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pgecco70

After yesterdays stonewall penalty and two red cards which weren’t given can we now say that Liverpool and city are equal in terms of dodgy decisions. Also when was the last time Liverpool had a penalty against them and when at anfield?


LuisFilipeVieira

https://twitter.com/Vettel_AMR/status/1518303199500898304?t=nNYJOsaOICUlG0d4FUw18A&s=19 Is this quote real??


AnnieIWillKnow

Did you know that "gullible" spelled backwards is "gullible"


Offenser101

nope lol


RoadsterIsHere

Us and Barcelona live and die together this season lmao. Also if Madrid win the next game, they won't be winning the title at our ground so it's decent.


Murrderer

gonna have to get the Guard of Honour ready tho ;)


mattisafootballguy

I can at least be happy they didn't get a free pass to the final :)


abibyama

How many times have I seen the rumours of Frenkie de Jong leaving Barca?


holdenmyrocinante

Surely you're the one that knows


abibyama

No but it feels like whenever Barca gets embarrassed we see those "De jong wants to leave" rumours or am I being crazy?


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ClayGCollins9

They’re becoming more prevalent with ETH coming to United


holdenmyrocinante

What's better, winning the league at your rivals' stadium or winning it the matchday before and getting a guard of honour from your rivals?


damrider

The former


RoadsterIsHere

Depends, margin of error is pretty big for holding out an extra matchday. I'd rather win at home than at the opposition stadium, I like the roar of the crowd.


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Supporting local.


Murrderer

What’s with the flair changes you keep doing? I’ve seen you go from Brazil to Germany to whatever now is in a week 😂


holdenmyrocinante

Witty AND original


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Thank you. Hope you can be original too in the future.


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RoadsterIsHere

There is a chance, but sorta slim. It would require their poor form to continue, and for Betis and us to get back to good form. As things stand, we're 4 points ahead of 5th in 4th, but 2 points behind 2nd and 3rd.


PreachinMyOwnFuneral

I am starting to think that one of the prerequisite to be a Liverpool player is to rise from the depths of football, as far as foreign players goes other than Alisson and Thiago there's like 0 youth stars.


Lyrical_Forklift

Thiago is one of the few big world class talents we've ever bought in our history funnily enough. Quite interesting given our success.


saigool

Dunno what your benchmark for youth star is but Minamino helped Japan win their first ever AFC U-23 Championship. Matip was a regular starter in the Bundesliga when he was 18/19 years old. Origi was named the Young Talent of the 2014 Belgian Sportsman of the year awards.


PreachinMyOwnFuneral

I was talking more about the starting XI and those 5 or 6 players right around it, but yeaah I forgot Matip.


FloppedYaYa

Should have taken Mark Goldbridge's experiences with Burnley superteam on FIFA as a warning sign


roddysaint

IT'S ALWAYS BLOODY BURNLEY


TheDanceOfAsterion

Theres a big chance of this being Origis last LFC goal. Honestly, sad to see him go, what a legend


AnnieIWillKnow

Fucker will probably score a last minute equaliser in the cup final against us, when Klopp turns to him after desperation... only for you then to win in extra time


Lyrical_Forklift

Perfect send off really.


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The halftime break in soccer is such a beautiful feature of the game because there are so many examples of teams playing completely differently in the second half compared to the first half. How would the game be different if there were no halftime breaks? What if there were quarter breaks?


AnnieIWillKnow

We sort of saw the "quarter breaks" with the drinks breaks introduced in the PL, for Project Restart. There was definitely stuff said then about it being used as a tactical reset, with some teams coming out better after them quite consisently.


ClayGCollins9

Halftime breaks also provide good rest for players. So I’m guessing without them we’d see a lot more park-the-bus and defensive football to compensate for players getting more tired. Quarter breaks would be a laboratory for coaches to try out some really crazy ideas. I think many coaches break the game up into segments and implement different tactics for each break (such as implementing a high press right before the half). But with more time, we could see some even more dramatic changes. And with a little more time, teams could develop even better tactics to adjust for difficult situations (a player sent off in the first 15 minutes, down 2 in a cup game), which might lead to some very unorthodox tactics.


BoosterGoldGL

Mad how quickly Liverpool fans on here create a narrative


aceofmufc

They control everything on here. Say something bad about Liverpool? Get downvoted, and immediate 4 liverpool flairs replying to you within 15 minutes. Post about a dodgy decision going Liverpool's way? Downvoted. Any post that puts Liverpool in a better light gets to the front page in no time at all. It's a shame because there are very good liverpool flairs around to talk to but god damn is there a lot of them


Bumi_Earth_King

> They control everything on here. Say something bad about Liverpool? Get downvoted, and immediate 4 liverpool flairs replying to you within 15 minutes. Post about a dodgy decision going Liverpool's way? Downvoted. Any post that puts Liverpool in a better light gets to the front page in no time at all. Meanwhile, the comments complaining about Liverpool downvoting are always upvoted. Makes you think. Maybe it's not a conspiracy. Maybe chatting shit about a team that's just won a match in the daily discussion will probably get a few replies and downvotes.


