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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #320 on: March 31, 2024, 09:42:47 pm »
Worst refereeing performance I've seen in a while.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #321 on: March 31, 2024, 09:46:35 pm »
Brighton have been a bogey team for us over the past few seasons and so our usual habit of conceding first didn’t bode well. Thank goodness we fought back well to get three vital points despite the usual inept refereeing by David Coote. 5 yellows to their 3 and 20 fouls by Liverpool to their 6.

We must have turned into a right dirty team according to Coote and he did it by not even looking at one foul he blew for early on. Turned around to see a Brighton player on the floor so blew for a foul. Truth be told he had Tierney in his ear for most of the game I’d wager. On another occasion he turned back as a shot flew into the Kop only to stop and signal corner.

In the first half after Macca had received treatment he never told him to leave the field for the required 30 seconds despite Macca standing still waiting for the signal. I refuse to believe he was one of the top refs in the EFL before being promoted to the PL. He must have the right contacts as he’s been rank since coming in.

Macca was excellent today despite being the last player back having played in LA on Tuesday evening. He played for 60 minutes and scored just before coming off. The signing of Endo has been huge as I always thought Macca was better in an attacking midfield position. He was key today.
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #322 on: March 31, 2024, 09:49:16 pm »
8 yellow cards in this game and only 2 in the City Arsenal one is insane. They were kicking the shit out of each other at the Etihad.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #323 on: March 31, 2024, 09:57:39 pm »
Brighton got three yellows and only made 6 fouls. One was for dissent though.

Coote was appalling all game. Still trying to understand why he delayed our corner to remove two balls behind the goal
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #324 on: March 31, 2024, 09:59:46 pm »
Brighton were diving left, right and centre but was glad no one took the bait. Otherwise, Welbeck gave us a scare down the right but the midfield won through. Mac Allister had another top game, I thought. It's all in our hands now.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #325 on: March 31, 2024, 10:03:57 pm »
really enjoyed the game today
atmosphere was good

macca player of the season
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #326 on: March 31, 2024, 10:12:18 pm »
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #327 on: March 31, 2024, 10:58:41 pm »
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #328 on: March 31, 2024, 11:00:37 pm »
If an offside player has a shot on goal that the keeper tips behind, but there is no flag, because they're waiting for a potential var reviwev....should they get a corner?

Yes noticed that too, they almost scored from that corner too, the one that they got from an offside. Madness.
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #329 on: March 31, 2024, 11:06:58 pm »
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #330 on: March 31, 2024, 11:16:27 pm »
Are those lines touching?

It’s ridiculous. The microscopic search for the offside is horrible. He’s level and it’s onside for me. Sucked the joy out of a great move and a brilliant pass by Mo. I’ve never recovered from that nonsense with Mane’s shorts being offside at Goodson a few years back…

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #332 on: April 1, 2024, 12:01:42 am »
Can we just not re-sign Milner and put him on for the last 5 mins to take the ball to the corner flags, fuck me.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #333 on: April 1, 2024, 12:01:59 am »
Very rusty as the start of the game reminded us. We should have scored more but our scoring boots were left in the dressing room. On one side I'm being a little hard on the lads as watching this City Arsenal game you can see how rusty teams can be after the break but I'm not buying this absolutely crushed, dominated Brighton today sales pitch. We were the better team that's for sure and delighted we grabbed the three points but it could easily have been a missed opportunity too. Right now it's looking like a great three points 😉

We were well on top.

They had two shots on target after the goal? So that threat they had didn't really materialise. Whereas we would have scored at least a few more hard on the opportunities.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #334 on: April 1, 2024, 12:04:36 am »
It’s ridiculous. The microscopic search for the offside is horrible. He’s level and it’s onside for me. Sucked the joy out of a great move and a brilliant pass by Mo. I’ve never recovered from that nonsense with Mane’s shorts being offside at Goodson a few years back…

Yeah that was bad.

