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Konate shuts off mentally again. If #LFC is still renegotiating a contract renewal, they should tear it up.

Key block by Gravenberch. Thats a spot where #LFC often concede: ball played back to the top of the box and they’ve sagged too deep.

Spurs have been drugged.
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Would you pay 20m for a top CB? We wouldn’t.
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Do my eyes deceive me or was that a dangerous counter FOR #LFC ?

Hate a high penalty attempt. Used to always teach that nobody misses under the goal.
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Time to change the front.
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Offsides AND a handball to disallow Ekitike’s goal. 😤
No argument. Clear as day.
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Should be 2-0 or even 3-0 but a good clearance off the line keeps it 1-0.
Wirtz looking so, so dangerous.
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Richarlison is always to be feared.
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Konate forcing Alisson into a ridiculous save. He had ages to think about his touch and that’s what he produced?!?
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Wirtz with a missile! 🚀
Great work by Ekitike to create the havoc and then Jones with a great pick out to find Flo.
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Allison with the best pass so far.
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What a waste. This is on the players. Dom needs to bury the PK. Konate cannot get the damn yips and shut down mentally (again). Non penalty xG was 2.16 to 0.33, Burnley having cleared two off the line.
Players need to finish, sure, but it’s the mental mistakes that cost 2 points.
Cruel sport, sometimes.
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Not quite end to end, but area to area.
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And so a goal. Spurs seemed to invite that.
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I see we have the usual problem with teams that pack the area, we want to pass it into the goal.
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Off to take a walk in this springlike weather with my valentine. ❤️ Will watch later tonight.
Enjoy the match, reds!
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Guehi shows why we wanted him.

Wirtz returns the favor to Ekitike. Class from both.
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Absolute rip by Frimpong on his weaker foot (but don't tell him that!)
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I guess that was likely.
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If Gakpo could develop a left-footed shot, it would change everything.
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Fuck me, that's a goal.
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Lovely touch from Ekitike to free Florian. Should have a brace, but we'll take it.
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If that doesn't start the game with a jolt of adrenaline, I don't know what will. Wake up, defense!
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Dumbest goal we've conceded this year? ✅
Unnecessarily fancy and perhaps a bit of showboating.
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Szoboszlai said jokingly after Arsenal that he needed more shooting practice. There you have it.
Didn't even celebrate.
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VVD will be coming off.
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My partisan eyes, watching live, thought that it was a dive, based on the way Cleary's legs suddenly stopped working. Replay shows Dom gets ball. Was there enough of a push? Live and on replay, I don't think so.
Not sure what VAR would have done because 🙃
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Curtis Jones for the win.
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Great tackle from Konate.
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Ten more years of Ngumoha...
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The fates absolutely haunt us at RB. 💔
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Call FOR Salah being grabbed and pulled. 👀 🎉
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So Salah is not a hasbeen and neither of Robinson.
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Clear handball. Doesn't matter if "he's turning away"
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Would we rather have 3 points or an FA Cup Quarter Final.
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Smart play from Jones. Possession in stoppage time > outnumbered attack.
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They're may not be a God but there is justice sometimes.
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Wirtz hits the woodwork. He's been phenomenal in finding gaps in the Sunderland defense.
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Missed the first 15 min of the second half to pickup a child. Came back to see the OG 🎉 and Endo going down 😢
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Adding 2 minutes to the 5 that Endo was down for a total of 7 minutes of stoppage time seems very charitable to the visiting side.
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Ekitike missing a grounded header back to the near post in an echo of the City header miss. Work to do on finishing those opportunities.
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It must be said that Gakpo has been showing more of his left foot in recent weeks. It's clearly not super comfortable for him, but he is visibly trying to expand his profile.
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The officiating has been... good? I'm not sure what to make of this.
Decent first half. Sunderland have been a bit lucky on a couple of occasions, both from Wirtz (post and header).
#LFC look better against low blocks, but it's clear that Endo is not best used as an upfield back. He's been excellent otherwise.
Konate has also been in a very physical battle all game. Kavana…

Great defending by Konate, the commentators tells us. Not entirely wrong, but he did allow the run across him. The block was critical and well done, but relying on good fortune is not a good strategy.
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Salah is tracking back to help, but I think a sub would be a better choice than to leave him on and keep a midfielder occupied with an area he isn't spectacular at. Chiesa sitting on the bench and would work his tail off to defend.
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It wouldn't be a proper #LFC match without me once yelling at my TV to "call the penalty, you cowards!" Graeme Le Saux suggesting "Wirtz's leg actually came into Trossard" had me apoplectic.
Trossard already being on a yellow does not excuse a body check with no touch on the ball.
Ah, but the touch was heavy? So was the touch on Konate's penalty vs Leeds. In …

The case for John Brooks awarding this soft penalty for Everton is so much thinner than the one HE overlooked on VAR for Wirtz at Arsenal. If this is a penalty, then that absolutely was.
I think he’s still sore about Klopp defiantly celebrating a late goal in his face as the fourth official. The one that did Klopp’s hamstring. 😂
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Szoboszlai is back to MOTM performances. I thought he was absolutely terrific. With Gravenberch as his backstop and Wirtz and Bradley floating around in triangular support, he was able to keep #LFC in possession and deny Arsenal a lot of possession.
Frimpong is so ridiculously fast and can certainly dribble, but the question is the final ball. It does make you want to see him on the right and Ngu…

