Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread

[brazilians hurt]

Vinny had that twat right

 

[Gingers Dad]

In fairness, I only caught the end of it, but Simon Jordan on talksh!te was comparing his fall to Willem Dafoe in Platoon. Said actions need to be taken when you see stuff like that!

Did he mention sovereign wealth or unlimited funds?

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

I cannot understand how any on here can agree with the decision to award Liverpool a penalty. I cannot understand how VAR can have confirmed Oliver's decision unless there really is "Salah's law" in force, to the effect that he alone is entitled to "feel the contact and go down". Come to think of it though there must also be "Mane's law" in operation in view of the penalty they got at the Etihad. We have seen the penalty not given when Sergio "felt the contact" at St Mary's and went down and I remember a similar "contact" on Raheem at Huddersfield in '18-'19 which didn't warrant a penalty, and how many times have we heard "no, not enough in that" or "not enough contact" for a penalty as Raheem crumples to the floor? And yet the tone on Sunday, even among the much more reasonable Souness and the more "mischievous" Keane (and the gloating Micah!), was that "you know ANY contact on Salah in the area is a penalty". All "the football family" know that the rest of football is being cheated yet accepts it passively.

Another matter is our MotM on Sunday. I have been interested in opinions expressed in the media thread. Foden "won" the award but Didsbury Dave has argued in favour of Bernado and I quite see his point. Sterling was another who had a great game, easily his best against Liverpool, and I was particularly pleased that he showed no reluctance to celebrate his goal "against his former club". Gundo had a wretched first half but recovered to have a very good second. Stones was excellent. Dias made one mistake all match. Zinchenko as reliable as ever and so on. I don't really think we had a MotM but put in an excellent team performance and our second and third goals typify this. When Alisson got the ball in both cases City had destroyed Liverpool's defensive shape and Alisson had only been given the ball because Liverpool could do nothing else with it so they passed the problem, literally, to the keeper who also found no-one he could give the ball to who was not faced with City lads waiting to pounce. It was City pressure, tightening like a garrot round Liverpool's neck, which FORCED Alison into his mistakes. In the second half City were far better all over the pitch and annihilated Liverpool.

 

[richardtheref]

Just re watched the incident. Not changed my mind. Dias defo pulls him back. Yes,it is slight but by Dias doing this he gives the ref a decision to make.

 

[Chris in London]

Just re watched the incident. Not changed my mind. Dias defo pulls him back. Yes,it is slight but by Dias doing this he gives the ref a decision to make.

But the pull is immediately preceded by Salah fending Dias off. Isn’t Dias entitled to clear his arm out of the way? If the contact on Salah is enough for a penalty, why isn’t the prior contact on Dias enough for a free kick?

 

[Blu3m00n91]

We ripped them apart when Jesus came on. Surely that front 3 of Foden Sterling Jesus stays for now.

 

[Kakhaber The Great]

On 14/15 mins in the 1st half, Mahrez puts a great ball in for Foden who, in my opinion, gets pulled back by the defender. Phil half-appealed, play went on then stopped for a scouse free kick at which point Foden once again approaches the ref, and I think another player does as well. I thought VAR would then look at the incident but I never saw a replay. The grab at/on Phil looked more obvious than Salah’s.

 

[JamesMCFC]

I'm convinced VAR doesn't work at Anfield we play them.

Didn't see it once last week with some questionable decisions.

Wasn't used last season as well when Salah scored that goal which again, looked questionably offside.

 

[jimharri]

We ripped them apart when Jesus came on. Surely that front 3 of Foden Sterling Jesus stays for now.

When (if?) Aguero is physically, and match, fit, he would replace Gabby for me.

 

[The Future is Blue]

Just re watched the incident. Not changed my mind. Dias defo pulls him back. Yes,it is slight but by Dias doing this he gives the ref a decision to make.

Bollox.....you've come on here trying to justify a blatant dive by saying any contact means a penalty....Salah gave the ref a decision to make not Dias.....if he'd stayed on his feet no penalty! By your reasoning on every corner there should be a penalty as it's like all in wrestling.....you need to be given the weekend off along with Dean and Mason and go to specsavers!