"The bond between fans & players is ever so important & anyone suggesting players should be able to perform at their very best without encouragement from supporters knows nothing about football. As the saying goes 'Football without fans is nothing'. "
"I'd be more gutted if it was the CL, but lets be honest it was to get through to last 16 of the europa cup, but I still really wanted to get through, but that's football. I hope you stick around for next season Pepe. It was the best atmosphere in years at anfield last night. YNWA"
"Well done our 12th man! We have been missing the noise lately like the west brom game. Please continue the noise the players need to feel love and the visitors cant handle the heat! YNWA"
"Well said Pepe, silly defensive mistake again cost us the game but the tie was lost in the 1st leg. Magnificent effort though and it shows we are getting there. But we do need to cut out these defensive errors as they are killing us."
"More proud than ever to be an LFC supporter today. The team kept their heads up and the supporters stood behind them. I can only hope this continues!"
"Now that we are not in europe....so more rest for remaining 11! Must win for any qualifications next season
...Pepe n Luis should stay put and maybe just maybe, need Big Andy for deadballs! As a supporter for the last 40years, I'm still feeling proud of Liverpool Football Club to the bone! YNWA PEOPLE OF LIVERPOOL & WORLD! xoxo Papa SyedPrinces Avenue L8"
"I have a really good feeling about our end run of games especially with our new additions...11 out of 11 wins?? Possible! Just need to stay solid at the back! YNWA"
"No pressure (only support) from crowd last night enabled the players to "relax" and have a go. This is something we as a football supporters need to remember for the future. The burden that we place on our players since we "demand success" every season can be overpowering. To the players last night well done for restoring some faith to us fans. "
"cont..
We are a work in progress, attack is improving fast, midfield still needs tightening up and our defence needs minor alterations however IMO the future looks promising."
"We are playing great football and if we keep this level of performance up between now and the end f the season it will be hard for any team to take even a point of us. We now can focus on the league and putting together a proper run of wins that might just put a smile on our faces in May. This team deserves CL Keep believing! YNWA"
"I am happy for BR that he won't get attacked by the doom merchants. It was a valiant attempt but only to be expected that it was a bridge too far. Now we can concentrate on the league with no more distractions. If we are to keep Suarez etc then we need to get as high up as possible. Cup competitions are nice but not pivotal to the cause. "
"cant fault the players or the crowd last night they faught to a man everyone of them ,we lost our rythme with double sub bet cant blame the players ,not easy to adjust to that sort of tempo ."
"we beat a champions league team with ease even coming from a goal down! FSG should back rodgers this year spend atleast 40M on 3 top top player such as cont "
"ALONSO, Arbeloa and a striker similar to sturridge(pace,power,technique) and midfielder which can play the holding role but burst into the box like jack wilshere or even sissoko from newcastle. and thirdly a central defender to replace carra cont"
" but with pace and power to dominate the centre backs such as chiellini from juventus. Just 3 signings of experience and class will help the team and just imagine with suarez coming to his peak years we can be a force again. THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT! YNWA!!!!"
"I hurt for the loss, but hurt fades with time. However, the pride in watching the team fight to succeed, and hear the 12th man like no other team in sport can match, is the reason i'm a Liverpool fan, and THAT is a feeling that time never has, and never will fade. So proud! YNWA! JFT96!"
"StoneKopite- well said pal. The crowd was a credit to LFC last night. What makes it special to be a red. Team showed fight but come short as too often this season. Not happy with the season overall but if this a one off and success is round the corner, then I'll take it"
"Pepe's sincere and appreciative words, together with the positive tone of the messages here, make me feel so lucky to be part of this wonderful club. We find it very difficult to take any kind of loss but if we can react with such positiveness, then eventually we will get back to where we belong. Still work-in-progress. YNNNNWA"
"Pepe, hulk's goal was stoppable by you. you have been below par for a couple of seasons now and have cost us games. you should look in the mirror at why king Luis cried on his knees last night and ask yourself the question as to why you dont care as much."
"Yesterday showed what we and the world knows; we have the best fans in the world. If you noticed, every pundit talked about the special atmosphere at Anfield being a crucial cog to getting the result we desired. They never say this about any other club. I am so chuffed to be a part of the greatest family on the planet. "
"Now we need to stick together and produce this type of performance week in week out. Fight for your lives every 90 minutes, like you did last night and you will do this FC and us supporters proud.Come on You Reds!!!YNWA!!"
"Now we need to stick together and produce this type of performance week in week out. Fight for your lives every 90 minutes, like you did last night and you will do this FC and us supporters proud.Come on You Reds!!!YNWA!!"
