Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread

[Paul1970]

Fuck James Milner.

End if he day it’s not milners fault as any player would do the same . The problems lies with the officials who seem to have massive egos and want to make the game about themselves such as that prick yesterday . He should be demoted ASAP .

 

[Paul1970]

That’s strange because I thought he was superb today overall. It’s quite possible they were brilliant finishes as well. I guess you missed all the equisite passing out of defence and “that “ pass to Foden then.

Nothing wrong with ederson apart from the fact that h we sometimes makes a mistake which most keepers do if anything Laporte should have gone with salah and drove him out wide . It’s times like this that we miss a proper back .

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

I don’t get this. Milner just played a game of football out of position against the best young player in the country and got torn a new arsehole. He wasn’t dirty, or out of order with anything, it’s not his fault he didn’t get called for a foul in the first half or a second yellow in the second half.

I’ve never got the Milner hate from our fans at all. And the “one greedy bastard” chant is about the most inaccurate call we make as a set of fans. It’s almost laughable.

He was a great servant for City who got sick of being on the bench in big games so he left us. Okay, he let his contract to go to the end, but in other sports that happens all the time and is seen as honouring the contract.

Okay, he mentioned that Liverpool had the best team spirit he’s ever been involved in, but he might genuinely have felt that and was just telling the truth. No dramas from me whatsoever.

Okay, he celebrated against us when he didn’t celebrate for us against Villa. Again no dramas for me at all, always want players to celebrate their goals (same shit we gave Dickov when he slid on his knees in joyous celebration when he scored for Leicester against us, it’s mard arse shit from our fans, not shit from Dickov and Milner).

We solely have an issue with him because of the shit Liverpool fans give Sterling. We moan that Liverpool fans give Sterling grief and call them small time and that they’re out of order for their comments, then stoop to their level with Milner.

Really bizarre from our fans this and I’ll never get it. Proper Liverpool, Arsenal, Aston Villa level stuff from us. Shows that we’re just the same as all other sets of fans.

Well said, Blue. A fantastic post.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Disgrace of a ref, and we should have been two up before half time, still, a draw at Dipperland is OK for me.
City will win the league.

 

[dad1971]

Will take the draw but can we get rid of Sterling now. Useless.

Did you actually watch the game ? When Sterling came on new pockets of space opened and out attacking improved vastly.

 

[Chippy_boy]

Bloody hell, I thought that was the best refereeing performance we've had at Anfield for a decade. That shambles was nowhere near the Champions League games for starters.

I meant specifically the third yellow on Milner being blatantly ignored.

Just plain cheating right in front of the eyes of the millions of people watching it live in 187 countries.

Usually there is some lame half-explanation but in this case there was absolutely none. Everyone in the ground and around the world saw Milner take Bernie out, and knows it is obviously a yellow card offence. And millions of people saw the officials just cheating by not giving the yellow and then red.

Quite staggering I think. Not just the shockingly awful refereeing. But that they should care so little about being seen to be cheats.

I wish clubs would take this sort of thing more seriously and call it out.

 

[give it to gordon]

I meant specifically the third yellow on Milner being blatantly ignored.

Just plain cheating right in front of the eyes of the millions of people watching it live in 187 countries.

Usually there is some lame half-explanation but in this case there was absolutely none. Everyone in the ground and around the world saw Milner take Bernie out, and knows it is obviously a yellow card offence. And millions of people saw the officials just cheating by not giving the yellow and then red.

Quite staggering I think. Not just the shockingly awful refereeing. But that they should care so little about being seen to be cheats.

I wish clubs would take this sort of thing more seriously and call it out.

And it will be swept under the carpet.

Remember when Pickford collided with VVD for weeks and months the press/media wouldn't stop talking about it. By the end of today milner wont be mention again.

It could have been a serious injury to Bernie falling onto his neck like that.

 

[nmc]

Just seen the greatest premier league goal EVER on Sky…. I was very underwhelmed! Media now running the narrative that City we’re lucky to get a point with a deflected goal….

Have to police questioned Carragher ? He has previous for spitting…

 

[Father Paul]

This obesession with the idea that we need a number 9 is starting to grate on my nerves. We have enough key players all over the pitch who can score. We create more than enough chances and as the season goes on and the players gain more rhythm and confidence they will convert at a higher rate. Liverpool played most of the game without a number 9, and I do not consider Firmino to be a clinical number 9 type striker.

Its almost like pundits and rival fans can't find anything else to drag us down about so they say, "well they dont have a number 9". Literally looking for anything. All the while we scored 6 against Leipzig, and lead the league in scoring once again.

Well I think we do need a bit more firepower be that a traditional 9 or somebody in the Salah mode. But you are right there is a trade off, the team is currently playing well and creating chances as currently structured and perhaps it might be considered unwise to tinker with this. Incidently I think this point was made by one of the much maligned Sky pundits or commentators yesterday. It is at the end of the day a catch 22. We had a Kun or a Halaand yesterday we would win 5-2 or if we set up with a 9 we would not create those chances to score 5. Having reflected upon this for some time now the best move might be to move Sterling or Mahrez on and replace that player with someone who offers more of a threat. That player may or may not be a traditional type 9.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Watching that block from Rodri again, unbelievably good.

I’ve just put upa poster of him on my wall this morning!