It wasn’t even a foul. 3 of them were chasing a ball and he got crowded out by 2 giants and fell over and in the process rolled into Ibou’s leg.
His previous one on Ibou was a bit nasty, but this one was just one of those things.
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@Sweeting
You are another good guy…
But ask yourself why he rolls onto Konate, its not a natural fall after VVD leans on him.
Anyway…
In my view its a nasty piece of play. Unnecessary and costly.
Thanks Ramber.
You are VOR not VAR.
VOR = Voice Of Reason.
Happy Saturday.
We agree on the last piece. Gutted.
The Gerard tackle zinny is talking about was against Utd towards the end of his final season. We were losing 1-0 at home and he was brought on at half time and was sent off within seconds for one of the stupidest most reckless challenges you will ever see. It was a challenge that essentially ended our hopes of getting back into the CL spots that season, and this from a senior pro and club captain.
The point being made by raising it as a counter the to cries of how Endrick must be a bad egg is pretty clear
The original point was that you don’t see young Liverpool players going in reckless like Endrick on Wednesday. I really should have said in recent times.
But the rebuttals concerned Gerrard:
Gerrard vs Utd was mentioned, and thats a few years ago.
Rambler then helped me see fairness by mentioning a Gerrard tackle in black and white it was so long ago.
Endrick may or may not be a bad fucker, to be honest, I don’t care.
He had three fouls on Konate in the minutes he was on. The foul that hurt Konate was a foul. He was trapped between two bigger men, but he turned and landed on Konate in a nasty action after the fall.
I have watched it a few times. His fall wasn’t natural.
I understand that people disagree, fair enough.
As they say…
My tuppence worth.
Lol it was actually the 1999 one I was thinking about, although my memory may be getting muddled with the 2006 one (same opponents, two bookings in the space of 18 minutes) and the United one.
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Haven’t seen anything nasty or dark arts about us for ages. No shit housery at all if you know what I mean. Only Suarez had something cunning about him but I would just call it Street smarts or quick thinking
If you check the real Madrid penalty you could see rudiger protecting the ball and Mbappe before the pen was taken, but not a single of our players were about to do something anyway
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This is true.
We’re a soft touch as a club on and off the pitch. Any shit is hurled in one direction only, by the media, match officials, governing bodies, opposition players and opposition fans.
Konate’s injury is the latest in a long list of opposition players deliberately injuring our players.
The latest MO seems to be players ‘landing’ on ours. Jota at Brentford and Chelsea at Anfield, Partey on Diaz, Konate the other night. All that alongside the more common assault - Pickford, Richarlison, Cresswell, Kane, Silva, various Man U players etc.
These cunts are lucky they are not playing the Liverpool of the 70’s and 80’s, they’d be picking their teeth out of their own shit.
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Milner regularly put in hard challenges, Macca has as well, Robbo kicked out at a Spurs player when Kane should have been sent off, there was the late studs up challenge down the back of a players achilles from Fab, when he should have been sent off, Jota is no shrinking violet and neither is Darwin.
We aren’t a soft touch but we aren’t dirty intentionally, which is what I want from us.
Don’t want us to be snide, dirty fuckers and we haven’t been and aren’t soft.
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Also, can I point out, if one subscribes to the theory that the referees are biased against us, it does leave us very little room to be dirty to begin with.
Which might be why we don’t play on that edge?
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Yes, that was my point.
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Just 4 days ago Virg knocked Mbappe head over shite, and Conor smashed him with a ball+man tackle straight out of the 80s. We’re definitely not a ‘soft touch’
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Neither were “nasty” tackles.
Bradley won the ball and Virg bumped Mbappe. Neither were designed to hurt.
Thats what I meant earlier in discussion, we don’t go out to injure players.
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And I’m very glad that we don’t
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Mbappe ended up on his neck could easily have injured himself!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that more of a function of the way he chose to fall? Like he was bumped off-balance by van Dijk yes, but he seemed to then fall in a rather unnatural way (to my eyes at least).
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What neck… Turtles can retract them at will :0)
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I’ll give Mbappe one thing. He didn’t make the most out of that tackle. Got back up immediately.
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