The Back of God scores.
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I have to time-shift today's match, which might be a mercy!
Having seen the lineups, allow me to say up front that I wish Slot would have started Jones over Mac Allister.
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Let them take that away from him.
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So we need contact sensors on players.
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Mac Allister with a header that crossed the line before the keeper could parry it back out.
Good flick on from Ekitike, but a bit of box slop. About time that happend FOR #LFC
Is that two set piece goals in two games?
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We should train with fans to simulate swirling winds.
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And there is the other scoring, but he's off?
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NOW TV is currently pixelated so I've no idea what's happening.
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Two players in this lineup will likely be elsewhere next season. The goal came from the one you didn't expect.
🫡 Robbo
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I think the main instruction at halftime was to spread out a bit.
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Simon Hooper is being gamed here. Complete lack of confidence he will be able to keep the spice out of this game.
Newcastle are effective when they are allowed to play physical football. LFC are decidedly not, being a bit soft overall.
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This is a case of a breath of wind upsetting the timing of highly strung athletes.
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No one on either side can control the ball. Someone should check the pressures, or the axial tilt of Nottingham or something.
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Having finally seen the game, my thought experiment is: Are #LFC worse in or out of possession? In stoppage time, do you think "we can still do this" or "not in the face"?
Despite all the evidence to the contrary this season, I'm still somehow shocked by the mental lapse at the end.
Yes, late subs, but Gomez for Gakpo didn't make midfielders misread a giant space…

The wind appears to be the main winner.
As with that goal.
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In the second half we'll be playing with the wind. So look out for shots going well over the bar.
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Having to time-shift the match today. 😤
I don’t anticipate Fulham playing a dour 5 man backline, but Craven Cottage is a tough environment. Should be less likely to be dull.
Ekitike scores a brace, #LFC finally collects on some xG karma. Feels like a 2-1 nail biter.

The other thing I would say is that Robbo and Ekitike being out really hurt the side. Watching Kerkez continually piledrive blind crosses to nobody is painful. Robbo's touch and accuracy would have been a massive difference.
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Bradley AND Frimpong! 👏
Will be time-shifting my watching and going radio-silent. Hoping for a strong performance.
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Ekitike or Sexytike? My god. What a run and finish!
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Ibou! Feel for him and happy/sad all at the same time. Must be so hard.
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Bananas decision by Simon Hooper. My good, he’s so atrociously incompetent.
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Risky from Gordon, even if the officials allow it because of impact location.
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Burn should be off for that.🟨🟨
Simon H👀per doesn’t see it that way.
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Nobody knows the handball rule anymore, least of all Simon Hooper. Two in a row ignored.
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Wirtz to Ekitike!!! Something we’re likely to be cheering for years!
1-1 in an 11v12 game so far.
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Four consecutive terrible decisions by Simon Hooper. Four!
The home crowd is giving him righteous condemnation.
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Very fortunate with the woodwork to once. Definitely could use some possession, if nothing else tha to relieve pressure.
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Watching emotionally and not analytically, but it seemed like a tactical shift to their shape out of possession around 25’ in put #LFC into a better shape to clog passing lanes and disrupt Newcastle. Particularly in the midfield. It could also be that Simon Hooper stopped calling ridiculous “fouls” and let the game play. 🤷‍♂️
Ekitike has obviously been brilliant. Their player ratings aren’t spec…

Wirtz!!!!! Unselfish from Salah, who hasn’t been great today, overall, but understood that Burn coming to double him meant he was abandoning Wirtz in space. 🧠
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Lucky to have that contested ball come to him, Gordon. Kerkez not close enough and Alisson could have been better.
Probably deserved on overall play, but damn.
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Another Gakpo left footed shot, did you say?
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Van Dijk shoots like a defender or it'd have been 6.
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The inverse of the Salah to Szoboszlai free kick from the last game.
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I don't know that I've ever seen player ratings for an entire side be so low.
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Feels a bit like a feeding frenzy as Mac Allister gets a tap in for the brace.
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Fede! Confident finish on a Van Dijk 2v1. If it stands, that's three assists for VVD.
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Simon Hooper. Such a buffoon.
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Such a gorgeous ball in from Mo and perfectly timed run from Mac Allister, but he scuffs what would have been the hat trick.
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The Qarabag defense is shockingly disorganized, but they've managed to get a block on a couple of the open shots. Gakpo unlucky on a couple.
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The second touch from Ekitke... :chefkiss:
And you know he's 💯 scoring when facing a closing keeper freely.
Good find by Virgil to thump it out to him.
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This sub is overdue. Wirtz has been visibly gassed for ten minutes or more.
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Think that's two left footed shots from Gakpo tonight, which the second wasn't half bad. He clearly is trying to diversify the known commodity of always cutting in, reverse Arjen Robben style.
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Wirtz! 5 goals in 9 games say the commentators. Great combo with Ekitike through traffic. Kept the defender in his pocket with a choice to foul him or release, neither a good option.
Clinical finish.
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I also haven’t bellyached about Simon Hooper yet, but here is a 5 second burst where he gets it spectacularly wrong twice.
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Frimpong down with a groin injury? Class from Qarabak to play it out, when they didn't have to.
Ridiculously bad luck on the defensive injury front.
Endo coming on in replacement and now the LB and LCB are not proper defensive backs.
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Konate cannot get out jumped there. Maybe he’s climbed over, but he’s got to be stronger.
Add another tick mark to the set piece disaster tally.
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Good confidence builder, certainly, but it shows how much stronger the EPL is relative to the Champions League. At this moment, 5 of the top 8 UCL spots are EPL teams.
Don't have a clear MOTM today. So many players were excellent. I'll give it to Endo for doing so much dirty work and filling in seamlessly.
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