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  1. 7 minutes ago, Colt Seavers said:

    That's harsh mate this squad have run their bollocks off in recent weeks. With injuries we have we have no right to br in the title mix now. They have had no Europe this year or milk cup. I'm as disappointed as the next guy (unless is drowningman) but it's just a bump in the road, there's a reason no-one has won 4 trophies 

    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. 

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  2. 14 minutes ago, Manny said:

    Of all the games we had left this was probably the one I was most ‘meh’ about as I’m all in on Europe and the league, but fuck me it hurts to lose to that shower of utter cunts like that.

     

    Especially when it’s completely self-inflicted. Sick of us giving them a fucking helping hand this season. 

    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. 

  3. 2 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

    True blood and guts performance from United, to be fair. Wasn't much more than that. They played like their lives were on the line and we played like we were trying to win that 1-2 and keep the boys fresh.

     

    Doubt this will have any bearing on the league game.

    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. 

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  4. 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.

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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. 

  7. 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.

  8. 3 hours ago, Anubis said:

    Liverpool v Luton - Everton round-up.

     

    Herr shippmann knows exactly what he’s doing tonight, saving the big guns for the final knowing that the officials will give them absolutely every decisions going at Mordor so he can throw in the rezzies and still win the game at a canter.

    Watch salah and Nunez be fit as fiddles on Sunday, and maybe a few more

     

     

    The rs would love this, losing to Luton puts us back in the drop zone...
    It's a win win for them

     

    Just logged onto LiveScore. Fouls. Libpool 8 Luton 6. 2 yellow cards for Luton, sounds about right. Logs off,

     

    Just logged onto LiveScore. Fouls. Libpool 8 Luton 6. 2 yellow cards for Luton, sounds about right. Logs off,

    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.

     

    Doped up to their eyeballs.

    If even that isn’t enough, a friendly ref bails them out.

    A sickening organisation.

     

    I'm so certain that Pedpool will win that I'll get a pot noodle haircut, wear a mankini and go knock one off on the trop of the traffic lights if Luton win.
    Phew!

    Breathing more easy than a rs player after a half time inhaler.
    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.

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  9. 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. 

  10. 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. 

     

     

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  11. Surprised so many on here don't think the 2nd one was a penalty or even that it was soft. It's a slight touch by the keeper but it definitely knocks Jota off balance. He tries to stay on his feet so that's why there's a delayed reaction. If the keeper doesn't touch him then he doesn't lose his balance and has the easiest of tap ins. 

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  12. Very strange game. We ended up scoring 4 goals and yet the number of chances we missed was ridiculous. The ref awarded us 2 penalties yet for most of the game was comically biased against us. 

     

    Jones had a really good game. Diaz had his best performance in some time. Mo was excellent in the second half. 

     

    Neville's takes on the 2 penalties was some of the dumbest crap I have ever heard from a football pundit (and that's a pretty high bar to reach). It's really not difficult to understand that if a player running at speed receives contact and is knocked off balance that there's going to be a slight delay in him going down if he tries to keep going. 

  13. I'd have been happy with 2-2 and dropped points all round, but it's kinda nice that I don't really feel arsed at United coming back from 2 goals down to win these days. It was the sort of thing they used to do regularly and it always felt horrible. Just like Spurs, Villa seem to have reverted to type after the media got all worked up over them being potential title challengers. 

  14. Ended up being a hundred times harder than it should have been. Partly due to poor finishing and general sloppiness from us, mostly because of the officials yet again. Never mind; it's 3 points, we're top of the table, and now we can just relax and see how everyone else does. 

     

    Bonus boxing day coverage of the latest installment of United's emmy award winning comedy season up next to enjoy. The plus side is there's not even really a downside to it. If United lose then it's more comedy at their expense. If they win or manage a plucky draw then Villa fall further behind us. 

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  15. 18 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

    Diving, time-wasting cunts - and the ref couldn't wait to blow each time. As bad as we were up front, they did everything they could to break that game up. Fuck Arsenal and fuck the arse licking commentators. Twats.

     

    Egg nog anyone?

    The ref was seriously beginning to do my head in with all the soft free kicks for Arsenal in the second half. I wouldn't have minded if he had been the same with both teams but he wasn't giving us anything unless it was absolutely blatant. I'm not surprised Mo lost it with him near the end when he gave a free kick when it looked like Mo had won it back with a strong but fair challenge. He'd ignored a clear foul on Mo about a minute before it as well. 

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  16. A performance that was admirable and infuriating in equal measures. Some great pressing at the start of the second half to keep winning it back in dangerous positions but then we just screwed them up every single time through carelessness, picking the wrong option or just dreadful execution. How on earth we didn't score with that break when it was about 4 on 1 I'll never know. The subs didn't help and the final 20 minutes were pretty disappointing. Mo was infuriating in the second half but scored a great goal in the first half. At least he's still providing a regular goal threat. Unfortunately the same can't be said about any of the other forwards at the moment. 

     

    I thought van Dijk and Konate were excellent. Defensively we were largely decent. just frustrating that for the third game in a row against Arsenal we've come out completely cold against them and had to chase the game right from the start.

     

    I have no idea how that handball isn't given. Yet again the incompetence of the officials becomes the big talking point of the weekend. 

     

    It's not a disastrous result but doesn't feel like an especially good one. It felt like we really needed all 3 points from this fixture after the disappointment of the United game. 

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  17. Feels like a long time since we've actually had a good 90 minute performance. We couldn't keep getting away with scraping wins from patchy performances. We need to be much better against Arsenal or we'll get turned over. It would be nice to see us freshen things up and give the likes of Elliot and Gakpo more opportunities as there's a few players starting every league game at the moment who are really out of form. 

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