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Rest in Peace

Seems like all the fight went off the pitch with Milner. Madrid happy to let us have the ball as no one had the balls to shoot unless it's a perfect opportunity. In hindsight it was probably all over when Salah missed that opening chance and certainly when Gini missed his at the end of the half. If you'd have told me we'd keep a clean sheet I'd have thought we were for sure going through. Would've scored 4 or 5 on another day. At the same time had we taken the pitch in Madrid with the attitude we showed tonight it never would've ended in a 3-1 loss.

Mané is lost in midfield. Need a change, 11 minutes to go plus stoppage time.

I think that's a good shout although I'd go to one per game, if you win it you can get another which means 2 max per game. Personally though I'm in the camp that thinks VAR isn't so much the problem as the implementation of it in the Premier League is. It's supposed to be clear and obvious and yet they've gone to being especially pedantic about it when they want to whilst not giving a fuck when they don't want to. That's been the main issue our own supporters and other supporters have. I also think it's absolutely ridiculous flagging offside for hands and elbows when you can't score with your hands or your elbows. If someone's head or even shoulder (Can you legally score with a shoulder? I know you can chest flick it with the inside portion) I suppose is offside that's fair enough, especially if it's clear but half an arm because that's the way a player runs is just silly. Personally I think the refs hate it as much as is anyone that's why they're doing it this why, in the hopes that there's enough outrage that it gets binned.

Fucks sake Sadio really couldn’t score in a brothel. I don’t blame him for not squaring but if he does it’s 3-1 which it should be anyway. Overall not a huge fan of him through the middle. Glad we pulled that out. I thought we were fucked when Thiago’s volley got saved.

Get the fuck in Trent!

Replays suggest he was on according to my commentary feed, they haven’t shown it though.

Every time a Villa player hits the deck he looks like he got punched in the ribs by Mike Tyson.

From the angle they’ve used to call it off you can’t even see the fucking ball, so how in the fuck is there conclusive evidence of a clear and obvious error? There isn’t, because it’s not possible from that footage. For all they know contact was actually made a frame or two before when it wasn’t even close. It’s a joke, and for some reason we seem to be on the end of it more than others. I still for the life of me don’t understand why an arm, elbow, armpit is offside anyway, you can’t use them to score so wtf is the point of that?

That is absolutely ridiculous standard they’re holding us too compared to other games in the same fucking league

If they take this shit off we might as well just call the game at halftime. Fucking ridiculous

Let's be honest the Barcelona tie from 2 seasons ago has fuck all to do with this tie. We were much better that day just had no luck, today we were much poorer yet got a better result. The main issue is that we all know there will be no fans at Anfield which is what makes it such a tough place to play on the big nights. This team is good enough to beat Real Madrid 2-0 on their day but as we've seen today they're also capable of a really abject half that could see the return over before we have a chance to get into it. We'll just have to see, and we can't afford any passengers at all next week.

I think you can make an argument that those balls over the top from Kroos don't happen/aren't nearly as effective with Bobby harassing him as well. I still think with Hendo out we should start all 4 of them but Mané's run of form makes the case for him to be dropped as well.

Guillem Balague sucking Vinicius off on Paramount stream. He's got a bunch of pace sure but he got lucky to have a second goal tonight and the ref protected him like he was fucking Messi or Ronaldo. I'm not saying he's not a decent player but I don't think he's the second coming as they're making out.

I completely agree but I actually thought he was good for most of the first half. Second half though was just ridiculously one-sided. Not even close.

It must be concern about his injury recovery still. No other reason for Mane to stay on in this game him to be the one to come off.

Someone needs to show these the Istanbul game, have a fucking shot like Smicer for fucks sake.

That sums up Mané's night and this ref all in one passage of play.

Meanwhile we actually get shoved when challenging and for some reason always try to stay up and even when we do hit the deck its not a foul. Fucks sake.

Refs fall for that shit all the time, someone should just take that cunt Vinicius out for the next 3 weeks fuck it. If you're going to act like a rat then get treated like a rat.

Well this is not what I expected from Klopp

That's why I don't think it's entirely on Ali but he should be pushing it passed the post. He barely sees it but the fact is it has no pace so he should be saving it.

Yea I'd get Mane off he's on a yellow, looks knackered.

Shit decision there, that's all ball.

You can even make the case of bringing him on for Mané. Gini has been better since the half.