I'm sure I'll jinx it, but along with Brentford, Brighton is very impressive to start the year

Spurs are no longer a big six club.

Back to earth for Arsenal now too.

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Back to earth for Arsenal now too.

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We all know how that felt last season after starting 5-0-0.

This league is way too good from top to bottom. Every single EPL team has money, coaches, etc. to be successful. No one is going to run away with it anymore.

I wonder if Arsenal is starting to feel the effects of the match load their players have endured. They did not look up for the intensity of Brighton. Title races and deep cup runs start to take their toll eventually.

Hope we go after than right winger playing for Trabzonspor in the Turkish league.

Dude is balling.

Please Liverpool give me some joy after the debacle that was yesterday.

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Please Liverpool give me some joy after the debacle that was yesterday.

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Preach

The white kits are sharp

And once again the midfield is just getting assaulted.

We just aren't good. Too many flaws and completely on our heels. Might as well play a low block and hope for lucky counter

We're so unbalanced it's hard to describe.

I'll say this though, this color commentator can blow me. Dude is the most negative, anti-Liverpool announcer I've heard and it's old. You can be critical without being a ****.

Completely toothless for 3 straight halves against meh competition. Just completely disjointed. Ive seen enough of Isak and Wirtz.

I'm also just still salty from the awful Aggie football mess

Tyler Adams making Kerkez look like a b**ch on that challenge lol

We'll take it.

He's so underrated. He's never going to give you special, but he's the exact type of player Liverpool need.

Isak is finding his form and it couldn't have come at a better time

100% agreed. He's the annoying type of player you want on your team and hate having as an opponent.

Jacquet is balling

Meanwhile MC and Sunderland are playing the game of the season!

Ugly, but we will take 3 pts any way we can this year

Not pretty but don't care. A win away against the Cherries is great.

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I'll say this though, this color commentator can blow me. Dude is the most negative, anti-Liverpool announcer I've heard and it's old. You can be critical without being a ****.

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Stephen Warnock is a huge red but I think he tries to be critical to avoid homerism and also because he loves and cares about the club.

I've noticed more than a few people on this thread who love Liverpool but **** all over the team week to week. And even more on the football board.

I hate Vitality stadium. It looks like the camera is mounted on a blade of grass. I also have several buried memories of waking up early and watching us getting beaten in that low angle slop fest.

Not pretty, but that's a tough place to play. The team controlled the game for most of the match.

Gakpo created another goal, but won't get an assist. He is still our only continuously dangerous threat.

Jacquet with another impressive display today. Him and VVD are two elite passing CBs with great positional awareness. In general, the defense feels calmer and more robust than last year.

Barcola still struggling to fit in. Just doesn't feel like there is enough space for him to utilize his strengths.

The whole attack and midfield is still just wildly unbalanced, and with playing Araujo we aren't really getting anything from the fullbacks either. I'm okay with it right now because they have locked in on defense, but I hope Iraola uses this international break to reevaluate how he's going to utilize the attackers. Because right now we just aren't getting anything out of Barcola, Munoz, Rio, Wirtz, Szoboszlai etc. We aren't really getting anything out of Isak either but he's just so lethal in front of the net, if the ball falls to him even once he's putting it in the back of the net.

Idk if you need to get back to a more traditional 4-3-3 or what, but it's just very unbalanced.

Don't shoot the messenger.

Jacquet was awesome and MOTM. Special player already.

Araujo continues to be a huge signing. Him and Jacquet have really stabilized the back line. 3 straight clean sheets in the PL since our championship season. We miss out on pushing forward and service with him, but oh well.

Winning at Vitality is really tough. Their first loss in 23 matches there.

Just got to figure out how to get the attack going. Barcola is so new obviously, but this is such as different animal in the PL and not being on the PSG juggernaut. Going to be interesting how that shake out, and take awhile.

Our next 4 PL matches are against the current top 4 teams

Isak and Gakpo injured but not sure how serious. Isak going back to Liverpool

Some of the detailed reports and findings are beginning to come out about Man City's wrongdoings, and they are UGLY.

- Arranging illusory contracts with commercial partners and other to artificially inflate the club's revenue and reduce costs.

- Filed misstated accounts and concealed their true state of finances from auditors and regulators

- Breaching EPL and UEFA spending limits

- Breaches of a duty of cooperation and good faith towards the EPL, along with efforts to disrupt and frustrate investigations

Look, I was as skeptical as anyone when these charges first surfaced, and I still have my doubts they'll actually get expelled. But some of these violations are staggeringthe exact kind of corporate misconduct that brings federal law enforcement to your door in the States. Arranging dummy contracts and fabricating revenue isn't just a sports violation; it's corporate fraud and conspiracy. In the business world, that leads to liquidation, bankruptcy, and federal prison sentencesjust look at Enron.

I'm still not entirely sure how the Premier League handles this. A massive transfer ban, hefty fines, and a 2535 point deduction each season for the next decade feels like a realistic middle ground (makes them sweat buckets each year and cripples them). That said, given how severe these findings are, outright expulsion from English football is legitimately on the table. It really is that bad.

Add Jacquet to the international break injury list…hamstring strain.

Isak and Gakpo officially out for MC on Sunday. JJ is good to got though. Losing both Isak and Gakpo is just killer obviously. Need them back for this brutal stretch.