Post Match: Wolves v Liverpool (EPL 13/3/21 8pm)

3 points won, but much improvement needed. I can’t recall the last time I saw us surrender possession so much, even in the games we’ve lost this season. On the positive side, Kabak appears to be improving with every game.
Regarding the injury to Patricio, I’ve been saying for a while now, this stupid change to the offside rule would result in players getting injured. When the referee’s assistant delays the flag, defenders will continue to chase back after the attacking player, increasing the risk of sustaining injury. In this case, it very nearly resulted in a serious head injury. It was totally avoidable because, if the assistant had flagged as soon as he saw Salah in an offside position, Coady would probably have stopped running and thus avoiding the collision. The rule needs to be changed back to what it was.

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Yeah i have been saying for months now that somebody is going to get injured. Stupid rule and the sooner the assistants go back to flagging for offside when they can see it’s an obvious offside the better.

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He is starting to become dispondent like Salah his head dropped on a few occassions against Wolves. Both I feel need a ‘break’ (in scoring an easy one or something) to get them hungry again. They just look like they are going through the motions at the moment.

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Well some of us have been calling for this for a while, you know accept where we are and just get on with it with our players in their best positions. We should have all seen how Fabs helped out Kabak and Nat against Wolves instead of TAA having to do it, yes it changes our game.

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They really don’t that was just the coaching teams decission!

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Mane scored an ‘easy’ one against Leipzig last week, it doesn’t seem have helped his confidence in front of goal. When he was through on goal last night, that miss was all about confidence. Last season he would’ve put that away, no problem at all.

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He really wasn’t, he made a good number of tackles picked up second balls, ok a free poor passes which were in very scarey possitions but he works his socks off for us (unlike another).

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Does that one count as the assist was delivered by Origi who rightly doesn’t play very often. Perhaps I should also have said a few easy ones. I am sure you understand the sentiment.

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Not a perfect performance, but a decent one and a great result against a side who are better than many, despite their league position.

It’s interesting that in a match in which we had less of the ball, we looked pretty solid defensively and more of a threat offensively. It was midfield who were the weak link last night.

Mane, Salah, and Jota are a much better forward line than with Bobby in there. Bobby has not just been poor, but he can only play one of the forward roles, so it’s easier for opponents to work us out with him in the side versus last night’s trio, who can all play each of the forward positions. So much more dynamic. Klopp’s willingness not to revert to Bobby will be a key factor in what we achieve this season.

That side, with a bit of rotation in midfield, and only occasionally up front, is our best 11 until Hendo returns.

Top four is still a tall order, as we have to win probably 8 of the 9, but we can only try.

All the best to the Wolves keeper for a speedy recovery.

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I really don’t understand the reluctance of the Football authorities to stop the clock for injuries & substitutions. Last night was farcical. The game was stopped for nearly 15 minutes for the injury to the keeper, yet the clock kept going and officially there were 7 added minutes.

Football is the only sport resisting having transparent timing. It works well in Rugby Union, Rugby League, Basketball, Hockey and I assume all the American field sports. If the game stops, the clock stops and all games should end on 90 minutes. You could possibly adopt the rugby rule that the current phase of play is then completed.

It also will give the onfield referee one less distraction.

Is there something obvious that I am missing that would mean it can’t work in Football because for the life of me I just can’t see it. I am convinced it will happen eventually.

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The offside rules do need changing, the officials put the flags up for too late when it’s obvious a player is offside, but that wouldn’t have stopped the incident last night. It all happened very quickly.

Not the best example to prove the point.

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Yeah nothing like writing a young lad off based on his first 3 games in a new country, with a new language, in a team devoid of confidence and missing its leaders.

Would love him to prove people wrong

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Not to mention with all those valid points a coaching team who threw him into the deep end without really any full coaching sessions under his belt. Talk about compounding issues!

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Telling time is definitely not one of their strong suits. Amongst everything else they seem terrible at. They’re that incompetent at their jobs that something as simple as being able to tell the time correctly is low down the pecking order of things that need correcting with officiating.

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Forgot to also mention Ox looked really dam sharp when he came on… Appreciate it was against tired legs but he was fucking everywhere. I really really hope this is the reset of his career.

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I noticed that about the Ox as well. Maybe it’s a result of his recovery being managed very carefully.

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If we did that in football, we’d stop the whistle at about 70 minutes as the ball’s only ever in play for about that time.

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Suppose if you stop the clock the game would go on forever, at least Pawson added the roughly right amount on for the stoppage, I had it around 108 mins.

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I just meant for the events that are currently counted as “time added on” i.e. injuries and substitutions. Adding 30 seconds for every substitution is ridiculous. At every substitution the clock would be stopped and there would then be no incentive to take forever trudging off

Time isn’t stopped in rugby every time the ball goes out.

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3 points…take them any way they come,thanks.
Not a fantastic performance from the lads but a bit to like,nevertheless.
Nat and Kabak seem to be developing and understanding ,which hasn’t been around for a while,but playing Fabinho in his best position ,at last,has worked and has no doubt helped the CBs no end.
Thought Ox Showed a bit of endeavour when he came on…good to see!

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