Romford Iron wrote:Apart from the penalty, I didn't think LBM had a bad game, nothing spectular but he wasn't the worst player on the pitch today.
Green, Noble, Tomkins, and Collison were the standouts for me. The latter embarassing every one else IMO when it takes a youngster who has been out for months to try to grab the game by the balls when he comes on. Even Sears covered more ground than the useless twats upfront when he came on. Collison must start the next game.
Di Michele was truly awful with his dive caping it all off. I thought our midfield broke up a number of Liverpool attacks well but with our strikers providing absoleutely no movement for them we were not going to score even if we were still playing now.
Another shocking refereeing performance as well.
Exactly how I saw it
The players you mention all had decent games. Collison gave us a glimpse of what we've missed since his injury. DDM should hang his head in shame. What I saw from him yesterday convinced me we must get rid in the summer.
It was always going to be tough, against arguably the most in form attacking side in the league. Even more so when only one of our midfield and attackers would actually get in our 1st eleven (Noble) with everyone fit. And even harder when you concede in the 1st minute
Which is why the referee's performance in the first half was so hard to stomach. I actually had to leave the pub for 5 minutes after the penalty, to calm down. I haven't been so incensed by football for a very long time. A string of fouls on our players, in decent attacking positions not given, Tomkins makes an excellent tackle, they get a free kick on the edge of our box. LBM is blatantly taken out, no free kick. Although it was stupid, I can't really blame him for the penalty. He'd completely lost the plot. Which is kind of understandable. I was absolutely fuming, and i was only watching!
I can't help thinking that someone had a word with the ref at half time, as for some reason in the second half, he actually gave us a free kick everytime we were fouled. Shame it was too late by then
In the time between the 5th minute say, and their penalty, I thought we were coping okay, coming back into the game, and despite not looking that dangerous, if anything we had the better chances. But any chance we had was destroyed by the referee allowing those fouls to go unpunished (the LBM one in particular)
And the coverage on Sultana was ****ing awful. Talk about biased!!! At one point, after about half an hour, the commentator said something like "Liverpool have utterly dominated". This fella (Chelsea fan, but top bloke) looked at me quizzically, and said "have they? Apart from being on the back foot from the early goal, I thought you were doing ok, and were coming right back into it......." And they didn't even bother showing replays of a couple of those fouls that went unpunished, yet chose to drool over some slo-mo replay of Gerrard, with a circle around his head, running from midfield to the edge of our box (at which point nothing happened)