Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread

Paul1970 said:
So if that happened at the other end would you be shouting penalty ? Once you grab a shirt in the box it will always be a penalty
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He didn’t actually grab his shirt.
His palm was open. He was pushing his arm down.
Even my Liverpool fan mate says he dived.
He saw Stones was going to mop up and decided he’d been shot.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
He didn’t actually grab his shirt.
His palm was open. He was pushing his arm down.
Even my Liverpool fan mate says he dived.
He saw Stones was going to mop up and decided he’d been shot.
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I said yesterday it was a pen but I’ve changed my mind after watching the clip above. His hand was on his arm but he wasn’t holding or pulling it. It was a dive. Salah was trying it on and got away with it.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
As well as Salah going down like he’d been shot and Allison’s feet going near Gundo’s head when he scored. Did anyone notice how the cheating twats got away with placing the ball outside of the corner markings on corners? Right in front of the lines man.
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As long as some of the ball is over some of the line it's allowed

They cheat in plenty of other ways
 
west didsblue said:
I said yesterday it was a pen but I’ve changed my mind after watching the clip above. His hand was on his arm but he wasn’t holding or pulling it. It was a dive. Salah was trying it on and got away with it.
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Same here, he's a very clever cheat, as are most of the Liverpool players.
Like United they must coach it in training, there's no other explanation for it.
 
It's not diving just for pens either, remember the Vinny thunder bolt against Leicester season when Liverpool were playing Newcastle and Salah dived for a free kick late on well outside the box when the game had draw written all over it and the cnuts went on to score from it.

Thankfully at the end of the day they never benefitted from it as we went onto win the league by a point.
But that small cheating margin could have cost us

I think he did the same the season b4 against Newcastle to cheat another pen.
 
NY Times tomorrow
English premier league soccer fans The Bangles comeback single will be called “Dive like an Egyptian”
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mancity2012_eamo said:
He didn’t actually grab his shirt.
His palm was open. He was pushing his arm down.
Even my Liverpool fan mate says he dived.
He saw Stones was going to mop up and decided he’d been shot.
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Totally. Dias shouldn't have touched the fucker though as Stones was coming, but I suppose we can live with the first couple of big mistakes he has done :) What a signing he's been.
 
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 said:
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.
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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?
 
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.
 
richardtheref said:
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.
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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!
 
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