Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread.

[come-on-barney]

Sounds like a knee injury for Delph....

City Watch‏Verified account @City_Watch 3m3 minutes ago
Fabian Delph left Anfield on crutches with his right knee in a brace. [@DominicKing_DM]

Feel sorry for Delph been great this season. Need re-inforcements.

 

[paulchapo]

Best defence in the league apparently. I've been slagged off for daring to question it.

We have got one of the best defences today was hopefully an aberration, compounded by poor play in front of them leaving them exposed. Stones coming back from injury, Delph getting injured too. Everything they tried today came off, Ederson had an off day too. Our record at Anfield is appalling, hopefully we regroup and go on another 15 game unbeaten run that seals the title.

 

[Don Karleone]

The comeback was fantastic and had Sergio left the ball, dinho and gundogan were waiting to put it in.

My stream had ballsed up by then but apparently, they were offside.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

There were a couple of incidents prior to that, where a Liverpool player was able to receive a hopeful pass, & had time to flick it over our cbs, & we just cleared it at full stretch.

They just weren't awake for some reason.

Always the same at Anfield. We sleepwalk into the start of the games. How many times is that now we have conceded early against them?

 

[simon23]

I guess the 15 point lead gives us some leeway but if we are serious about the CL, we need more players it's as simple as that.

We now have a squad with Delph, Kompany, Mendy all injured and Mangala and Yaya not good enough.

With a small squad anyway, it would be madness to not strengthen now.

that 15 pt lead could well be 12 by tomorrow.....another slip and it could be 9 and the vulchers will be circling....

The league is far from over.

 

[somethingelse]

Walker appealed so did Ederson and Stones had his arms in the air,but he should of had them flapping around more at the time
Manes third was a great strike but it was pay back for fuck all,

 

[tornandfrayed]

You are kidding yourself if you think it is a foul. Physical contact happens all over the pitch continuously. Our centre half was weak and misjudged the pass.

I'm not kidding myself I'm applying the laws of the game. You are not allowed to use your shoulder to push someone in the back in order to win the ball. Yes physical contact takes place all the time, some of it legally some of it illegally which is why fouls are given.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

My stream had ballsed up by then but apparently, they were offside.

Looked offside to me.

 

[NorCalBlue]

It was a little nudge and stones should have been clever and done a didi hamann, Master of falling over and getting a free kick when nudged

If he'd gone down and grabbed the ball, the ref would probably have given a penalty and sent him off...

 

[Lancet Fluke]

Can’t believe so many are suggesting the push wasn’t a foul. Yes stones was weak and you look to your centre half to be stronger there but he’s entitled not to have to brace himself for a push in the back when defending, it caught him unexpectedly which is why it looked weak from him because it was a foul and gets given as a foul 99 times out of 100. That doesn’t excuse the result though there was 3 other goals of our own making.

Was a definite foul for me. Doesn't matter whether it was his should or arm, it was in Stones' back and was a nailed on free kick for me. Having said that, no excuse for the following 15-20 mins. We are a great team and if we had maintained our composure at that point we could easily have got something out of the game, possibly still even have won. Still, happy to see that we showed some fight at the end once we had regained our composure, it tells us a lot about this group of players. Full strength against Newcastle, give them an absolute pasting and show the rest of the division that this defeat changes nothing.