Wigan(H) Match Thread

[DaveT]

Indeed. It was a late, or mistimed challenge that should have been a yellow, but in real time it looked like he'd won the ball. It was never a red (and that is without the rose-tints on). And yes, Figueroa's was shin-high, much worse and much more dangerous, yet no mention.

 

One other thing to note: the Sterling challenge that resulted in Watson's broken leg was an absolute non-event. It recieved nothing but confused assessment at the time, e.g: "It looks like a clash of heads...Watson looks like he may have injured his arm....Watson may have strained his thigh...It looks like he may have hurt his knee on the way down..." They simply didnt know what the hell had happened because it looked like nothing.

 

Match of the day commentary on the other hand, made it into an 'incident'. "Oh Sterling has gone in on Watson there and that looks serious!" or words to that effect. That's not how it was at all. Nice glamming-up BBC, nice.

 

Agree with all of that. Scholes has been doing that kind of late/mistimed tackle (and much worse) for 15 years, yet whenever did anyone talk about his 'dark side'? The MotD commentators are really appalling these days. Used to think David Coleman and Barry Davies were know-nothings, but compared to the current bunch.....

On a general note..... what a fucking awful attitude from Wigan....time wasting from 1st minute (at least the ref was on their case early, as opposed to the Newcastle game), falling down at every opportunity, not to mention Caldwell's antics. Thankk Christ we didn't get Martinez, if that's his approach.

[Torvald Utne]

The only time tackles like that are shown in the highlights reel, especially on the games towards the end of the show, are when a player has been sent off for two yellows....or if your name is Suarez.

[Kevin D]

I was hoping we'd get beat.

[A_S]

Last week's shocker by RVP on Sagna was not even shown on MOTD. Agenda much ?

 

And there it is. The intent in that RVP challenge was a lot clearer than the Suarez incident (intent or not, that is a definite yellow for being late) yet it isn't being shown.

 

Was Figueroa's shown I suppose?

[RedPaul]

Great second half performance from us after an inept and insipid first half. We deserved the 3-0 and hopefully we can continue to improve and move up the table. We've got a couple of tougher games coming up, so let's see how we get on.

[Bjornebye]

wisdom and enrique were excellent. suso was looking a bit shit i thought.... sterling needs a rest.

 

oh and that cheering every pass malarky? against fucking wigan? wool as fuck

[Tommy Lawrence]

The only time tackles like that are shown in the highlights reel, especially on the games towards the end of the show, are when a player has been sent off for two yellows....or if your name is Suarez.

 

Burn the witch.

[Tommy Lawrence]

I was hoping we'd get beat.

 

?????????????

[Glock21]

I was hoping we'd get beat.

 

Even if you hope BR to get sacked like me but i dont wish us to get beaten. Never. You sir is a fucking septic.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Poor Kev. He's like a magnet to retard, that lad. They're like a moth to a flame when he's about.

[Code]

Liverpool 56% - Wigan 44%

 

Stats from FIFA does not count.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

 

Stats from FIFA does not count.

 

Opta.

[zigackly]

Stats which Code disagrees with don't count. Or facts either.

[piscinin]

Opta.

 

LFC 3-0 Wigan: Opta match stats - Liverpool FC

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Yeah, I'd imagine that's the passing amount rather than time in possession. You only have to watch the match to see we dominated possession.

[ILikeLiverpool]

Looks like you missed this post. Must be the shit user name and the red bricks.

This is why possession stats differ on various sites, if anyone's interested:

 

FEATURE - A ball possessed

 

Like someone said, the stat that really matters is the 3-0 and the 3 points. At half time i didn't think that was going to come.

They had a fair amount of the ball in the first half though. A few periods where they kept it for a good length of time too.

[piscinin]

Yeah, I'd imagine that's the passing amount rather than time in possession. You only have to watch the match to see we dominated possession.

 

Possession is possession is possession.

[LFC64]

Looks like you missed this post. Must be the shit user name and the red bricks.They had a fair amount of the ball in the first half though. A few periods where they kept it for a good length of time too.

 

That's why Rodgers took Suso off after 35 minutes and brought Henderson on. I thought at the time Wigan were pressing us how Rodgers wanted us to be pressing them. When Henderson came on his hard work off the ball forced them into errors, we could press them higher up the pitch, and the Enrique Johnson linking became more effective.

 

Good bold early decision from the manager I thought which affected the outcome of the game. That and some clinical finishing by Suarez again!

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Possession is possession is possession.

 

Disagree.

[LFC64]

Indeed. It was a late, or mistimed challenge that should have been a yellow, but in real time it looked like he'd won the ball. It was never a red (and that is without the rose-tints on). And yes, Figueroa's was shin-high, much worse and much more dangerous, yet no mention.

 

One other thing to note: the Sterling challenge that resulted in Watson's broken leg was an absolute non-event. It recieved nothing but confused assessment at the time, e.g: "It looks like a clash of heads...Watson looks like he may have injured his arm....Watson may have strained his thigh...It looks like he may have hurt his knee on the way down..." They simply didnt know what the hell had happened because it looked like nothing.

 

Match of the day commentary on the other hand, made it into an 'incident'. "Oh Sterling has gone in on Watson there and that looks serious!" or words to that effect. That's not how it was at all. Nice glamming-up BBC, nice.

 

Completely disingenuous by MOTD. Edited highlights commentary so that little gem uttered with faux outrage that Sterling 'appears to jump into Watson' was added in hindsight with full knowledge that he did nothing of the sort.

 

That'll be next - the dark side of Sterling FFS!!

[Code]

Amateurs.

[ILikeLiverpool]

That's why Rodgers took Suso off after 35 minutes and brought Henderson on. I thought at the time Wigan were pressing us how Rodgers wanted us to be pressing them. When Henderson came on his hard work off the ball forced them into errors, we could press them higher up the pitch, and the Enrique Johnson linking became more effective.

 

Good bold early decision from the manager I thought which affected the outcome of the game. That and some clinical finishing by Suarez again!

I agree it was a good decision. I didn't think Suso was playing that badly either, he made a few good forward runs and always looked to be finding space.

[LFC64]

I agree it was a good decision. I didn't think Suso was playing that badly either, he made a few good forward runs and always looked to be finding space.

 

I agree he was looking useful. That's why I thought it was a brave move because it was risky sacrificing Suso's creativity and attacking threat and replacing it with the engine of Henderson. If it had backfired and say Suarez hadn't taken his goals you can imagine the shit he'd be getting for having the faith in Henderson to do so.

[piscinin]

Disagree.

 

Irony missed.

[J-V]

Stats which Code disagrees with don't count. Or facts either.

 

Summed up perfectly.