ljkeane Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 10 minutes ago, Corvinus85 said: Twice now an Arsenal player was held in a critical moment in the box and no penalty. Grappling in the box never gets given despite it being an obvious foul. It’s annoying but they are consistent about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Well we won ugly. 8 on the bounce. Now we need a draw tomorrow to really make this race interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mexal Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 (edited) 1 minute ago, ljkeane said: Grappling in the box never gets given despite it being an obvious foul. It’s annoying but they are consistent about it. That’s simply not true. Rodri anyone? It wasn’t grappling, the dude held his neck from behind when going after a cross or pulled him down with a fist full of jersey when ball was right in his path. Those have been called many times. Grappling is when both guys are doing it on a corner, neither of those situations could be called grappling. Edited March 9 by Mexal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 Just now, Mexal said: That’s simply not true. Rodri anyone? Well, yeah, but everyone was up in arms because they’d never given it before and they haven’t given it since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 By the way has the rule about players being penalized if they wave the imaginary card rescinded. Because at Havertz's dive, Collins immediately decided to referee the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 A draw or a Liverpool win, happy with either. I should be interested in the spurs v villa result but we are miles away from catching them. Probably leaning towards a villa win just because its nice to mix things up a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 So I wasn’t that fussed who won between Villa and Spurs but, on reflection, considering we’ve got to play both of them in the last three weeks of the season we could probably do without the race for fourth going down to the wire. So, yeah, Spurs winning this probably isn’t ideal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 That escalated quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 That certainly escalated quickly. Right call to give the red I’d say, nasty challenge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 I wonder how they would have done this year with Ange being able to deploy Kane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Guaranteed 4th place but not good enough for a title challenge and ending the season trophyless would be my guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 Spurs’ problem has mostly been lack of depth in defence in their squad. So, yeah, not sure it would have made much difference. Speaking of depth in defence Liverpool missing 4 of their first choice back 5 including the keeper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 (edited) Interesting line up by Klopp. I mean the defense I more or less could've predicted (at least 3/4). I didn't think he would go with Gomez on LB. It was kinda clear he would give Quansah the nod on CB. It would've been weird and a slap in the face of Quansah, if he had moved Gomez there for this, when he hadn't played there all reason just so that Quansah would not play. Midfield was as expected with Endo behind Szobolszai and MacAllister. Nominal the best line up avail. Salah on the bench kinda hit by surprise. That means Salah is probably not fit for 90 minutes. So he will make a cameo on the 60th or later, depending on the scores, if none of his forwards pick up an injury. Edited March 10 by A Horse Named Stranger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ljkeane Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 As noted yesterday VAR just ignores grappling in the box but it’s getting ridiculous. Teams have obviously noticed and are taking advantage. City’s set piece move there completely relies on Ake just shoving Liverpool’s front post defender out of the way. Bah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Really good game thus far. Let's see if they can keep it up in the second half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 I thought a keeper doing that was a red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 Avoiding double punishment. It was inside the penalty area. So it's a penalty and a yellow. Outside the area, it's a red and freekick. Mr. Chatywin et al. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 The other would be a starter at a lot of other teams goalkeeper (Ortega) is subbed on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Consigliere Posted March 10 Share Posted March 10 (edited) Ederson also made a genuine attempt to play the ball so a yellow card+penalty was appropriate. Not attempting to play the ball (like, say, a shirt pull or cynical trip) in that type of situation would be a red card+penalty. Edited March 10 by Consigliere baxus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted March 10 Author Share Posted March 10 1 hour ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Salah on the bench kinda hit by surprise. That means Salah is probably not fit for 90 minutes. So he will make a cameo on the 60th or later, depending on the scores, if none of his forwards pick up an injury. Called it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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