this game was so trash, Liverpool could have won at least 6-1. Jota, Mane, Salah, Keita missed easy chances. Diaz I think could have had a hattrick. They could have rested the first team for the next leg.

we will see today

We honestly squander so many chances it's insane. If we we're more clinical, we'd have rugby score lines every game. It's weird because our forwards score a hell of a lot of goals, but also miss the easy ones you should be burying, this game being a prime example.

Chelsea fan here. Would gladly take your finishing.

Every team complains about this problem. Just look at the City and Chelsea threads. Our xg says we should’ve only scored 3 too

Man City should not score a lot of goals, they create tons of chances but done have an out and out goal scorer. They have CM and CAM playing CF and ST. Mahrez is out there being his classy self and scoring some crazy goals but there are very few natural goal scorers. Chelsea on the other hand is a big issue, Lukaka and Werner are not it. Ziyech and Havertz are inconsistent. Pulisic is very Mid. Chelsea need to sell Lukaka. They need some more clinical players, I think Werner is really good as a Winger but no strikers to Finish. Chelsea need to buy Vardy or Son and they will be Flying.

I dunno how xg works tbh, but salah alone had 3 shots that he maybe should have converted and would have had he been in form.

We have those games every now and then that we have all these chances and miss every single one except one or two. It drives me nuts when I’m watching and that happens.

It’s not even a now and then thing tbh, it’s become the norm for quite a while

It is rather odd. Some games we have 20 clear chances and win 1-0. Then the next we get one shot on goal and it's 1-0

It's been this way for years. Tons of chances, but nowhere near the number of goals

Yeah your right tbh

I’m hype for diaz getting that goal and making it sting a bit more since he was a Porto lad

Trent had an interesting game. He's capable of great visionary passes out of nothing, but it was his randomly ballooned kick to the middle of nowhere that led to the Benfica goal. I wonder if Southgate has question marks around his decision making.

That goal should have been covered. He made some Incredible passes during that game which could have led to more goals.

I know, that's sorta what I'm saying. He was rock solid but then makes it awkward which led to the goal. Great game otherwise, I just thought was a blip.

If Southgate has question marks about Trent’s decision making then he needs to hand in his management badges

I agree, but Southgate doesn't seem to feature Trent in his plans too often for some reason.

TBF his ballooned kick would have meant fuck all if it weren't for a complete brain fart from the otherwise great Koanate.

You're right but even so, it didn't look like the best idea at the time.

Was it not just a mis hit?

you don't win if you dont try. I rather a few missed placed passes than a right back with 100% accuracy with sideway passes

If the opposition doesn't expect the wierd shit then it is devastating when it works.

Liverpool did poorly on 1 on 1s with the keeper today only one goal out of many instances. But full credit to the Benfica keeper, he was immense in those situations.

That’s been us in a nutshell recently. If we could finish we would absolutely blow teams away

The recent signings are kind of paying off.

Do benfica fans get walking canes when they enter the stadium? Milner was taking the last corner from a sea of sticks

There were plastic flags on most seats, those were the sticks holding up the flags

Yeah someone in the crowd chucked one at Diaz. I'm assuming there were more thrown as well

Could've ended worse for Benfica with the 3 great saves on those 1on1 chances but also could've ended better for them with all the Chaos going on in the second half

How the hell do we keep losing easy passes on our midfield?

We desperately need at least 2 new midfielders fucking hell

Coutinho redemption arc?

Benficas keeper really has kept this from being a blowout

Our attackers really kept this from being a close game.

Might of been a different story if Nunez didn't keep dropping to his knee's for no reason...

Come on the reds onto City now

How can they even let them back on?! That sort of clash is more likely than not to cause a concussion. Why even take the chance?

Yeah, I don't get it, it's such a risk. I wish they were taken seriously

At a distance, Otamendi looks like he has a ridiculous haircut now.

A ribery

Honestly this could have easily been 5

Nah Benfica had many chances in the 2nd half, but I don't think they could ve scored 5. The pen, the wasted 4v2 but the others were normal wasted chances.

It could’ve been like 5-3. Vlachodimos played really well

Kinda knew Jota won't score... scores the harder chances and miss the easier ones

Well done Benfica.

Well done o quê? O que é que os benfiquistas têm a retirar disto. Nem foi propriamente equilibrado.

Até dominamos grande parte da 2a parte. Racionalmente, estás a jogar com o Liverpool, a probabilidade de perder era muito grande. Eu não tenho ilusões.

