That was honestly what he tried to do. It was that bad of a touch.
I watched that slide from Saturday. He laid down to block the cross. There is no tackle there
If you watch the Leeds playersā feet during that play, he pulls his left leg back to strike the ball and realized that the cross is blocked. So he steps/leans into Konate, initiates the slightest of contact with his plant foot and dives over his legs.
Not nearly as cut/dried a penalty as itās made out to be. I donāt actually fault Konate for the attempt, if he was a foot further away they would have called it a simulation
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Put it this way. Salah would never get this pen
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It was a penalty.
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Look at his body position sliding in. Its the worst attempt at a tackle you can ever see. Iām usually bemoaning decisions against Liverpool, but this was a nailed on penalty.
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These two statements are not mutually exclusive.
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Watching it live and the first angle, I didnāt think it was a pen. When I saw it from another angle, then I saw it and understood. One of those ā51%ā decisions.
And yes, as an isolated decision, Konate did a stupidity. Not the first one this season. Virgil had his own few, but Konateās been the one largely below standard.
51% ā¦
It was nailed on. 100%
And Iām saying that as someone who regularly argues such decisions
As soon as you see the angle where Konate gets none of the ball, itās only going to go one way. The Leeds player does certainly play for the pen, but Konate canāt really have any defence.
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Konate must be thanking his lucky stars for Salah taking all the heat away from him. Thatās what I call a good teammate 
Mo saw that abject performance and went: āDonāt worry bro, I got youā
A damn good portion of the response to Moās comments has been sympathy given how shit Ibou and Cody has been. In some ways it has highlighted their bad form
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Have seen far worse than this particular tackle
Note that Konate appears to have been robbed of a goal today for some bullshit UEFA interpretation of a handball
Iāve seen far worse tackles yes, but the decision to slide tackle was stupid in the first place.
And I have no complaints over the goal being disallowed tonight. It was difficult to see what happened from first angles, but then it was clear that it first hit Ekitikeās hand and then Virgilās head.
Plus the penalty we gotā¦ but hey, some of those you get and some you donāt. We did well enough to merit a bit of luck tonight.
He needed to keep his feet/legs in line to with his slide to just block the cross, but he moved his foot towards the ball possibly trying to hook it and got it majorly wrong and caused the contact, penalty all day.
Looked nervous but well played today no abject errors, baby steps but Iāll take them.
One observation, is Ibou carrying more timber compared to previous seasons?
Iāve been very critical of Konate this season because heās deserved it. But he had a pretty solid game against Inter and was very unfortunate to have his goal ruled out. So, Iāll give him a āwell doneā, on this occasion.
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I think thatās LFCās modus operandi for their players, put them on a training regimen including muscle building. Not a lot of Charlie Adamās in the league anyone but for the most part our players are trained hard
From watching our games, it seems apart from Dom, our players arenāt looking like the can las 90 mins
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No, Wirtz looked shattered 10 minutes after coming on last night!
Overplayed and under-rotated. Not what youād expect to see after dropping Ā£400mil in a single window.