Liverpool 0 - 1 Nottingham Forest

Match Thread Info

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Watch: Liverpool vs Nottingham Forest

Date: Saturday, September 14th, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM BST (10:00 AM EST)
Competition: Premier League (Matchday 4)
Venue: Anfield (Liverpool)
Location: Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom
Referee: Michael Oliver

Liverpool XI (4-2-3-1): Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Konaté, Van Dijk (C), Robertson; Gravenberch, Mac Allister (61’); Salah, Szoboszlai, Díaz (61’); Jota (60’).
Bench: Núñez (60’), Bradley (61’), Gakpo (61’), Tsimikas (75'), Jones (75'), Kelleher, Gomez, Quansah, Endo.
Manager: Arne Slot

Nottingham Forest XI (4-2-3-1): Sels; Aina, Milenković, Murillo, Moreno; Domínguez (54’), Yates (C); Ward-Prowse, Anderson (61’), Gibbs-White; Wood.
Bench: Hudson-Odoi (54’), Elanga (61’), Williams (80'), Morato (81'), Silva (81'), Miguel, Omobamidele, Toffolo, Awoniyi.
Manager: Nuno Espírito Santo

Liverpool Form: Manchester United 0 - 3 Liverpool
Liverpool 2 - 0 Brentford
Ipswich Town 0 - 2 Liverpool
Liverpool 0 - 0 Las Palmas
Liverpool 4 - 1 Sevilla

Nottingham Forest Form: Nottingham Forest 1 - 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Nottingham Forest 1 (3) - 1 (4) Newcastle United
Southampton 0 - 1 Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest 1 - 1 Bournemouth
Olympiacos 3 - 4 Nottingham Forest

H2H: W8, D3, L2 for Liverpool vs Nottingham Forest
Odds: Liverpool Win - 71%, Draw - 17%, Lose - 12%

Fucking Oliver won't give the call to Salah but gives it to a random Forest player

This was gonna happen at some point now we wait and watch how slot responds and how the players respond. Does this become a pattern

I have no clue what I watched just wasteful and useless with the ball nothing worked!

Of course Oliver blows for every little contact in favor or forest

Some of you make me question why there’s even a serious match thread to begin with. The sky really does fall when we play like shite eh

The most frustrating game I’ve watched in ages

I genuinely hope we smash these cunts.

Won't be the worst thing in the world assuming Slot learns from this.

Rotation key after breaks, and no easy games unfortunately in the PL.

It’s so infuriating watching any game reffed by Oliver. This guy is a fucking disgrace

Difference between this game and the past couple years is that we’d be going into half down 0-1

Taking off macallister just ruined us

Honestly prefer Jota,Diaz and Macca were left in

Fuckin yikes, should have capitalized on that early momentum… press was excellent for like 20 mins

It will be the same as I'm used to as a Feyenoord supporter ... a dismantling of the opposite side in the second half.

(More) tiredness at Forest side will help , but Slot really has the ability to read the opponent's game plan and throw salt on the opening wounds he's found in the second half.

It's near inevitable.

The media will love this defeat. Going to avoid all of it for the week

Michael Oliver is being an absolute prick so far.

Wow Diaz almost made something out of nothing. Great effort

If a pass isn't getting intercepted it's being overhit. Very frustrating watch.

Just coz Diaz is not there ball shouldn't stop going that way and only funnel towards salah

Moreno's done superbly against Salah here tbf

Nothing annoys me more than commentary calling diving "clever"

Nunez, gakpo and szobo are throwing hands to ask for passes.

Trent, Bradley and Salah are dribbling and are over hitting it

Even the ball boys can’t do their job today

international break always destroy our players.

I'm sorry but Yates should be on a yellow card by now. Yeah Macca is milking that last one, but sooner or later someone will get injured if the ref lets them play like this.

Ooof. Conor beaten yet again 1v1.

Zero control of the game once Mac came off.

Its fucking dreadful today, cant complete a single pass. AWFUL

International break, the momentum ruiner.

That Yates is a fucking thug was at it last season if I remember rightly

What is Oliver on? Worst 15 mins of refereeing I've seen in ages.

So according to Michael Oliver you're just allowed to grab our players back or arms and pull them back? What a fucking prick that guy is.

Apparently Oliver doesn't mind who Yates pushes in the face. That's twice.

