Ben Johnson’s player ratings after West Ham United 3 Liverpool 2 in the Premier League at the London Stadium…
Alisson: 2
I don’t know, you can cryarse about it if you want, but that’s shite for the first. Weak arms floating in the air. Wasn’t off the ground. Absolute Mignolet butty. Fucking woeful for the second too, if we are honest.
Shite today. Worst performance for Liverpool. He wasn’t on his own.
Trent: 5
I mean he spent the game playing very, very centre mid. Basically the most centre mid you have ever seen anyone, and that includes all of our centre mids, every centre mid to ever play for Liverpool and frankly the game. It didn’t work, like. Was fucking us first half. No out ball on the right at times and then a bit ragged without the ball. But then, you know the freekick.
We are all sat in the boozer saying the following or a variant of the following: ‘you need a left foot on this and you just need to twat it. Twat it. No fucking messing.’ Hahaha.
Played centre mid again second half. Was shite. Was shite again second half. Might not be his fault but this idea to play him centrally wants catching in a cage and fucking destroying. Wank.
Virgil: 4
Mad game for Virg. That one where Antonio is one on one in the dying embers of the second half and Virgil just decided he couldn’t be arsed closing him down or trying to get across. Yer, I mean, I should probably be over there but, you know, I might just stay here. And then he plucks that tackle out the sky, absolute worldie. And spits some fury at him while he’s on the deck. Mad five minutes.
Shite second half though, like every other fucker. Bag of fucking rags.
Matip: 4
Did nothing wrong per se but was part of that performance so might need to be publicly flogged.
Robbo: 4
Should do better first half, really. Got in time and again down the left and picked no cunt out, even once. Not in it second half as an attacking threat and that tells its own story.
Fabinho: 4
Wasn’t in it. Didn’t nullify them on the break, didn’t really do anything. Liverpool where a fucking shambles throughout. Fell over for one of their goals dallying on the ball.
Henderson: 4
Spent the first half playing right wing with Trent playing centre mid. Didn’t work. Got absolutely two footed and should have volleyed that little cunt over the moon. Shite second half. Spent all game drifting out to stand in Trent’s position, which made no real sense to be honest. Made us worse as a footbal team.
I don’t really even know what we were trying to do. It was a fucking shambles. Shite. Dogshite. As long as I live I won’t understand that Trent centre mid diddle. Made the whole side weaker.
Oxlade: 3
Not sure, you know. Might have took him off the minute they scored the first. We took him off the minute they scored the second which was fucking half an hour too late. Ask yourself this. Would you sign him if he was on a free at the end of the season? Would you fuck. Shite.
Mo: 5
Couldn’t get in it. Got to wonder if the idea to play Trent centre mid and have no width at all fucked him. In fact, you don’t have to wonder. The answer is the idea to play Trent centre mid and have no width absolutely fucked him as a threat.
As long as I live I will never understand that. Can someone, preferably one of these tactic cunts at Liverpool, sit me down with a laptop and show me what our grand plan was. Because, honest to god, I don’t see it and I don’t think I ever will. West Ham didn’t even need to do anything really. They never played well. Liverpool just gifted them the fucking game. Christ.
Sadio: 4
Should score last minute to rescue The Reds. They didn’t deserve it so he missed. Good moral compass. That’s about it today.
Jota: 4
Waste of fucking time today. Not his fault.
SUBS
Thiago:
Come on and joined in the shit party. Was honestly shite.
Div: 7
Probably man of the match, great touch and turn and finish. Every other cunt associated with Liverpool Football Club today was fucking dog shite.
Taki:
Ran round a bit.
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Well, my mood has been slightly lifted by the fact yours is obviously worse. Thanks Ben.
Only quibble is with score for Ox. At least he was progressive with the ball. We became even worse once he was subbed imo. But no glory for anyone (apart from Divi obviously).
Perhaps an impossible exercise trying to judge them today.
I mean what is your favourite shit?
While I’m here….Everyone knows, not thinks, or feels, but knows that Tsimikas is more effective for us than Robertson.
It’s not personal Robbo is a great player, just sadly out of form
Your review on Trent is spot on. Why do we persist with playing him in central mid? He’s been performing excellently on the flank and now is not the time to experiment on his positioning. With that being said, his goal was wonderfully executed though.