WITH £75million for paper and things,
Virgil got his own set of wings,
With his feet off the ground,
And the corner on flight,
With the Blueshite dead tight,
He scored at The Kop Virgil van Dijk…
Boss that, wasn’t it? The best kind of win. Absolutely shite, dogging it with the best of them and still coming out with a win that effectively ends Everton’s season.
Make no mistake, Liverpool were absolutely dogshit, maybe a deliberate tactic given the last fixture a few weeks earlier, but by god The Reds…
But no matter, and in fact, hats off to them, Liverpool managed to dog a result against the absolute dross of the league by two goals to one for the third game running having been in various stages of complication along the way — with apologies to Burnley.
Mirroring their last victory at Anfield in the previous century, tonight’s celebrations in the away end when Everton drew level were up there with when Steven Gerrard got sent off and Liverpool won, and a few years later when Steven Gerrard got sent off again and Liverpool still won.
As ever, fate is a cruelest toffee lady, and having teased Liverpudlians and Evertonians alike with a header straight at Jordan Pickford earlier in the game you’d could be forgiven for thinking that the danger from Liverpool’s debutant had passed.
And having snatched a draw-cum-win weeks earlier, The Ev once more threatened to ruin the party by taking advantage of Liverpool’s policy of not playing a goalie worthy of name.
But, as in all great Evertonian horror movies, the film isn’t over until Liverpool score a late winner that effectively ends their season in January.
The new kid in town rising majestically to beat Peter Dinklage to the ball with minutes left on the clock sending The Kop into raptures.
Stitch fucking that.
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Disagree that we played that bad. Agree that we do not play with a goalie worth the name.
By a disgraceful penalty decision from a the lightest of touches and a theatrical fall to con the referee.
Disagree we played that bad. Disagree Karius was that bad as well. No chance with the goal.
John ….. seriously. Watch it as a goalkeeper performance that is more than just stopping that goal. It was unbelievably poor
I agree. Re-read my post.
He couldnt do anything for the goal. He could have come for a dozen crosses, not dropped the only one he did come for, and been much quicker to come out and clear the danger a number of times.
Need Danny Ward back. Looks like he might be the best of the three.
The goalie? Seriously is that all we have? I suppose the lovren Moreno axis weren’t there and we can’t nail Henderson’s leadership so it’s the keeper? After we win?
A dozen crosses? Think you’re talking shite lad.
He dropped one cross, fumbling it against Van Dijk, who might have got out of the way quicker (but narrative dictates that you can’t criticise your record signing for anything when he’s just scored a late winner in a derby on his debut) but Karius was fine apart from that. He’s known as someone who leaves his line, and he did so plenty last night, and on every occasion he was always getting to the ball. The crowd did what the crowd does where our keepers are concerned and started panicking for no reason at all on a couple of these occasions.
I don’t rate Karius’ start to his LFC career, don’t think there is much difference between him and Mignolet and think Karius will probably be sold in the summer, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to jump all over him for nothing and lack the ability to see past confirmation bias.
Football was made for nights like that. Talk about scripts. A late derby winner at The Kop end on his debut for our long-awaited record signing? You couldn’t have written it better. So satisfying to out-fight and out-man shite teams like that. And when I say shite I seriously mean it. Everton are an absolute dog of a team. Complete alehouse wankers with no ability whatsoever. Plenty of them think they are gnarly bastards but they’re just shithouses. Kenny, Holgate, McCarthy and Rooney all act the part but they play like hung-over electricians in a Sunday league game.
Holgate can get to fuck pushing Firmino into the crowd. He’s lucky he didn’t get chinned after that. I notice how the BBC immediately tried making him the victim just because he’s a young English player. He’s shit and could really have injured Firmino. Shearer and Murphy are two of the worst pundits you could hope to see in any sport going. No insight, just pure cliche and a desire to impress upon viewers the idea that they are ‘old school’ pros who didn’t stand for such rubbish as going down in the box. Boring.
Van Dijk and Robertson stood out for me. Van Dijk for the obvious reason of scoring the winner but oozed assurance throughout. He really can pass it. Robertson dealt really well with Bolasie, who is a tricky customer.
Hi Sash,
It certainly will be interesting to see how all three keepers do with Van Dijk in front of them. You could see him ordering Karius around already. I think we have the sort of keepers who need a lot of cajoling, which is probably why we’ve got talk of Klopp wanting a new one.
On Robertson, it was good to see the balance in his play Friday night. Moreno probably has the edge on him in terms of pace but Robertson was contributing in a positive manner going forward. I actually like that he shot in that instance when he was free in the box. It was a good save but that would have gone in on another occasion.
I agree on Shearer and Murphy. Shearer in particular would likely have hit Holgate. He always had that in him as a player. Their respective responses to the incident were in my view completely informed by the respective nationalities of the players involved. They wanted to brush over Holgate’s thuggery and were dying for it to be shown that Firmino had either spat at or racially abused Holgate. Keown in the second half was at it too. Ceaselessly talking about how well Holgate had recovered. Funny, he didn’t look too assured when Mane absolutely embarrassed him in the box or when van Dijk soared above him and Jagielka to score.