Premier League Gameweek 26 fixtures (9th - 11th Feb 2019)

SquishyMcSquish

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I could counter with the clearly missed penalty at Anfield vs Leicester two weeks back and the perfectly onside disallowed Mane goal at the Emirates against Arsenal. That's 4 points right there.

Equally, I could say that until a couple of months ago, we went over a year without receiving a penalty in the league at Anfield.

But I'm long in the tooth enough to know these things happen in football. Swings and roundabouts. Dry your tears mate.

Oh wow you had a couple of decisions go against you this season? How would that change the fact you're the team who overall have benefited most from poor decisions?

Yeah, you went over a year without a penalty, then Klopp had a little moan in the press about it and suddenly went on a spree of soft penalty wins.

'These things happen' is a shit way to excuse terrible officiating. More often than not that terrible officiating has gone your way. You're a Liverpool fan so of course you don't want to accept that, the game vs Arsenal at Anfield was a total fecking disgrace with the amount of decisions going your way. One of the most obvious examples of a referee bowing to the home crowd that I've seen in my time watching football.

It's not 'swings and roundabouts' and it doesn't 'even out over the season', these are bullshit cliches. Quite often one team statistically benefits the most from poor refereeing decisions, hence why we need VAR because the competition should be even. You're that team benefiting thus far. Any remotely tight call is given your way (Mitrovic vs Fulham then Salah goes up and scores), blatant penalty vs Watford, yesterday a tight offside goal? Must be fine, it's Liverpool.

Other managers have spoken about it, Hughton came out after the game vs Brighton and said he thought the referee was very favourable to you, and he was absolutely right.
 

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Heaton is amazing. By far Burnley's best player. They raised their game against us. Good for them I guess, they can tell their grandkids they scored 2 at old Trafford.
 

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Oh wow you had a couple of decisions go against you this season? How would that change the fact you're the team who overall have benefited most from poor decisions?
We'd have 4 more points?

The rest of your post is drivel that I could make up about more or less any team.

You say statistically some teams suffer more than others from poor decisions - well surely you can see that was certainly us during the penalty drought.
 

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Oh wow you had a couple of decisions go against you this season? How would that change the fact you're the team who overall have benefited most from poor decisions?

Yeah, you went over a year without a penalty, then Klopp had a little moan in the press about it and suddenly went on a spree of soft penalty wins.

'These things happen' is a shit way to excuse terrible officiating. More often than not that terrible officiating has gone your way. You're a Liverpool fan so of course you don't want to accept that, the game vs Arsenal at Anfield was a total fecking disgrace with the amount of decisions going your way. One of the most obvious examples of a referee bowing to the home crowd that I've seen in my time watching football.

It's not 'swings and roundabouts' and it doesn't 'even out over the season', these are bullshit cliches. Quite often one team statistically benefits the most from poor refereeing decisions, hence why we need VAR because the competition should be even. You're that team benefiting thus far. Any remotely tight call is given your way (Mitrovic vs Fulham then Salah goes up and scores), blatant penalty vs Watford, yesterday a tight offside goal? Must be fine, it's Liverpool.

Other managers have spoken about it, Hughton came out after the game vs Brighton and said he thought the referee was very favourable to you, and he was absolutely right.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45087444

Maybe the officials are trying to even out things from last season.

Only right & proper I'd say.
 

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We'd have 4 more points?

The rest of your post is drivel that I could make up about more or less any team.

You say statistically some teams suffer more than others from poor decisions - well surely you can see that was certainly us during the penalty drought.

Of course it is, you're definitely not getting the rub of the green this season and everything is totally equal .. yawn.

I think last season you didn't get much luck with decisions at all, but this season that has completely changed and you're constantly getting the benefit of the doubt/key decisions going your way.

This all started with the terrible officiating that went your way in the CL last season. Both City & Roma were robbed of crucial goals/moments, whereas you scored multiple offside goals. Seems that is now the case in the league as well.
 

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We'd have 4 more points?

The rest of your post is drivel that I could make up about more or less any team.

You say statistically some teams suffer more than others from poor decisions - well surely you can see that was certainly us during the penalty drought.
You were compensated more than enough in offside goals. Like 1/4 of your goals are from offside. Stop crying.
 

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I've already predicted in Aug you'll be finishing fifth this season. And I gave my reasons. I've been bumping that thread every month blowing my own trumpet. You might want to visit it next time I give it a bump. :)

Fourth and FA cup. :lol:
I'm saying hypothetically, he could continue like this all season and it would still be regarded as flukey. Strange.
 

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Great win for Burnley. They've improved a lot since xmas.

Poor result for Brighton. They've really slumped last 6 weeks and very much in the relegation battle now.
 

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Penalty to Burnley when Brighton should have had one at the other end. Barnes to take. 0-3. Brighton should have had two penalties for handball.
 

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See you lot are getting over confident, you’ve been playing vs poor opposition, you won against tottenham with 11 saves from DDG, you won against a poor defensive side in Arsenal and almost lost at home against a relagation threatened burnley and today won against a side that leaked almost 60 goals.

You guys need a reality check starting against us in the champions league.
You cant win a league purely down to luck , its played over 9 months and 38 games , your rival are doing well and you are just being bitter about it.
Thanks for your input.

See you next tuesday.
 

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I'd be pissed off if I was Lucas. With our current injuries he should definitely be getting in to the lineup and he totally changed the game when he came on vs Watford so deserved to start here, it can't all be on Son to provide a bit of directness.
 

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On is instinctively driven to prefer a Spurs victory this afternoon, contributing as it might to their eventual success in stealing the Premier League Title away from the mercantile tonypandy hands of Manchester City and Liverpool. And then one realises that even if Tottenham Hotspurs were to win -say- ten of their remaining 13 fixtures, they would still only finish the season with 87 points, a tidy sum in historical terms but surely insufficient to win it in this year of years. So one turns, wanly, to glance through the venetian blinds and beyond at the crows fluttering above the hedgerows and draws the only conclusion one may in all merciful conscience draw, that for the sake of Manchester United's top four aspirations, Leicester must feck them good.
 

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No Vardy? Teams rolling over for Spurs? Imagine the outcry if he was dropped against us.
 

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No Vardy? Teams rolling over for Spurs? Imagine the outcry if he was dropped against us.
He didn't play in the first game v you. Then wilson no show for Bournemouth..no arnie for west ham.
Mug of a keeper in for your game v tottenham.

Just for four quick examples to make a mockery of your post
 

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No Vardy? Teams rolling over for Spurs? Imagine the outcry if he was dropped against us.
That's because Spurs' don't have a detestable fanbase and club culture. Liverpool act like Barcelona with their 'Mes que un Club' BS, but Liverpool haven't won a trophy in 7 years.