13 Dec 2017 22:08:55
That was the worst Gini Wijnaldum has ever played for Liverpool. I can remember a single contribution he made in this match. And again felt we missed Moreno on the left . Robertson is just not on the same wavelength as our forward players.

Thought the goal should have stood. But the deflection from the unintentionally handball did send the keeper the wrong way. So even though it's a hard pill to swallow, can understand the decision.

Some of the match officiating decision did make my head scratch. That match had a total of 6 substitutions and West Brom wasted time whenever they could. The reference did warn their players, so officials decision to add just 3 additional minutes is a head scratcher and in additional time the referee did have to book a player who was not even on the ground for time wasting. Still the referee decided to end the match exactly at 3 minutes when Liverpool had possession at the edge of opposition box.

Maybe I am just frustrated watching the match and frankly we were miles off from our normal level today. Sorry for the long post.

YNWA.

{Ed025's Note - its obvious that you will look for reasons why you never won maverick, forget about the ref mate...you were just not good enough..


1.) 13 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 22:22:13
I agree that we didn't play well tonight. Also the fact that it's 3:50am here and me having to go to office in about 5 hours also doesn't help. : (.


2.) 13 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 22:27:35
When teams shut up shop, because of how tight it is, referees really do have too much influence over the final result. I would love football to get better officiating or define the rules a lot better. the refs can bend the rules whenever they want. There shouldn't be a thing as lenient and strict refs and the fact that refs can do as they please just ruins football. In the end football will move on without them and they'll only have themselves to blame for being so inconsistent as each football match seems to have their own set of rules. rant over. I wouldn't wanna be klopp right now.


3.) 14 Dec 2017
13 Dec 2017 22:22:57
Agree Ed25 bit these refs need to get s grip of the time wasting. I was at the match tonight and Foster wasn’t even warned, with only 3 mins extra time at the end.

Takes only a second to score and as pooor as we were tonight, 3 mins extra time was an absolute joke. We’ve seen lots of last min goals scored this season.

{Ed025's Note - i know what your saying drogie and the standard of refereeing has been very poor this season, but liverpool did not fail to win because the ref made some bad decisions mate, they were poor last night all over the pitch and the tempo was very slow, the lesser teams seem to have worked them out it seems by sitting and letting the reds blow themselves out..


4.) 14 Dec 2017
14 Dec 2017 15:02:57
I’m in total agreement re our lack of cutting edge, pace and tempo agoamst teams that sit deep, believe me Ed25 I sit there and got so frustrated.

My point is, games are won deep into injury time, even when not playing well, United did it for years mate. This constant time wasting by Foster warrented 3 mins alone!

You wouldn’t have seen ( on tv ), there was a situation, where the ball went behind for a goal kick ( kop end where I sit, ) and it went between the advertising and the pitch ( into the gap ), Foster decided to just kept kicking the ball along the gap for as long as he could get away with. Where was the linesman then?

I’m not one for blaming results on officials but last night was really bad.