"IMPORTANT WIN!" | Liverpool 2-0 Brighton | Maych's Match Reaction

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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SPEAKER_2 (0:35)

Oh, yes, Liverpool 2, right and nil.

Paul Machin (0:40)

I did not expect that to be as, I don't want to say anything as stupid and as like disrespectful as like easy or whatever, but straightforward, probably the word, far, far more straightforward than I expected it was going to be. And that was because Liverpool scored first, Liverpool scored twice in the first half of the football match. Liverpool then didn't do loads of stupid things, which has been done at times over the last 12 months or so, just too many times.

And Liverpool defended for the Lions as well when they needed to. There's a couple of really big moments. Brighton have got a big chance at 0-0, and they put it over the bar, and that's kind of it. You know, there's one other one where they're playing around the 18-yard box, cop end, and like Iraloa's throwing himself in, and Jacque's throwing himself in, and Carlos is back in it. We're all like, talking like, no, this doesn't go in. We're not having this. And that's so contagious as an attitude because it wasn't one of those games where the crowd was bang up for it. And we've got a couple of them recently where you need to see that performance on the pitch to really juice it up. And we saw it and it wasn't even like the attacking players and again, being on the top. The goal's been so far away from you.

Means that you don't quite get that same level of elation, even though we did celebrate the goals well. Of course we did. But what we got, I think the biggest moment of celebration came in the defensive where and the one who really stood out in that regard was Ronald Araujo.

SPEAKER_2 (2:08)

Ronald Araujo.

Paul Machin (2:11)

Whatever. Araujo.

SPEAKER_1 (2:13)

Whatever. Boss.

Paul Machin (2:14)

Call him Ronnie. Big Ron. Ron The Red.

Great. Just great. And like, it wasn't even necessarily in the most cultured way at times. Like, there are definitely situations where, like, he could have done more with the ball, but I have honestly got no problems. If you're too little up at home and you're looking to relieve pressure, webbing it into the stands sometimes is absolutely acceptable. Because I think there's playing out from the back and there's playing out from the back to a fault sometimes, and you can't do yourself in for no reason. But there was that, but also just one moment, probably in the last five minutes of the game or so, and there's just a little loose ball of Liverpool trying to trap back and cut it out. There left wing right back for us, and he just comes in with a full butted, full force battle, wraps it off the sponsor boards, and the whole of the main stand are up on the feet.

And it's just them, you know, if you can't get everyone on side with like exceptional goals and wonderful moments of skill, then put the effort in, put the work rate in, and fight for it. And no one's summed that up better for me than Ronald O'Rourke. But also, Macalas did the same as well, Van Dijk, seeing him turn the afterburners on, just to prove that he's still can-grained. Jacque, basically flawless again as well.

Kerkhez again, put in a really, really good chip for us. Dorgapo, Barcola, did their defensive things, really got stuck in for the cause, even if it wasn't quite their afternoon going the other way. Cool, it's not your afternoon going doing the things that you're paid for. Well, actually, you're paid to be one of an 11 that gets the team across the line. So, seeing that work rate from the wingers, get them back in and like, just help it go from a back four, effectively, to a back six, help them to keep the door shut. That's how we're gonna win more games of football. You know, this Liverpool 11 squad probably isn't the finished article, the signings to come, you know, we're probably a couple of years away from seeing the full unfiltered, constructed, Andoni Iraloa vision. But there's nothing to say to the people who are there right now, go and get stuck in and make things happen. So, I love to see that, genuinely, genuinely do. That level of enthusiasm and again, commitment to the cause. And, ahead of that, you know, actually Alexander Iczak, I thought it was his most sort of mobile performance for us. It wasn't like him just waiting for the ball to come to him. And like, not necessarily that he was getting dangerous areas, but it looked tactical, that he was meant to be stretching their defence a little bit, open things up, and I enjoyed it. Get another goal as well, you know, he's flying in terms of goals, but he's like, get us one goal a game, then we're going to be in a very, very healthy position for it.