Liverpool (A) Post Match Thread

ws01 said:
Fuck James Milner.
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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 .
 
citymad said:
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.
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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 .
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
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.
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Well said, Blue. A fantastic post.
 
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.
 
danielwood5 said:
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.
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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.
 
Chippy_boy said:
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.
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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.
 
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…
 
CTID1090 said:
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.
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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.
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
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.
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He lied though his teeth consistently and for months about intending to sign a new deal with us when clearly he had zero intention in doing so. And in so doing, cost us countless milluons in lost transfer fees just so he could line his own pocket even further.

It was a really shitty thing to do and showed us his true colours. He showed zero respect to our club and deserves zero back from us.

If he'd simply come out and said he wants a move because he wants more game time, I'd have had no problem with it.
 
Chippy_boy said:
He lied though his teeth consistently and for months about intending to sign a new deal with us when clearly he had zero intention in doing so. And in so doing, cost us countless milluons in lost transfer fees just so he could line his own pocket even further.

It was a really shitty thing to do and showed us his true colours. If he'd simply come out and said he wants a move because he wants more game time, I'd have had no problem with it.
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He has history of doing so, no problem with what he has done but the press he gets of a model pro and good old James Milner pisses me off.

He is a hired gun, he does give his all but his is a mercenary who moves for big money.
 
dad1971 said:
Did you actually watch the game ? When Sterling came on new pockets of space opened and out attacking improved vastly.
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I think that was the natural evolution of the game rather than Sterlings direct impact. He put in a reasonable shift, very tentative when he got into the box, but was certainly no worse than the man he replaced.
 
BlueMoonz1977 said:
Get what you are saying, as we do have goalscores in the midfield areas....but we do need a CF still

As an example, if we had a Haaland or a younger Sergio up top yesterday, we go in at half time 2 or 3 nil up as they will convert those chances

It isnt a dig at the team in any way, it just means with a world class CF leading the line we would reach another level
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Utter rubbish. How do you know ? If we had Haaland on the pitch yesterday would those same chances have happened? We might have actually lost the game as he might have played instead of foden ?
If my auntie had balls she would be my uncle.
 
Rollercoaster match. Ref was shit but glad to come away with a point, god knows we've seen plenty of these matches we end up losing playing out just like that.

We really do need a number 9 though, Grealish is way worse there than Sterling. And Foden is much better than Grealish at LW. Don't think it'll be long before we see Gundo back there once he is back from injury.
 
That was a fantastic game to watch, and we can be very proud of the quality and effort from City after one of the hardest fixture triples we've probably ever had!

First half was control, pace-setting and dominance with no reward. Sadly the finishing was a little wayward, Foden taking an ever so slightly heavy touch after Bernardo wizardry in midfield and a rubbish De Bruyne header (made me chuckle in hindsight), Klopp admitting they were desperate for the HT whistle.

Second half yes, Liverpool did improve, but City continued to make chances, and the game was more like how i was expecting - technical, fast and lots of chances. The only bit we unravelled was Rodri and one or two others began to lose their concentration a bit, up to and including the Salah goal and a short period after that, but my god did Rodri make up for it with that Fabinho tackle. Cant be arsed with the Milner 'debate', he should have been sent off, no ifs or buts. Move on.

Grealish doesnt look quite right to me yet, so far in blue he's more suited games that we pile on to an opposition and less so in this sort of cut and thrust stuff. He wants to stand the opponent up a lot and let some one make a run but that isnt always the best option. I feel we might use him centrally a bit this season to rotate the ball around. De Bruyne is rusty but he scored and looks better each time i see him. Jesus is working his little legs off but you cant help but think his right wing days are a bit numbered? everyone played well, couple of slips but we were playing a very good side.
 
The referee dictated the outcome of the game (they would not lose). Its so blatant (the cheating) even my lads who are not City fans are seeing it. Put that aside and against how the match unrolled a draw wasn't too bad a result as we could have easily shipped a third if it hadn't been for Rodri's block (which just about made up for his leg flap which failed to stop Salah for their second). Not our best game overall with too many off colour. Of those, Grealish and De Bruyne the most obvious. Laporte not at his best either. Bernie was just superb. Phil very good performance without the cutting edge until his goal. Gabby was gabby. Eddie had one wtf moment but other than that played well. Kyle had another excellent game. He really is Mr Consistent this season.

Glad to see Pep on his best Basil form again and no bloody wonder

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he gave us a masterpiece of sarcasm in his post match interview but good on him for calling out the ref and those disgusting fucks.
 
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