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[magicrat]

Wellwide walks it in for the opener

Shocking defense

[niallers]

Great one touch goal. A typical arse goal. We're still trying to cement what a Liverpool goal looks like, but we'll get there with jurgen.

[magicrat]

Not at the races here the Bitters

No doubt Arse will fuck it up in due course

[moof]

Sanchez ain't all that, tbh. Decent player but he's not a fraction as good as Suarez.

[Jairzinho]

Sanchez ain't all that, tbh. Decent player but he's not a fraction as good as Suarez.

 

He's a world class footballer and he's nowhere near as a good as Suarez.

[moof]

Id rather have Firmino.

[Barrington Womble]

Not at the races here the Bitters

No doubt Arse will fuck it up in due course

To be fair, they'll have one eye on us not finishing 4th.

[Arl arse]

0-2 ha

[Jairzinho]

Id rather have Firmino.

 

Fair enough, I wouldn't.

[moof]

But if he was Chilean you would

[3 Stacks]

Everton so, so naive. Iwobi with a nice goal. 2-0 Arsenal

[Frankenhooker]

Everton's cup run has saved Martinez, surely based on their league showing he deserves the sack ?

 

A lot of the smaller clubs have decent cup runs that mask their poor league performance.

[Jairzinho]

But if he was Chilean you would

 

Nope. If he was capable of scoring 25 goals a season I would, and I can't really see it here.

 

I like Firmino, I think he's really good. I don't think he's anywhere near as good as Sanchez though. I think Sanchez has a lot of the "street" footballer mentality that Suarez has, I don't see it with Firmino.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[lebron]

I was actually hoping for a bit of help from our blue neighbours in this one, as I still think Arsenal are capable of imploding (even more), but they are just totally absent today. Don't think I've seen an Everton side as passive and uninterested in a "big game" at home as they've been here (the Man City game two years ago the obvious exception). Could easily have been 4 or 5 here.

[Dr Nowt]

No chance of Arsenal imploding in the league, the pressure to win something is off them now. This is where they go on a run and excite their knobhead fans ahead of the summer's bitterly disappointing transfer business.

 

They're a James Bond film. Everyone knows exactly what will happen, the only thing which changes is the year.

[Dr. J]

Hate rooting for them but their silently content if it harms us. Was hoping for the best but should've known better...

[liverpoolsno9]

Can someone explain to me why Sanchez is always mentioned as being World Class? he's a very good player, of that there is no doubt, but World Class? Not a chance. The one thing that sets Word Class players apart is consistency, Sanchez is capable of doing great things, as are many players in this League, but doing it consistently is the key. Is Payet & Mahrez World Class? Not yet, if ever, they're excellent players but they've had 1 good season, Sanchez had a decent season last. Before that he wasn't exactly a certain starter at at Barca. Not World Class for me Clive.

[Dr. J]

He did lead Chile to a Copa America, which is certainly a world class event, at least to people here. World class means, I suppose, 19 players. At his position, maybe not, but in terms of quality, he's got it, I think.

[liverpoolsno9]

Does winning a international competition make you a World Class player? I don't think so. Copa America is certainly not a world class event either because only the South Americans play in it.

[Jairzinho]

Can someone explain to me why Sanchez is always mentioned as being World Class? he's a very good player, of that there is no doubt, but World Class? Not a chance. The one thing that sets Word Class players apart is consistency, Sanchez is capable of doing great things, as are many players in this League, but doing it consistently is the key. Is Payet & Mahrez World Class? Not yet, if ever, they're excellent players but they've had 1 good season, Sanchez had a decent season last. Before that he wasn't exactly a certain starter at at Barca. Not World Class for me Clive.

 

Sanchez has been excellent since about 2010. Not really sure why you're comparing him to Payet and Mahrez.

[liverpoolsno9]

He might have been very good since then but I just disagree when people call him World Class, in my eyes he most definitely is not.

[Strontium]

There was never any prospect of Everton getting a result against Arsenal while there was still the slightest chance of us pipping the gooner melts to fourth place.

[Jairzinho]

He might have been very good since then but I just disagree when people call him World Class, in my eyes he most definitely is not.

 

Well, each to their own, etc. 

[Dr. J]

Does winning a international competition make you a World Class player? I don't think so. Copa America is certainly not a world class event either because only the South Americans play in it.

 

Well, then neither are the Euros or the League of Nations. By that criterion the only world class event is the world cup itself.

 

The Copa America lacks the minnows that those other competitions throw out - Liechenstein, Montengro, San Marino, et. al. All the CA teams are tough - Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile all are on equal footing and world cup contenders every four years. If Suarez hadn't bitten himself out who knows?

 

I look forward to the CA because every game is rooted in national sporting pride and it comes out on the pitch. Great tournament.