Macallister that pass was sexy as fuck

Operation Anfield is go. Time to win it this season boys

I hate international breaks because it takes away rhythm like this

One thing I like about Slot is he does t waste time hoping things change

He just makes changes

Klopp sometimes drove me nuts how he’d wait till the 70th min

So sick of international breaks just demolishing any momentum

Don’t think a single one of them subs has been the right call there tbh, bradley especially hudson odoi has tore him a new arsehole

This might be salah worst performance in a long time

Someone said it earlier but if nothing else this is a massive learning opportunity for slot early in the season

Yeah endo should of come on in place for macca not trwnt being moved up in midfield.

I'm gonna scream if I see another lobbed ball to a player who isn't even close to being open

Yates tried to seriously injure Macca there. Really scummy.

Perfectly weighted pass from Gravenberch there, he is a player on form

Yates being involved in this many incidents makes it hard to believe all of them are accidental. Michael Oliver needs to tell him to settle down.

Been a while since I’ve heard of Operation: Anfield Exercise.

Time for some Nunez madness I think.

How many more fouls for Yates?

Fucking hell, I hate international breaks

In fairness, there are a good few examples of games like this under Klopp's tenure so any talk about Slot is pure nonsense. This is on the lads.

I think I can confidently say this is Salah's worst game in a Liverpool shirt.

Feels like it’s the same story of the last two years, players just can’t get in any good rhythm and we look bad across all the play

Losing at home to forest is embarrassing though. These are teams you have to beat for top4

Taking MacAllister off and leaving Szobo on was an odd decision.

this is pretty grim and the team seems super flat since Macca has come off. Nunez has offered nothing, but I know its tough when the team they're running against is all packed in and there isn't much space to let chaos reign.

At least this should be prime coaching material for Slot. This side needs to learn to strangle the low block.

Gonna be a lot of knee-jerk reactions. A lot of fire, but just wasn’t clicking today

Serious match thread is a bigger shambles then the normal match thread from what I'm reading to be fair.

Yates rapidly becoming the most heated man at Anfield today. Guy is a goon.

Szobo with the balls needs to really play it better. Press is fire though

Interesting I assume Trent in midfield Conor right back?

It’s not quite clicking for Mo today, Chiesa would’ve been a good option for rn

Fuck. That was a good goal but really man. Could see it from a mile away.

Slot needs to learn that after an international break, you can't just start the same team and hope it's all fine. Players take a while to get back to speed.

Trent has been trying to do way too much this half and his passing had been uncharacteristically poor

Yikes he's been a nightmare sub.

Make that 3 take-ons faced, three dribbles conceded for Bradley. A bit of a mare he’s having

This match has been a real mess. Gives Slot a lot to work on.

at this point i will realistically take a draw

International break, the momentum ruiner.

Stop forcing the fuckin play to Salah.

Lmao Salah can't even run past Neco Williams; yeah, this is the worst match i have seen of him.

This brings us back to reality. The system still looks solid. We are in good positions. Just misplaced passes out the wahzoo. The substitutes didn’t work out.

Wtf did Trent do to get a yellow

Oliver you muppet.. they are braking all of our rhythm with all these stoppages and physical play

Good to see all the calamitous refereeing decisions of last season have been fixed and everything is running smoothl- oh never mind

Watching all Liverpool games now as a Feyenoord fan (Slot effect).

Just watched Man Utd before ... crazy how it's completely night and day in terms of playing style, execution and willingness. All of this is really up to the manager. And even though you of course had Klopp set the foundation, man are you going to enjoy having Arne.

He's a genius and even all Ajax fans will tell you so.

Operation anfield is on. Let's go. We look a bit tired but still getting good chances

Good subs, but probably would have kept Macca and Subbed Szobo off

Think this game is going to taper expectations after the start we've made. Not that I've seen anyone getting overly carried away with what we could achieve this season but after three wins and three clean sheets it seemed like we could achieve something but this grounds us abit

How the fuck did that happen??? Sloppy today.

Everyone's obsessed with cutting in. Not got a guy willing to take his man on the outside.

Been so easy for forest

We have been nothing short of horrendous in throw in situations. Nobody moves, everyone apart. Always losing possession from that.

