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By the letter if the law it's a pen,and viera would scream for it if it was his player involved,but to me,they aren't pens

Everyone thought Afcon would kill us. 2 wins out of 2 and through in both cups aswell. However its that Midfield that will eventually kill us!

Bit of a break now anyway. Had a lot of games recently and a few lads looked a bit leggy today.

February 6th for the FA cup game against Cardiff.

I hate breaks. These lads need to be playing every 3rd day to get the best out of them. All breaks do is allow the injuries to mount up and the team to get rusty. First games back are always brutal.

February Games

Henderson is the easy target,

Hes trying to do what je always does but he has tocover far more ground because the sided midfeilder used to give us a strong base in Gini, that not there when, Thaigo is injured which is more often than not

Curtis Jones does a fabulous impression of the invisible man when we dont have the ball, Because hes young and scouse he gets away with murder, Doesnt tackle, and can't block passing channels, he's a passenger when we are out of possession

Theres a few reasons,

1,Our press woudn't work,to much score between the lines, and give teams woth inferior players more time to pick passes,

2, If we sit deep the full backs will be depper so less effective going Forward,

3, If the whole team does not sit deep and its just the back four then Fabhinos lack of pace as the 6 would become a massive problem, if we are not compact therw will be to much space,

3, we generally have thw ball most of the time so pushing high means when we turn it over its est to win it back quicker

4, we dont have the controling type of players to play deep and slow paced, We are a high octane players who get on the front foot,

5, Top teams play high now, City play as high as we do but have quicler CBsand Walker so it's never brought up

I've watched it again, and while it's soft, I can see why it's given.

Keeper slides, doesn't touch the ball, takes Jota out. We're all a bit distracted by Jota's terrible touches. Because they're crap, we're all so aghast that he's lost the chance, but the keeper does slide across into him.

It's soft, but Guaita is getting off very lightly in some of the analysis.

Could the leeds match be fixed between the Norwich game and the carabao final?

its games like that why i think its nuts not to play Alisson in the final .Its professional football surely we have to play our best players ,

Also, we have no control because of a few things.

1. VVD isn't what he was. He could literally cover a backline on his own in his pomp.

2. Henderson isn't what he was. He has energy, but he vacates his area too easily.

3. Thiago and Keita are massive losses.

4. No Mo and Mane means we can't pin teams back as efficiently.

If City didn't exist, we'd probably get by. But when you're aiming for 92+ points, you need elite control or teams will catch you out.

VVD did look flat footed for the first, I thought he could have cut that ball out, had he not stopped, he checked, tried to play off side, but then Trent and Matip showed NO effort what so ever to get back to the man that actually scored.

It's not a penalty, if it was given against us i would be raging, it's not a big problem as I don't think it changed the result, unlike other questionable decisions this weekend

The worst thing about the penalty is that all the talk is going to be about the penalty now.

It will be in the back of referees heads. I hope there is one not given in a tighter game at 0-0 or 1-1 in the future.

I'd rather be given the penalty in the Spurs game rather than today!

I dont think its a peno at all, ball was gone and Jota changed his direction slightly to make contact

I would think that the majority don't think it was a penalty, i will reiterate that it's a bad decision that didn't seem to change the result unlike other bad decisions.

It wasn't a peno for me anyway but I'll happily take it, I'd have been raging if it was given against us. I'm still baffled that the ref got sent to the screen and overturned his decision as I don't think it was a clear and obvious error.

Bobby should have gotten Oxs goal ruled out. He clearly went to head it but looks like he pulled out as he might have gotten a shout but he still reacted to the ball. Again I'd be raging if it was against us.

A very ropey performance by us today but an utter sh1t show from the officials. Gallagher could have had a few more yellow cards too.

I'd much rather a scrappy 0-1 win from a deflection than winning from dodgy decisions but a win is a win and I'm not complaining as we got the 3 points.

Got lucky today, sloppy stuff from 35 mins till the end. Not a pen. Gotta win when not playing well though. Alison motm

Same.

Also, it came at the end so not as big a deal as others are making of it. You'd swear it was given in the 1st minute and their keeper was sent off.

Seems a soft penalty, but its a penalty. When Ederson took out Fraser everyone seemed to agree it should have been a penalty, but Cancelo took the ball away from Fraser. So what is the difference here? Fraser couldn't get the ball either but he was taken out by the keeper. You cannot just take out a player and hope to get away with it.

Didn't seem to bad to me?

Obviously criticising both decisions bit fair enough I thought.

On criticism Jena's did make was fair enough.

Obviously we hold a high line, but VVD in particular seems to be absolving himself for any responsibility once it is breached. The desire to get back is minimal.

We might have to learn to play 5-10 yards deeper unless we get more midfield options asap.

It would be very interesting to hear Klopp thoughts on it,