PODCAST: Liverpool 3 West Ham 1 - Match Reaction

[tlw content]

The Reds are up to second in the table after an impressive display to see off a good West Ham side at Anfield.

 

TLW Editor Dave Usher is joined by Julian Richards, John Gallagher and Dan Thomas as the lads look back on an enjoyable afternoon at Anfield and look ahead to the midweek cup game against Leicester.

 

 

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[Chris]

@RedKnight's diatribe about the anny road end complete with Return of The Jedi analysis was a highlight. 

[TheBitch]

Fair play to AP for somehow finding fault with the ref, that’s the first game I’ve watched in a long time that I haven’t noticed the jobsworth in black making it all about them and making some god awful decisions. 

[Remmie]

Good work on the pronunciation correction of Kavanagh, I no longer need to go to St Helens and burn every house down

[lifetime fan]

@dave u the wannabe Rishi Sunak not having used contactless. 

[deiseach]

Ka-VAN-AH is the woolliest of wool pronunciations. My team leader is one and every time I say it I feel like washing my mouth out. I do say it though. When in Widnes etc.

 

Surprised Dave didn't mention the movement from Nunez for the goal. The finish was fine but it was at point-blank range. The movement, on the other hand...everything Dave has been banging on about for months. The defenders both thought they had it covered and in less time than it takes to blink, he's in. Great stuff.

[Mathewbet1]

 

90's 'pop' star and teen heart throb  'Kavana' would be turning in his grave (although he's not dead as far i know).

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Like I said.... pwonunciationism. 

[Remmie]

7 hours ago, Remmie said:

Good work on the pronunciation correction of Kavanagh, I no longer need to go to St Helens and burn every house down

Have I been negged for not burning St Helens down? 

[dave u]

10 hours ago, TheBitch said:

Fair play to AP for somehow finding fault with the ref, that’s the first game I’ve watched in a long time that I haven’t noticed the jobsworth in black making it all about them and making some god awful decisions. 

 

Couldn't believe that. Even by Dan's standards that was shocking to me.

[aws]

He made a few mistakes (very few) but that’s the first ref for a while who spread his mistakes around evenly. 

[Mathewbet1]

I agree he was letting loads of fouls go (most of them against us) in the first half, but did did kinda even it out. He was trying to let the game flow, trouble is the next ref will be blowing up for everything, they are generally consistently inconsistent.

[razor]

The fact one of their players did the old "run fast shielding the ball, then slow down a little to get barged into and fall over for free kick/pen" and got rewarded makes me even more annoyed that seemingly the only person that has ever been called out for this is Diogo Jota at White Heart Lane the other year (which, if we'd converted the resultant pen meant we won the league...).

 

But then we're back on baldy Manc refs and surely that's a place nobody wants to go.

[dave u]

6 hours ago, razor said:

...surely that's a place nobody wants to go.

 

Go? Dan actually lives there.

[Red Shift]

Another informative and entertaining pod.

 

I did mention in the match thread, that I felt anxious that the substitutes arrived  (imo) very late. That was my only ‘beef’ with the tactics during the game. Jones, MacAlister both guilty of unforced passing mistakes as they tired in midfield, between 60 minutes and the arrival of the bench. We were only 2-1 up against a team that was very capable of breaking and scoring on our mistakes, and we were making them as the second half progressed. At the same time, we were not the threat we had been and the third goal wasn’t exactly imminent in the middle of the second period.

 

When the subs arrived, the impetus improved, the third goal came. Why wait so long? Our ability to control the game was diminishing well before 71 minutes or whatever it was that we eventually made changes.

[Razoray]

When the Jota goal went in, I immediately thought of Dave claiming the finish type and remembered Chris was on the pod.