Liverpool Thread | 2024/25

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Blue Mist said:
We may as well throw in the towel now. All of us as Liverpool will given the league.
I've just watched Newcastle be denied a stone wall penalty and then the referee blew for full time as the Geordies were attacking 3 on 2. All referees wait to see how it plays out before blowing.......unless its against the dippers.

Edit: See above. Disgraceful
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Never truly brought into the bent narrative but when you see things like that it feels a little like there is at the least a subconcious bias to not allow the same team to win 5 in a row.
 
smevchenko said:
The ref blew a few seconds before this as the ball was near the halfway line, so the picture is a false representation of what happened.

Would have been nice for him to play a bit longer, but he did blew up after the 5 mins injury time had been played.
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No referee blows up when the team break away and attack. Last night Newcastle were doing just that.
And the nailed on penalty they didn't get ?
 
They're a good side, at this moment in time a very good side, but I still feel, more than anything else, that it's the novelty of a new manager that is having a stabilising effect on the team's morale - after Bingo's sudden departure had almost derailed everything.
Slopp has come in and appears to have had a calming influence on the team, with the result that they are a far more cohesive unit than they were under the Colgate king and his 100 miles per-hour hoofball. But like all teams they have their frailties and they can be exploited. He's only been there a few months and there is a long way to go before we can make a judgment. But so far, they're doing what they have to do to clock up the points. Fair play to them for that.

But I still do not rate vain Dick as highly as many others do. He was at fault for two of the goals last night when he was slow to react to what was happening. Had they not had Salah up the other end the Geordies would have won that game, of that I'm sure.

We'll have a better idea when the transfer window opens and we've seen who's bought who and who's gone where, but so far I've seen nothing to fear from either the dippers or anyone else in the top echelons of the Premier League.
 
Blue Mist said:
No referee blows up when the team break away and attack. Last night Newcastle were doing just that.
And the nailed on penalty they didn't get ?
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If time was up, and the keeper had the ball, then it's totally normal for him to blow once the keeper releases the ball.

There was no breakaway when he blew, just a ball in the air.
 
Blue Mist said:
No referee blows up when the team break away and attack. Last night Newcastle were doing just that.
And the nailed on penalty they didn't get ?
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The referee blows during the ball travelling from the keeper to the Newcastle player. Looks to me that he had already decided he's blowing after the keeper has got rid of the ball.

I think it's a penalty though, but the referee's call is a load of bollocks as is VAR in general to be fair.
 
bluenova said:
If time was up, and the keeper had the ball, then it's totally normal for him to blow once the keeper releases the ball.

There was no breakaway when he blew, just a ball in the air.
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Except he didn't blow when the keeper released the ball. He blew after or as Newcastle crossed the halfway line and were attacking 3 on 2.
 
Blue Mist said:
Except he didn't blow when the keeper released the ball. He blew after or as Newcastle crossed the halfway line and were attacking 3 on 2.
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Watch again. He blows up when the ball is in Liverpool's half before it gets close to a Newcastle player - it's still not past Alexander-Arnold when the he begins to blow. You can hear the whistle, and multiple Liverpool and Newcastle players, stop running.

I can't get a screenshot of the breakaway as Amazon block them, but the one that's being shown is about 4 seconds after the ref blows the whistle.
 
Liverpool have been playing good this season, but it's lot to do due to the consistency in team selections. They and Chelsea (in PL top 5) had been the only teams who have not been plagued by injuries to key players in key positions. Both of them occupy the top 2 spots in PL table. Both of their defensive midfielders (Caicedo and Gravenberch), primary central defenders (Colwill and VanDyke) and best attackers (Palmer and Salah) have played all the games. The central defence pairings had been fairly settled too until Fofana and Konate got injured a couple of games ago. We all saw how Liverpool's back 4 was all at sea at Newcastle yesterday in absence of Konate. Take Gravenberch and Salah out of that side (like Rodri and KDB for us) and they will be in the same position as us, I am sure.

So, they may win the title in May, but it's way too early to talk about that now. 24 matches are yet to be played in the season. The infamous English festive period has not welcomed Slot yet. The CL knockouts and PL final 8-10 games in April-May brings a different level of pressure (we have seen Arsenal capitulating during this period 2 years in a row despite having a healthy lead both the times). Liverpool themselves have fallen short to us 2 times despite having a decent points advantage at Christmas. Let's see what December brings in this title race.
 
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smevchenko said:
The referee blows during the ball travelling from the keeper to the Newcastle player. Looks to me that he had already decided he's blowing after the keeper has got rid of the ball.

I think it's a penalty though, but the referee's call is a load of bollocks as is VAR in general to be fair.
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Simple solution to this, once time is up play continues until it goes dead
Ultimate solution to timing is a stadium clock that stop when the ball is dead and 30mins of ball in play and it ends once the ball next goes out of play
 
Well, I did say it that Newcastle could well smack us in the chops! Only 7pts now and another draw against the bitters could well happen as they want a good send off in the last derby at Goodison.

KentBlue said:
They're a good side, at this moment in time a very good side, but I still feel, more than anything else, that it's the novelty of a new manager that is having a stabilising effect on the team's morale - after Bingo's sudden departure had almost derailed everything.
Slopp has come in and appears to have had a calming influence on the team, with the result that they are a far more cohesive unit than they were under the Colgate king and his 100 miles per-hour hoofball. But like all teams they have their frailties and they can be exploited. He's only been there a few months and there is a long way to go before we can make a judgment. But so far, they're doing what they have to do to clock up the points. Fair play to them for that.

But I still do not rate vain Dick as highly as many others do. He was at fault for two of the goals last night when he was slow to react to what was happening. Had they not had Salah up the other end the Geordies would have won that game, of that I'm sure.

We'll have a better idea when the transfer window opens and we've seen who's bought who and who's gone where, but so far I've seen nothing to fear from either the dippers or anyone else in the top echelons of the Premier League.
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There was you a few posts ago going on about being blinkered and now you post something that quite "tame/unblinkered"...well compared to your usual response to all things dipper related. Has "Slopp" had a calming Dutch effect on you?

As for all the comments about playing on until someone scores. That almost seems to be that you are harking back to all those "greater manchester" (as I appreciate they don't play in the City) days when the GPC used to advocate playing until they scored irrespective of whether the time was up.
 
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