I thought they changed the rules last season whereby if the lines were touching, then they would treat the player as onside, hence why I asked. Although I think I've only seen that applied once, when Rashford scored against us, funnily enough.

It's not clear on that picture but they look really close.
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #335 on: April 1, 2024, 12:11:47 am »
Can we just not re-sign Milner and put him on for the last 5 mins to take the ball to the corner flags, fuck me.
We certainly seemed like we were trying to recreate the Houllier/Ginola moment.  Gomez trying an eye-of-the-needle pass, Harvey cutting inside and Mo shooting when all could have taken the sting out of the final few minutes.  Don't get me wrong it's really refreshing to see, especially when most teams start timewasting in the first half these days, but it's not good for my blood pressure.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #336 on: April 1, 2024, 12:25:08 am »
MoTM : Mac (again).  Another diamond performance from a gem of a player.  Honourable mentions: Bradley and Diaz.

Played well after going behind, again.  Lazy finishing and not making the right pass when getting ourselves into great positions made the game far more difficult than it should have been.

Offside? Really?

Still, a win is a win after an international break.

The ref, another clown show.  No penalty for Mac against Shitteh, but whatever Brighton player was selling, Coote and the VAR clowns bought it, every frigging time.

For Brighton, threw themselves to the floor (a lot), they played pretty patterns, got into the final third and looked like they didn't know what to do.

Down to single figure games.  Win, don't care how it happens now.  Just get the three points.  Score one more than the opposition, we can talk about tactics and performance after.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #337 on: April 1, 2024, 12:38:55 am »
Brighton got three yellows and only made 6 fouls. One was for dissent though.

Coote was appalling all game. Still trying to understand why he delayed our corner to remove two balls behind the goal


My take was that after all the time wasting they did, they suddenly decided they want to play quicker after going 2-1 down. That's why they put the balls behind the goal, so they could quickly restart the game. My thinking was that there's some rule in the PL that the balls behind the goal must be placed on those cones that are halfway between the goal and the corner-flag and that's why Coote had put them there. Could be wrong though as I can't be arsed looking up if there's something in the PL rules about that.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #338 on: April 1, 2024, 01:22:46 am »
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #339 on: April 1, 2024, 02:07:12 am »
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #340 on: April 1, 2024, 02:39:57 am »
What a performance that was by our lads today. Absolutely amazing. Which it simply had to be against a team of really fine players who played out of their skins to deny us but simply couldn't cope ultimately with the intensity and outstanding individual and collective ability of this wonderful group of footballers we're so blessed to have.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #341 on: April 1, 2024, 04:57:50 am »
Brighton made it hard for us but ultimately we made it difficult by conceding a sloppy early goal. Apart from that we were very very good albeit having missed some good chances. The best 2 results today I'd say, we are now clear of both teams but of course it's these tough away games which will have the most influence.

What a dirty side we must be to pick up so many yellow cards. Either that or the ref is a c*nt  :wanker
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #342 on: April 1, 2024, 06:01:59 am »
great game as ill not lie i thought it would be a draw but we did out play them and Brighton are a good side bri;; 3 point //

possibly cootes is the worse prem ref not just this game but other games he refs he alwats looks way out of his depth ...

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #343 on: April 1, 2024, 06:08:27 am »
Alexis Mac Allister. My god. We've had so many players over the years who have been just incredible to watch and he's right up there. What a silky, intelligent, beautiful player he is.
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #344 on: April 1, 2024, 07:47:22 am »
Why did Coote decide to move those balls behind the goal ?

What was going on with the ballboys yesterday? The spare balls were left sitting on their cones but the ballboys were sitting yards away and making no attempt to return them or collect the loose balls. Were they on strike or something?

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #345 on: April 1, 2024, 08:03:29 am »
If only Brighton folded as easily against us as they do with some other teams. We really are every other club's cup final, aren't we?

