Reply With QuoteThough finished fourth, its a great season and improvement over last term with an almost empty bench now... Hopefully the challenge will be at another height from next August with some more addition to the squad..
Most goals by a player in a 38 games season in EPL... "Mo Salah, Mo Salah Running down the wing Salah la la la la la la la Egyptian king" . Thank you for the great season
Though finished fourth, its a great season and improvement over last term with an almost empty bench now... Hopefully the challenge will be at another height from next August with some more addition to the squad..
Player of the season - the record breaker Mo Salah....
Liverpool 4-0 Brighton
Well there were doubts if Liverpool and Salah had lost their mojo.. it's been answered. What a difference a week's rest can make.. Liverpool looked every inch the Jurgen Klopp team...Salah was man marked in the last few games including this one, the difference in this game was that he had the energy to move his marker around.
This was a good preparation for Liverpool before CL final. Thanks to Brighton for not resorting to kicking and sliding.
Note: This was another game that showed how poor refereeing has become in PL. 2 nailed on penalties not given by Kevin Friend. No wonder any referree or his team is in Russia for the world cup. Liverpool had 1 penalty all season @ Anfield. That's less that what Spurs had @ Anfield. Disgraceful.
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Fantastic article about the Coutinho saga and about Klopp's journey as Liverpool manager. Melissa Reddy writes...
https://www.joe.co.uk/sport/the-insi...e-final-178445
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Spanish Journalists about CL final
According to Diego Torres, a journalist with Spanish publication El Pais, Zinedine Zidane and his players are expecting their “easiest final” yet:
“There isn’t any sensation of fear in Madrid about Liverpool—among the directors, among the players.
“They’re relaxed in Real Madrid before this final. They’ve never been so calm and confident in the club before a final than now.
“This final is the easiest final they have in front of them, all of them – [club president] Florentino Perez, the captains. Everyone.”
Tomas Roncero, another journalist, states that, “the Real Madrid squad has 46 Champions League-winning medals; Liverpool don’t have a player who has won the Champions League“, which appears to be an equally dismissive outlook.
“Liverpool are viewed as being a bit fragile mentally. If they were a boxer, they might have a glass chin. They can be got at. If it gets tough, they don’t necessarily find a way to grind out results and hold on, like Real Madrid do.
“Even in the semi-final tie against AS Roma, in the first leg, once those two second-half goals went in, there was a sense of, ‘Uh-oh, Liverpool could throw something away here when they’d played so well.’
“It’s the two sides of Liverpool, which people are aware of here—that this is an incredibly exciting, attacking side but one prone to big, defensive lapses and one that is weak mentally.
“Even if Liverpool take the lead, Real Madrid won’t be too terrified because of their strength mentally and Liverpool’s perceived weaknesses.”
“Liverpool probably is not even among the top 10 teams in Europe.
“It doesn’t have a good goalkeeper. It doesn’t have a good defence. It only has one international-class defender – Virgil van Dijk.
“Its full-backs are very limited. Maybe they’re strong, fast; they’re able to do OK in the English Premier League, but none of them signed for Chelsea or Manchester City or Manchester United because they don’t have the level to play for those teams.
“Liverpool’s midfield has players who are also forceful, disciplined, self-sacrificing. They know their profession. They are tradesmen. Footballers like Jordan Henderson and James Milner are footballers that lack creativity.
“There are other British teams with better midfielders. Liverpool doesn’t have a player like [Paul] Pogba, nor [Ilkay] Gundogan, nor [Kevin] De Bruyne nor [David] Silva, nor Dele Alli in the centre of their midfield. Liverpool is missing footballers in this part of the pitch with ingenuity.”
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