Beglin mentioned that the Annie Road is a lot louder since the rebuild. the players must love the wall of noise around them.
Well another three points, we played really well at times and should have had more goals. We certainly had the chances. I saw Coot wave that “definite” foul off when Mo went down. For a mad moment I thought he was waving for the advantage rule. I was surprised when he didn’t give a yellow. to Mo for simulation.
Coote is one weird bloody referee. some of the things he considers fouls are absolutely innocuous yet he waves off other nasty obvious fouls. that said, we came through a game with him and Tierney with no hair-ripping-out atrocities. (although the Mo breakaway thing would have been one of course)
It was another impressive win by Liverpool but Darwin needs to start utilizing his opportunities better.
my guess is the team expended less energy getting those 3 points than any other game (certainly vs a top-half team) for a long long time. there were periods where we were knocking it around at the back for a couple of minutes at a time, nobody moving much, while Villa just sat back and observed - terrified of committing to the press and getting picked off. lovely stuff.
I said at the top of thread that Villa were having problems with the Wed/Sat schedule and that their midfield wasn’t great, with a general lack of creativity. And so it proved. They weren’t bad defensively (except for counters! ), but I’m not sure other than one real chance at the beginning of the second half, they had much to say attacking-wise. When their corners were good, they were good, but when they weren’t, Villa’s corners were more of a danger to themselves than us. But overall they didn’t seem to have much cohesiveness between their midfield and front line. I expected more of Watkins and Bailey. Anyway, they will struggle to finish top 4 again, so winning the CL is their best hope for CL next season.
The more I watch Darwin's second breakaway the more I laugh/cry. so many options - take another touch, maybe cut in front of the chasing defender etc. Instead he blasts over from almost the 18 yard mark.
Made the wrong decision pretty much every time. I’ve reached a point where I’d consider an alternative. Ask about Isak swap in a PSR friendly deal? Yes - I said it Highly unrealistic but it could be the impetus to great things.
Not that we’ll ever hear about it, but I’d love to know what would have happened if Nunez had not scored? It was Bailey who took Salah down, yes? The ref seemed to indicate play on, but it was as clear as day that it was a foul. I can only assume the ref saw it as a coming together rather than a foul. I’m presuming would have gone to VAR and Bailey been red carded.
While I kind of agree - you could also state this perrpendicularly, as "he has stood up when he shouldn't be able to" for far too long in the Prem league. I've never seen a player more non-call fouled in close, full body proximity situations.
I'm not so sure on that one - if it was just clumsy incapacity, then it's a goal scoring opp and yer off. It same, but not a stopping of the goal-scoring incapacity - then it's a nothing. basically, was in entanglement or intentional. hard for anyone to say, and no real need to say.... so nothing happens.... (At least you could rationalize it like that - whether you'd get to think of all that in real heated time or not is debatable....)
How is "running straight at the keeper 1 v 1" not an easier chance than "picking up a loose ball, pushing it wide and having to round the keeper and then shoot at an acute angle"?
I deleted my earlier response - watched it again- he wasn;t as far to the left side as I thought when he shot that miss... probably more the bobble than having to adjust position beat him there