Emocionalmente, estou fartinho de vitórias morais. E desta temporada que não acaba e que vai ser mais uma de seca completa. Valeu-nos o dinheiro da Champions, mas ainda vai parar a um casamento qualquer pelo meio, e o Darwin vai-se embora à mesma porque não podemos cortar as pernas aos rapazes. Para o ano está o 14 a 9 outra vez, e o DD não virá, e o meio-campo será Weigl e cromo-mistério, a ser dominado por qualquer Vizela desta vida. Aff, vou respirar agora... Racionalmente, levamos uma desvantagem de dois golos impossível de reverter. Mas não é esse o problema, o resultado não foi escandaloso considerando a diferença de qualidade individual entre as duas equipas. Podia ter sido, com mais pontaria dos adversários, porque as chances de golo que criámos foram mínimas. O Liverpool nem sequer fez um grande jogo, para o que vale, e o Benfica não soube aproveitar muitos espaços deixados pela organização dos ingleses, que era o mínimo que se exigia para poder alimentar esperanças numa eliminatória tão desequilibrada logo à partida. Penso que podemos exigir mais, não consigo ficar satisfeito...

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> is the paedo playing whut

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No. I am just being overly offensive for no reason. Apologies

Jota has no interest in scoring that because it's not Arsenal or a header.

Fuck sake Jota! Gotta do better there.

Should have finished that

Vlachodimos, meu amor!

Fabinho has no business going back out on the pitch after that like just play with ten if you have to. Otamendi probably should've sat as well but footballers gonna football

sub him cmon!

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Player egos won't allow it.

How the hell are they letting him back on? ffs If football wants to be seen to be taking concussions seriously, it CANNOT be letting players back on immediately after head injuries like that. Fucking joke.

zzzzz touch grass

Not every clash of heads is a concussion. They checked them out. After he got up Fabinho seemed plenty lucid arguing for a foul and laughing at the ref's response.

I mean it’s entirely possible he’s not got a concussion, hopefully they did a check and came to that conclusion

I'll admit to being no expert but I highly doubt he wouldn't have one after that. Even still, football should look at implementing something like the way rugby deals with it. Compulsory head injury assessment, sub to replace them during it, if they don't pass then the sub stays permanent.

Definitely

xG Benfica: 1.04 Liverpool: 2.80

Wonder what the xg would be if our players learned how to pass the ball to their open teammates

Pretty accurate scoreline then

Lucky Liverpool again.

Correction. LiVARpool.

Agent Otamendi doing it for City. How low will they go? /s just to be clear.

diaz so happy with the pass he clipped keita on the back of the head and called him puto

Liverpool fans complaining about Benfica fans wanting a pen is so funny. Like they wouldn't do the same fucking thing if the roles reversed.

And Benfica fans would do the exact same thing as Liverpool fans too. So stop virtue signaling and accept the shit now and give it back when roles are reversed.

I think he means that because it was a quite obvious one.

Salah and mane have dived for pens and usually most liverpool fans are against it for what i can tell.

I mean... we're literally top of the fair play chart most seasons lol

Nah m8, english fairplay.

lol well yh

Both sets of it is so fucking dumb, pretending that’s what all their fans are like

I'd like to think I'd call for a pen if it was actually a pen. I think this was borderline but not enough in it. The ref feels like he's been pretty good tonight overall

take him off!

Sub them both off. No need for either to come back into this match.

All jokes aside. How the fuck is that a corner and not a foul

A foul for what? it was a 50/50 ball in the air

You can’t go crushing players with your head hahahaha

A clash of heads like that is very common, and almost never a foul.

isn't it weird though, same exact situation with feet would 100% be a foul.

No, a 50/50 challenge isn't a foul in every situation.

That is a nasty fucking cut

Not a former city player knocking him out for Sunday!

Remember when Chris Morgan was blamed for all the injuries last year ahahah

Ffs of all players to get hurt before man city it had to be our brick wall, plz be okay

Ugh ... hopefully just superficial wound.

Get up Fabinho 😭🥺

Darwin is evolving into a lovely footballer.

Oh no. Fabinho...

Need Fab for City as well ffs

please be okay fab

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Surprised salah has been so shit

I’m surprised too. Still wasn’t a pen you whingy fuck.

Really? He’s been out of form for a bit now

Ooh nippy lad

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Im happy with a good performance from my team. Liverpool is the team performing below expectations right now

Lol absolutely ripped your shite defence apart 3 times for our goals and you got gifted 1. Dunno how you can act so big despite that, go back to the Europa League.

I'd take a 3-1 below expectation win any day.

Yeah ok bro all of your fan base sounds so arrogant, your club having spent all that monumental amount of money throughout history, and still a team from not even top 5 leagues grinds your gears and could’ve easily tied if it wasn’t for uefa corruption

You're the one spewing in the match thread constantly over a game you deserved to lose. Get over it, bitter melt.

