First State Kopites

Perspective - 4 wins in 5 or a bad loss to Forest? S4 E15

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Welcome to the latest edition of First State Kopites – a podcast for Liverpool supporters in Delaware and friends of those Liverpool supporters.

It’s episode 15 of our 4th season. I’m Paul and I am joined by Daz and Enrique. It’s October 26th, Reds just beat Ajax in the Champions League group game to qualify for the knockout rounds in 2023.

Want to review what happened since we last talked about Liverpool beating Oil state team #1. To be clear no xenophobia, supportive of Iran competing in the World Cup, at least those players seem OK at speaking out about issues.

West Ham home:

  • Nunes - wow. I could argue that he has a higher ceiling than Haaland - Discuss…
  • Henderson created great tempo
  • Alisson Becker!!!
  • Even second half, Firmino, Zouma almost OG
  • A lot made of a few random chances at the end - Fabinho looked off the pace (we’ve been forced to play him and the other midfielders too much)
  • When do we ever get a penalty any more?
  • Keeping one of Hendo and/or Milner on the field is a thing
  • Watching it live and then watching it back - much easier to blame Trent for everything than the swirling wind that created problems in a couple of situations

    • Forest away - what a great noise they made:) Hope they are among the other 10 teams that should get relegated:

    • Another shit fan base - surpisingly oblivious to the fact that their fans could have been in the Leppings Lane end. Same old Scousers always cheating, really?
    • Mitigating circumstances - I think this list is long:
      • Injuries - even Salah and VVD may have picked up injuries
      • The bench…
      • 3 games in 140 hours - Gomez, Firmino, Milner at least needed more rest
      • Just the bounce of the stupid Nike ball
      • Still should have won based on the first half chances. Easy targets in this game, but we looked relatively subdued between 65 and 85. Not finding the right pass?
      • Right before the Gomez foul, the commentator says, Liverpool have upped the pace. 10 minutes after the goal he says Forest have seen little of the ball. Gets lost in the final narrative but we take one of he chances, this is nothing but a Liverpool win.
      • Tierney - of course he books a Liverpool player first, Kounate!!! The inexplicable second half decision to bring play back when Liverpool are on the break. And he gave every soft foul in their penalty area.

        • Ajax:

        • Played this one with 5 days rest - 100+ hours between games.
        • Started off slow - very open passing lanes and Ajax had 4 or so moments in the first 20
        • After Salah scored we figured it out
        • More on Darwin Nunes - could have had more - the one he scores he fights through a lot of grabbing

          • Up ahead:

          • Leeds and Napoli  - what do we hope for?

            • We’ll be back next week after Liverpool have played Leeds. Thanks to Enrique and Daz.

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