Taylor for the Liverpool game

[Blue Theatre]

As a United fan, I imagine if Taylor could have found a way for both City & Liverpool to lose, that would have been his preferred option. Thankfully that wasn't possible so he just had to stay pretty neutral for once.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Just seen the Sterling penalty incident.

I have to say, I don’t think it was a penalty. If anything Sterling pulls Robertson on top of him as he falls over.

Could possibly have been obstruction at first and a free kick to us in the box, but not a penalty.

(And I was going apoplectic about it in the ground)

 

[Fame Monster]

FWIW I didn't think it was enough on Sterling to give a pen. However, that is a million times more a pen than the Zinchenko 'incident' against Southampton that Sky (and to a lesser extent the BBC) repeated time and time again, and singled out in the highlights coverage without showing the similar incident that Sterling was involved in in the same game. Also far more of a pen than any of the penalties Liverpool have been awarded this season.

 

[Metalartin]

Just seen the Sterling penalty incident.

I have to say, I don’t think it was a penalty. If anything Sterling pulls Robertson on top of him as he falls over.

Could possibly have been obstruction at first and a free kick to us in the box, but not a penalty.

(And I was going apoplectic about it in the ground)

Nah I think you can clearly see Sterling changes direction faster than Robertson does, who knows he's been beat, so his arm goes across Sterling's mid rift instinctively. This is the first infringement between the two players and thus the most significant one. Sterling pulling on Robertson after that point, doesn't then give Robertson the excuse of drawing both arms across Sterling, pulling him down.

It's one that the video refs would have given I think but it's a tough call in real time. Salah would have been given that no question is my main gripe, he has had penalties for far less and consistently so this season. They are due some of their own medicine and then some in the second half of the season.

 

[worsleyweb]

Thought he did fine.

 

[Ric]

Just seen the Sterling penalty incident.

I have to say, I don’t think it was a penalty. If anything Sterling pulls Robertson on top of him as he falls over.

Could possibly have been obstruction at first and a free kick to us in the box, but not a penalty.

(And I was going apoplectic about it in the ground)

Conversely, I didn’t think it was a penalty at the time (and it was right in front of us) but having seen replays I do think it was a foul.

 

[worsleyweb]

Conversely, I didn’t think it was a penalty at the time (and it was right in front of us) but having seen replays I do think it was a foul.

Same here

 

[Ric]

Same here

I was the exact opposite on the Kompany challenge (i.e. thought it was red initially, but saw subsequently that it was a fair challenge) so goes to show how tough refs have it. VAR can’t come soon enough.

 

[joe123]

Conversely, I didn’t think it was a penalty at the time (and it was right in front of us) but having seen replays I do think it was a foul.

exactly this. i thought he'd gone down soft at the time but that's a penalty.

in all fairness, there wasn't much he got wrong although there was just little things, push in the back here and there that went against us. that said, probably one of those things you see when its against us, and not the other way. the result makes it academic anyway. let's just kick on from here. main thing for me tonight was seeing us, and possibly more significantly, a pep team, go to the wall and fight when it was needed. not sure any of his teams have done that before.

 

[worsleyweb]

I was the exact opposite on the Kompany challenge (i.e. thought it was red initially, but saw subsequently that it was a fair challenge) so goes to show how tough refs have it. VAR can’t come soon enough.

I thought he was going off but again having seen replays can see why he didn’t send him off just.