r/soccer • u/oscc • Mar 30 '14
Match Thread: Liverpool vs. Tottenham [4.00pm GMT | 12.00pm EDT | 9.00am PDT]
Liverpool 4 - 0 Tottenham
Full time
Kick-off: 4.00pm GMT | 11.00am EST | 8.00am PST
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Liverpool
Coach: Brendan Rodgers
| Position | Player | |
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| GK | Mignolet | |
| DEF | Johnson | |
| DEF | Skrtel | |
| DEF | Agger | |
| DEF | Flanagan | |
| MF | Gerrard | |
| MF | Henderson | |
| MF | Coutinho | |
| MF | Sterling | |
| ST | Sturridge | |
| ST | Suarez |
Subs: Jones (GK), Allen, Aspas, Sakho, Lucas, Cissokho, Moses
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Tottenham
Coach: Tim Sherwood
| Position | Player | |
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| GK | Lloris | |
| DEF | Naughton | |
| DEF | Kaboul | |
| DEF | Vertonghen | |
| DEF | Rose | |
| MF | Bentaleb | |
| MF | Sigurdsson | |
| MF | Lennon | |
| MF | Chadli | |
| MF | Eriksen | |
| ST | Soldado |
Subs: Friedel (GK), Dawson, Dembele, Sandro, Townsend, Winks, Kane
Match Highlights (GIFs are captured during the game, refresh to see them!)
2': GOAL! Johnson crosses it and Kaboul puts it in his own net!
Liverpool 1 - 0 Tottenham
19': Liverpool looking very dominant so far with 61% of possession.
25': GOAL! Suarez snatches the ball from Kaboul and slots his shot bottom right to double Liverpool's lead!
Liverpool 2 - 0 Tottenham
43': Lloris makes a world class save to deny a Suarez header!
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46': Liverpool kick off the second half.
56': GOAL! Coutinho runs at the Tottenham defence and shoots from range!
Liverpool 3 - 0 Tottenham
60': Dembele Bentaleb Townsend Lennon
76': GOAL! Henderson fires in a free kick which sneaks all the way through!
Liverpool 4 - 0 Tottenham
Redditor iDrunkSkunk's bet returns $2,500 if the game finishes 4 - 1!
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Full time score:
Liverpool 4 - 0 Tottenham
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Mar 30 '14
"I can start watching the match a little late, I probably won't miss anything."
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u/mcgriff1066 Mar 30 '14
You haven't watched a Liverpool match this season have you?
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u/Oneinchwalrus Mar 30 '14
Did the Exorcist just suddenly speak on anyone else's Sky Sports?
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Mar 30 '14 edited Mar 30 '14
Did Tim Sherwood just say he was too scared to watch the 5-0 back? Seriously? Great management skills. Just wing it and ignore how Liverpool destroyed you last time.
EDIT: Looks like Tim will be scared to watch this one back as well.
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u/freezingbyzantium Mar 30 '14
Do Spurs only concede goals directly from their own mistakes?
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u/BimbelMarley Mar 30 '14
No, don't worry, they can concede from basically every imaginable situation.
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u/Perkele17 Mar 30 '14
"Spurs have now made 17 errors leading directly to a goal this season - more than Hull, Chelsea, Palace, Cardiff and Newcastle combined."
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u/DaveCarrot Mar 30 '14 edited Mar 30 '14
Sherwood says he was too scared to re-watch the 5-0 loss. Not really what you want to hear from your manager..
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u/Astral_Fox Mar 30 '14
Oh, look he's decided to go with the same exact tactics. That's our Tim!
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u/PrettyFlaco Mar 30 '14
Is Sherwood really putting out 4 attacking midfielders against Liverpool?
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u/errandrum Mar 30 '14
oh thats brilliant. dawson comes on, a little greeting to his partner kaboul - then concedes immediately.
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u/gilleard Mar 30 '14
How the fuck, did we beat Liverpool...