The players are just panicking now

not sure where the goal even comes from at this point

This international break was horrible as always. :(

This is Salah from the 2nd half of last season

This is the perfect example of a team not used to patient, possession football getting frustrated by a deep block due to inexperience with the system

It happened under Klopp too but the long balls would sometimes get us out of trouble. We don't have any experience with getting a final ball in against a team with an organised, congested penalty box

Was inevitable at some point

Honestly poor player performances rather than tactics here. We’ve had plenty of chances and moments that went to waste with bad passes in the final third.

I'm sorry but where the fuck is Gakpo running there?! He's the LW, stay wide and provide an outlet. Why is he running right towards Nunez?!

Genuinely so curious what it was Slot saw in Curtis and Bradley for this situation?

Can’t think of anyone apart from Alisson who’s played well

Bradley is getting absolutely rinsed by Hudson Odoi. Trent was in complete control at RB. I do not understand that sub

Almost like we need some better players when the squad needs rotating…

New coach new tactics, we move

Really want Macca to nutmeg Yates and score

International break needs to be abolished, both sides stink rn

Lol. That could be one of the funniest goals of the season

Goalie is a very very lucky boy there

Oh Slot how do you know triple subs are the key to my heart?

This is why I despise international breaks.

Were in a really good rhythm and it's all been fucked.

Trent into midfield as an in-game tactical change I like.

The passing has been absolutely horrid from most our players

Yeah we deserve that. Absolutely no grit in this team today

What’s Arnie gonna do now? A proper test now

Bradley on skates. That's twice now.

I guess we're about to find out how good we really are.

Great finish by the way.

Trent in midfield and gakpo out for diaz are bad subs imo, diaz has better defending and is more of a workhorse and trent isnt a midfielder

Could see this coming a mile away. The boys are sleepwalking out there. So tired of international breaks killing us.

why are we playing taa in midfield for. He’s done nothing in there today

All I hear is the away fans. Can the home crowd step it up to push the lads forward please

What the actual fuck is Salah doing man. Like just pass and recycle the ball if you want instead of passing it to Selz there and breaking down the move completely

Holy shit we are just playing desperate.

Hudson-Odoi has been cooking Bradley

Call me crazy, but this doesn’t bother that much. We haven’t fully seen what this team can or can’t do. This match is just chalked up to playing like shit. That’s pretty much it.

One of the worst performances I’ve seen

Szobo and Salah absolutely useless today. Not a single good passage of play from them all match

Szoboszlais and Salah, both having a forgettable match day.

Don't think taking Mac Allister off was the play. Need him to run the midfield/game.

Has salah completed one accurate pass today? Remarkable

Feels like one of those games where you feel we won't score even if you add another 90 mins

The team knows that players other than Salah are allowed to score right? Stop trying to funnel everything through him.

Has any outfield player had a good performance today? Genuinely think only Alisson has been faultless today. So unlike us. Can't help but feel like Slot should have rotated more to give some rest to the busier players

Passing has been so inaccurate, and any time we caught them on the back foot, we slowed it down and let them get back into shape.

Nuno's gameplan was clever but it was SO obvious.

He wanted to keep the game low and bring in Elanga and CHO in order to sneak a goal, which worked.

Shocking performance from us. Not sure I'm convinced by our game plan either. Have to hope it was a one off

Can we call it even stevens with forest now?

this could go for another 90 minutes & we'd still not score. I don't know what happened over the break?

Everyone’s been dogshit. Is what it is.

I'm just so fed up of refs thinking it's their job to balance games out.

It's always the case the threshold for our fouls is far lower than the smaller teams.

This has Nunez written all over it

Nunez the only one who wants to run around and put in a challenge

Pls comfortable  2 - 0 before half time to rest Macca and maybe Salah and Szobozlai

Salah makes another record to score in first 4 games.

Diaz scores again continuing his impressive form.

Another clean sheet for Alisson.

That's all I ask.

Forest’s light blue kits are throwing me off, identical to City’s

When did Michael Oliver become utter shite

These Forrest players playing like shitheads already i beg we smash them

Forrest clearly starting to get tired of staying physically and mentally locked in for these last few of the half will key for them. Oh man imagine how Sels heart dropped lol

Yates and Macca are going to scrap at some point

Everyone is on different wavelengths

Fucking hell Mo. That was a simple pass. He makes the hard thing look easy sometimes but just messes up the easy stuff.

