Liverpool V Man City Aug 26th 4:00pm - Sky Sports 1

Knex*

Didn't think it was a dive myself tbh.

cloptrop

Dickerty wrote: »

Ref needs to stop blowing up for Balotelli dives! Goes down easier than Drogba...

Oh right so he should just carry on running with sterling dangling from his arm .

citytillidie

Xavi6 wrote: »

The sad thing is you're serious

Even the most biased man city commentator in Quinn called it a dive

That_Guy

City to win is 7/1 with Bet 365. Decent.

patsy mulcaghy

Great half of football from Liverpool, dominated the middle and pressed extremely hard for the ball; Allen, Gerrard and Sterling have been great.

Same again second half please.

johnmcdnl

citytillidie wrote: »

Feck off Mario with your diving

What I always find worse is the way the commentators manage to laugh it off calling it clever - Sky called Balotelli "cute" and said he was "showing his experience" or something along that line for that dive.

Why can't commentators just lambaste every lad who dives or goes down easily to get a free.

It's just so frustrating watching some lads playing when you know if they feel any sort of pressure they'll just fall over.

ahnowbrowncow

Why did BR spend £10.5m to get Borini?

super_furry

Liverpool look absolute quality. Took ten to fifteen minutes to recover from Lucas' injury and haven't looked back.

It's pretty telling that the last regime's huge money quartet of Carroll, Downing, Adam and Henderson are nowhere near the pitch.

ASOT

7/1 for city to win is a great price!

Xavi6

Melion wrote: »

Serious about what?

Watch the incident again and watch Balotelli grab Sterlings shirt and drag him down.

Come on out of that, Sterling had hold of Mario's arm as he was about to pull away from him. Stupid foul in a dangerous position.

Will I Amnt

citytillidie wrote: »

Xavi6 wrote: »

The sad thing is you're serious

Even the most biased man city commentator in Quinn called it a dive

Sterling was hanging on to him so the outcome was correct although Balotelli did go down easily.

Melion

Xavi6 wrote: »

Come on out of that, Sterling had hold of Mario's arm as he was about to pull away from him. Stupid foul in a dangerous position.

Watch it again and look at him pulling Sterlings shirt.

Ordinary man

City haven't shown up at all yet, second half could be a lot different.

Zak Flaps

Well impressed with that first half. Lots of players playing well.
Sterling and Gerard are very good but especially impressed with Allen. If he consistently plays like that, he'll have been easily worth the 15 million.

MD1990

Joe Allen - 100% pass accuracy in the first half 21/21

Melion

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

Why did BR spend £10.5m to get Borini?

You just know hes going to score now so people can quote that post.

Francie Barrett

Delighted with that first half display overall. We looked really up for this and played City totally off the park. Sterling was the obvious standout player, but props have to be given to Allen for not misplacing a single pass (at least that I can remember) and to Skrtel for thumping that header home from the corner. Also thought that Shelvey looked really good, got stuck in and show a mix of both long and short passing. Only negative for me was Suarez who still looks a little rusty. I am sure the goals will come though, he only needs one and he will go on a run.

Swarlez

Xavi6 wrote: »

Come on out of that, Sterling had hold of Mario's arm as he was about to pull away from him. Stupid foul in a dangerous position.

The sad thing is you're serious

Turtyturd

Good first half, except for Lucas...hopefully it's nothing too serious. Sterling having a great game, think Downing might want to consider making his cameo at left back the other night a permanent thing.

And Martin Skrtel has scored more goals this season than the Arsenal team combined.

niallo27

It's like watching Barcelona watching this.

eagle eye

super_furry wrote: »

Liverpool look absolute quality. Took ten to fifteen minutes to recover from Lucas' injury and haven't looked back.

It's pretty telling that the last regime's huge money quartet of Carroll, Downing, Adam and Henderson are nowhere near the pitch.

Did he not sign Coates and Suarez?

Francie Barrett

MD1990 wrote: »

Joe Allen - 100% pass accuracy in the first half 21/21

Was trying to think of a pass he misplaced :pac:

citytillidie

Ordinary man wrote: »

City haven't shown up at all yet, second half could be a lot different.