"Am I disappointed, sure I am, can I complain? Maybe for the 1st leg. But surely not for last night. We're out, that's ok, I can see that we tried, that's all that us fans ever ask for, to give 100%. I loved how the Kop booed each time Zenit had the ball, If we make that a permament thing, teams would be scared to come to Anfield."
"Believe me. I am getting visions of more trophies in our trophy room. ECL/EPL/FA/League cup..you name it. I had same visions in the 70's. Now its coming back. Sure a good sign boys. Keep walking tall. YNWA!!"
"defence needs to be sorted we are weak at the back we need 3 solid players in that part maybe 2 strikers who can score goals we need to fight for top 5 and get back in !! fsg need to spend big lets show them asap banners not fair on BR"
"Buddha130673 are you kidding - it was Rodgers crazy double subsution that cost us the match. We looked like we were gonna score 5 at that point. Players and fans played their part, yes - but Rodgers put a spanner in the works. Its normally the OTHER team that responds to letting 3 goals in. Daftest subsitution since Rafa brought Gerrard and Torres off."
"I miss rafa Benitez. With him we would get through to the semis at the very least. Get him back ASAP whilst we still have world class players like Suarez. BR you need to win all the remaining games to keep your job. Cont.."
" I was impressed with Allen. Subs were stupid plus Andy Caroll would have been more threatening than Jonjo. Crowd was amazing. We need a stadium with over 100k capacity to win all these games!!"
"Just a shame Sturridge and Coutinho were cup-tied. A bit more guile up front and we would have scored another few goals. If we won our final 11 league games it would put us on 72 points, surely enough for 4th. We play Chelsea, Spuds, and the Bitters all at home, denying them points. Come on, boys."
"Luis Suarez you played with so much devotion to the badge last night (as did the rest of the lads) but special mention to you coz your face at the end said it all, the struggle wasnt enough and the disappointed look is what encourages me that you want nothing but to win - the board need to match this look! YNWA"
"All this support from the fans is great, and all the positivety on these comments is super, but we all know that should we not beat Wigan at the weekend, all that support will be replaced by accusations and criticism."
"Buddha - I echo TOPLIVERFAN's comments. What did he expect really? He persists with stupidity. Taking one off fair enough but not two players which were bossing the game. WAKEY WAKEY BR."
"We won 3.1 against a top side and still the haters hate. If BR didn't make any subs they would be saying it was his fault and should have made some. I'd hate to have the constant negativity of these so called fans. Imagine anfield full of 42k moaners, grumbling away. You wouldn't get an atmosphere like last night when it was full of real fans who support us no matter what."
"REGRETS I had a few, but then again too few to mention.what a brillient display of guts and determination lastnight.only sorry i couldnt afford to go But my living room was Rockin!Gutted for Carragh.he way better than that.Was a bit surprised by BR dble change when things seemed to be on a roll.Bet Zenit left amazed at the support For LFC! Brillient.YNWA!"
"Amazing game- well done everyone involved, especially the fans... Wolud 27 point out of 33 be enough?? It is a funny sort of season. The bookies have us at a best price of 14/1 to finish top four which is shorter than I expected so they must think we have a chance."
"thank YOU pepe for being a loyal servant to the club, i hopoe you stay because i believe we are on the threshold of a bright future.if we olay thye rest of the season with the same passion and commitment who knows were we could finish."
"A very good performance. Let's carry this into the league now putting a string of wins together. Important to continue the work and have a solid platform going into next season.
Carra congrats on your 150th European!
Would be nice if you could stay on another year...maybe...possibly...thinking about it...?"
"We didn't win because of Brendan's stupidity by bring in the subsutes when the going was good. Brendan, you only make subs when that player can make a difference to the game and not to your fancy."
"I can't fault BR for subsutions. Some say "we were doing well, why change it ?" We were doing well and he brought on fresh legs to try & finish them off. Unfortunately it didn't work. We should have had a penalty & the defender marking Suarez should have been off by half time for persistent fouling, but that didn't happen either."