Remember the way they let a dreadful Everton batter them last season.
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« Reply #346 on: April 1, 2024, 08:05:09 am »
What was going on with the ballboys yesterday? The spare balls were left sitting on their cones but the ballboys were sitting yards away and making no attempt to return them or collect the loose balls. Were they on strike or something?

New PL rule - seriously
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #347 on: April 1, 2024, 08:06:09 am »
How long is Mitoma out for? Any chance he makes the Arsenal and City games?

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #348 on: April 1, 2024, 08:15:50 am »
Out of all games we've played after an international game break this wasn't that bad, after all. Should have made it easier, but three points in the bag. I'll take it. Some brilliant plays there, including the three goals we scored.

I really, really look forward to automatic AI offisides. This minutes long nonsense must end.
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #349 on: April 1, 2024, 08:29:24 am »
How long is Mitoma out for? Any chance he makes the Arsenal and City games?

Nah he's done for the season.
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« Reply #350 on: April 1, 2024, 08:31:56 am »
Van Dijk was a bit fraught and needed to calm down at 1-1, with a few mad sprints out of position.

Pretty sure that ended up being a tactical instruction. Brighton had absolutely no threat down our left, and Welbeck was either dropping deep or playing off Quansah. Van Dijk was therefore basically free to go and scare the shit out of them further forward.
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #351 on: April 1, 2024, 08:32:49 am »
Nah he's done for the season.

Are any of Brighton's injured back for the Arsenal and City games?

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #352 on: April 1, 2024, 08:33:50 am »
Pretty sure that ended up being a tactical instruction. Brighton had absolutely no threat down our left, and Welbeck was either dropping deep or playing off Quansah. Van Dijk was therefore basically free to go and scare the shit out of them further forward.

That was a choice. Why attack the left when you have two kids on the right?

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #353 on: April 1, 2024, 08:44:04 am »
Are any of Brighton's injured back for the Arsenal and City games?

João Pedro should be.
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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #354 on: April 1, 2024, 09:01:11 am »
I think we were fairly calm after they scored, at least until Salah got into a shooting position :P

We created a number of chances after the scored and yeah, it should have been a routine win. Given how tight it is, I expect we'll have a few more games like this. All part of the song and dance of I guess!

Yes sorry I meant when it got to 80mins we went through a period of turning over the ball really cheaply. Gomez for example ran up the pitch then blasted it straight to Brighton. Just a bit of better game management at the end would have been nice.

Salah usually is a bit rusty, but once he gets the first the rest follows which bolds well for the rest of the run in. Something like 12 shots, his most ever, glad that’s out of the way!

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #356 on: April 1, 2024, 09:07:51 am »
That was a tough one!
Brighton didn't make it easy for us and we kept our heads....could have been a frustrating day but we saw it out and the 2nd goal was real quality for us.
Mac was amazing...Will need him massively in this run in.

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« Reply #357 on: April 1, 2024, 09:12:19 am »
Yeah that was bad.

I thought they changed the rules last season whereby if the lines were touching, then they would treat the player as onside, hence why I asked. Although I think I've only seen that applied once, when Rashford scored against us, funnily enough.

It's not clear on that picture but they look really close.

I wonder if the lino had not raised he flag whether they would have looked so hard to try and justify it being off.
The error margin in which frame they use linked to when the ball was played is probably great than that gap.

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Re: PL: Liverpool 2 Diaz '26 Salah '64 v Brighton 1 Welbeck '1
« Reply #358 on: April 1, 2024, 09:30:23 am »
Worst refereeing performance I've seen in a while.

Minor point but what the fuck was he playing at shifting those loose balls from behind the goal while we were about to take a corner?
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« Reply #359 on: April 1, 2024, 10:26:29 am »
Minor point but what the fuck was he playing at shifting those loose balls from behind the goal while we were about to take a corner?

Evidently there are minimum distances spare balls need to be from the goal to ensure they dont interfere with the goal line tech!