mike23

Never seen a more wasteful attacking performance. We actually managed to be even less clinical than in the FA cup game. Time after time they just kept giving the ball away and were absolutely wide open and we just kept screwing it up with either the final ball or the finish. Nunez, Mo and Diaz all missing absolute sitters (although you can guarantee they'd have ruled the Diaz one out for Robertson's challenge at the end). I'm surprised I didn't have a stroke after watching that miss from Nunez when he could have just pulled it back for Szoboszlai to slot home (although with the way Dom was playing he'd have probably found a way to miss). Genuinely one of the shittest things I have ever seen from a professional striker. We needed imperious Mo for the run-in and instead we've got him at his most infuriatingly wasteful. I don't think he did a thing right other than not manage to fuck up the penalty as well (I was hoping Mac Allister was going to take it as I was expecting him to miss it). Absolutely scandalous that we couldn't beat not only the worst United team I've ever seen but probably the worst side I have ever seen going under the moniker of a supposedly big club 3 times in one season. They barely even resemble a functional professional team. They were just begging us to batter them and we just kept turning down the offer. I said last week after the Brighton game that it would come back and bite us sooner or later if we kept on being so wasteful, and we didn't have to wait long for it to happen. We still could have won if we had just not made any mistakes at the back, but we couldn't even manage that. Quansah has been great but wtf was that for the equalizer? I love Klopp but I really don't know what he's doing in how he's handling Konate's minutes at the moment. First he gets injured needlessly being kept on in a Europa league first leg we were cruising in, and then he's played at home against the bottom of the table team instead of the trip to Old Trafford. I don't think Alisson gets caught out like Kelleher did either. There was all sorts wrong with the second goal as well. Even this absolute embarrassment of a United side were making the effort to close down shots properly, unlike our players on the goal. We seemed to just completely lose our heads after they scored the first and it ended up being fatal. It's not over, but it's out of our hands now. If Arsenal win every game and win it then fair play to them, and we will have only ourselves to blame for it. Truth be told, it's hard to see us not dropping any more points anyway if the forwards continue to miss chances at a historical rate like this. Motm - I'm giving it to Elliot simply because he was the only attacking player after Diaz's goal who didn't take the absolute piss.

I just laughed when the commentator said that VAR had instantly cleared it. They can't even be bothered to make enough effort to pretend there's no bias any more.

Luton level. Draw is still not really much use for them at this stage though.

What's going on at Villa Park? Brentford now 3-2 up after being 2 goals down 10 minutes ago.

Everton winning and Luton now a goal down. Could be the day where things are pretty much decided down at the bottom unless Everton's next points deduction is much bigger than anticipated.

I'm sure my own judgement when watching Arsenal and City games this year has been skewed at times by personal bias, but anyone who thought we should have had more bookings against Brighton should just stop watching our games because it's clear that what they're seeing has absolutely no connection with reality.

Sky Sports always put together 3-minute highlight packages for all the games and stick them on YouTube after the games. I did wonder how they would even find 3 minutes of highlights from the City-Arsenal game today, and indeed they couldn't as they ended up cutting the game's 'highlights' down to 2 minutes. God knows how MOTD2 will stretch their selected highlights much beyond that tonight. At least they'll have plenty to show from our game.

Incredibly nervy at the end. It was always going to be the case after the second Diaz goal was disallowed (remember United's 2nd goal against us at Old Trafford last year that looked clearly off and how the explanation afterwards was they were going to allow more leeway to forwards on decisions? Yeah, that was yet another load of bullshit that was never mentioned again after being used to justify a clearly incorrect decision). We do need to be far more clinical in the run in, though, as it's either going to lead to dropped points eventually or games like this being about ten times more difficult than they should be. That was a gutsy win, though, after going a goal down against a team who have been a really bogey side for us.

Ref blowing every time we breathe on one of their players, yet he sees nothing wrong with a clear shirt pull on Nunez in the area. We'd have a healthy lead at the top of the table with fair refereeing this season and these cunts still have a massive part to play in where the title ends up.

I thought we'd had our full quota of 12:30 games too. They've also regularly moved this fixture to 8pm for other teams so it's not like it has to be at 12:30.

Fair enough. You're right: the team has done wonders recently, and even the very best teams have games like this. It's why it was so incredible and unprecedented that we came so close to the quadruple 2 years ago. I'm just annoyed at the moment like everyone else. I was calling them all pricks at the final whistle because I was so angry with the way they twice threw the game away, but even in that moment there was a voice at the back of my mind telling me to stop being so ungrateful after all the other recent things they have done. I'll sulk about it for a bit this evening and then tomorrow I'll have moved on from it and be grateful for what's been achieved so far this year and be looking forward to the other games again.

And last season. They'd just been battered in their first 2 games of the season by Brighton and Brentford, and then we went to Old Trafford and turned in an utter turd of a performance to kickstart their season. We've failed to beat them far too many times recently because they really are fucking dreadful. We either seem to completely humiliate them or not beat them at all. We need to stop falling into this trap of playing the occasion and just treat games against them the same as we do with all the other mediocre dross in the league.

