OTF

😄 at Albrighton heading the ball whilst laying on the ground, bizarre.

Andy Carroll's sweet left peg. Can't take that away.

The hunt is on.

Sadly. We get one peformance where our players put some effort in and we're grateful for it, almost cherish it. That said Hayden for current Sean Longstaff is a big loss.

If anyone was wondering where our team from the last several months had gone they need not any longer.

Murphy needed to be making that run, could have had the equaliser from Matty's cross.

Hollywood coming on.

Classic Leicester.

Don't think I've seen such a dramatic reversal in form/ability since James Perch reinveted himself as Perchinho, though that was in our favour.

That's the pace that would suit him, it'd be all jogo bonito and topless sambas.

He's really not enjoying their press, feels like he's already turned the ball over 10+ times.

We could have played this ref in place of Hayden, he's great at breaking up play.

Forever reliving that couple of months as a good player.

Not sure what happened to him, his touch and awareness of players around him is terrible so with Leicester's pressing he constantly looks panicked.

It was a pretty good defensive line, don't think it was intentionally a high line, though if they have many chances to play that through ball then at some point (or many points) we'll be badly caught out. The earlier one where they almost scored (when they turned to Arsenal in front of goal and forgot to shoot) they looked to me to be marginally offside as well.

Really enjoying Joelinton's metamorphis from a striker who can't score to a winger who can't pass.

Prepared for shite. Tactics with Steve: "Alreet lads, these lot are good, so we'll have to be better."

Indeed, what a load of shite that was. Michael Owen was providing his expert opinion on it, suggesting that if Mane went down he would have been likely to get a penalty, but then he went on to say that the VAR was right not to award a penalty because it wasn't a clear and obvious error. Thanks Michael, makes perfect sense. Let's not forget that Darlow was on the ground after making the save and Mane trampled on him in trying to get to the ball.

Shola was the Geordie van Nistelrooj. Just watched all 72 Shola goals on youtube. Not hesitant to take a shot and with either foot.

It's true, Wilson is a step above the rest, but what I felt was much better from the rest was that we didn't often resort to slinging long balls in his general direction immediately after gaining possession. Liverpool are normally very good at closing down and pressuring the ball, not sure whether they took it a bit easy today or whether someone reminded our players that they're fucking professional footballers and can just turn away from the defender and look for another passing option or retain possession until that option presents itself. Shelvey, Sean Longstaff and Almiron not being out there helped in that respect. To hus credit when Almiron did come on he valued possession more than usual. Pretty sad that I'm saying that with sincerity when we had 26.8% possession. That's our reality. Honestly if they scored early on, which could easily have happened, I'm sure we'd have resorted to our panicked useless rush to get forward and have lost our defensive resolve and structure as a result.

That was quite amusing.

It's true, and yet if we get tonked by Leicester next they won't correct themselves the other way. We've never received accurate punditry outside of the odd ex-player (that's no guarantee) so as much as it's frustrating we should be well used to it by now.

Well that was wholly unexpected. Our best performance in quite some time, defended as a team and what for me stood out as the biggest difference was individual decision making and application. We understandably lost a bit of that towards the end, but earlier on our players were making the right decision to hold on to the ball and look for better options. At the end of the day if you're in the premier league you're an elite level footballer and you should be able to get the simple stuff right. They did that tonight and that solidified them as a team and gave the defense something to work for throughout. Smart and decisive defending and some very good saves from Darlow. We badly needed a performance like this, it will be interesting to see how this contributes to our display against Leicester.

Wilson is such a good player.

Newcastle rated 20th and Liverpool 1st on the following: - Touches - Passes - Shots - Passes in opposition half - Passes into final third - Touches in opposition box Should be a close one, good luck Karl.