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I was gonna write some words to sum up the season but I think its safe to say you covered everything and more Scouse lol.
 
I might be wrong but I think Mo's won more awards this year than Everton have trophies.

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Scouseinthehouse said:
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The Reds were on it from the first whistle and could/ should have been 5 or 6 up at the break. And that's without the absolutely abysmal officiating of K. Friend Esq. turning down not one, not two, but THREE stonewall penalties. This is getting beyond ridiculous now. It's like there's a conscious thing to not award L'pool penalty kicks at Anfield. When Tottenham Hotspur have won more penalties than L'pool over the season at Anfield something is BADLY wrong! (And neither of those were penalty's to just add insult to injury.). These aren't contestable, questionable decisions. These are absolute blatant, straightforward decisions we continue to be robbed blind of. Three of the last four league games alone against West Brom and Stoke. 3 blatant penalty's turned down those games. They get awarded, and Tottenham's mad game today doesn't matter. Third is wrapped up. The points cost on shockingly bad officiating this season has been criminal. If it evens itself out over the season, Real Madrid better be prepared for EVERYTHING going against them Kiev along with facing double-figure penalty's! I'm personally against VAR. Mainly from a time standpoint, having witnessed the shambolic carnage of the West Brom Cup tie live when nobody in the ground had a F clue what was going on. But something has to give as this is getting VERY costly. Mr Friend. Take a bow. It took to the last game of the league season but you've somehow managed to up all your brethren's incompetence and take it to a whole new level of *****. Well done you Sir! .....
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Something MASSIVELY wrong in that.
 
This is blowing e away more than anything today.Since the Tottenham debacle at Wembley back in October, we've had the best defensive record in the entire league.

That's the last three-quarters of the PL season. With the World Class addition of van Dijk, as massively influential as he's been, only playing in 14 of those games.

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Aside from ruining all Zz's best lines (love yer man), that's mad when you consider the popular myth is that L'pool are still poor defensively under Klopp.
 
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Bujakaa92 said:
Uhh, bit long shot yeah.
About CB in PL we truly lack in some elite world class players in that department.
I would but Tobby and Vertonghen head of VVD. Shame that Tobby was lost this season.
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I like VVD but he not world class. Yeah would put him in same class as the 2 you mentioned. Don’t think there’s any WC CBS in the Prem. not many in world football tbh.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
This is blowing e away more than anything today.Since the Tottenham debacle at Wembley back in October, we've had the best defensive record in the entire league.

That's the last three-quarters of the PL season. With the World Class addition of van Dijk, as massively influential as he's been, only playing in 14 of those games.

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Aside from ruining all Zz's best lines (love yer man), that's mad when you consider the popular myth is that L'pool are still poor defensively under Klopp.
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The issue now in my opinion is not closing out games when we are on top. Liverpool do not take their chances when they come in a lot of games. That's also why we drew so many games this season.

Everton home
West Brom home
Burnley home
Watford away
Newcastle away

Liverpool have 2 players in the top 10 list of players with most big chances missed (Salah at 1 and Mane at 7/8) IIRC.
 
The big chance stat is very flawed. Salah misses the most big chances because he gets on the end of so many, world class movement. Missing chances comes hand in hand with being a prolific goalscorer.

You can't have a man break the PL scoring record and then say "what if he scored more, where would we be?" XD - He already scored a lot of goals in which he probably had no/little right to, at least by XG model. More than evens itself out.
 
RhQQ said:
The big chance stat is very flawed. Salah misses the most big chances because he gets on the end of so many, world class movement. Missing chances comes hand in hand with being a prolific goalscorer.

You can't have a man break the PL scoring record and then say "what if he scored more, where would we be?" XD - He already scored a lot of goals in which he probably had no/little right to, at least by XG model. More than evens itself out.
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I agree with you there.

However, those 5 games I mentioned should have never been draws and its the team that is culpable for that. And even if those 5 were 15 points instead of 5, we would still be nowhere close to City. My point was that we throw games away.
 
mayankv said:
I agree with you there.

However, those 5 games I mentioned should have never been draws and its the team that is culpable for that. And even if those 5 were 15 points instead of 5, we would still be nowhere close to City. My point was that we throw games away.
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Conversely, three of those games we win with better officiating. Off-side Watford equaliser opening day. Blatant penalty on Salah (or was it Trent?) the Burnley game the move late when Dom hits the bar. Although I personally disagree, what many would argue was never a penalty on Calvert-Lewin the Derby. 'Very' questionable at best. There's another 6 points right there. And how Dom's 'goal' West Brom could be construed as an 'intentional' handball you'd have to ask that divvy Scott.

Normally you can debate contentious decisions and just nark at a few refs. But right across the board, we've been robbed of VERY costly points this year from the most blatantly obvious, simple decisions not being awarded. You can count double-figure penalties alone. Not the difference in challenging for the League. But certainly the difference in being the closest team to them in the final table.

Worst season I've ever known for being done blind on an almost weekly basis by officials. Particularly at Anfield.
 
mayankv said:
..... Liverpool have 2 players in the top 10 list of players with most big chances missed (Salah at 1 and Mane at 7/8) IIRC.
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*Whispers we also have a CH who lead the league this year in contested headers won and tackle/ dual's won success ratio among other things.

But keep it to yourself as folk apparently don't realise just how special a difference he's been on everyone. ;)
 
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