It appears it's also going on in Oz.

Has the world gone mad, why such leniency?

https://www.thepublica.com/australia-ir ... epeatedly/

Seems like Jesus is out with a knock today.

Felt like for a while we turned a corner with players who are robust and available virtually every game. We do have a few, Saka, rice, Gabriel, white there’s probably others but these guys have been pretty much fit for their entire career with us.

Tomiyasu, Partey, Jesus, Zinchenko all fairly regularly unavailable now and it’s hurting us massively

Statistically this season you have a 1.8% chance of a ref upholding his original decision when asked to go to the var review. 55 referrals this season and 54 have been over turned. PGMOL have a mandate they they do not want to re referee games. This suggests otherwise

No Van Dijk for Liverpool. Otherwise as strong an 11 as they could put out

Kiwior at LB
Ramsdale in goal
Jorginho in to deep midfield
Nelson wide left
Havertz up top

Both clubs trying to get to the next round without doing too much it seems.

Reiss Nelson should have done better. But good to put a scare in them early. We MUST convert these chances. We haven't been.

How did we not score?

Started seriously well. Should be a goal up already.

Not sure about Shearer saying we SHOULD have 4 goals!

No but we should be ahead. We might pay for the missed chances yet.

We just aren't clinical in dangerous areas these past few weeks.

Someone tell Odegard he is allowed to shoot.

Pretty clear handball by Trent not given there.

We’re playing well. Our physical press is upsetting them

Yep I think the pull back for Nelsen was the best chance and it was a miraculous block from Trent I think. It’s a goal without the block. The rest have been more half chances, or chances that became less than half chances because we didn’t sort ourselves out quickly enough

You smell the lack of confidence in Havertz.

If Alison and Liverpool are claiming they put that ball out for treatment then they are stretching it massively, Alison only had the option to punt it out as we’d closed them down so much. We shouldn’t give them this ball back

Havertz has to hit the target there.

Surely that’s a foul. Macallister quite deliver turns his hip in to Saka

Yup

Havertz basically passed the ball to the keeper instead of shooting in earnest.

Trent hits the bar. Think there were 2 fouls the ref missed. Havertz hand balled it which he didn’t give then Havertz was fouled and he he didn’t give it.

I get the feeling if Liverpool really want to press us and go for a goal they'll get it.

Gakpo does one exactly the same and does get penalised

That’s the most dominant half of football vs Liverpool I’ve seen in years from us.
We should be leading on the sheer volume of chances. I’d like the analysis to actually show how fantastic we’ve been and we’re just missing that last 5%.

**** me you are some whiner.

By the way Havertz has done well up top. He gives us something. Yes he needs to improve his finishing but he’s hardly worse in that respect than Jesus or Nketiah

I said it was a Havertz hand ball….

100%

The time to panic is when you stop creating any chances at all

His movement is fine but he literally seems scared to score. Afraid he'll mess it up. I want him to score badly. He gets his confidence up, we are in business.

He seems like he'd rather lay off the ball and the responsibility for someone else in the dangerous areas.

Liverpool padding their shots stat with some wild ones over the bar

Game has got a bit frantic. End to end stuff suits Liverpool more. Got a bit more physical as well. Ref has let a lot go but he won’t be ble to for much longer

I fear we'll end up losing to the odd Liverpool attack against the run of play. No end product from us. Chances going wasted.

Mind you, Saka's finishing is almost panic worthy at the moment.

Clear corner not given.
We’re going for this.
Obviously getting huge criticism from the comms for not scoring but no praise for everything else….?

i'd have taken off Havertz and put Martinelli as the number 9.

I thought Nelson had a good game.

We won't win a replay in Liverpool.

Martinelli skinned Trent twice. Wonder if the Liverpool fans moan about his ability to defend like we do Zinchenko?

Jorginho has been very good today I think. Allowed Rice to get higher up and pinch it