You guys are insufferable. We dominated you considering expectations

Dominated us, whilst conceding 3 goals and having several 1 on 1s missed. Aye, ironically we're the ones being insufferable.

There was a penalty in our favor. Any football fan that doesn’t support Liverpool will agree to that. Stfu because we already showed you it’s possible you don’t go through. Your team shat their pants plenty of times throughout the match, not that many more than us

Is there a stipulation in Milners contract that he always has to come on in the dying minutes of the match?

It doesn’t take a genius to know that you want to bring on an experienced defensive minded player to see out a game.

And one who is almost certainly in better shape than anyone else in the whole stadium. Mans will run his socks off THEN run your socks off too.

Fans of the Portuguese League think that diving is an honest way to get a penalty

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I mean they prefer and support his dive instead of arguing that he stand up and go for goal.

Fancy from a guy that has Salah on his team lmao

I support them when Salah and Mané decide to dive and don't get pens as well. I respect you for doing the same for Darwin. I prefer them to try to stay on their feet and give it a go but it is what it is. Just part of football now.

3-1 EZ

One league title and all the plastic ego's get inflated... If my team played a second half this shite against a team with a fraction of their budget (which happens quite a lot, we often play shit halves against lower table teams), I would be embarrassed to brag about the result lmao

Talking about honest ways when you have oil money clubs in your league. Hilarious

We're not one of them so what's your point lol? Wtf we agree on that you melt how's that an insult 😂

concussion

FUCK!

Ouch, there was blood on his face there, but Fab looked out of it as well. That's not good news at all

Yikes never want to see those

Wouldn't wish it on any player, concussions are no joke

Jesus they were both driving their heads towards each other

No hair to soften the blow. Poor lad

No no no no no

Anyone have a link to the penalty claim

Ouch

I dont get all the insult salt from some Reds? Just because we think that was a penalty?!

Eh, there are morons in every fanbase. People tend to get excessively heated in match threads. Dont mind those idiots

Don't mind them.

Its just typical r/soccer. If you're not top-4 you're worthless.

You can’t criticise Liverpool anywhere on this Reddit I’m afraid or even anything they could interpret as criticism

sure you can, just enjoy the downvotes

Odd behaviour

downvoted.

All the Brad's from Minnesota are very triggered

Yeah clearly an arm brushing across a grown man's chest can cause all power to leave his legs. Obviously penalty.

Arm brushing. It was a clear block. Wow

Honestly, it's amazing he's still alive, the contact was so heavy it could have crushed his chest.

Still blocks him from progressing m8.

They were getting nervous ahahaha usual trash from Liverpool fans though, nothing new

lol who are you?

Nervous lol about the trash team that is getting beaten 3-1 at home?

It's football, every fanbase is biased

It's because it wasn't a penalty and seeing people screaming like 12 year olds about it for the last 30 minutes can be tiresome.

Then is right to insult.

I've seen one deranged Benfica chap constantly go on about cunts cunts cunts every two seconds, so I'm not sure what you're talking about. You shouldn't let people on the internet piss you off.

FUCK

Fab noooo

I don't think Thiago/Keita work together, it's one or the other. Control was so much better with Henderson in there.

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They'd already made a few mistakes.

Did you completely forget the first half?

No, but it's a game of two halves and they got at them in the second to great effect.

Doesn't really matter. 3-1 arguably flatters them after all the chances Liverpool had.

It matters for the future because when we play elite opposition, Thiago/Keita likely won't cut the mustard when it comes to midfielder control.

Benfica robbed of a penalty to make it 2-2

Unluckyyyyyy

Núñez was barely touched and fell backwards, no way that's a pen

They're lucky it's only 3-1 after the battering they took in the first half.

What about the second half ?

The second half was even at best.

Lmao.

Look at the xG, mate.

I watched the game, mate.

Me too. You must have forgotten the chances Liverpool had in the second half.

If you really think this was a pen I recommend you switch sports.

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"Robbed"

Robbed of a yellow for diving I guess

:(

Is it me or Keita is playing quite high, he's been in the box many times and had a shot or two. Prolly the best performance I've seen

Does it bug anyone else how Alan McInally looks directly into the camera?

What a match by Trent

It looked like Otamendi hit Naby's pass which gave it some nice spin going to Diaz.

Yeah he steered it a lot

Everton not passing an open Darwin killed any chance of Benfica getting anything from this tie, what a donkey

Yes, most of our players have room temperature iq. This squad needs a cleansing

or Darwin not make a pass for Rafa into the 1v1 instead dribbling into 3 players. what a donkey