Liverpool (N) | Community Shield | Post-Match

[laplandblue]

Also thought we were the team looking more likely to win when we had equalised. The handball was the changing point. Seems a little strange how their handball didn't even go to VAR.

Far too much being made out by the journalists this morning. Write City and Haaland off at your peril is all I say!

After the game the post match City guests spoke about the penalty " subjectivity " was mentioned. It's funny how this subjectivity consistently favours certain teams.

 

[citizen_maine]

That's concerning. We need to find out what flopp's kryptonite is and adjust accordingly against those lot.

He usually has too few points at the end of the season

 

[nellyonthewing]

We are a 10000 metre team they are a 100m sprint outfit .

 

[Dodge]

I've lived in Leicester for too long, having left the leafy suburbs of Sale decades ago.

I thought the whole organisation of yesterday was a fucking shambles. The Leicester branch had our annual Blue party in Aylestone, never any trouble, good natured and at least 2 publicans have credited City fans for literally saving their pubs after Covid left them nearly bankrupt. The landlord of the Union is doing up his beer garden from yesterday's takings. He'll never tolerate a bad word about City fans, neither will the locals.

The normal match day commander was changed for this game and he wasn't "briefed" that approx 2000 Blues would be meeting in Aylestone, despite us advising Leics Constabulary through the normal channels, as we had for the previous 10 meets we'd arranged. He had already planned on routing the scouse coaches through Aylestone, sending them to the Gasworks end of the KP. His solution? We want all "your lot" out of the pubs and in their coaches by 1pm. This, despite the fact that some weren't arriving until 1:30pm. We refused, they has a strategy meeting and he changed it to 3-4pm...and left the scouse route the same, with an increased police presence. When their coaches went through? Not one brick, bottle, flare or kebab was chucked. Plenty of verbals, NO incidents. Not fucking one. One copper said to me "imagine if that was in Liverpool? Good lads your lot". Class act.

The rest of the organisation was shite. From the struggle to get through the turnstiles, then off the concourse, to moving the coaches to somewhere no-one knew about.

The ground was ours, outsung the vermin throughout. Keep that going at the Etihad? We'll see.

Prouder than ever to be a blue yesterday. We'll be welcoming all comers again at the end of October.

Bringing a little bit of Manchester to our dull ex-pat existence.

Salutations Blues.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Well, sorry, I've just watched that whole match through. Blue-tinted specs carefully put away in the glasses case.

There is no way — none — that Liverpool can be said to have dominated that match. I am well aware that they put the ball in the back of the net three times, and us only once. Yeah, let's have it right: Aké (who otherwise had an irreproachable game, looked totally comfortable, good to see) deflects the ball beyond Ed, who otherwise had a very good chance of getting Alexander-Arnold's shot, and I believe would have; and then the award of a penalty on the cretinous modern basis that it is an offence for a defender to have limbs attached to the upper part of their body in the penalty area — they should in fact be amputated for the duration of the incident. Rúben's arm is in a completely natural position, in fact it's hard to see where else it could be. Oh, and the header was going fucking wide!
After an initial rocky period of about ten minutes, fifteen if you're generous or a scouser, we pretty comfortably controlled the match. Important save from Ed, yeah, against I think Nunez; matches up with Erling's miss from about three yards out. Otherwise, Ed had almost nothing to do. Adriano a bit more, although he was not often tested, I will allow.
That's the match I've just seen, and I'm not going to deny the evidence of my eyes in the name of some bending-over-backwards spurious fairness.
It's not even as if I care very much about the Community Shield (and I don't mentally class it with our significant trophies of the last ten years). I truly don't. Nice if you win it, already moved on mentally very rapidly if you haven't.
Oh and yes, we didn't play very well. We can go up several gears above that. I'm quite cheered, really.
Erling was quiet. How long till he gets noisy? Not very long, I'm betting.

 

[blue moony]

Any one got a clip of both handballs ?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Any one got a clip of both handballs ?

Irrelevant. The dipper handball ended up with us scoring a goal before VAR had adjudicated on the potential handball.

 

[blue44]

FFS

let them have their day in the sun in the Midlands.
We'll have ours next May

 

[pavelsrnicek]

I thought we were well off our normal standard especially in the final third but still created a number of chances. A few random thoughts. I think once we start to trust the pass to Haaland he’ll really come in to his own. He made a number of runs but the pass never came. Having said that he could have had a hat trick yesterday. It might sound pathetic but I’m glad his first goal for City wasn’t a meaningless consolation goal. The fact that he bullied Robertson off the ball so easily should concern other defenders.

Alvarez has to start next week as he’s probably the fittest player in the club at the moment after coming straight outof Argentinian football so the short preseason won’t effect him.

We really really need a left back.

Phil has to start next week.

So does Stone, Ake and Dias as a partnership can’t deal with a press too well.

 

[manimanc]

FFS

That's funny. Made me laugh.