Can’t believe Nunez came out. Really seems like his kind of game and Gakpo has been awful lately. And yes, I’m trying to reverse jinx Gakpo.
as a fellow Arsenal supporter I thought it was a great non-call.Incredible match. Great stuff from Liverpool.
On the potential pen, once the player gets the ball you’re just not getting that call, especially with a minute left in a potential title decider. No problem with the ref not making himself the protagonist there on an iffy situation.
Mike Dean
Former Premier League referee on Sky Sports
'He is very fortunate Jeremy Doku!'
I expect the reaction to this to be full on /r/soccer but it’s truly a 50/50 and I don’t think we’d actually want the sport to call that a pen. Mac Allister knows from the bounce and body shape that Doku is shaping to hit that ball and throws himself in vertically hoping to get a call. It’s smart by him and if they had called it you wouldn’t find me saying anything but “play stupid games win stupid prizes” on Doku but he doesn’t make all that much contact in the end and he does at least play the ball. I fully get why a Liverpool fan will want that call and it certainly could have been given but I don’t think this is a miscarriage of justice.I get that it's a big moment but... isn't that what VAR is there for? Catching and determining if the on-field official's reticence to make a game-changing decision was the correct one?
More than anything, I'm just impressed that it only took Stuart Attwell about 10 seconds to arrive at that conclusion.
Yeah, well said.I expect the reaction to this to be full on /r/soccer but it’s truly a 50/50 and I don’t think we’d actually want the sport to call that a pen. Mac Allister knows from the bounce and body shape that Doku is shaping to hit that ball and throws himself in vertically hoping to get a call. It’s smart by him and if they had called it you wouldn’t find me saying anything but “play stupid games win stupid prizes” on Doku but he doesn’t make all that much contact in the end and he does at least play the ball. I fully get why a Liverpool fan will want that call and it certainly could have been given but I don’t think this is a miscarriage of justice.
Without Jota and a fully fit Salah, Liverpool lacked its two tired and true finishers. That was the margin of difference. And it might be the factor that swings this title race.I watched the second half again this morning on the treadmill and I can't believe Liverpool didn't win that match.
Liverpool's intensity just left City completely cooked physically by about 55 minutes - a step slow to every second ball, defensive shape and distances totally out of whack, movements not crisp in possession either. It got a little better when they took off KDB, who had no legs whatsoever, and got Bernardo out of the middle. But not that much better. It's rare to see City on the ropes like that, especially when Rodri is in the team.
KDB...yikes. Still an absolute wizard with the ball but he didn't have the legs for this match.
I am. These are two teams who can go get it.who else is excited for Bournemouth-Luton?
Bloody Hell it's 2-3 now...come on Luton.The defender has not played since his cardiac arrest, and has previously told how he was "technically dead" for nearly three minutes.
He was hospitalised for five days and was subsequently fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).
Bournemouth fans raised more than £2,000 to put on four coaches for Luton fans to make the 240-mile round trip from Bedfordshire to the south coast for the rearranged game.