Liverpool 2-1 Saints - Match Thread

[adrian lord]

Score guys to shut up this commentary team 

[Wsaint]

2 minutes ago, Viking Saint said:

He was onside, but I think Ekitike is fractionally off

Ekitike was miles onside.

Edited 23 September, 2025 by Wsaint

[Saint Fan CaM]

Officials doing their bit for a Pool win.

[obelisk]

That's a corner. Ref balls it up.

[whelk]

Stop being horrible about Downs you bastards

[trousers]

Corner, surely?

[adrian lord]

Not a pen ?

[sfc4prem]

Blatant corner 

[Sheaf Saint]

How the fuck is that a goal kick?

[Patrick Bateman]

Charles is very good ... 

[Viking Saint]

How the fuck is that a GK???

[Lighthouse]

2 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

I think they're all referring to the previous ball.

Just looked well timed to me and our defence switched off, I’d have to see it again.

[adrian lord]

Fecking Liverpool love-fest now

[obelisk]

Ref's happy with a Liverpool win.

[Matty's Caddy]

Damian downs. You do not belong in this league

[trousers]

Just now, Sheaf Saint said:

How the fuck is that a goal kick?

Match being played at Anfield maybe (just a wild hunch)

[RedWillie]

Damien Downs is utter gash. He's had 5 touches and passed all of them to Liverpoo

Edited 23 September, 2025 by RedWillie

[Jonnyboy]

Damien Clowns 😎

[Patches O Houlihan]

We'll take that

[Sheaf Saint]

Just now, Matty's Caddy said:

Damian downs. You do not belong in this league

I'm struggling to think what league he does belong in.

[saint michael]

Well done saints. Good effort. Please buy a gk 

[AlexLaw76]

2-1

Liverpool got away with one there. Looked pretty decent throughout.

However, Downs cannot be on the pitch for the first team for a very long time.

Incredible how bad he is.

[Saint86]

Another game lost to a defensive or gk error. A very bad joke.

Downs looks like a shell of a player - clearly struggling for confidence.

Charles, Downes, Quarshie, and Manning all had good games imo. Jelert as well looks decent. 

Edited 23 September, 2025 by Saint86

[Wsaint]

@West end Saints what are you confused about? 😂

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

Nathan Wood has to be a regular starter. Now watch him get dropped for Stephens. 😡

 

[Saint Fan CaM]

We did ok. What I want most is a complete re-think from Still for the starting 11 on Saturday. If not I think I’ll just fucking give up.

[Patches O Houlihan]

1 minute ago, trousers said:

Match being played at Anfield maybe (just a wild hunch)

That's why their winner wasn't offside too. If you read the small print you have to be 15m offside if Liverpool aren't winning and you ar into the last 10 mins at Anfield

[Wade Garrett]

Really decent performance.  Please don’t bring the usual suspects back for Saturday.

[Jimmy_D]

Good performance, deserved more.

[Colinjb]

We emerged with our dignity intact and some positive things to discuss.

I'll take it.

[Toadhall Saint]

Never good to lose but thought we played well

[trousers]

Full time

Decent performance 

Is Still strong enough to stick with those that played well tonight? I doubt it. Stephens and THB should start on the bench vs Middlesbrough, for example, but Stephens guaranteed to come back in at least....

P.s. £9m down the pan on Downs. Textbook Sports Republic. 

Edited 23 September, 2025 by trousers

[davefizzy14]

We deserved to take that to penalties. Very good performance.

Edited 23 September, 2025 by davefizzy14

[Saint NL]

Better than expected.

Promising signs of we can play like that in the league. The defence looks much better without certain big egos.

Downs should t be anywhere near the team, he's awful.

[Wsaint]

Played well, lost due to an error and playing against much better players, I'll take that. Need to carry this intensity over to Saturday.

[SfcPhil]

Darn it. Were never going to get our hands on the League Cup, are we?

[egg]

2 minutes ago, Matty's Caddy said:

Damian downs. You do not belong in this league

He belongs in non league. I've never seen a worse first touch from a professional footballer. Appalling. 

[obelisk]

Oh well. 

[whelk]

Pleased for Still - will be encouraging for him

[Lighthouse]

Just now, SfcPhil said:

Darn it. Were never going to get our hands on the League Cup, are we?

We’re on Merseyside, so we could always nick it. When in Rome, and all that.

[SambaMaverick]

Nowt to get excited about and definitely not a new dawn.

Liverpool kept us at arms length like we were a toddler.

[Saint86]

48 minutes ago, SWLondon Saint said:

Tbh I wasn't keen with Manning that half, look how close Jelert was getting every time it went wide on the right. Manning just stands off and lets them get going with pace at him, no idea why.

Agreed. But hes a good player for champ level (not for the prem) which is where we are. He offers very good delivery in the final 3rd - and its our CB and GKs that are costing us matches, not manning at LB.

[Andy Hill]

Please no Stephens for Saturday.

[Challenger]

Despite the loss, Still must surely now know what players might do a job for him this season. And ones, both present and absent from that game that wont.

[madge]

Manning was booked because he got so frustrated as downs couldn’t control a football.. he’s really poor. What was spors thinking.. he’d struggle to look decent at AFC Totton.

fine margins but saints never the right side of them. 

[whelk]

1 minute ago, egg said:

He belongs in non league. I've never seen a worse first touch from a professional footballer. Appalling. 

He’s an international 

[sandwichsaint]

If he can find a winning blend on Saturday Still might just have lift-off.

[beatlesaint]

Decent effort that.

I wouldn’t be putting Capt Jack and Harwood-Ballsup back in Saturday but I bet Still fkin does !! 

[Wade Garrett]

Just now, SambaMaverick said:

Nowt to get excited about and definitely not a new dawn.

Liverpool kept us at arms length like we were a toddler.

Not sure we were watching the same game.

[Saint86]

Notably, Downs and Robinson showed they are not ready for this kind of level.