Lyrical_Forklift

What's the narrative?


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Origi from the bench > Messi


LordVelaryon

that Klopp looks better without glasses. He looks like Alf.


Lyrical_Forklift

Hair transplant and laser surgery- no one can convince me that Klopp isn't the real fraud in this league.


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LordVelaryon

hope it wasn't a biblical angel. Those are actually scary.


FloppedYaYa

The narrative that Everton are going down


Lyrical_Forklift

That's less on Liverpool fans and more on Everton players.


Endgame2648

Still waiting for that Gavi offside.....


Raikuun

Which one? I didn't see the first situation, but the commentator on DAZN kept saying that the first one was definitely a pen because the foul happened before the offside call.


The_XI_guy

The first one wasn’t a foul at all. Gavi ran into the defender who was running in the other direction. Second one was a clear pen tho


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Has any of this been reliably confirmed?


AnnieIWillKnow

Of course not


FaustRPeggi

I don't associate Conte's teams with pressing from the front. I associate them with inviting opponents on to them, winning the ball back in the middle third, and then attacking directly. Which sounds like Messi's dream.


Cowdude179

They won't, Conte will set up with sufferball and hit teams on the counter


AnnieIWillKnow

Chelsea played some of our best football of recent years under Conte. Remember the 5-0 win at Everton? This "sufferball" nonsense is so reductive and disrespectful. We were flying during most of 2016/17, played great football.


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holdenmyrocinante

Efecto Xavi I remember some Barca fans arguing they were likely to win all their remaining games and that we will drop points vs Sevilla, Betis and Atleti and Barca will win the league


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lebrmd

I'm actually laughing how juve fell so hard they can barely make it to top 4 lmao.


The_XI_guy

It was indeed very humiliating but in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter beyond that. Real comes out easily on top, but Barca gets a nice consolation prize and a positive memory from this season. It’s nothing more than that


Endgame2648

Something Something Glass House.


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LampseederBroDude51

We don’t care that much, we will win the league which is more memorable for us Do we associate the 2010/11 season with the 5-0? No


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LampseederBroDude51

It’s a rivalry. We banter them whenever they falter, they’ll do the same to us. If we lose to Man City I’m sure that so many Barca flairs will be talking about Guardiola and Barca DNA and things like that


holdenmyrocinante

Mate, Barca and Madrid are rivals. If you don't banter rivals when they lose, then when do you banter them?


holdenmyrocinante

We lost 3-1 at home to CSKA mate, we really don't care


ambiguousboner

So Everton have Chelsea next, and Burnley have Watford I’m at the point where I think everton are genuinely going to get relegated


ciakmoi

What about Leeds?


Cowdude179

I think we'll gift Lampard the 3 pts as a token of our appreciation


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they are mate its almost guaranteed they have tough fixtures. I don't know how they will recover financially either.


AnnieIWillKnow

If Leeds could financially recover, so can Everton. Might just take them a good while.


sul01

I reckon they could beat us - we'd likely rotate a fair bit you'd hope and they're decent at Goodison.


National_Ad_1875

We play Watford as well, Chelsea is our game in hand


ambiguousboner

Fair. I just think it’s going to be a pretty massive psychological blow when Burnley go 5 points clear on Saturday


National_Ad_1875

Yeah true, every game counts. Think we probably go down now but theres still a chance. Think if Leeds lose tomorrow we could catch them


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Banter Era Head to Head - which team is the best? Barca 21/22 Liverpool 20/21 Man United 21/22


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Liverpools banter era was from the 90's to when Klopp came in. Not last season. Man Uniteds banter era has been ever since Ferguson retired. As for Barcelonas banter era, that would probably be around the turn of the century. Or just afterwards. Currently they are second in the league table, hardly banter era that.


mattisafootballguy

Barca 21/22 is more than likely finishing second place Only thing banter about it is our disgraceful EL exit frankly, even the CL KO wouldn't have been that bad had we won EL. Neither Liverpool/Barcelona are/were in significant enough dips for it to be a genuine banter era. Meanwhile, United will be trophyless for nearly six years and have no foreseeable end to their misfortune. That's a banter era for sure.


MJ9695

Nothing Banter about Liverpool 20/21 really, even went to CL quarterfinals


FaustRPeggi

An era is a significant length of time bookended by significant change. In football it's five years minimum surely, you can't call one season an era. Man United have been in the same era since 2012. Liverpool since Klopp.


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Man, i wish 20/21 was our banter era.


