There's the small matter of the Europa League (and Champions League for Arsenal) for our competitors to worry about too. I'm pretty pissed that we're relying on them to feck up rather than worry about ourselves but at least that's some consolation.
Premier League Fixtures (21/22 February 2015)
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Like United they have been lucky in many matches. But of course that is not news for the media. They would never have won today if the referee would have done his job.
That straw man is a big part of the reason why we're in a CL spot with 2/3 of the season gone. The negativity in here never ceases to amaze...
Yup. Until Newcastle away.. I repeat. Away.
All things considered … after our depressing performance on Saturday, that weekend could have ended gone a lot worse!
Sorry, but some of our dropped points have been really poor.
We drew against a ten man Villa team ffs!
2 defeats in 20, but way too many draws.
Yes. He's made big calls. He has flaws - everyone does. People on here tend to magnify the flaws so much but just for a comparison point, will brush over the failures Van Gaal's had. Rodgers has an ethos but it's not tied down to one way of playing. He's the first Liverpool manager in years who strikes that he knows what to do to get them back up. Even Benitez ran out of ideas. Rodgers is young enough to learn from these mistakes and sadly they are on the up.
Irony?
Or that at least Tottenham didn't win too!
Or perhaps we didn't play appallingly and lose 20-1, instead of a decent performance sucker punched by a ridiculous break away deflected goal?
Liverpool fans sat in 6th talking about how 'Rodgers has turned it around'...This time last season they were sat above Chelsea and talking of winning the league, and now they're 15 points off Chelsea and getting giddy that they *might* finish in the top 4.
Yeah, he's turned it around alright...
A lot of bed-wetters on here.
Imagine the negativity if we had a deficit to close, like, you know, the teams below us.
We're still in the box seat and I'm not reading much into fixtures as the close of the season can be mental for points won and dropped (especially with Europe).
And Liverpool won't have Kevin Friend handing them wins every week either!
Imagine the negativity if we had a deficit to close, like, you know, the teams below us.
We're still in the box seat and I'm not reading much into fixtures as the close of the season can be mental for points won and dropped (especially with Europe).
And Liverpool won't have Kevin Friend handing them wins every week either!
it's hard to put a positive slant on it when Arsenal and Liverpool are in pretty good form, we're appalling away, don't seem to have any fluency as late as mid Feb, and are looking at a run in with City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal,Tottenham, and no doubt Everton away will be as tough as usual, even in their struggles.
That's actually quite a good way of looking at it.
This time last season they were sat above Chelsea and talking of winning the league, and now they're 15 points off Chelsea and getting giddy that they *might* finish in the top 4.
Yeah, he's turned it around alright...
No it's not, it's completely ignoring context.
City - Barca in the CL a couple of years back. I said I wanted City to win because Barca were being boring.Whats up with the tagline?
It wont be that bad but 4th doesnt look likely right now, that's true.
And it will be that bad.. Both these teams are better than us.. and we arent showing any signs of getting better.
tonight, it's all we have to go on
I expect Southampton to go out of the battle for 4th. And I expect Spurs to do a Spurs. Not that it will help us if we dont improve.
Just heard Le Saux saying he felt Mignolet did handle outside the area and that it should have been a penalty and red card...
Liverpool have creeped right back from the brink and suddenly they look good for a top 4 spot again,
Only unbeaten team in the PL in 2015, and 5 clean sheets in a row away from home.
Not sure you can call that luck.
We were only really lucky against this lot and Leicester. We've been the better team in our other matches.
This place is amazing! All the negativity on here and you target my "positive from a negative" post for a sarcastic reaction?
BTW: You are entitled to your opinion, and I respect that, so if you're seriously suggesting I should be more happy with our losing performance Saturday at an under-strength Swansea then I'd better point out … no, it wasn't irony, sorry!
BR: "We were not fortunate. Friend got all the decisions correct."
Shameless nob
sorry pal, good work trying to lift the mood.
But it couldn't really have gone much worse could it?
However, gameweek 27 is another weekend!
Also lucky against Bolton in FA Cup, late penalty against Besiktas..
Some at the club needs to create a montage of all this man's nonsense, of the dubious one fist in the air salute, interspersed with Sturridge's dancing and "pointing to the sky" when he comes on.
And then play it repeatedly before our players for hours.
Was talking about league matches only.Also lucky against Bolton in FA Cup, late penalty against Besiktas..
We were the much better team against Bolton and the penalty against Besiktas was a deserved one so I'm not sure how that's lucky. The referees making correct decisions surely isn't luck?
here is the quote from the BBC, Brendan Rodgers
"The player has gone over far too easy, no way that was a penalty. I thought referee Kevin Friend was excellent and I think all his decisions were right."
"The player has gone over far too easy, no way that was a penalty. I thought referee Kevin Friend was excellent and I think all his decisions were right."
Should have said lucky with late goals.
Scoring late isn't luck either.
Liverpool did very well today, they had luck with some of the decisions but they played well. They are hitting decent form. United and Southampton are the teams out of form with Arsenal and Liverpool bang in form. A worrying end to the season to come but United surely will improve. Surely. Maybe.
Then I guess luck doesn't exist.
It does exist, but I don't think scoring late is lucky.
Surely having any sort of opinion when commenting about a ref's performance indicates that they could have been something other than "fair". Positive comments are just as much a question of the officials credibility as negative comments surely.
He said fishing!