Liverpool - v - Leeds United ***Matchday Thread***

[spaldy]

Strujik looked solid. One of of the best offenses in the world and he looked fine.

Hate to say it but Pablo looked slow and tired and Roberts was not good enough

[norfolk white]

Shows how far we've come under bielsa when we're all gutted at a 4-3 defeat at anfield, bit different to scrapping for a point on a drizzly night in Wigan or Rotherham.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Shows how far we've come under bielsa when we're all gutted at a 4-3 defeat at anfield, bit different to scrapping for a point on a drizzly night in Wigan or Rotherham.

Absolutely and Bielsa looked gutted when we gave the pen away

[LeedsFTW]

Great first game, shows we can compete and score against the best.

A few last minute changes did not help, playing what was effectively 2 new cbs in front of a rookie keeper was something to be nervous about.

However a couple more games at this level and once the squad adjusts to the step up, I really think we will hold our own in the league.

[ozleeds]

This is what happens when you should not have lost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ3XqsEJTvA Played well in patches. Question you should take alot out of that as you played ever so well reply we still lost and the look of disappointment says it all i hope all players dont feel this way as it can affect performances.

[Billyni]

I thought Struijk was better than Cooper

[Jezleeds]

I thought Struijk was better than Cooper

Agreed - maybe Strujk can be the new White, although i missed the calm he used to bring.

Once we stopped giving the ball away and kicking it anywhere after the first 30 minutes, i thought we were mostly the better team, but definitely belong - and we'll give a lot of teams a very good game this season on this showing.

Agree we need a Pablo for when Pablo's not on it, like today, Koch needs time and coaching, and we need better luck - both pens and the block on Koch for the header were poor decisions in my opinion.

So really we won 3-1, cos all our goals were fantastic.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Hehe - indeed. Anyone notice when Ayling went down at the end and the ref stopped the game - he was trying not to laugh.

He seems to have taught Dallas and Harrison how to do the Ayling flop on the ball to win free kicks too.

He has a very very good game.

[cherrypie7]

I thought Struijk was better than Cooper

The good points for me (other than the ones already mentioned) were:
1. Bielsa showed that he had a good plan to unsettle Liverpool. I can now be confident he probably has good plans for most of the other 18 teams.
2. Meslier.
3. How the team came back after going a goal down so early. Norwich conceded after 7 min last season. Lost 4-1.
4. Bamford took one of his 2 chances.
5. Costa and Harrison were good tonight and they weren't playing Dull city.

[leedsutdman]

I thought Struijk was better than Cooper

Agreed, thought he was very good. Hope Bielsa sticks with him. Proud of the whole team tbh, I thought we were going to get a pants up bumming tonight but we didn't look to far behind them.