Post match: Burney v Liverpool (EPL 27/12/23 5.30pm)

Tierney and Hooper tried their best to level the playing field, unfortunately for them Burnley are fucking crap.

Should really have been 4 or 5, but as always winning was the most important thing. A pretty good performance bar a strange ten or so minutes after the second robbery. Darwin has that monkey of his back now with a great finish and Jota is straight back to business.

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Looked pretty slick in the first half and not so much in the second. Good result even with Tierney being a bent prick.

Special mention for Joe Gomez. A lot of ā€˜fansā€™ wanted him gone in the summer but heā€™s been brilliant this season.

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13*

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Gave MotM to Jota, I have missed him.

Nice try you POS Tierney, but you failed.

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Something truly devilish above Tierny. Some of the calls in this game had to come from a really bad place

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Heā€™s Virgil van Dijkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Heā€™s Virgil van Dijkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

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Had any officiating team failed to rule it out the pgmol would have had to offer an apology for getting it wrong.

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What pressure in the 2nd half was that exactly they huffed not much else.

Forget the goals, Iā€™m still in shock at our lads getting multiple warnings for moving when taking throw ins meanwhile Burnley were literally running down the line before taking them.

There was one throw in that went out right next ti the corner flag and the lad ended up taking it in line with the edge of the 18 yard box :joy:

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Can I choose a draw pls for manc v villa

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Didnā€™t actually see the touch that set Jota for the goal, delicate little flick by Diaz right into Jotaā€™s pathā€¦then the first touch and finish is incredible. Absolutely one of the best finishers around.

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Comfortable four nil win with a normal ref. Nervy late win with that cunt.

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Has it in for Trent. Gave him a yellow for a nothing challenge, but let Burnley off for multiple worse challenges.

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The impact on the keeper is part of the decision making process. Salah had zero impact on the goalkeeper, heā€™s already committed to go to his right hand side.

If Salah didnā€™t exist nothing about that goal changes.

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Loving this season.

We always come home stronglyā€¦

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Which finishes could we have done better from today? Maybe the one Gakpo shanked in the first half, Mo hitting the bar for most players wouldnā€™t even be a chance. Trafford did well to stifle out the chances we created from being anything more.

We scored 4 brilliant goals today. The Harvey one I can understand why but the Gakpo one is an absolute joke.

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It is, but only as a means for giving offside against a player who isnā€™t directly in the line of sight. If youā€™re in the keeperā€™s line of sight, as he clearly was, that is all that matters.

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What irked me about the Elliot goal being disallowed is that it encapsulates everything that is wrong with the current implementation of VAR. I would have had no problem with Tierney making a call that Salahā€™s position unsighted the goalkeeper, and making a call to disallow. That is the sort of decision you expect the on-field officials to make. Instead, they leave that call to VAR.

From there, what should VARā€™s intervention have been instead? Well, Salah was pushed into an offside position by deliberate action of a Burnley defender. Hard to expect a referee to catch that focused on the ball, but it was key to the play.

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Bullshit. Didnā€™t City get a similar a couple of weeks ago?

Watching the boss interviewed on Amazon, and none of them think it was offside. The fact that the Burnley player literally pushed Mo into an offside position should be considered.

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Villa a decent chance to take top spot?

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