Liverpool (A) | PL | Post-Match Thread

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coolcity said:
It's only persistent uncertainty and insecurity from the fans on here. Nothing wrong with the team, they've proven it year after year.
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More than a few overthought occasions, and the team has come up short in more than a few do or die. Does that mean they’re not great? No. But I don’t know how anyone can dispute that.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
It’s then gone to a Liverpool player, city player has took it off him, been played forward to Haaland, Alison has spilled it and Phil has scored. How far back do you think we should be going, out of interest?
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It didn’t go to a Liverpool player, Bernardo gets it and plays it to KDB.

I kind of get the argument around he was letting similar ones go all game. That’s the only one that VAR was able to look at though and I thought it was a pretty obvious foul. In terms of phase of play, I don’t think it was far enough back in the phase to not consider it.

Had they scored a goal like that and it had been given, I’d have been very annoyed.
 
Gus Fring said:
So frustrating watching Salah as well, cut inside and run off shoulders yet we still let him drift on to his strongest side and play a high line every game against them/him! Howler from Cancelo no question but why is he the only one there, it’s bad communication at best and dreadful organisation for him to be isolated with Salah.

I haven’t been convinced with Dias of late (not blaming him for today just in general) and for me when Walker is fit he doesn’t get in the team ahead of Ake and Akanji at CB (on current form) we look so shaky at times with him, especially when the pressure comes or we go a goal down it looks like it could be 3-4 in minutes he collapses.

I’m with you, no problem on team selection but the tactics were dreadful, effectively made KDB a linesman and Gundo and Bernie were ‘the wrong way around’ it was very similar to our last poor performance in the charity shield against this lot.

The game was crying out for pace and you just knew out of petulance when they scored nobody else was getting on that pitch, Alvarez and or Grealish should have been on at 0-0 as I said in an earlier post.

Not all doom and gloom from me by any means, more just frustration at having the same conversations regarding Peps tinkering after a big game
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Gary Neville once said that Cancelo is either totally unplayable one week, then transparent the next. As soon as that goal of ours was cancelled out, their momentum went up 100 percent. I just knew it wasn’t going to be our day.
 
Gus Fring said:
Not defending his mistake in the slightest, I get we had an attacking free kick beforehand which like every set piece today was absolutely shit but Akanji or Ake should be covering there for me with their centre back experience, leaving Salah one on one with arguably our worst ‘defensive defender’ was a tactical mistake for me.
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Ake and Akanji, were in the box for the free kick, we should definitely doubled up on salah though, probably with Bernardo as well. Still piss poor defending though, trying to nick the ball as last man, only needed to hold him up a second as we had 3 players running back 10 yards away max.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
It’s not that mate. It’s that the ‘how far back you go’ needs clarifying. If it’s until you find an offence, that’s fine. The fact that nobody knows is all you need to know really. BTW, I’m far from deluded about stuff that happens to city as opposed to stuff that doesn’t but I will admit I’m confused by the parameters currently in play.
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Fella it was part of the set up to the goal end of. It was a tight game and that correct decision spurred them on. Shit happens

We are a great side with great players and a great manager but our downfall is when games become high tempo and control is lost.
 
hilts said:
I would take it back as far as if it was the other way round you wouldn't be complaining about it.

I often love the comments about deluded rags or scousers. How we laugh at their desperation. Some go on their forums and post their bias on here. And then a game like this happens and surprise surprise some ie you are no better than them.

If you don't want to give a foul for pulling a shirt don't pull on a fucking shirt. Its that straight forward really.
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But ghe whole point is you and anyone else knows full well it would be given because of ghe phases of play afterwads
 
coolcity said:
We don't understand half the idiots on here either and a lot of the more sensible ones can't be bothered posting as a result. It was one of those games that could have gone either way but some on here seem to think we're playing androids and expect perfection all the time.

The only annoying thing is the refereeing inconsistency. It ruins the game overall and in matches like this it makes the difference. If the lightest of shirt pulls is a foul then it's a foul, fair enough. But what's the point of "letting the game flow" for a minor misdemeanour if it's just going to be pulled back later if a goal comes at the end of the passage of play? You might as well blow for the foul in the first place, and if that means 100 free kicks every match then so be it. As it stands at the moment, it's a farce. VAR takes over the refereeing decisions and it's making a mockery of the whole thing.
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I don’t think you have much perspective. And name-calling is not appreciated.
 
We were robbed , it happens every time at Anfield the officials cannot handle the Anfield crowd , no coincidence that we battered them 4-1 with no crowd present , because the officials were not under pressure to favour the Dippers.
Not having the agenda about our team bottling Anfield , its a tough away game against a team of some decent players and we usually domnate possession that is not a sign of bottling the game.
The only bottlers are the PGMOL and their employees
 
Just back. Everything has been said already about the game. Personally the whole set up just look wrong to me. And there are few things worse than losing at Anfield - despite the fact the the Scouse muppets were silent for the duration of the game until they scored.

My grumble is about the number of tourists in the away end. I love the fact that we now have tourists (although where were they at York away?). Much prefer them to come and support City - BUT...a load of mates just missed out on points for this game, yet I was surrounded by tourists. Lovely as they are, they don't know the songs, they spend the entire game taking Selfies and love their half and half scarves. Where are these folks getting tickets? I don't get it at all. Of course they need to be part of our amazing club, but not at the expense of so many of our hard core fans.

Other than that...now time for a big drink, a good sleep, and tomorrow, things will look a lot better...
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
Ake and Akanji, were in the box for the free kick, we should definitely doubled up on salah though, probably with Bernardo as well. Still piss poor defending though, trying to nick the ball as last man, only needed to hold him up a second as we had 3 players running back 10 yards away max.
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Shame we didnt have Kyle for this one. He's usually back there for free kicks. Mind you Kev doesnt normally take such a bad free kick. He certainly worked hard but for some reason he just wasn't on his game, neither was Phil and thats why Haaland struggled. Maybe Kev should've have been rested Wednesday.
 
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coolcity said:
The problem I have is what's the point of "letting things go" to let the game flow, if the end result from the passage of play is that a goal is scored which is then going to be chalked off? You might as well just instruct the ref to give the foul in the first place. But on top of that, you need to give EVERY shirt pull as a foul. You get dozens of them in every game, but it seems it's only a foul if it results in a goal.
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Yep, same with the handball goals that get disallowed - where it accidentally hits an attacker’s hand (and because it’s an accidental handball is rightly not given) but then it magically becomes a handball after the goal is scored. A kind of Schrödinger's handball, if you will. It creates a ridiculous situation where an attacking team is better off not scoring and playing a few more passes to try win a corner or something instead. This is a problem with the rules rather than the referees.
 
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