Liverpool (H) - FA Cup | Post Match Thread

BlueAnorak said:
Khusanov's recovery from falling over in pursuit of Salad to get a touch on the ball as Salad hit it (early doors), to put it out for a throw, was simply phenomenal.
I'm starting to think this guy is the bees knees, the dogs dodahs etc...
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2-3 years ago, Salah doesn't let him back in. That was as much poor play by Salah, as it was good play by Khusanov.

I very much agree with your general point about Khusanov. I wonder what City's defence will look like next season because Reis may come in
 
stonerblue said:
So now we have two tier var it seems.
Can they fuck the game ip any more
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It's very much by design in my opinion.

Why do you think they are kicking and screaming to maintain a lack of transparency, whilst pretending they are being transparent by releasing carefully edited audio of 'selected' incidents?
 


"Seeing Pep Lijnders celebrating like that on the touchline against Liverpool speaks to his lack of a moral compass"
They're taking it well as usual.....
 
StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
I think I am typical of a lot of Blues; I fell for the line that Liverpool were the better team until our penalty and then they fell apart. Having watched the game several times since I see clearly that this is not so. Liverpool looked quite slick for 25 minutes but created very little if anything. Salah’s chance resulted arguably from a foul on Khusanov and was played out after a brilliant recovery from Khusa. We know Salah is not the player he was but we’re finding out that Khusa is well on the way to becoming the player Pep said he would become. Then Ekitike put a half chance high and wide - but Ekitike certainly doesn’t look a ruthless finisher or the player they spent 70 odd million on. No mention is made of the chance Cherki miscontrolled or the penalty we weren’t given. Then Liverpool did not fall apart, a process City had nothing to do with. They were torn apart by City, a process which City had everything to do with. And yes they missed “chances”but they have been missing “chances” of that nature all season. They’re just not that good a team.

I think we all expected a City win. We might not have expected a 4-0 thrashing but that’s what we got and it wasn’t a great surprise to us and it can’t have been so great a shock for them.
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""Then Liverpool did not fall apart, a process City had nothing to do with. They were torn apart by City, a process which City had everything to do with."

You are absolutely right. For me it was a quite astonishing 22 minutes of football against the current champions. Not quite as good as the 5.5 minutes to clinch the title against Villa, but coming on the back of the Arsenal cup final display it bodes well for the remaining games.
 
Gingers Dad said:
It's a stonewall pen. Oliver got it wrong. Watched the match on City's website yesterday and Alistair Mann summed it up perfectly, as to why VAR didn't get involved. He said that Oliver is one our most senior referees and he'd never even heard of the ref on VAR. Reckoned there was no way VAR would undermine Oliver.
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StillBluessinceHydeRoad said:
I think I am typical of a lot of Blues; I fell for the line that Liverpool were the better team until our penalty and then they fell apart. Having watched the game several times since I see clearly that this is not so. Liverpool looked quite slick for 25 minutes but created very little if anything. Salah’s chance resulted arguably from a foul on Khusanov and was played out after a brilliant recovery from Khusa. We know Salah is not the player he was but we’re finding out that Khusa is well on the way to becoming the player Pep said he would become. Then Ekitike put a half chance high and wide - but Ekitike certainly doesn’t look a ruthless finisher or the player they spent 70 odd million on. No mention is made of the chance Cherki miscontrolled or the penalty we weren’t given. Then Liverpool did not fall apart, a process City had nothing to do with. They were torn apart by City, a process which City had everything to do with. And yes they missed “chances”but they have been missing “chances” of that nature all season. They’re just not that good a team.

I think we all expected a City win. We might not have expected a 4-0 thrashing but that’s what we got and it wasn’t a great surprise to us and it can’t have been so great a shock for them.
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I think that for the first 20 mins they had some joy and possession in dangerous areas, mainly out wide. Wirtz playing as a false 9 gave us a headache until we got to grips with it. Then Wirtz disappeared and Ekitike lost momentum and rhythm. Our midfield took control and we took our chances particularly well. We were miles the better team and were even able to rotate with much of the game left to play.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
It's very much by design in my opinion.

Why do you think they are kicking and screaming to maintain a lack of transparency, whilst pretending they are being transparent by releasing carefully edited audio of 'selected' incidents?
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One word and I'm convinced it is. Corruption.
 
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