Topic: PL: Liverpool 3 v Burnley 1 Jota 30', O'Shea 45', Diaz 52' Darwin 79'

[Draex]

1st half we were gash.

2nd half brilliant, Elliot made such a difference with his energy.

Jota is stepping up, was easily our best player overall.

[Son of Spion]

Well done Reds. All that matters now is the points. Keep racking them up. 

[marmite]

good 3 points .... darwin & jota are gold dust .... endo what a great signing he was a great no frills get stuck in footballer that we really needed ... great to see youth again we are not developing a great team we are developing  a great squad ... nice little rest now then we go again

[Gerry83]

Forget the performance - the 3 points is all that matters.

We’ll need Robbo, Endo, Quansah and Trent but feels likes a lot of our better results have come with likes of Gomez and Bradley, Konate and Joe Gomez in the starting 11.

Good problems to have i suppose with players coming back.

[KevLFC]

Kelleher never let's us down. I can't think of a better number 2. He just slots in almost seamlessly

Not a great performance overall. Another mix up at the heart of the defence nearly gifted them a second. Needs sorting out.

Excellent header by nunes. Elliott is class.

You must have missed the Fulham game then?

[Caps4444]

Darwin on 8 yellows…..needs to be careful…..that’s 3 yellows in 3 games for “dissent”.

[classycarra]

Darwin on 8 yellows…..needs to be careful…..that’s 3 yellows in 3 games for “dissent”.

Ref was kind to him today luckily, as he could have got a second yellow for sarcastically clapping the ref on a yellow too. Second time he's got away with that for us at Anfield (unlike Dalot, luckily)

[duvva 💅]

You must have missed the Fulham game then?

The one we won? And people lost their shit over goals which were mainly not his fault

[lindylou100]

Big shout out to Curtis Jones for covering the RB position. I hope I don’t have to see an unfit Trent there again this season. Jones and Elliott helped make the difference today.

[John C]

Makes up for the decision not given when they wrestled Jota to the floor in the first half then. 

Yep. And Nunez got a big arm tug.

It's easy to say it would be soft but it's easy to point out when we've been on the receiving end of such decisions.

[TAA66]

Big shout out to Curtis Jones for covering the RB position. I hope I don’t have to see an unfit Trent there again this season. Jones and Elliott helped make the difference today.

He’s fast becoming one of my favourite players in this team

[John C]

Happy with the points but disappointed with the performance. No excuse to play like this at home aginst a team managed by Kompany.

I don't want to appear nasty mate but you really should take yourself for a long, long walk. And if you've walked for a few days and still don't get it carry on walking for a couple of weeks.

[Fromola]

Ref was kind to him today luckily, as he could have got a second yellow for sarcastically clapping the ref on a yellow too. Second time he's got away with that for us at Anfield (unlike Dalot, luckily)

Isn't 5 soft red cards this season enough?

[Eeyore]

Yep. And Nunez got a big arm tug.

It's easy t say it would be soft but it' easy to point out when we've been on the receiving end of such decisions.

Exactly Darwin gets gripped by the arm and dragged to the floor gets nothing and then the defender goes down when Darwin breathes on him for the challenge that results in the yellow card. Absolute joke.

[Fromola]

Exactly Darwin gets gripped by the arm and dragged to the floor gets nothing and then the defender goes down when Darwin breathes on him for the challenge that results in the yellow card. Absolute joke.

Is it any wonder he gets pissed off? Officiating is shambolic, he reacts to awful decisions and gets punished.

Yes he needs to be more robotic but the refs aren't playing a fair game.

[classycarra]

Isn't 5 soft red cards this season enough?

certainly my view, but Darwin seems to see things differently!

someone in the leadership needs to have a word, it's self indulgent at this stage

[KevLFC]

The one we won? And people lost their shit over goals which were mainly not his fault

Yes, worst game for us that day. If you looked back at some of the goals during that game you could gave argued he should probably have saved the 1st or 2nd goal that day. Played well today though.

[KevLFC]

Is it any wonder he gets pissed off? Officiating is shambolic, he reacts to awful decisions and gets punished.

Yes he needs to be more robotic but the refs aren't playing a fair game.

Well today's was a definite foul. There is no need for the afters, you have to control yourself even if you don't agree with the decision, has got a way with a few dissent situations this season too.

[darragh85]

The one we won? And people lost their shit over goals which were mainly not his . I've praise

The one we won? And people lost their shit over goals which were mainly not his fault

 I praise our second choice keeper and this guy refers back to a game where he let in 2 goals that that werent mistakes , just goals that Alisson would probably have stopped. Weird

[Avens]

Ref was kind to him today luckily, as he could have got a second yellow for sarcastically clapping the ref on a yellow too. Second time he's got away with that for us at Anfield (unlike Dalot, luckily)

Wasn't that a genuine clap of appreciation after the ref gave him a free kick? Or was it another one?