Ahh here it is Liverpool playing well against another big team and get no credit as the other team has not shown up

Turtyturd

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

Why did BR spend £10.5m to get Borini?

Paully D

I don't think Jamie Redknapp gets the concept of zonal marking.

Francie Barrett

citytillidie wrote: »

Ahh here it is Liverpool playing well against another big team and get no credit as the other team has not shown up

There will always be the seethers who never give this club any credit.

Xavi6

liverpoolrob wrote: »

The sad thing is you're serious

Deadly, foul correctly given. Move on without having to resort to lazy diver labels.

MD1990

Borini gets into great positions
he is a bit nervous & lost at times on the wing
but i do think he will score goals this season

murpho999

murpho999 wrote: »

In fairness, Mario showing Sterling what experience can do!

True, it was clever enough by him tbf.

That_Guy

super_furry wrote: »

It's pretty telling that the last regime's huge money quartet of Carroll, Downing, Adam and Henderson are nowhere near the pitch.

Isn't it the same regime???

Francie Barrett

MD1990 wrote: »

Borini gets into great positions
he is a bit nervous & lost at times on the wing
but i do think he will score goals this season

I think his best position will be as the point man in the attack, playing off the shoulder of the last defender. Suarez never passing the ball isn't helping though.

Knex*

Paully D wrote: »

I don't think Jamie Redknapp gets the concept of zonal marking.

I think Jamie Redknapp struggles with quite a lot of concepts tbh.

Joe Allen- pass master

Melion

Xavi6 wrote: »

Deadly, foul correctly given. Move on without having to resort to lazy diver labels.

Not a hint of irony

gaelicred

Borini is wasted out on the wing

LiamoSail

super_furry wrote: »

It's pretty telling that the last regime's huge money quartet of Carroll, Downing, Adam and Henderson are nowhere near the pitch.

Its quiet depressing how much of an improvement could be made to the current side if the above could be sold for what was paid for them.

murpho999

Why are you still all going on about the Ballotelli incident.

It was Mario showing cuteness over Sterling.

Nothing incident, move on.

No need for name calling as all players dive.

ahnowbrowncow

ahnowbrowncow wrote: »

Why did BR spend £10.5m to get Borini?

Lets write him off after 1.5 league games

daingeanrob

liverpool were fantastic that first half, what a great player allen looks like and sterling is full of energy. hope we can get a result here. worrying that on sky sports commentry they're saying ballotelli is making alot of good runs off the ball/camera. but so far so good..

20 Times 20 Times

Paully D wrote: »

I don't think Jamie Redknapp gets the concept of zonal marking.

top players marking other top top players ??

OwaynOTT

It's very stressful watching Liverpool pass it around the back. Coates already got caught and Skrtel did last week as well.
Shelvey playing far better than during the week. Woeful, woeful tackler though, he really needs to get some discipline there.

Super-Rush

How in the blue hell are we winning this?

Melion

OwaynOTT wrote: »

It's very stressful watching Liverpool pass it around the back. Coates already got caught and Skrtel did last week as well.
Shelvey playing far better than during the week. Woeful, woeful tackler though, he really needs to get some discipline there.

Coates getting caught was Johnsons fault for playing the ball to him like that.

Scholes has got away with woeful tackles for almost 20 years, no reason Shelvey cant aswell, he is english afterall.

daingeanrob

gaelicred wrote: »

Borini is wasted out on the wing

true, he seems off the pace of the game though, would carroll improve the team in this game? i think so.

Mr Alan

Super-Rush wrote: »

How in the blue hell are we winning this?

Playing well.

It's not complicated.

Turtyturd

OwaynOTT wrote: »

It's very stressful watching Liverpool pass it around the back. Coates already got caught and Skrtel did last week as well.
Shelvey playing far better than during the week. Woeful, woeful tackler though, he really needs to get some discipline there.

Definitely....also responsible for City's best chance when his pass was intercepted.

Xavi6

Melion

Super-Rush wrote: »

How in the blue hell are we winning this?

By playing much much better than City in 45 minutes.

noodler

My something or other just died if anyone would like to PM me a new one...

gaelicred

Xavi6 wrote: »

I get it now:D