Every Everton set piece has been a lethal counter for the Reds. Every single one.Love the 30yd give n go with Salah & Nunez
You were saying …Every Everton set piece has been a lethal counter for the Reds. Every single one.
Ashley looked like me trying to handle the 20-somethings who show up on Weds nights. Not a good sign.Diaz with a very influential game … fouled by Young twice for the red card and drew the handball foul
It must be an enormously difficult mental adjustment for aging athletes to manage their declining physical skills with what once were routine decisions. You would think that - at 38 - he would have already gone through that adjustment.Ashley looked like me trying to handle the 20-somethings who show up on Weds nights. Not a good sign.
I struggle to see why Dyche would put him in that situation to begin with.It must be an enormously difficult mental adjustment for aging athletes to manage their declining physical skills with what once were routine decisions. You would think that - at 38 - he would have already gone through that adjustment.
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I expected that. Doesn’t bother me. Bodies forward with 10 men to get a late equalizerYou were saying …
Or not …Doku on Milner feels like one of those obvious mismatches I’m going to be infuriated we aren’t exploiting at the half
Had it all the way…..Took a swing on wolves in survivor pool. Back even and up a man… come on!
Sounds about right.I think we can all agree it's a conspiracy to keep Liverpool from winning games.
Or, maybe we can agree the new system 1. has a loophole and 2. isn’t applied consistently?I think we can all agree it's a conspiracy to keep Liverpool from winning games.
There were two VAR breaks, but 9 minutes was too long.It would be nice if extra time had a little more logic … Liverpool/Everton had 9 minutes with practically no extended stoppages other than Everton time wasting. City/Brighton had 4 … which didn’t include ~8 minute injury to Solly March at the end of regulation … should have been at least 12 minutes yet the ref blows at 9
You guys know you won the game, right? You had a penalty, a red card for and a red card ignored in your favor. Yet we are still taking about the refs? It’s exhausting.Or, maybe we can agree the new system 1. has a loophole and 2. isn’t applied consistently?
1. A team wouldn't intentionally create extra time just in case they end up conceding a goal and needing it. It’s self defeating. But if they do lose their objective they get all the time back they took from their opponents. That’s not good.
2. 9 long minutes nobody can understand versus 4 short minutes that fly in the face of an injury means the system lacks guidance or clarity and needs to be addressed.
Edit: Nevermind - had a long rant queued up but thought better if it.The comparison with the City match isn’t even true. March went off at the 88th minute. The sub to replace him was at 90+4. They had put up +4 and played an extra 5 minutes over that. They blew final whistle at 90+9. Maybe there’s an extra 30 seconds you could argue for but this is hardly the crime you seem to insinuate it is.
There were two rulesets though. Akanji was sent off for less than Konate. Also Rodri was given a yellow for something almost nobody gets a yellow for. City had 3 yellow cards on 9 fouls. At the end Foden won the ball cleanly and Brighton was awarded a free kick for a dangerous set play at the death. Clearly the refs are conspiring against Manchester City. Do you see how easy this is to do? Every club has a subset of fans seeing all the decisions stack up against them every week.
I can agree that the officiating isn’t great. I don’t think it’s actually been materially worse this year than prior years. They just mess up VAR too much. The “clear and obvious” error standard forces us to ignore what our eyes see in favor of deference to the original decision. The handball rule is still extremely difficult to interpret particularly in ball to hand scenarios. And yes, Liverpool got royally screwed by that offside decision which was a new kind of screw up. But you guys are watching these matches completely on tilt.
The Konate thing - I’ve certainly seen yellows given for far less … but, if he hadn’t already been on a yellow would there have been any hue and cry over not getting one? He didn’t grab or trip or kick or do anything dangerous - just got in his way. It would have been a very soft yellow IMO.look, I’m on the opposite side of many things from SM and I’m an Everton fan of course but 9’ was way too much.
I will not complain about the Keane handball call. Right call. He is a doofus.
I will not complain about Young. The first yellow was soft. The second was idiotic.
I will complain that Konate (sp?) should have been booked a second time. Klopp knew it, he yanked him right away after the non call. Everton had neutralized Pool so if it’s 10 v 10 for the last quarter of the game maybe we get something. Sure would have been a momentum shift.
that’s what is worth bitching about.
Ended 4-1. Villa are tough at home. I like how WH have come back from a pretty terrible place as a club a few years back but they were second best today.Great ball from McGinn, but that's a great finish from Watkins who had a bit to do.
3-1, just as West Ham were clawing their way back.