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2-0 would be a fantastic result, but it'd hardly be miraculous for this bunch of players to achieve. Imagine Div started up top...

Just watched a replay of the pen shout. Commentator saying Mike Dean not even asked to have a look for himself by whoever the VAR guy was. Unreal.

Did anyone catch what book he was reading for this one?

If it simultaneously gives him a little rest before the business end of the season, as well as a kick up the arse that his position isn't as safe as he may have thought, then it's not a bad thing really.

There's been fans in stadiums in at least some parts of the country the whole time, due to individual states shutting their borders and adopting a quarantine system even for other Australians coming in. That said, as a rule it has been around the 50% capacity mark in that time. The MCG being massive still means 50,000, as it was last night. It was fucking buzzing!

Um...ok?

Bayern Munich v Manchester City PSG v Real Madrid Chelsea v Borussia Dortmund Liverpool v Porto Please and thank you!

50,000 at the MCG tomorrow night for the Aussie Rules season opener. Can't fucking wait!

Look at the knockout phases for Liverpool in the Europa and Real Madrid in the CL that same season. Genuinely not a lot between them.

Oppo fans mocked the West Brom draw 'celebrations', but then their team would never get a Barcelona semi final result either. At the very least, I think Liverpool draw as much from their own supporters as any team does. Add to a potential slight championship 'hangover', a ridiculous injury list and some dodgy refereeing, and you have a near perfect storm of shitness. And yet! Still in the CL quarter finals.

Agreed.

In keeping with this fucking bizarre season, I realized how much I hate that offside shite. It annoyed me seeing them manipulate an offside with technology utterly incapable of performing the required task. Their first should've stood.

It could well be a case of Scouse humour flying way over my head, but Carragher saying he'll see Stevie at Liverpool 'next year'...even as a joke, isn't that a tad disrespectful to Klopp, especially given his personal circumstances?

Before this win, he'd only been part of a single victory in his previous 28 league games, many of which were with a club on their 4th manager this season. When you add the merry go round of players around him for his first handful of games with the reds, as well as the kamikaze effort by Alisson, is it a wonder a 20yo hasn't looked quite as assured as some may have hoped? Ordinarily he'd be nowhere near the first team yet, but here we are. A clean-sheet in a win can only do wonders for his nerves.

Yep. I've seen a few comments about a lack of plan B. The reason they can't see it is because it's already in the fucking bin along with A, C and D. 18th CB pairing for the season today. Outrageous. And as you say, it's taking options away from midfield to fill defensive positions. And the one genuinely game-changing option up front has been missing for 3 months.