Liverpool (H) - Post-Match Thread

[Cheer Up Peter Reid]

Clever reffing for a team in red.

Very few ridiculous decisions but a steady stream of fouls for them that looked softer than what he needed to see to give us a foul.

The giving Raheem advantage but not pulling it back when there was none. He’d pulled one back for them a short time before.

What was also noticeable to me was the lack of replays of fouls on a good few occasions - my cycnical self tells me that it’s because they don’t want to make these little errors to be scrutinised further.

It does feel that way, the number of times I thought the referee had bought one yet they did not show a replay was very suspicious. I get so frustrated with referees giving everything when players go to ground yet nothing when they try to stay on their feet, as Raheem did before the penalty.

There was a dive and roll in our penalty area from Salad in the second half I would have loved to see again. I was screaming at the TV to book him for simulation.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

In big games you have to take chances when they come and we didn’t. Missed opportunity. Spurs is now a must win game.

 

[Neville Kneville]

It borders on old fashioned going back to basics and there's nothing wrong with that.

I think the defensive quality has improved enormously, but not due to tactics. We were wide open in centre mid & also kept giving the ball away in our own half.

Going forward, we are currently slow & predictable & a danger to ourselves.

 

[hertsblue]

Sky interview with Gonez. All about the handball. Why can’t they ask questions about why they dive so often, do they think Mane should have been carded for kicking the ball away. Why do they get so few cards

 

[Zin 'messiah' Zimmer]

Some shameful shit this.

Genuinely beggars belief

 

[Leeky]

The referee was terrible, slightest touch was a free kick for Liverpool, foul on Sterling before their penalty not given.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Best midfielder in the world misses a penalty to win the game and it's Peps fault.

Only on here.

That’s myopic. The missed penalty was one fleeting moment in a match that Pep couldn’t control. But the rest of the match is heavily influenced by his decision making pre and during the match. If Pep performed better the penalty miss could have been a total irrelevance to the result. By saying what you are saying, you are implying the entire match is set in stone, managers might as well not be there. That’s absurd.

 

[Fat Freddy's Cat]

Some of the bollox written in this thread if we don’t win is utterly mind blowing

Seems to be the norm

 

[Prater70]

Anyone heard anything about a bust up in training yesterday? Subs bench didn't make sense, three centre halves not much in attack.

 

[Gabriel]

A result that was probably better received in North London than either end of the M62. Looked like a couple of old heavyweights that have been the distance but now just don’t have enough strength to knock each other out.