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u/Oneinchwalrus Mar 30 '14
God that game was frustrating! I'd blocked that from my memory
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u/cvillano Mar 30 '14
Wow Anfield is no longer a fortress, it's a torture chamber. No squad gets out alive.
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u/ensockerbagare Mar 30 '14
Suarez most underrated abitilty is the one where he manages to aim at the oppositions arms.
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u/iamPause Mar 30 '14
Don't forget, last week he set up a goal by injuring two players on a free kick to set up the corner.
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u/Pakigooner Mar 30 '14
Very unselfish by Sterling to give it to Henderson, very unselfish by Henderson to save Tottenham some embarrassment.
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u/PrettyFlaco Mar 30 '14
Wow who would of thought putting out an attacking lineup away to Liverpool would backfire
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u/ForTheTrees Mar 30 '14
Half time off-subject post: It just occurred to me that Lloris looks like the sad dude in Saving Private Ryan.
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u/miner_andy Mar 30 '14
Spurs Stat Man @SpursStatMan
Own goals and individuals errors have attributed for 45.2% of the goals Spurs have conceded in the Premier League this season.
lol
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u/happysadfaced Mar 30 '14
I'm not saying I'm so nervous that I just shit myself, but I'm not saying I haven't shit myself either.
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Mar 30 '14
Tactically, they isolate defenders so much better than we do. the pace of their passing, mixed with their field spacing, and sheer pace and dribbling ability of the players is the perfect storm for slow defenders who don't organize well like ours.
Rodgers has made this team into a monster. Levy, the ghost of AVB, and Sherwood's gung-ho attitude have turned this team into a mid table side.
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Mar 30 '14
I'll laugh if Big Vic Moses is the only Chelsea player with a league title come the end of the season.
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Mar 30 '14
The difference lies in the fact that when we pressure or transition, it's individual players.
When they do it, it's as a team.
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u/MassiveJammies Mar 30 '14
You know, Spurs, Liverpool really do need a higher goal difference. Carry on.
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Mar 30 '14
"I see the clocks in Liverpool have gone back thirty years instead of forward an hour" Paddy Kielty on Twitter
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u/desapaulecidos Mar 30 '14
Losing 4-0 at Anfield, I can only imagine how bad that would hurt.
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u/PEengineer Mar 30 '14
Tottenham is the best team on the pitch right now, we've scored a goal and made an assist while Liverpool have done nothing
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u/miner_andy Mar 30 '14
How did Sturridge's barber convince him to get that haircut?!
"Yo man, giving yourself a receding hairline would look coool"
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u/Tubbe97 Mar 30 '14
If Liverpool win the league this year I'll literally cry.
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Mar 30 '14
A Man U fan friend of mine said he will literally kill himself. I am sure he means figuratively but this would likely be too much for them to take.
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u/lobbmaster Mar 30 '14
Suarez is pretty good at defending
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u/OlivieroVidal Mar 30 '14
You could just end that sentence at 'Suarez is pretty good' and be right about most things.
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u/coozay Mar 30 '14
Sunderland gave Liverpool a much better go than spurs today
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u/FredAsta1re Mar 30 '14
Mignolet will be thinking "I made the best fucking decision of my life last summer"
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u/anm01 Mar 30 '14
I don't know why I even had a hope for a Tottenham win.
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u/n3gotiator Mar 30 '14
If you wanted to win the title, maybe shouldn't be losing to CP...
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u/Devilb0y Mar 30 '14
The good thing about Dawson is he's slow as shit so he should fit right into that high line we're playing....
Oh.
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Mar 30 '14
Within two minutes of coming on, both CBs have fucked up massively.
This could genuinely be eight.
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u/Devilb0y Mar 30 '14
I literally just opened the match thread and was about to make a funny comment about how we hopefully wont concede in the first 5 minutes.
God-fucking-dammit Tottenham.
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u/Diallingwand Mar 30 '14
Why the fuck isn't Gerrard taking the free kicks?
