Liverpool are the luckiest club in the league and it will never end

Vault Dweller said:
That argument about the squad Fergie left has really annoyed me in the last week as it is just blatantly not true regardless. Here's the players left in the squad Fergie left:
Goalies - DDG / Lindegaard
Defenders - Rafael / Evra / Rio / Phil Jones / Johnny Evans / Chris Smalling / Nemanja Vidic / Buttner
Midfielders - Valencia / Anderson / Giggs / Carrick / Nani / Ashley Young / Scholes / Cleverly / Fletcher / Powell / Kagawa / Zaha to come in
Forwards - Rooney / RvP / Chicarito / Danny Welbeck
Youth coming through - Jesse Lingard / Michael Keane / Tyler Blackett / Adnan Januzaj / Will Keane / Sam Johnstone

Scholes would retire end of the season and while that squad needed some reinforcements that is not a squad that is as poor as I have seen suggested multiple times on here or online in the last week. Hindsight helps where we would see some of the young lads would have good careers but it also shows how they could have helped also. Multiple title winners in that side and while they might not have won another I firmly believe the reason we did so poorly after Fergie left was because we didn't hire the right manager. The squad didn't need Moyes, it needed a stronger character.
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I would have to disagree with you here. It was a pretty poor squad compared to City or Chelsea at that time. Giggs was near retirement, Scholes too, Rio, Vidic and Evra were also past their prime. We were playing a lot of games with a 40 year old Giggs and with the likes of Cleverly, Young, Jones and Smalling in our starting lineup. Kagawa was supposed to be a big signing but he kind of flopped. RVP was a short term solution as well. Only Fergie could win EPL with ease with that kind of squad and I believe that we would have won UCL as well, were it not for the robbery and that famous Nani red card.

Moyes inherited that squad and he had a disastrous transfer window where he only bought Fellaini instead of getting Fabregas. Also the experienced guys in the dressing room didn't help because they never fully accepted Moyes, even Rio fully admitted that. When Utd hired LVG, we lost our identity as a club and have been in shambles ever since.
 
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Pexbo said:
It’s not luck that an obvious red was missed?

It’s not luck that they were saved by offside because a few millimetres of a players ankle who was moving away from goal to collect the ball?

It’s not luck that they conceded 13.5x more shots and 10x more shots on target and somehow survived?
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Well, offside is offside, I have seen clearer reds not given and they have a good goalkeeper.

On balance, they didn't deserve to win the game...but when you're setup to counter-punch / create chances in transition and you have assembled the perfect squad to do it, its not 'luck'.

They remind me of Atletico Madrid in many ways. The ugly sister compared with 'beautiful Barca and Real...but bloody effective
 
B20 said:
I am sure there must still be videos of you routinely kicking arsenal off the park with nary a breath at the whistle from back then
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They're good at whining and creating a victim narrative Arsenal but don't believe for a second they didn't give as good as they got in those games - Vieira, Adams, Keown, Cygan, Petit, Campbell, Lauren, Ashley Cole etc...all well capable of handing it out.

Do you really believe Gary and Phil Neville bullied them out of those games?
 
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