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Julien Laurent

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
876 total appearances

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ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And we said they just stopped playing.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

They took it for granted that they were going to win that derby and that game.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And Augsburg came back in the second half and took the chances well and put a lot of intensity.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And I thought this afternoon was...

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

The same Hamburg were really intense and went for it, and Bayern were far too open defensively, far too exposed, almost like if they thought, we don't really need to defend, it's only Hamburg, even away from home, they're not that good, and they're not that good, Hamburg.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

We know that they're going to fight not to go down, back down after just coming up last summer.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And I think they took it for granted after the Luis Diaz goal and it's just not good enough.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Again, Pavlovic, Kimmich in that midfield were at times overrun.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Neuer came back and had to make a couple of really good saves as well to not concede more.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

When we saw earlier the stats and the expected goals, it's 2.3 expected goals against Bayern Munich.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Since when do Bayern Munich give away so many chances, so many opportunities?

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

So, disappointing again.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

They moan a lot about the referee after the game, which I think shows you that they know their performance was not good.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Because to try to deflect the attention onto the referee is because company and the players knew that.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

And the referee wasn't good.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Let's give him that for sure.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

But it's still not the reason why you didn't win the game today.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

Yeah, he's still in charge.

ESPN FC
Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

He had a massive meeting on Thursday afternoon with Pablo Longoria, the Marseille president, and Mehdi Benatia, the sporting director, where after what happened in Bruges, as you mentioned, the 3-0 defeat combined with the win from Benfica and the last-minute goal from Trubin that knocked them out from the Champions League, which is really an embarrassing result.

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Ekitike helps Resurgent Liverpool to Victory

It's a failure from the derby for the club not to have qualified.