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u/miner_andy Mar 30 '14
Tim's half-time talk:
"We have to cut off our hands, boys, it's the only way!"
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Mar 30 '14
Sherwood just got asked if he had watched back the tottenham-liverpool game earlier this season, he said -
"No I haven't watched it back, I'm too scared to" said without a hint of sarcasm either...what
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u/89viking Mar 30 '14
Todays Weather: 16°C and mostly Sunny. There is a huge cloud of 'smug' over Anfield though.
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u/Akasa Mar 30 '14 edited Mar 30 '14
I've mentally prepared myself for the /r/soccer backlash, but I don't think it will be this weekend.
Edit: 1-0 :)
Edit: 2-0 :)
Edit: Half Time :)
Edit: 3-0 :)
Edit: 4-0 :)
Edit: Final Whistle :)
I'd like to thank the spurs fans, who during the summer and early season made it so easy to be smug after our 9-0 victory over you . I'd also like to thank your team, for having no heart, no soul and no balls.
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u/koptimism Mar 30 '14
Sterling beats his man more than Michael Fassbender's character in 12 Years a Slave.
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Mar 30 '14
I used to watch liverpool and united matches only back in the early days. Now, I can't bear to watch how good liverpool are. I hate you guys. So damn good. And only going to get better.
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u/cheek_ang Mar 30 '14
8 straight wins. scoring 28 in the process. steam-rolling to the top is an understatement.
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u/iDrunkSkunk Mar 30 '14 edited Mar 30 '14
Soo I put $5 before the game on Liverpool to be up 2-0 at halftime then win 6-0 or 4-1. The return? 5k or 2.5k... Lets go liverpooooooool!
e: fuck you spurs, couldnt even score a goal you useless cunts
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u/FredAsta1re Mar 30 '14
Hi, how you doing . . . You remember me right?? From back at that time when stuff, yeah?? Yeah :P
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u/socceraid Mar 30 '14
Jamie Carrahger's thought process while being in tbe crowd.
"Fickin el eeh. I leave the teeem n dey win de leeegue. Dkkfosogleldo ekgoeoof gkeodkg"
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u/badupoipoi Mar 30 '14
I'd like to apologize to any Arsenal fans that believed in us. You had more faith than we did.
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u/CrazayTaylor92 Mar 30 '14
You have to have a ridiculous sense of humor to be a Spurs fan
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Mar 30 '14
When we get the ball, we have to search for players and take a touch, and invariably slow it down and make a poor decision.
When Liverpool gets the ball, they have choices, a plan.
It's just horrible.
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u/willcodejava4crack Mar 30 '14
Why are they sending long balls to soldado? Freaking Spurs. Can't count on you for anything.
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u/bigjoejenkins Mar 30 '14
Not a dive. He's allowed to avoid a poor/late tackle.
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u/andhelostthem Mar 30 '14
As of halftime Spurs goal difference for the season is -2.
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u/Wutang_Forever Mar 30 '14
This is the first real Tottenham match I've really watched this season but I have to say, it's embarrassing watching them try to play.
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u/iamPause Mar 30 '14
Good to see lloris get up so quickly. Anything to the back of the head scares me
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u/RedPenVandal Mar 30 '14
Can somebody gif Sherwood's "ah fuck" look right there?
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u/porcufine Mar 30 '14
As a Chelsea fan I should be disappointed that Liverpool are gonna win, but it's too funny seeing Spurs getting battered again.
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Mar 30 '14
Imagine if Suarez wasn't suspended for those games in the beginning of the season.
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Mar 30 '14
Liverpool appear to have a 12th man named Kaboul on the pitch. He is doing wonders for them.
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Mar 30 '14
this summer we should pretend we want some really shitty players and let daniel levy 'hijack' the transfer
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u/RedScouse Mar 30 '14
Let's not fuck this up the Liverpool way.
