Liverpool FC Premier League Champions 24/25 - Talk /Gossip/Rumours

You knew when our fans were singing "We won the league at Goodison" that there was a twist in the tale imminent.

The truth is the referee was terrible and we absolutely can blame the result on him if we want to. He made so many terrible decisions thoughout the night but if we only focus on the free he gave that wasn't a foul and the fact that the equalizer came almost 2 minutes after the game should have been over we can see that if the ref was competent we would have won, might not have even conceded a goal.

Sure you can say we played badly and defended poorly if you want. That is also true. Both things can be true, they are not mutually exclusive. Had the ref simply blown up to finish the game when he should have, totally excluding all the other terrible decisions he made against us, we would have won the game 2-1 and everyone would be talking about how that's the type of win champions get, going to a ground like everton and playing badly but still getting the win. Now all of a sudden instead we are talking about hopefully not losing our heads and throwing away the league altogether…

Ye can sit around and try being all Zen about it all ye want. The fact remains that referee just robbed us of 2 points. All he has to do is end the game when he himself said it should be over. He is the one who said there was 5 minutes left to play and then he played almost 7 minutes extra for no reason at all. Something that has happened to us a ridiculous amount over the past decade since Klopp came in. I for one am just sick of sitting around going "ah well sure refs are only human and sure humans don't know the difference between 5 minutes and 7 minutes!! 🙄

Fine, every potential foul is subjective to an extent but time is not subjective.

To be fair on time time difference, there was a huge delay in injury time for the Everton head clash, so it was never going to blown on 95. He did however get absolutely ever other decision wrong.

I was annoyed because I thought we threw away two points given that we were a goal up in stoppage time.

When Salah was clipped outside their area and the referee waved play on it was time to play smarter. There was no longer any need to barrel forward or for Alisson pump the ball long. We could have seen out the end of the game by passing the ball down either wing and back across the back line to the other wing.

Having said that we came through without any injuries and we're now 7 points clear, we can certainly live with that.

One thing alot of our players need to do more in the centre third is use the ball quicker.

The amount of times an extra touch is taken when a reasonably straightforward pass is noticeable lately.

I'm a bit more concerned about Wolves than most, if only because we have had two bloody noses in a row and will be without Slot.

Don't forget that we should have played against 10 men for an hour when Gana pulled back Gakpo on a break when on a yellow. I think Gakpo needs to be smarter there. There was little chance of scoring a goal but a very good chance of having a second yellow card been given. Oliver may not have given it based on his other actions on the night but give him a decision to make. It may also influence his other decisions too.

I think like last season we need to take the games out of the officials hands as much as possible. I think they feel the need implicitly to bring the season into a title fight and we will have some poor decisions go against us in the coming weeks unless Arsenal fall further behind that it doesn't matter. We need to play better and take enough chances to impact that possibility in my mind. Last night, we needed a third goal to settle a game or not give up a stupid goal at the start.

That said Everton have taken points of City, Arsenal and Chelsea this season so this is a plus for us because they would never put in the effort they did last night in another game. We can't depend our season on winning games at Everton or United based on the history involved. Win the return fixture, and we should be good. The only other game with this level of emotion could be the City game with the recent history between us and also Arsenal at home if it is a meaningful game at the end of the season. Take the soreness of the result and the referee's behaviour, bottle it and use it as fuel to drive on through the next fixtures coming up and take it away from other teams and out of officials hands!

I thought Bradley was unlucky for that second incident. He was beside Dacoure (?) who more or less changed his direction and ran across Bradley. Bradley pulled back, held his hands up, but contact was very minimal, it didn't look a deliberate foul, and the attacker was never going to run the 80+ meters to score from there in his own half. He used his experience against a very green defender to buy a free, but it was nothing else, it was one of the decisions that excellent referee Mr Oliver got correct on the night (not giving the card)

Every coming together isn't a foul, and even if it's deemed a foul every foul isn't worthy of a card. The first one I have no problem with, but the alleged second one was nonsense.

Anyway, it's time we moved on to the Wolves game.

Its looking like last night has put a siege mentality into the squad going by social media posts from a few of the players

Carabao Cup kicks off at 4.30pm

Presume TV coverage dictated the time

Was 3pm last year

I, er, stand corrected

No harm.

Konate must be delighted Goodison is getting knocked down.

3 goals in his last 20 league games..burden remains on Mo unless Jota is ready to start

The way we're playing I think Slott just has us set up where the CFs aren't actually meant to score that often. None of the lads who've played there this year have got any sort of decent numbers.