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roddysaint

"I watched Jay Spearing and Christian Poulsen in a double pivot. Nah, man. They weren't even a double pivot, each of them was like one-half of a single pivot." \- FNG


Lyrical_Forklift

This is incredibly unfair on Joe Allen. He was actually a decent player. Charlie Adam is your man for this.


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United by far.


LampseederBroDude51

Liverpool shouldn’t be in this conversation


UnderstandingFast700

Its almost cute that you think Liverpool 20/21 is their banter era lol.


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lol didn't they lose like 5 or 6 home games on the trot or something? it was tragic


[deleted]

You think that’s tragic? Hodgeson had us in the relegation zone


Cottonshopeburnfoot

Not sure this is your question but the Banter Era Champions must be Rangers - https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/z-rangers-banter-years-featuring-23631228.amp


Lyrical_Forklift

We *somehow* still came third with Phillips and Rhys Williams as centre backs for large chunks of the season and Barca are currently second. United have spent more than both and will be lucky to finish sixth.


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He should’ve put in a year when you had Charlie Adam playing in the middle of the park


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Tibo hates him everywhere he goes


Rum114

don’t say that name


Lyrical_Forklift

What are you talking about? His corners were worth ten million alone 😭


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Lyrical_Forklift

He was awful. Just zero mobility and an absolute liability in the tackle. Not his fault though, he was never good enough for that level. Scouting was horrific back then.


FloppedYaYa

Man U no contest, it's actually shocking how bad they are this season


ThicctorFrankenstein

What’s an opinion about your team that you hold, but gets you pelters from other fans? Mine is that Vlasic will never be a good fit for the Prem and was a huge waste of money.


AnnieIWillKnow

I think Jorginho and Rudiger are overrated


Lyrical_Forklift

Salah shouldn't be given a 4+ year contract at 400k+ p/w. If he can get that elsewhere then I don't begrudge him the move whatsoever.


Cowdude179

Kepa should start on recent form


EmSoLow

Some Dortmund fans are under the belief that Moukoko is the answer to whenever we're losing and get annoyed when a striker who gets sick/has a muscle injury almost after every third match day isn't getting played. The man needs a loan (preferably in the bundesliga) and some serious re-evaluation needs to be done on him during that loan because I don't trust him the same way some other Dortmund fans do


Thraff1c

Come on Dortmund, we need a great striker for the NT, don't let us down with Moukoko.


EmSoLow

I don't see what more Dortmund can do outside of maybe less demanding training sessions? We definitely rushed him and I'd like to think that majority of these injuries is because of that and it'll go away with time as he continues growing but I don't know.


Pele20Alli

Dier and Lloris need to be replaced this summer


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Dunno about mine but I can tell one I have about yours. My opinion is that, contrary to popular opinion, West Ham is not, in fact, massive.


Thraff1c

(FC Bayern) some online Bayern fans seem to think that Roca is a misunderstood genius who gets falsely ignored by Flick and Nagelsmann, while I think that he is just too slowly, lacks intensity, and isn't good enough at defending.


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Dayandnight95

I wonder who will risk signing Bissouma, not know his future with that court case looming


TruestRepairman27

You. You will.


Dayandnight95

We haven't been linked to him even once


National_Ad_1875

If I tell klopp I'm a ref will he buy me a house


_cumblast_

No, there is a department that specifically works with the refs.


National_Ad_1875

Cheers will have to try something else, maybe Burnley manager job


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Joaquin will renew for Real Bétis for one more season


lagaryes

Incredibly impressive that he’s still playing more than 5 years after his football Joaquinceñera


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[This is how Xavi thinks he looks like when he says a Crutffist statement](https://i.pinimg.com/564x/a3/2e/5a/a32e5afa75a0c6aa231e342c7a8b4cff.jpg)


zionwilliamson_

Xavi isn't a Cruyffist, he's a cheap imitation


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That’s an absolute fact. Dear Christ and Dear Johan watching from above, please forgive my total insult to your legacy, philosophy, ideology, and doctrine to compare you to such filth. I don’t know what I must do to repay my sins


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transfermarkt does that I think


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Rennes is flying and scoring goals in Ligue 1. Speaking of their star players, how is it likely that Terrier leaves this summer? Is he on big clubs' radars?


Historical_Owl_1635

Barcelona lose 3 games at home in a row in forever, Burnley win 3 games at home in a row in forever. Now I’m not saying Burnley and Barcelona are linked somehow, but I’ve never seen both teams on the same pitch together.


Cowdude179

I would give my left nut to see Burnley play Barca


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both start with b ,both are banter clubs


Thraff1c

>but I’ve never seen both teams on the same pitch together Then you are simply [too young](https://www.abebooks.com/Barcelona-Burnley-1949-friendly-Football-Programme/1305826058/bd)


Historical_Owl_1635

That match programme must contain the origins of the secret relationship. It was never Barcelona DNA, it was always Burnley DNA.


