Stephen Bullivant

@davidlynchlfc I'd argue we could do with losing in the CL for the greater good long term. I never normally advocate for Liverpool losing games in cups but not making the CL will set us back years imo. We're not winning the CL also so better to go out now and play once a week

I didn't understand how the Man City and PSG games were big for Slot because those two are way ahead of Liverpool right now, so surely results against Wolves, Spurs, Burnley and - coming up - Everton meant more. But this turned into a humiliation and will likely damage him.

@Chris78Williams Is Slots training methodology not less intense to prevent injuries? He's had a good injury record from every other club and did last season also.

@DFakExGoalanke Yep fair.

@Bullivant Well no it can be both and Gakpo on the bench

Wirtz 43 and 52 touches last two games. It's truly incredible we've seen him play in his position for a month and thrive and now back to playing him in a position he never played before and where he can't get on the ball. The Newcastle goal and assist are irrelevant

@jimmybagels306 Agree fully. A lot of our fanbase are judging this season as a normal season/comparing it to last season and for a variety of reasons, it isn't. It's a transition season, we'll finish 4th or 5th and be inconsistent. We played well today and there's signs it's getting better imo

Liverpools best league performance of the season. Shite and sloppy for 2 minutes and conceded a stupid goal. You lot need to calm down. It wasn't boring, we created lots of chances

@DistanceCovered Without being dramatic....I think he's cost us 10+ points this season

Still not over Konate. So much harder to win when one of your centre-backs keeps setting fire to the house.

@ViktorFagerLFC He's not quick enough to play in Slots system for me. Same with Mo this season. We get them in 1v1 situations all the time but they don't have the pace to beat a man

I got nothing against Gakpo. He's a solid player that excels as an enabler in a functioning team. But we're not a functioning team. And haven't been all season. So his limited capabilities are brutally exposed, weekly. That's on the manager.

@Sourin401 @TheRedmenTV Yeah don't get me wrong id have loved a dominant performance of last season but we're not that team now! Yes we have been unlucky with some of the first goals were conceding from low xG chances

@Bullivant @TheRedmenTV Agreed, didn’t think we were too bad. Super unlucky with the goal, that’s just our season this year.

Thoughts on last night?

@RinoCucchiara @TheRedmenTV If your standards are of league champions then yes it was below If you're viewing it as a team in transition, completely devoid of confidence then it was improved with small things to build on I think we'll finish 3rd or 4th this season so my expectations are based on that

@Bullivant @TheRedmenTV Wow, you obviously hold very very different standards to me as to what is expected from an Lfc team!

@LFCRed4life @TheRedmenTV We can do better still for sure but the players are broken. Zero confidence so not making the right pass or finish. It needs baby steps to rebuild their confidence and last night did a bit of that by coming back from a goal down and being more solid

@Bullivant @TheRedmenTV It wasn't ok, it was absolute garbage, it was slow and pedestrian with virutally no danger to Sunderlands goal whatsoever, as your stats show us in 45 minutes of football we created 1 decent chance and then goes on to show us we had 1 shot on target in the next 45 minutes, dismal

@LFCRed4life @TheRedmenTV This was the first half. They broke our press too easily early on but apart from that, we controlled the game and kept them at arms length. We're not the team we were last season, if you view it as a performance from a team in transition then it was okay. Something to build on

@Bullivant @TheRedmenTV Yes it was, it was absolutely abysmal, a first half as bad as most have seen at Anfield, a pedestrain 2nd half with 10 minutes of huff and puff because newly promoted Sunderland looked like they could leave Anfield with 3 points & we only got a point thanks to Chiesa

@BrianDurand56 Agree I don't know what game they're watching at times. Carragher always overly negative when he Comms on our games, I think to avoid being accused of biased

Not great, but not as bad as Carra and this other boring commentator are suggesting.

I don't think Liverpool played that badly there. One of the hardest away games in the league and they didn't create much and Haaland had a quiet game. We went there to contain and for the most part we did. A few moments decided the game. We'll be fine

@AnfieldSector @_pauljoyce That's fine, it isnt a catastrophe. We have 6 players who can play in the Double pivot with Trent on top when needed. Buy a winger and a CB rather than a sub par 6

[🟢] NEW: In Liverpool's view, it was Zubimendi or no one. They do not believe there are available alternatives. [@_pauljoyce] thetimes.co.uk/article/martin…

@RichACartwright Itll go with whoever wins the league. Macallister/Foden/Rice Shouldn't be but it will be

@stighefootball He won’t be, but Watkins really should be in the conversation

Been mulling my vote for POTY and it's so, so tough. There's at least 4 incredibly deserving candidates; I can't remember a season like it. It's usually between one or two for me (and KDB is usually in that conversation!) so this is, err, really confusing.

@ptgorst @IanDoyleSport Not sure he's the one to single out. He's doing what he's been asked to do (albeit wasteful at times). The midfield hasn't linked well with the forwards recently and we've played low blocks which isolates him. Szobo and Grav form having more of a detrimental impact for me

Anfield analysis from @IanDoyleSport touches on Darwin Nunez, Dominik Szoboszlai and, more positively, Virgil van Dijk. liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football…

@joel_archie Robinson always seems to play well against Salah. I'd go as far as saying, he's up there with the best versus Mo. He was exceptional today again

Daniel Sloss. Brilliantly brave and needed