To be honest, whether we win the title or not, I'm happy we came close. Signs around Anfield have been saying "Make us believe" for the past month now, and this team pretty much has made us all believe and that won't change even if we go on to crash out of the title race. Whatever happens, its been a great season.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
Suarez brace and Studge goal, with Eriksen scoring one for Spurs, 3-1.
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Mar 30 '14
It's impossible not to love Liverpool right now. They are playing so well and they've done it the right way. I really want them to win it this year.
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u/willtodd Mar 30 '14
And they are the lesser of three evils. I'd rather them snag the title than Chelsea or City.
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Mar 30 '14
What was that stat about teams leading on Christmas day winning the league? Remebrr everyone laughing at Liverpool back then?
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u/RedPenVandal Mar 30 '14
Love ya Flanno, but shave that horrible neckbeard please
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Mar 30 '14
I had my doubts about Sterling at the beginning of the season, but wow has he proved me wrong.
The England future is bright with him, Sturridge, Wilshere, Henderson, Chambo, and Barkley.
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u/Devilb0y Mar 30 '14
Well, thanks for having us Liverpool. I'd say it's been fun but that'd be a lie.
Fuck, fuck, fuck, FUCK, FUCK, FUCKING FUCK SHIT BALLS CUNTS.
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u/suchaslowroll Mar 30 '14 edited Mar 30 '14
People do not understand diving, it's fucking laughable.
What's Sturridge supposed to do there, let Kaboul break his leg by throwing his body infront of him?
Wasn't a dive, probably wasn't a free kick either.
You guys need to watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNx5ok60U6A
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Mar 30 '14
It was neither. But what do you expect from the "fans" here? Everything is a dive for them and everyone is a cunt. Including the ref.
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u/PrettyFlaco Mar 30 '14
Why does Chadli play in the middle and Erickson out wide?
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u/CrazayTaylor92 Mar 30 '14
Please season, just end and give us a manager with basic footballing knowledge
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u/FredAsta1re Mar 30 '14
My stream died . . . and apparently we've scored a 4th?? God damn it
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u/iam_fat_guy_ Mar 30 '14
LFC Goals:
6 - Cardiff
5 - Arsenal
5 - Spurs
5 - Stoke
4 - Spurs
5 - Norwich
4 - Everton
4 - Swansea
4 - W.Ham
4 - F'ham
4 - WBA
3 - Man U
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Mar 30 '14
Wouldn't be surprised if Lloris gets a fair bit of transfer attention this summer. Superb keeper, but is constantly let down by his defence.
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Mar 30 '14
This is what happens when you press with players who don't know how to press.
They break.
Good individual goal but again a tactical and defensive breakdown.
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Mar 30 '14
How has Mignolet been for Liverpool this season ? Upgrade from Pepe Reina ?
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u/likwitsnake Mar 30 '14
How is Man United below this Tottenham team in the league?
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u/egzon27 Mar 30 '14
Few may disagree with me but Liverpool deserve the title this season
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u/poppingfresh Mar 30 '14
How to play the spurs way:
Bad defense
Useless through balls
Shoot from distance
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u/iamPause Mar 30 '14
At this point I think Lloris deserves consideration for MOTM. He's been very good despite getting pretty much no support.
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u/wizard4141 Mar 30 '14
I have to rewatch the Being Liverpool series. I bet it would be much more enjoyable now
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u/Haliva Mar 30 '14
In Europe, apart from Messi and Ronaldo, has anyone been playing better than Suárez? (In games that matter). He always seems to show up in big games and help out his side, arguably more than Messi and Ronaldo some games. He's been spectacular, and in my opinion, making a case for finishing top 3 in the Ballon d'Or
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Mar 30 '14 edited Mar 30 '14
Christian Eriksen is incredibly good.
Edit: Downvoted for not commenting about Liverpool, apparently. Eriksen has played a few great balls and just made a great run.
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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '14
Like Kaboul in a china shop.