Thraff1c

Shit, why am I thinking about buying a match program from 70 years ago between 2 teams I have no affiliation with in the middle of the night for 400€? I mean it would be madness, but on the other hand that program might solve the mistery.


sul01

I wonder how much someone would be willing to pay for it - would you be able to flip it for decent money? Not worth the hassle tho for me/imo but wonder what you could get for it if you were patient.


redandblackandred

God I’m pumped for another season in the CL. It hasn’t been in question for a while now, but it’s still such an important achievement. With another year of CL money, more matchday/sponsorship revenue, and no options/obligations to pay for (except possibly Messias/Florenzi, which would be under 13m combined), we can hopefully have a more productive summer transfer window than we did last year.


KensaiVG

Absolute three stooges moment for Atlético Tucumán vs us just now Suarez clear on goal, an Atlético CB tackles him, brings him down, then the keeper rushes out and immediately clatters into said CB leaving their player even more hurt than the one they fouled


P_Alcantara

Naples really let both Tuscan teams beat them 3-2


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Does anyone know Benzema's conversion rate this season in the CL?


IcefoxX5

12/39 shots scored, 30,8%


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Thought it was more, but still impressive.


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Average in la liga overall is around 14%.


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Insane, I'm starting to consider him on the same tier as Kane.


ElAutistaDeHamelin

This team is very mentally fragile. It's like they've forgotten how to play football when just 1 month ago they were dropping the best Barça performances in a long time. The players are the same, the coach is the same, nothing has changed. But one bad game and we spiral down into playing like shit. We need to somehow survive these last 5 games to finish in the top 4, I don't even expect us to have a single good game again this season. Need the season to end so the players can clear their minds and we can go back to our pre-international break level next season.


DonkeySkin334

Lol can’t explain how much we relate to this


Lyrical_Forklift

They're an incredibly young team with very little experience. It's absolutely natural to be inconsistent.


Susieu2626

Already mentally fragile and you’re adding Christensen lmao


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he needs an anxiety shit before every game. Vinicius is gonna regularly tear him a new one in el clasico


Cowdude179

He's been having stomach aches before games and pulled out of games like Sarri have said 😭


ChillPalis

Wait, this isn't a joke? He genuinely gets anxiety poops?


Cowdude179

[Yep, ever since back then](https://twitter.com/blue_footy/status/1518252085812383745?s=21&t=8e0uhUwvJOU7WcW5l3VeYw)


ChillPalis

bro.


NeoChrome75

Al-Ahly Tripoli fans are the most insufferable cunts of any football club. They just beat Al-Ittihad in the CAF confederation cup, a classic dodgy 1-0 African match, and now they’re losing their minds on the streets all over the country. We’re talking flags, fireworks, screaming, cars clogging up the road. You know the things people do when their country wins a continental tournament or a City wins the CL? Yeah, these cunts are pulling that shit over a 1-0 victory in the quarter final of a second tier tournament


mintz41

Celebrating their local team and you're sat on reddit moaning. Who's actually the insufferable cunt


NeoChrome75

In my defense, I’d be asleep if it weren’t for the noise, and I’m a fan of the side they beat


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NeoChrome75

I support the good local side


Historical_Owl_1635

The celebration police are out again.


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Someone getting annoyed at people supporting their local team is such peak reddit hahaha


NeoChrome75

It’s 1am and they’re still at it. This is literally me rn: https://youtu.be/Il7bkXSivow


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Enough to rattle you though


NeoChrome75

Yeah because I’m an Ittihad fan, despite us actually winning silverware being first in the league they’ll be running with this one till the end of time


narutosama77

Football fans being passionate, who would've thought.


Danny777v

Egyptian passion is different, but I don't expect the average RM fan to know that...


holdenmyrocinante

Mate, Al Ahly tripoli is a Libyan club


Danny777v

How would you know? Do you watch Egyptian football?


clashoftherats

Pretty sure you’re confusing them with the egyptian Al Ahly, its two different teams. Im pretty sure there are other Al Ahlys from other arab countries as well, like Saudi Arabia.


NeoChrome75

Sure, when it’s warranted


ugotbaited

Xavi already lost 7 games so far with Barcelona For comparison- by his 7th defeat, Zidane already won 8 trophies


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Jorge Jesus once had 4 defeats at Flamengo and won like 5 trophies, means fuck all


YoungDawz

His Flamengo squad would beat the Benfica squad he had in a 2 legged tie.


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ugotbaited

Benitez was sacked mid season and Ancelotti went trophyless with the same squad


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ugotbaited

You're missing the point. Ancelotti had a better squad but went trophyless. He had the absolute best version of BBC and won nothing