It’s a terrible take.
The other thing the written record won’t show is that nearly ten years and £1.5bn into their blood soaked project, City are still totally reliant on one player.
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Liew is, by his own admission, a cricket fan first and foremost. I think he’s a good writer, football simply isn’t his sport.
He is a terrible choice by the guardian. He shouldn’t be writing about football and I’m not sure he’d be able to justify his job based on his cricket work. Terrible hire for an organisation that used to have such good football writers. Barney Rubble and Marina at least understand the game, even if they also irritate too often with the Oxbridge undergrad thing but Liew is just a disgrace. They need to fuck him off.
That wasn’t the part I was pointing out. He might be a terrible writer and a bad hire but that does not justify the absolute bullshit you put out.
Well I don’t think he deserves the job based on knowledge or talent but I think he may have fit other criteria for the Guardian editorial board…
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I don’t think basically every single commentator out there deserves their job based on knowledge or talent, but there we go. Is that still affirmative action then?
Well, they rotated more key players than we did, and it’s not unreasonable to think that played a part in our first half dominance. How big a part? Nobody knows. We executed at a very high level anyway.
The main focus of the piece in itself isn’t bad, highlighting the physical demands the schedule brings. But I think he makes the mistake of claiming the rotation “probably” lost the game for City; that’s hypothetical, and takes away a lot of credit from Liverpool’s first half performance. And also, ridiculing their goalie is a bit tasteless. That’s our job, not his.
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This bit stinks for me. Would he say the same about a Spanish. German or Argetinian keeper. It’s like because he’s American Llew has to make the Hollywood comparison. Ederson very nearly did the same thing six days earlier. Did Llew make the same comparisons then? 
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stallone saves the goal - YouTube
Good job for us it didn’t go to penalties eh…
The only worthwhile story around Man City is their cheating. Der Spiegel are onto it, and have been for some time.
Unfortunately the UK press are too caught up in the current spectacle - ooh, what lovely football - to ask from whence it came.
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I don’t suppose Liew mentioned the fact City’s starting 11 still cost more than ours? Doesn’t say much for the bald fraud’s recruitment if a costlier, more rested team were put to the sword like they were.
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This is the elephant in the room with regards to this conversation.
City fans, and their champions in the media, can moan that they had players out and that they were put through the ringer against Athletico, but the facts are
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We earned to right to rotate in the second leg against Benfica by doing our work properly in the first leg. City failed to put more distance between themselves and athletico (a team we dispatched twice in the group stage) and were therefore forced to go strong in the second leg.
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For the amount of money that has been spent on their project (declared or otherwise) City should not be in the position where resting a few players causes such a drop in quality. While our first elevens are at a similar level, our squad is much deeper. This has been achieved at a fraction of the cost that City have spent.
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Missed the whole of it due to family reasons, but bloody hell… that first half must have been some sight to witness! 
Great to see how our lads set things right compared to their somewhat missed game at the Emptyhad a week earlier. 45 minutes were enough to dispatch Cheaty. Their second-half comeback seems a bit lucky when looking at the replays. Bar the last five-ten minutes, they never really seemed able to put our lads under much pressure.
Entirely deserved (kudos to Klopp also for a perfectly managed rotation of his squad during the last week), and now we have another final to look forward to. Fingers crossed everyone, our lads are on the cusp of achieving great things this season! 
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Salute the first side to qualify for the Champions League.
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Beautiful
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