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I dont believe it was a penalty for Cardiff. Their player moved away from the ball and "initiated contact" - in PGMOL parlance. (In plain English he tried to cheat his way to a penalty). I think it should definitely have been a red card for Kelleher though. Very lucky on that one. Even though Konate was going to cover behind, I think if the attacker had skipped past Kelleher there would have been a very good angle for a shot into an empty net. Also a good chance that the tackle could have easily been deemed dangerous play.

Not content with making mugs of the defenders, Diaz had to nutmeg Jota too.

Settling into life at Bournemouth very nicely.

Thought this cunt said he never shakes hands after a game. There he was was shaking hands and hugging Xavi after their game Sunday afternoon. Should just have admitted he was pissed off at losing to Klopp that day instead of coming out with the bullshit he said below. --------- Immediately after last month's game, Simeone had said: "I never shake hands after a match, because I don't like it. "It isn't healthy for either the one who wins or the one who loses. That's the way I see it

He is Senegal's regular taker. He even scored one for them earlier in the tournament. They consider him their best penalty taker so they rightly had him as the 5th taker and he won them the cup with his kick.

So what? It doesnt guarantee you would score or that your other teammates wouldn't shit the bed. Anyway, extensive research of thousands of penalty shootouts has showed that the 5th kick is harder to score than the 1st kick. So statistically, it makes more sense to have your best kicker on the 5th kick rather than the first.

Salah took the 5th penalty vs Ivory Coast and won it for them. Mane took the 5th for Senegal and won it for his country. Going 1st doesn't guarantee anything. And even if you scored the 1st, you still need 3 or 4 other players to score theirs. Cameroon's first kicker in the semi final was Aboubakar. He is their best taker and had scored 2 penalties earlier in the tournament. He scored his in the semis but that didnt stop the subsequent 3 takers from shitting the bed and losing to Egypt.

Interesting there wasnt any dissent here when Mo took the 5th penalty to win Egypt the game against Ivory Coast in the round of 16. But now some are annoyed he was waiting to be the 5th taker last night. I dont there is any hard and fast rule to this penalty thing. Aboubakar is Cameroun's best penalty taker. He had scored 2 earlier in this tournament. He also scored their first in the penalty shootout last night. That didnt stop his teammates from shitting the bed and missing the subsequent three.

Gini started the first leg at Nou Camp. Watching the YouTube video posted, it is clear that they both have great respect for each other and their relationship was very good. I do think Klopp wanted him to stay but the club just didnt give in to Gini's demands. Klopp actually "joked" in one of those LFCTV Q&A interviews that Gini was a tough negotiator. I think he really liked Gini. He rarely benched him more than a couple games in a row. And his goodbye message to Gini sounded very sincere and emotional.

Exactly. I was wondering why a lad who plays at right back is being selected ahead of Kaide Gordon.

Think that collapse was on the cards. Simply didnt manage the game well enough when 3-1 up. Guess the under 18s have been taking notes from the first team.

I call bullshit. Klopp and the laptop guys went to Wolves looking for a forward, they had a look at Traore and swerved him because they know he is shit. They bought Jota for 40m instead. If Traore is underrated, then it's because people underrate how daft and ineffective he is. His lack of goals and assists is a big red flag. But even if we were to ignore that, he simply doesnt have enough game intelligence. At the age of 26, "causing of chaos" isnt the barometer for a good attacking player. Mane and Salah get double marked too. Doesnt stop them from being incredible in number of goals and assists.

Definitely wont be keeping any clean sheets with that kit.

Refreshing honesty.

The fact that the PL have changed the rules again shows how shambolic the whole thing has been. They have handled it poorly from the beginning. Look at the league tables of all the other major leagues in Europe. Most of the teams there have played an equal number of games. ONE is the highest number of games in hand by any of the teams in France, Germany, Italy or Spain. Because they ensured games weren't postponed unless absolutely necessary. In contrast, have a look at the PL table. A fucking joke. Some teams have 2 or 3 games in hand. And Burnley have 5!!

Simon Hughes with a big article on the Athletic about the postponement of the first leg. Headline - "Liverpool, covid 19 confusion and the Arsenal match that didnt need to be called off". Cue more fuming from Arsenal fans online today. I think some of them are now simply clinging onto this thing as an excuse if they get knocked out tonight. Even though they now have 2nd leg home advantage. Would really love to batter them there today. Would also be interesting to see if other journalists write long articles about other clubs with numerous postponements since December.

Well the manager is explicitly saying in the article here that they need more from Jones because he isn't showing his potential on a regular basis. So I reckon ball retention is the bare minimum for him.

They're all suffering from convenient amnesia. Pretending Liverpool were the first to ask, when loads of games had already been postponed for other clubs throughout December.

Mirror basically took the Telegraph article which was posted on the previous page here and spun that headline for clickbait. They added a couple quotes from Salah's interview with GQ and a couple from Klopp's recent press conference. And just like that, they had enough words to essentially say nothing new. They should have a look in the mirror for such dastardly behaviour.

Would be interesting to see the hypocrisy from the conspiracy theorists who condemned Liverpool last week.

I just think Klopp and his staff already had a look and said "fuck that". They went to the same club and picked Jota over him. Justifiably so. He isn't a raw teenager. He is 26 this month. I doubt any magic Klopp would work on him would automatically make him a 10-15 goal player for us. He just doesnt have the base requirement for a top team like ours. If he did, Klopp would have jumped at the chance to take him instead of Jota.

Ok, so Nottingham Forest are complaining about this even after knocking Arsenal out of the FA cup on Sunday? This shit doesnt make any sense.

Great pod, quite enjoyable. Around 10 minutes into it, @dave u talks about wingers who score only 5 goals a season. Said that such players are only good enough for midtable teams. And that for our level, we need a winger or wide forward who can score 15 a season minimum. I agree with that. Leads me to wonder why he is so in love with his boy, Adama Traore, who has zero goals this season and has barely scored a total of 10 goals across the last 3 seasons. Last weekend in Wolves' FA cup game, I saw him run through on goal yet again only to blast his shot into row Z. Nice oily biceps and thick calves though. He certainly doesnt skip leg day in the gym. More likely, he skips "finishing drills" day.

Non-Liverpool - Gabriel Batistuta. Loved everything about him. Flowing locks of gorgeous hair. Proper centre forward. Could head, hold up the ball and was quite good at twatting the ball dead hard into the back of the net. Very passionate celebrations too.

When VAR system started being used in the PL, it was clear that it was going to end up too meddlesome. A good number of people have suggested the challenge system, similar to tennis. But others think doing it wont be better than what we have now. I've always been in favour of a challenge system. 1 per half. I seriously see no downside to reducing the need for VAR officials to stick their noses into every contentious decision. Using the challenge system robs them of their power drunkenness and reduces the number of times they get to be involved. Give a good chunk of power to the teams competing. And if any team waste their challenges stupidly, they only have themselves to blame.