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4-0 vvd

that was very unlike Jota.....

Has Kelleher made a single save today?

Virgil getting a full standing ovation for yet another Rolls Royce of performance, and a much much deserved few minutes of rest

Onto the final lads, great performance, enjoyed that.

26 shots
10 on target
65% possession
Absolutely murdered them
Spudz very poor but to be fair, they're decimated by injuries.....

Some team and squad !! Fantastic team spirit. Every player on the pitch wanted it tonight.

devaney » Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:07 am wrote:Some team and squad !! Fantastic team spirit. Every player on the pitch wanted it tonight.

Couldn't put it any better myself. Wonderful performance all round, they now play and dominate with such confidence. 

into the final!

rest everyone Sunday, beat Everton for 9 points clear on wednesday. Good to be a red

Can't believe I'm saying this but Nunez had a great game, hardly put a foot wrong. Didn't score but played really well, both with the ball and without it.

I'm really disappointed Chiesa isn't getting any minutes, he could have been given at least 15 minutes instead of Diaz. But he looks so positive, not sure if his smiles are just for the cameras but he looks happy to just be involved even if it's just sitting on the bench. Hope he starts against Plymouth at least.

Agree about Nunez, a real handful and I think... the difference is he's stopped trying too hard. He was more natural in that game and he created more and was more effective  because of it.

damjan193 » Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:23 pm wrote:Can't believe I'm saying this but Nunez had a great game, hardly put a foot wrong. Didn't score but played really well, both with the ball and without it.

I'm really disappointed Chiesa isn't getting any minutes, he could have been given at least 15 minutes instead of Diaz. But he looks so positive, not sure if his smiles are just for the cameras but he looks happy to just be involved even if it's just sitting on the bench. Hope he starts against Plymouth at least.

Nunez was magnificent, worked his ar.se off as did Dom, Curtis, Ryan etc etc.
If there was a secret to our sustained success during our 70's and 80's heyday particularly that period when we appeared in 5 CL finals in 8 years it's that we had really good players who were prepared to park their ego's at the door and to turn up to work every day with the same humble attitude as a bunch of lower league grafters.
Bill Shankly called it 'honesty'. He famously gave tv interviews where he'd describe getting sh.1tty jobs in the army during the war like having to peel 1,000 potatoes or clean the toilet floors, Shankly said his attitude in life was that he'd want his potatoes to be the best peeled potatoes in the British Army and those toilet floors to be the cleanest toilet floors on any Army base in the European theatre of operations. No matter the job Shankly would devote his soul to doing it to the best of his ability.
It just so happens that that attitude is the cheat code to footy, there's large parts of the game which are not fun like tracking back, marking runners, trying to win the ball back against teams who can keep it for fun etc etc, doing that stuff hurts, your lungs burn, your legs get lactic acided up to eff, its effin hard work.
If a coach can get XI players to work their effin bollox off and do all the shitty jobs with exactly and i mean exactly the same enthusiasm as the good jobs then he has got a team on his hands. If you can get XI very, very talented players to do it then you've got an effin wrecking ball.
On Wednesday we got very, very close to resurrecting the ghost of our old style of play and it was a joy to watch. What made it even more enjoyable was that it was a bunch of lets face it pampered multi millionaires with ego's the size of their bank accounts grafting their ar.ses off. That's honesty, thats the honesty Shanks was on about.
This team is very, very close to discovering the secret of football, if everyone and i mean everyone - it has to be 11 it cant be 10 or 9 - gives their heart and soul to doing the shitty jobs then there's nothing anyone can do. Team work like that is unbeatable, it doesnt matter who's on the other teamsheet, when we appeared in 5 CL finals in 8 years the likes of Maradona, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Zico etc etc all played for big teams on the continent. Nothing beats heart and soul teamwork....nothing, but its got to be heart and soul and its got to be humble and its got to be honest. its easy to say but incredibly hard to do. It's got to be XI.

ycsatbjywtbiastkamb » Sat Feb 08, 2025 10:20 am wrote:

damjan193 » Fri Feb 07, 2025 2:23 pm wrote:Can't believe I'm saying this but Nunez had a great game, hardly put a foot wrong. Didn't score but played really well, both with the ball and without it.

I'm really disappointed Chiesa isn't getting any minutes, he could have been given at least 15 minutes instead of Diaz. But he looks so positive, not sure if his smiles are just for the cameras but he looks happy to just be involved even if it's just sitting on the bench. Hope he starts against Plymouth at least.

Nunez was magnificent, worked his ar.se off as did Dom, Curtis, Ryan etc etc.
If there was a secret to our sustained success during our 70's and 80's heyday particularly that period when we appeared in 5 CL finals in 8 years it's that we had really good players who were prepared to park their ego's at the door and to turn up to work every day with the same humble attitude as a bunch of lower league grafters.
Bill Shankly called it 'honesty'. He famously gave tv interviews where he'd describe getting sh.1tty jobs in the army during the war like having to peel 1,000 potatoes or clean the toilet floors, Shankly said his attitude in life was that he'd want his potatoes to be the best peeled potatoes in the British Army and those toilet floors to be the cleanest toilet floors on any Army base in the European theatre of operations. No matter the job Shankly would devote his soul to doing it to the best of his ability.
It just so happens that that attitude is the cheat code to footy, there's large parts of the game which are not fun like tracking back, marking runners, trying to win the ball back against teams who can keep it for fun etc etc, doing that stuff hurts, your lungs burn, your legs get lactic acided up to eff, its effin hard work.
If a coach can get XI players to work their effin bollox off and do all the shitty jobs with exactly and i mean exactly the same enthusiasm as the good jobs then he has got a team on his hands. If you can get XI very, very talented players to do it then you've got an effin wrecking ball.
On Wednesday we got very, very close to resurrecting the ghost of our old style of play and it was a joy to watch. What made it even more enjoyable was that it was a bunch of lets face it pampered multi millionaires with ego's the size of their bank accounts grafting their ar.ses off. That's honesty, thats the honesty Shanks was on about.
This team is very, very close to discovering the secret of football, if everyone and i mean everyone - it has to be 11 it cant be 10 or 9 - gives their heart and soul to doing the shitty jobs then there's nothing anyone can do. Team work like that is unbeatable, it doesnt matter who's on the other teamsheet, when we appeared in 5 CL finals in 8 years the likes of Maradona, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Zico etc etc all played for big teams on the continent. Nothing beats heart and soul teamwork....nothing, but its got to be heart and soul and its got to be humble and its got to be honest. its easy to say but incredibly hard to do. It's got to be XI.

It’s a good post and very true. Whoever has been recruiting players for us have chosen talented players but more importantly grounded and hard working players. The team that Klopp had, had no drinkers in the team and most were religious. I remember Klopp had a team party once and the rule was you had to stay until at least 11pm 

I think an unspoken rule in our recruiting has been only buy grounded humble players. That is the culture and personality of this team.