In much of the first half and extra time they did, but they completely gave up in the second half and weren't even doing most of the basic things you'd expect a team to do - tracking runners, closing down shots etc. The story after the match should have been all about just what a complete embarrassment most of their players are. This all occurred because of complete complacency from us. Hopefully it spurs us on in the league and a game or 2 less may even be beneficial in the long run, but it's also hard not to worry what sort of impact a defeat like that will have on morale.

Absolute fucking shambles since it went to 2-2. Lucky to get back in front and we still manage to fuck it up again somehow. This team have been great this year but they want fucking crucifying for losing to these today. Should have been 4 or 5 goals up in the second half.

Absolutely criminal that we didn't finish them off in this second half.

Went for a 5-0 Arsenal win for the pickems and it turns out I massively overestimated Sheffield United.

There were some great opportunities on the break for United at 0-1. Shame they were too shit to make anything of them. As good as Rashford's goal was, he was genuinely appalling in the rest of the game. A City win felt inevitable when they equalized with plenty of time left.

Great stuff. I gave up trying to watch it. Couldn't find a stream that would work for more than a few minutes all afternoon and eventually just decided to follow it on the forum hoping more than expecting for something good to happen. That's a huge win under the circumstances. Hopefully Mo is back for City and the players who came on today are ready to start by then.

I was thinking halfway through extra time that even if we went on to lose it would still be a performance to be really proud of. They had so many excuses not to win the game - yet another injury early on when they were already down to the bare bones, every little decision going against them in the game, already having 1 winning goal scandalously ruled out - and yet they just kept going and found a way to win. They rode their luck a bit in the final 10 minutes of normal time, but other than that spell were by far the better team throughout and were fully deserved winners. Everyone was outstanding, but special mentions for Kelleher, Konate and van Dijk.

You've just got to laugh at the state of refereeing in this country now. The ref somehow doesn't book a Chelsea player all half despite numerous bad challenges, including one causing yet another serious looking injury for us, and then he decides that Chilwell acting like a complete prick while Bradley just walks away should lead to equal punishment. Unlucky from Gakpo. I don't know what it is about cup finals with Chelsea but the ball just never seems to want to go in no matter how many chances we have. Great save from Kelleher earlier.

That was a nice few seconds of football. The Brighton equalizer and Fulham winner seemed to occur virtually simultaneously.

Red card will bail them out second half. No way the PL’s number 1 tv subscriber base will suffer the indignity of being beaten by Luton at home. The Blue Watch Player Valuation: £10m Yesterday at 9:01 PM New Add bookmark #79,916 Doped up to their eyeballs. If even that isn’t enough, a friendly ref bails them out. A sickening organisation. Yarrgh Player Valuation: £70m Yesterday at 9:04 PM New Add bookmark #79,917 Phew! Breathing more easy than a rs player after a half time inhaler. heatmeiser House of Correction Forum Supporter Yesterday at 9:30 PM New Add bookmark #79,920 Here goes the gurning chemist fist pumping to every stand after beating the mighty Luton Town FC "just get down the tunnel" eh Jamie No idea where this number of fouls = cards has come from, but it seems to be a new narrative from the shite. The mighty Luton Town who have won twice at Goodison this season.

Miserable afternoon. Too many players unavailable. Awful display other than a half decent spell at the start of the second half. The usual cunt of a ref giving us absolutely nothing all afternoon. Not having that Arsenal are any good though. Even with all the aforementioned factors they still only won because van Dijk and Alisson had the sort of calamitous mix up Sunday league players would have been embarrassed by.

Best performance of the season so far. There's been some crazy games at Anfield this calendar year so far. 4 goals at home to Newcastle, 5 at home against Norwich, and 4 again tonight, and yet at the final whistle of each game I've been left thinking we really should have scored twice as many. I'm not really sure what to say about Nunez. He certainly needs to start putting some chances away but he certainly needs a change of luck. I remember it feeling like we were cursed in front of goal in Dalglish's second spell here, but that was more the team as a whole. It's like the spirit of that entire team has possessed the body of just one striker, as he seems to continuously find new ways of being unlucky. No excuses for missing the penalty, though, and I must admit I had a feeling he was going to miss it and was disappointed when it became apparent he was taking it instead of Mac Allister. I did think we really got away with one with their second penalty shout as it looked a stonewall penalty to me. Then again, God knows what the guy on VAR was doing for most of the night. I've still no idea why there were such long reviews for the first 2 goals. What exactly was he looking for on the second one after the challenge just as the ball was passed to Bradley had been cleared? It would have been ridiculous if it had gone to 3-2 and we'd been faced with a nervy finish after being so dominant. Still. we've had enough bad calls go against us this year so it's about time we got one go the other way. Good all round team performance, although Bradley was of course the obvious stand out. He had such a good game that it's actually going to be hard to leave him out at the weekend.

Was thinking exactly the same when the keeper made that wonder save to deny him near the end. Nunez really needs to catch a break by mishitting one of these finishes as it will probably end up going in. .