"The whole team played well, especially Suarez, Johnson, Agger and Lucas. Lucas was brilliant... Gerrard, Henderson, Allen and Lucas in the same team? Only when we have just one up front. Enrique only got forward when Allen and Henderson came off (In the way) and Assaidi came on and linked up with Enrique brilliantly. Great future partnership"
"That's exactly the performance the team needed to show themselves they're good enough. Enrique and Downing proved every critic wrong. Whole team was so committed. Potential springboard for the rest of the season. "
"i think probably our youngster should develop some skills or hire a skill coach to help the lads develop some skills..and also the likes of steven gerrard and jamie carrager should help the futur lads how to get possesed of their skills and it should shared ast the futur players who comes to lfc"
"It was a great performance yesterday apart from the result. Reina, I must add that not only in the stadium were great fans, but I live in Hungary and I was with a group of Hungraian Liverpool supporters and we were singing with the KOP loudly. YNWA "
"Maybe at fault with the goal as he went down far too early and really made up hulks mind for him, reina has this annoying habit of second guessing where the striker is going to place the ball and shows his cards too early rather than just diving to the side where the the shot is hit, defensive mistakes have cost us this season big style but we need to move on and finish the season strong!! "
"Everyone played so well last night, so unlucky not to go through! The crowd and atmosphere was amazing just like it always is. Keep your head up boys."
"At last - one of players has got it:
"To win and win is the only target. We need to go step by step, try to climb up the table and make sure we win as many games as possible.We can only focus on the next game"
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"Lets not off Rodgers he is in his first season we playing some really good stuff just need to get these silly but costly mistakes at the back and be more ruthless in attack and we cud finish in a decent position judge Rodgers this time next year the report so far is a grade B- hopefully by next year it could be B+ A- ynwa "
"Totally agree with Pepe, you fans at the game were awesome even after going a goal down. If we all can keep that up for the remaining home games hopefully we can get a european spot at least. YNWA."
"Looking forward to seeing Rodgers team in the premier league next season, we are playing some attractive football add to that a little more experience and it will will be exciting times for the mighty LFC, the fans did us proud last night and so did the team! "
"I was bit surprised Hendo coming off too, Allen was blowing a bit so I could see physically he had to come off! and thought Downing was progressive all night, he was probably hoping sterling could provide a little bit of brilliance and Shelvey to be fair had one of the best chances of the game and if that went in everyone would have been saying great subs... very fine margins in football!"
"The problem with suso, sterling and sometimes Allen they get brushed off the ball too easy, it happened to JA twice before being subbed last night BR noticed this and replaced him."
"to be fair I saw that with allen too, but as I said he lack of matches showed, the lad was knackered, but good to see him perform well, suso is a different type of player, he will be a top top player in time, and you dont use sterling to defend, (although that is part of the game) you use him to penetrate and pull teams out of position, he will also get better!"
"we clearly need to add a bit of physical stature to the team, a strong centre mid, and a solid centre half, also we will have kelly back soon! Wisdom and Sama will also be a year more experienced along with players like Coady, morgan and Yesil, the future is looking bright."
"It will be nice for Br to get a proper summer transfer window sorted and evolve the team, and hope the club (ayre) dont let him dont like last summer, really hampered this years progress, so thats Br will be here next season...."
"Agger was impressive driving forward last night I'd like to see him play a game in front of the back 4 just to see how he would cope he might surprise a few."
"sort of similar to Luiz at chelsea, it funny you say that, I suggested the same thing earlier in the season, probably wont happen though, but a good suggestion!"
"What a Game, brilliant display of the guts and the strength we know as LFC. Lets have this support at every match, Playing at 5-5-5 formation requires the fans to give it lungs.
YNWA"
"We just need to bring our big boy Andy back to complete a great diverse team who can gel, SG+AC=Lovely mate, he is a hard worker when believed in, and he is a potential pseudo-scouser.
YNWA"
"Highly commendable that most comments are so positive after being knocked out of every cup and being 7th in the league having played a game more.For me it's not good enough, the players are mostly either too young or average or both and so is the manager.We deserve much better, sort it out FSG or sell it on."
"we are so proud of you guys but yet so sad that we didn't get thru...now top 4 is fading away but still not beyond our reach...all we have to do is try to win every game left in the league,get more consistency, we'll get there..YNWA"
"We must try to win as many games as possible. Also must beat big team to prove we are still a compeive team in the PL. The top 4 may be difficult,but it could be a bonus."
"great to see so many positive comments...even though there are still doubters. BR made the subs because the players have played ALOT of matches lately. plus assaidi did really well, jonjo less so but still is more attack minded and could have scored. future looks bright! "
"team really starting to click, and new attack will only get better. CB needed to challenge MS and DA next year, same with left back. and hopefully a powerful quick defensive mid. yes we miss Alonso but maybe Macherano even more. i like lucas but he is our only option for def mid. "
"I do believe the subs were the wrong choice but we needed fresh legs and it's important for the youngsters to get a crack at big game nights. Maybe a need to reinforce who knows. Assaidi diced up some players but needs to have the guts to have a shot."
"We have to look at it game by game. That night was a good win and a valiant effort, and we should take confidence that when we play a game like that, we can dominate. We just have to play each game like we're THAT team. YNWA"
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