Chelsea vs. Liverpool (LC semi-final 2nd leg) - 19.45 Tues. 27th Jan. 2015
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The game was lost with Johnson (forced) and Balotelli (should have been Lallana) coming on the pitch, our defense went to shit, and our forward play was hindered, I hate to say it, but Henderson really let us down missing that header, he'd be one of the best if he had some composure.
Can is an absolute monster. I'd love to see him play as DM, He's more mobile and faster than Lucas (who was superb over the 2 legs so I'm not knocking him), better in the air, can really pick a pass and is incredibly powerful when he charges forward (just wish he'd lay it off earlier rather than inevitably losing it in or around their box). Would love to see him go head to head with the likes of Toure, Matic, Wanyama etc.
Ming has been amazing of late - he had credited his improvement to his time on the bench so well down BR for having the guts to drop him.
Lovren should have come on for Sakho. Terrible decision to bring on Johnson.
I was proud of us over the 2 legs, we could, should and deserved to beat them.
I haven't seen Rodgers mention Courtois, but I think Mourinho is basically suggesting Brendan claimed Courtois kept them in the game whereas Mignolet was equally busy.
The gulf in quality between our attacking midfielders and our strikers is now quite large. And that's even with the relative lack of experience the attacking midfielders have.
Rodgers pointed out the Costa stamps and Mourinho was miffed that he was criticizing his player. So he went at Rodgers by saying that both Courtois and Mignolet did well, suggesting that when he mentioned opponents, he was complimentary while Rodgers was just being bitter / sour.
Mourinho accusing anyone of being bitter, ahahaha.
When Sturridge comes back he's our best player, unfortunately there's only one of him.
Yep. Balotelli has the ability but not the brain, and Origi is still going to be raw. I hope we sell Mario and Fabio in the summer and bring someone of genuine class in.
It sounded like a dig at Rodgers treatment of Mignolet, as if to say that Jose backed his keeper and pointed out what good work he did, Rodgers chose to talk about the Chelsea keeper rather than recognising the good work his own keeper did.
It's such a tragedy, he could be world class.
I think should rather than could, but he seems to have the attitude of things needing to be set up in an extremely precise way for him to flourish.
Yeah, Can is quickly becoming one of my favorite players in the team. What Lucas has over him at this point, however, is work-rate. When played at DM Can sometimes let the game pass him by, whereas Lucas is always busy. But he is improving and hopefully will improve further and become one of the great DM/CMs in this league.
It's good to see the ref's abysmal performance is being slated today. I really don't think the standard of refereeing has ever been as bad as this. Oliver completely lost it last night. He always looks like a kid who's suddenly been told to stand in for the proper ref, but yesterday he was painfully bad. The standard approach for a British ref in big games seems to be 'treat any serious foul as not a foul until about 70 minutes, then treat any foul as a serious foul'. But even that seemed to confuse Oliver. And now the hopeless poltroon is going to be given the power to decide whether or not his judgment should be overruled retrospectively!
I thought the ref did rather well all things considered. He didn't give away a soft penalty. He didn't overreact at any time and started throwing red cards around. He didn't give Hendo a red. He handled the Skertel / Diego incident nicely. The Gerrard/Diego as well.
No stupid offside rulings.
As for the stepping on Can that's on the linesman. He should be the one the see it. Impossible for a ref to catch all details.
No stupid offside rulings.
As for the stepping on Can that's on the linesman. He should be the one the see it. Impossible for a ref to catch all details.
It certainly wasn't an easy match to referee. I don't think the lino had a clear view of the stamp on Can. Fatty the fourth official may have but I'm not sure he has the right to intervene.
Not that I think he did it last night, but have you ever thought the ref done us out of a game?
Or do you think they always get it right?
You often post this line of thinking Pete and I don't think it's fair. I think it's okay to comment on the ref's performance without using it as an excuse for losing.
Yes of course we have had bad decisions given against us in the past.
It was a really tough game to Ref last night, there was agro all over the pitch, it was played at breakneck speed. I wouldnt have liked to have done it.
I just didn't think he was too bad. Too many Refs spoil games with Red cards. People pay good money to go and see a game of football and its ruined too often with players getting sent off. He could have easily sent Lucas, Henderson and Costa off. The first Stamp on Can, only Costa knows if he meant that, the second one on Skrtel, I dont think was intentional.
They should have also had a penalty so he actually did us a favour last night.
It was a really tough game to Ref last night, there was agro all over the pitch, it was played at breakneck speed. I wouldnt have liked to have done it.
I just didn't think he was too bad. Too many Refs spoil games with Red cards. People pay good money to go and see a game of football and its ruined too often with players getting sent off. He could have easily sent Lucas, Henderson and Costa off. The first Stamp on Can, only Costa knows if he meant that, the second one on Skrtel, I dont think was intentional.
They should have also had a penalty so he actually did us a favour last night.
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