The referee made mostly correct decisions up to about the 55th minute. Replays showed that the fouls were all there regardless of Virg’s gesticulations. I would say even though I thought it was a foul, Fab’s high boot shouldn’t have been a yellow. Yes, foot up at rib cage but he got to the ball and I don’t think Fab’s plan was to block his path.
But the wheels started to really fall off for Taylor at the 55th minute. There was an incident down on the edge of the box where Fab was on the receiving end of a high boot almost identical to what he got carded for. Not even a foul called, and instead Taylor paid a foul against Robbo, which was a foul but Fab should have been given first.
It was this total lack of consistency that wrecked the refereeing performance. I have no problem a ref refereeing to certain thresholds within the match. That’s normal. I didn’t really have a problem with his first half calls. But then to come out second half and decide he will referee a different way, which 90% of the time went against us and were the opposite of his first half calls? Nah, fuck that.
I have mentioned Taylor on these boards a great deal of times as I find him the one referee totally clueless on how to referee. Incompetence is what springs to mind. I hate Tierney for him hating Klopp and our club. But I really dread getting Taylor.
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I’ve started to realise that winning the match after the bald-headed twat has tried to throw the game for 90 minutes is so, so sweet. Cry off back home to Manchester baldy-boy. The 3 points will do nicely.
Anyway, it was a bit of an uneven game. Even allowing for the crappy refereeing spoiling things, I don’t think the 4 forwards worked that well. I’m not blaming any individual for that, I just don’t think the tactic was the best.
MotM to Trent who really is adapting well to that midfield role. Jones did well again and Salah has discovered his scoring boots again which I suspect is mainly down to having a functional team to play with.
I still think top 4 is a tall order and, from a purely footballing perspective, I think a year in the Europa League might have its advantages. Obviously, the CL has a big financial incentive but lower stakes midweek games would give us more chance to develop.
Anyway, a nice week’s break for some Eurovision tomfoolery.
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Not the greatest game I’ve watched, but three points invaluable. CL still a faint prospect. Let’s hope WH and Chelski can do us a favour. No one played brilliantly or that badly although Konate reminded me of Sakho on a few occasions. Not sure how Gakpo missed from 1 foot away. Onwards.
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Credit to Brentford who, despite a few muscular challenges, made life difficult for us. Considering that their budget is probably significantly below ours they’ve done pretty well.
I was every bit as proud of the team yesterday as I was after the 7-0, especially after the performance of the bald cunt pretending to be a referee. 19 plus however many from open play balls launched towards our goal and Alisson had one tame effort to save, excellent from players, Klopp and coaches.
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Was quite literally blasted directly at him at knee height at knee height. Slightly in front of him, even at that pace, might have allowed him to get a telling touch. As it was, letting it hit him and pray was about all he could do.
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Didn’t see that match.
I watched yesterday’s comfortable win.
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Taylor & Tyler…what’s not to hate? 
The early goal made it even duller, because the tension of trying to get the points was gone. It was just a matter of holding/extending the lead in a match that really never got going.
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As Klopp expressed they haven’t got much to lose so they tried somethings and currently it’s paid off but there is a lot to learn.
We could have stuck to the old system and gone nowhere.
1 win pretty much gets us Europa league it’s not what we sent out to achieve but when we scraping over 40 points it feels much better the morning after.
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I had to watch the extended highlights but from what I could see the biggest chance Brentford had, without being offside, was a ball swung to the backpost that the full back couldn’t control.
Their xG (0.19 on BBC but others have them at 0.21) was the lowest they’ve had since 2019. Liverpool’s xG was almost 3.
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There was a lot of free kicks that led to nothing and a lot of throw ins headed away.
They had a few breaks that were on side but as I said our defending on the final third especially around the box was excellent. The offside goal they scored wasn’t repeated in the second half in any meaningful way. Though VVD should have snuffed it out.
One of our best defensive displays in that second.
Alisson’s entire game was kicking
Brentford were a constant threat and caused us problems because of the referee.
When you’re on a 1-0 and the ref is blowing his whistle for everything, then there’s always a chance that a pen or dangerous free kick will rob you of the points.
Brentford average around 13 fouls against them per game but somehow managed 19 yesterday. Against a team that has won the fair play league every year since 16/17 (aside from one second place) - we just aren’t a dirty team.
xG is bollocks anyway, but even more so when a ref with an agenda can keep giving them extra opportunities to score. All it takes is one deflection.
The referee made his stand that he was going to blow for a Liverpool foul in anything close to Liverpool’s half.
This is quite simply the old boys club defending their own. As has been the case throughout with referees in the PL.
How dare Klopp challenge the norm. We are the most fouled against side in the PL and also the side with the least fouls given to them.
Don’t have the stats though , maybe sweeting or someone can back me up here.
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The ball was only in play for 43 minutes and 10 seconds in yesterday’s game. 
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Yeah well Taylor blew up that much it doesn’t surprise me, and those throw ins took about 2 minutes each and the best thing was they were actually rather crap.
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Fairly believable tbh, surprised it’s not less tbh when you consider,
There were like over 30 fouls and over 20 set plays (which weren’t from fouls, & including throw ins), some can take as long as 25-30 seconds before the ball is back in play.
But that’s the game Brentford wanted to play.
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Whatever their shot on target was it didn’t make the highlight reel.
It was right around the time of the goal, can’t quite remember if it was before or after but within a few minutes. Tame effort from perhaps 30 meters towards the right post area from that side of the pitch, Allisson just scooped it up with two arms fairly easily.
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