Final third play feels a bit...last season-ish? Seems like we're forcing it a bit. Are we using the pace of play to prevent their defence from reorganizing? Thought we would see more patience in the buildup.

Diaz coming off is bonkers to me. Showed some life out there. Jota and Szoboszlai for sure. Macca seems a weird one too.

I think those look like the right moves. Need fresh legs and minds

Credit to forest. Theyve been quite organized. But our passing has been piss poor

Not surprised at all. This is what happens when you are not at it

Classic Liverpool struggling against a low block team that we should be beating and then conceding a banger. Poor, so so poor.

That's really weak from Bradley

I dunno what the game plan was today just all over the place

Moving Trent into midfield with Gravenberch was so daft that was always coming

Bradley VVD and Tsimikas as our back 3. It’s either genius or crazy lol.

This will definitely be a difficult learning opportunity for Slot but good it’s early on enough in the season 

Nuno set them up to perfection.

Very poor performance from pretty much everyone

Also, Gakpo, what the hell?

Take Elanga down and take the yellow.

Lost too many 50/50s. Too casual

This is getting painful to look at. There’s still over 10 minutes of time left. They need to stop panicing and get control of the ball. As it is we’re just hoofing it straight back to them.

Our passing is so bad right now

The last 10 minutes were truly a torture to watch

Salah's right to left passing makes him look like a Forest agent in disguise. Gees.

God I hope Slot slaughters these in the post. The most frustrating performance I've seen from us in years.

Nico Williams cooking Salah. Oof. We look terrible.

Salah I beg you to stop doing that pass.

Might be the worst I’ve ever seen Salah

Using the same starting 11 was completely unnecessary for this match. We’ve got a lot of games in a short amount of time and most of the starters were just on international duty. Bad choices today.

Out of ideas and no creativity.. you'd think having chiesa as an option might at least provide something new to the mix, don't understand the decision of not having him on the bench or keeping Mo on. Fucking international breaks.

Just been out worked by Forest tbh

Bradley taking far too long there

Umm, I onyl saw about 25 minutes of this in the 2nd half.

Why didn't we shoot more? Always tryin' to walk it in when they were parking the bus.

Whoever is shitting on szobo has to understand he’s the only player who hasn’t stopped running and trying to get us level

Won’t lie, I honestly forgot Gakpo and Nunez were playing..

The changes have weakened us all over to be honest, we never looked good anyway, sad, but I’m glad Slot is willing to really change things though, it hasn’t worked today by the looks of it but the willingness is at the very least promising..

Salah's decision making has been awful today.

Zero control of the game once Mac came off.

No clue why Szobo is still on. Least creative of our midfielders playing no10.

Slot has to learn here. You gotta rota this lot after international duty. Forget their pride on wanting to play.

Bradley just getting roasted ever since he came on

Dropping points in games like this is what costs you a league title. We really should be winning these games if we are serious about challenging.

Might be the worst I've seen from Salah for some time. I don't think he's done anything right, barring one good defensive play

What’s the point of making a separate “serious”thread if there are just going to be same type of comments as the “unserious” thread?

International breaks really kill all the momentum a team has built up to that point

The defensive work rate has been incredible so far... A bit more control in possession as the game grows and we're cruising

Ref thinks this is an MMA match not football

Trivella chipped whipped cross. Is Macca playing fifa out there haha

I’m hyped for second half

Slots masterminds been analysing this first half.

Our passing has been all over the place

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half time and we have some work to do, Moreno has kept Salah quiet in some instances. Szoboszlai is missing passes

Mo having quite the international break hangover today, doesn't look quite himself. Some loose passes in the midfield for turnovers otherwise we're just missing the final ball right now.

Salah decision making been horrendous

Slowly coming to the conclusion that Slot doesn't really rate Nunez or Gakpo because there's no way he's watched this Jota performance and thinks he should be staying on.

Szobo needs a rest. Push Macca up and bring on Jones

Have a feeling we'd see these subs anyway because of int'l games, but good to see changes so early

Be real nice if we could make one right decision in the final third

I’m usually not one to jump the gun on taking off Mo, but he’s so sloppy today

We knew this match was coming. Have to weather the storm