[DangerScouse]

Wasn't that a genuine clap of appreciation after the ref gave him a free kick?

It was.

[Avens]

It was.

Good of everyone to get creative with criticising our players then 

[duvva 💅]

Wasn't that a genuine clap of appreciation after the ref gave him a free kick? Or was it another one?

I thought that too, he meant it genuinely. However it can easily been seen a sarcastic in the circumstances

[classycarra]

Wasn't that a genuine clap of appreciation after the ref gave him a free kick? Or was it another one?

I only saw it happen once so I assume we're talking the same event.

Would suggest it was still a stupid thing to do since clapping refs often pick up yellows for that regardless of context (and in this, the context was he'd been pissed off at the ref, so even if sincerely beautifully kind-spiritedly clapping his refereeing excellence, the ref could still easily have yellowed him again)

Good of everyone to get creative with criticising our players then 

don't be a pass agg weirdo Duvva doesn't deserve it

[Eeyore]

Well today's was a definite foul. There is no need for the afters, you have to control yourself even if you don't agree with the decision, has got a way with a few dissent situations this season too.

He needs to take a leaf out of the book of the likes of Odegaard or Fernandes.

They manage to take decisions that go against them without the slightest hint of dissent. 

[Cafe De Paris]

Company’s Burnley rolling over against his bessie pep and play like their life depended on it today.  Shhh house team. Even blaming someone else for his touch line ban. Bitter pr*@k.

[Caps4444]

Nevertheless we can’t have him out for 2 games.  He needs to control himself. 3 on the bounce for dissent is silly.

[classycarra]

He needs to take a leaf out of the book of the likes of Odegaard or Fernandes.

They manage to take decisions that go against them without the slightest hint of dissent. 

Better still, take a leaf out of the book of his many teammates. Before he has to sit out two games and support them from the sidelines insetad of on the pitch

[Nobby Reserve]

Exactly Darwin gets gripped by the arm and dragged to the floor gets nothing and then the defender goes down when Darwin breathes on him for the challenge that results in the yellow card. Absolute joke.

Where Nunez got booked they were running right towards us in the Kop. Obviously no replay, so I could be wrong, but it looked like the defender moved across in front of Nunez. Was a ridiculous decision by the ref - but so many times whenever we pressed them and they realised they were in trouble, they'd throw themselves to the floor and the ref bought  it every time. Took us a long time to twig and start doing the same.

We looked a different team second half, much better. That we did it with a patched-up right hand side was a credit.

Only stopped being twitchy when we went 3-1 up.

[Tonyh8su]

3 points is all I care about. But, it's 11pm and I'm still fuming over that ref. He was absolutely pathetic. Him and his VAR allowed them to drag our boys to the ground in tackles that would be fouls in rugby.

They just toss out yellow cards for fuck all now as well.

[newterp]

Exactly Darwin gets gripped by the arm and dragged to the floor gets nothing and then the defender goes down when Darwin breathes on him for the challenge that results in the yellow card. Absolute joke.

worse - that no call led to Endo's yellow 10 seconds later

[Avens]

I only saw it happen once so I assume we're talking the same event.

Would suggest it was still a stupid thing to do since clapping refs often pick up yellows for that regardless of context (and in this, the context was he'd been pissed off at the ref, so even if sincerely beautifully kind-spiritedly clapping his refereeing excellence, the ref could still easily have yellowed him again)
don't be a pass agg weirdo Duvva doesn't deserve it

I know we've been on the receiving end of some shocking decisions this season, but having a player sent off for saying cheers, good decision, would've been close to an all time low.

[jckliew]

1st half we were gash.

2nd half brilliant, Elliot made such a difference with his energy.

Jota is stepping up, was easily our best player overall.

Gash was what i was thinking of too!  LOL
2nd half was Hyde

[wampa1]

They just toss out yellow cards for fuck all now as well.

Prepping for blue cards.

[jckliew]

Speaking of yellow cards, Endo is on 6?  Suspended?

[duvva 💅]

Speaking of yellow cards, Endo is on 6?  Suspended?

Gotta reach 10 now

[jckliew]

Gotta reach 10 now

o Yeah...we are past the 19 game point. Thanks mate.

[TipTopKop]

A win -especially on the back of that Arsenal performance- is all that matters. The way the team responded to that late equalizer was fantastic.

[Dave McCoy]

All in all not much to complain about considering we don't really know who was still sick or not. Just have to hope Trent's injury isn't serious. Aside from that enjoy the break as I'm sure we all hope it's the last they get for quite some time.

[BarryCrocker]

Anyone know the last time we had 3 headed goals in a match?