@Refsplaining Your thoughts on the Crystal Palace penalty where two players challenge for a header, the Palace player heads the ball but follows through into Kerkez who is then penalised for a foul?
@KeithBishop64@centrekop Nope - Dermot said it was one if those βseen them guvenβ offences. He didnβt say it was a definite penalty (I think it was). But the idiot posting claimed VAR didnβt look at it, which is a lie.
@TheVirgilEffect Helps if you can defend & not leak goals like a sieve π€·ββοΈ maybe helpful if you have a defensive midfielder & become difficult to break down. That always wins a league. The fact we canβt do either is on us, Iraola & the sporting Director. Weβve spent huge amounts of £££ just badly.
@TheVirgilEffect Alison looks like such a pale imitation of himself. No idea why heβs frightened to come of his line for a cross now, but heβs being peak Mignolet on any crosses.
@centrekop He should be. We have two attacking players costing Β£250m & he cant get anything out of them π€·ββοΈ Barcola has been useless & Wirtz remains largely anonymous. Heβs relying on 19yr old Nyoni as Dom & Gravenberch are worse under him. Not sure how heβs improved us at all yet?
@bigjlfc Kerkez looks half the player he was at Bournemouth. The shirt weighs too heavily & frankly heβs been shite since joining. The fact Tsimikas is still at LFC is embarrassing. he wouldnβt make the bench for our competitors. Bradley is not the answer, injury after injury.
@PhilBlundell I think tonight really highlighted VVD decline at CB. Heβs not commanding anything & looks unsure of himself. Alison was dreadful, wont leave his line for a cross now, looks erratic & old. Lack of quality from Barcola (Β£130m look ridiculous) & Wirtz (anonymous again).
Utter shite performance. Barcola is overpriced at Β£13m, never mind Β£130m. Alison was useless, VVD looks like heβs running in sand. Created barely anything against a piss poor team who Villa hammered. Wirtz anonymous yet again. Iraola looks out of his depth.
@WhistleBlowerDK Frankly thatβs ridiculous. Isak is one of world footballs top strikers, and heβs pulled back denying him a free header in the middle of goal, 6 yards out with no defender anywhere to prevent him heading the ball. Youβre generally sound but thatβs embarrassing David.
@WhistleBlowerDK Thereβs a simple reason Andy Medley & VAR bottled the Isak penalty decision. Its consequences - thereβs zero attempt to play the ball, itβs 6 yards from goal, denying Isak an obvious goalscoring opportunity, so if he awards a foul, itβs 100% a red card as wellπ€·ββοΈ
@HACKETTREF@Refsplaining@RefereeHalsey - Gents, if Andy Madley penalises Timber for the pull on Isak, 6yds from goal, no attempt to play the ball, no other defender to intervene, clear header, centre of the goal, surely itβs a DOGSO? Thatβs why Madley/Atwell bottled the call.
@aaron_cutler Barcola/Isak and Wirtz disappeared at half time. Β£350m of players and not one stood up in a big game, they all lacked any impact. Hugely disappointing the way all three shrunk into obscurity in the second half.
@WhistleBlowerDK Itβs a foul, Isak is 6 inches from a free header, 6 yards from goal, middle of the goal, no defender able to challenge β¦ Timber has no βdouble jeopardyβ escape as heβs not making a genuine attempt to play the ball. Whatβs missing? How is it not DOGSO?
The big issue is that Wirtz/Barcola both had a good first half. Isak was anonymous throughout & Barcola/Wirtz disappeared second half. When they cost a combined Β£350m they have to deliver more. Gakpo was ineffective. Big games need big players, ours didnβt turn up π€·ββοΈ
@BackseatsmanLFC None of the penalty claims for Liverpool have been penalties. Itβs almost like Arsenal know the limits of holding you can get away with.
@davey_p84@HACKETTREF Itβs a red card all day long. You cannot retaliate and kick an opponent however young and however frustrated he was. The Ref was born 25 miles away but why would that give him any bias towards Fleetwood? Youβre really grasping at straws fella.