plan was to hope that Villa would be distracted and focused on their UEFA Cup final, and we might get the better of the moments. Although for that to work, you’d have to fight for the moments, which we didn’t. A brief moment of hope after van Dijk equalised was quickly snuffed out and once again, the team gave up. 4-2 flatters us and doesn’t tell the story of how utterly hopeless this shower of arseholes are. One more to go. One more to suffer through.
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Everton1–2LiverpoolNo brains, no bollocks. No idea how to control a game of football, just 11 strangers running around the place hoping for something to happen. I realised what it was I hate about watching the reds right now and it’s this: there’s no plan, nothing to get invested in. It’s just 90+ minutes in the laps of the gods. Some you win, some you lose. None you care about because there’s nothing there to care about either way. I didn’t even celebrate the winner. Proper Rudyard Kiplinged it, indifferent to the impostors of success or failures. But it is objectively funny that Salah scores seconds after they have one ruled out for offside, and then van Dijk is the one to break their hearts at the end. Have that Pickford, you horrible little bastard. For all your cheating, gamesmanship and occasional assaults, you still can’t - will never - win. We continue in purgatory. We still don’t look like we have a clue. But at least we beat THEM.
Liverpool1–1BrentfordThe End. End of the season, thank God. But also the end of an era. Robbo and Mo weren’t the first to leave and won’t be the last, but this feels like the break - the next Liverpool team will be something new, not an evolution of the force of nature we’ve grown used to since 2015. This expensively, exquisitely assembled squad has been stripped of any identity or belief, reduced to playing for moments and not getting enough of them to go our way. No one’s having fun anymore, including the manager. The only plan seems to be to run less, which is good because not one of the players can be arsed to do it anymore. Slot’s going to be sacked. It’s inevitable on this evidence. The only questions are how long it takes and how much more damage he does to this club before he does. Mo and Robbo were standard bearers for this club’s identity. Heart, desire, talent. They had it all. They leave a club that doesn’t look like it has any of it anymore. The beginning? It is now - but of what?
Liverpool1–1Chelsea
Why can’t I give this game zero stars? It’s literally impossible for both teams to lose a game but that’s what these deserved. It started so well, Rio made the space and Grav whacked it top corner And then it all fell apart. They got lazy and passive. Tried to sit deep in a shape but didn’t know how to be in a shape. When we had the ball, we couldn’t find someone to pass to. It was fucking abject. The loudest Anfield got was booing Slot for taking off the one player who was trying. This season has been awful but today felt like something changed. We’re sick of it. Sick of the utter lack of anything to get behind. Slot did the impossible last year and won the league at the first time of asking. What’s he’s done this year is even more impossible. He made going the game shit. Town flat, Anfield flat. I groaned when they said 7 minutes added on. Two games to go. Two more games of this zero star shite.
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