Ben Johnson highlights five things we learned from Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League…
1. Slump…
Honest to god when they scored the disallowed fella my body slumped. Slumped. Not just a little slump. A proper Don Corleone, why doesn’t my consigliere tell his Don what everyone else seems to know, slump. Soul wafted out of my toes slump. I didn’t even really make a sound. Just an exhalation.
VAR is shite and I don’t agree with that being ruled out but fuck it, we have been legged by it all season nice to get on in our favour now and again.
2. Sadio…
Hopefully the assist for the Firmino goal will be the start of him firing again. Because he was simultaneously fantastic, shite, unlucky and shite in the first half. He could have scored four, scored none, but set The Reds on the right track with a brilliant horrible bobble of a scruffy fucker of a ball. Marvellous.
Imperious for the second. Etched out of stone. And then the finish for the third. Unreal. Twats it. Which is always lovely to see. Like Shearer; if in doubt, twat it. Made up with that hopeful prediction in line one made at half time. Like fucking Mystic Meg here.
3. Matip…
One of the best centre halves in the league, but at this point that makes no fucking odds. It’s like he has been made in the shape of a human, a T1000 but one of the early prototypes, his exoskeleton made out of them paper lanterns that you light and they float off and land in a field and kill a cow or set a barn on fire or something. The opposite of robust. Either way, there’s no fucking point in him. Might as well not bother.
I mean, is he in one of the vulnerable categories? Probably nipped off for his Pfizer fella.
4. Trent…
Was absolutely tremendous and I’m made up for him. The fizzing passes, the big switch, the aggression, the work rate and then the goal followed by his first smile of the season. Perfect. Hopefully that’s him right back on track and The Reds can now kick on. Well in, everyone.
5. Div…
Honestly, that bit when he got the ball in the corner and did a mad load of stepovers and dragbacks like a kid trying to break dance and then rolled it out for a goalkick. That was absolutely boss.
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Crying at the Div one. Twas pure Div wasn’t it.
I bet your writings have been brilliant all month, but I couldn’t bear to give extra thought to our soul-crushing plunge into the tarnal abyss of goalless damnation. As if a global pandemic wasn’t crap enough.
Feels good to read how fucking boss we are again.
Nothing about our disallowed goal. What. Was. That?
There were three “fouls”:
– Dier grabbing Firmino
– Dier nudging the ball, and
– Firmino touching the (nudged-on) ball.
Two-to-one chance the goal stands due to “advantage”. Nope.
Then there is the VAR part of it. No one claimed for a Firmino hand-ball.
Play goes on for quite a bit – how many “phases” who knows.
Still no one is complaining about any infringement. No advantage for LFC. This is gonna be pulled w-a-y back.
The Spurs players did not complain about this goal (same as we had accepted Son’s goal). Atkinson was looking right at the Dier/Firmino tussle – from a bit of a distance granted – yet decided not to blow for it.
Incredible. A real shocker. The more I watch it the more obvious it is (to me) that the people charged with interpreting and implementing the laws of the game have very little understanding of or “feel” for the game. They are killing it for the supporters one VAR decision at a time. We are getting into the “minutiae” of the game.