Apparently Konate said he thinks Ekitike’s injury is a bad one. ffs ...... I heard no discussion of why Joe came off. Must have been some kind of problem, he'd just come on.
The reports are that Ekitike's injury is an achilles rupture. That is a brutal injury not only for us, but for him. Obviously no World Cup, but that is a year recovery, so he would miss all of next season also, or there abouts. Edit: To say that nothing is official yet. I'm praying it's not the case, but the video looks brutal.
true - but this has been us all season - even when we put in a shift - we aren't scoring or creating.
Arne Slot: “We are a club in transition. A club always has certain cycles with certain players. A lot of them that were so successful for the club have already left or are leaving. Unfortunately that also happens with free transfers, that will happen with Mo, that will happen with Robbo, and that has happened already with Trent… as you know the club that we are we need to recoup our money and to spend again. That is the challenge that we had last season, we had to sell 10-11 players to sign 5-6. That’s going to be another challenge this summer because we do have to replace the ones who are leaving but this club have shown so many times that this model works and with this model we can be successful and I am also proud to work for this club and work our model, it’s a nice way of trying to achieve your own success.” It bothers me how he is constantly trying to create a narrative and explain away this season. After winning the league last season, and making major additions in the summer, this team was heavy favorites to win the Premier League again and among the favorites to win the Champions League. We even got off to an amazing start winning 5 out of 5. Regardless of any mitigating circumstances, what has happened since then has been an atrocious underperformance. The manager does not escape blame. He has not done a good job with the hand he was dealt.
Probably the biggest disappointment of any player. He just adds nothing on the pitch. If he hasn't adjusted to the Epl by now, he never will. Will he be better under another manager? Probably...
I don’t think Wirtz has been done any favors by how he has been used by this manager. In the first leg he played right wing with no runners in front of him. In the second leg he was played on the left side of a diamond while Mac Allister played in his preferred position. It seems like he is asked to play in a different role every match, and it’s very rarely the role we purchased him to play in. He has not produced the goals and assists that we have hoped, but at no point has there been any reason to doubt his quality. If you were looking for him to be Steven Gerrard and put a bad team on his back and win games by himself, I get being disappointed. But he’s not the type of player. He needs to be a part of a team that is setup up and functions well, and I think he will thrive.
What are the odds that both Isak and Ekitike suffer major injuries in their first season with us? I don't think Ekitike's will matter much as the season is almost over and he wasn't playing that well. Isak will hopefully pick up the slack and find some form.
Seriously? Could not disagree more. Wirtz has already shown he is a very high quality player. As Shankly said, "A football team is like a piano. You need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing". At the moment Wirtz is a pianist with almost no one doing the carrying. And on top of that, Wirtz works hard off the ball also!
Ekitike's is likely going to rule him out for most of if not the entirety of next season. I can't imagine it mattering more.
Here's the explanation: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_...why-did-var-overturn-liverpool-penalty-vs-psg
"however the relays showed that it was in fact Mac Allister who pushed his left leg in to the PSG defender trying to create a foul, as opposed to it being the other way round." That's not what the replays showed at all - Pacho clipped Mac's leg from behind.
What are these people looking at? MacAllister does lunge in front of Pacho, but he's allowed to do that to get to the ball! Pacho clearly then clatters into him from behind putting MacAllister off-balance. MacAllister may have made a bit of meal of the contact, but it was clearly going to put him off balance and is a clear foul... I honestly don't understand how anyone wouldn't see that course of events?! If I'm running full bore after a ball and you happen to be faster than me and barge into my back, that is a foul. MacAllister and Pacho tried to occupy the same space and MacAllister got there first. Pacho ran into the back of him, and at the very least knocked him off balance... How is that not a foul?
because apparently "looking" at the Television screen does some kind of hypnosis and you blank on seeing the contact you first saw....
'Cept for one thing - Cherki isn;t playing with a fading macallister and Salah. He is playing with Semenyo - who probably could and should have been playing with Wirtz and Isak
We'll...I wasn't able to watch the game live, but I watched the whole game yesterday evening (Pacific Time)... I actually thought we might do it when we came out in the second half...created some decent chances and probably should have scored at least one of them...the Pen/VAR...there was enough contact to call the foul, but Mac did "play it" and, honestly, I really don't like when other players do that to us... Then they score on a counter...and, well, we all know that was it... I thought Konate looked good yesterday - a Frenchman, playing against the French Ligue champions? I thought Frimpong looked out of his league, and I wondered (out loud several times) why Wirtz kept turning the ball over? My main question though: Why not come out from the start with the urgency that we dsplayed for the first 20 minutes of the second half? That does not make any sense to me... Sooooo...back to the Premier League, with a shortened squad (Ekitike and Gomez are out, I assume, of the remainder...and Isaak will only play a limited role) Time for Rio! A forward three of Rio, Isaak/Gakpo and Salah is what we have to look forward to... One game at a time!