I’ve noticed since Mason took over he has played them all very narrow. No idea why but same thing in the United game.
Seriously, outside of the opening 15 minutes, there have been more serious chances from us. Skipp bleeding, that plus the yellow Jota is gonna get = an orange?
He never should have sniffed the air in London after his red card recently. Should have been put on a plane and sent to Brazil.
I’ll say this, our only tough match on paper(!!!) in the final four matches is Villa. Brighton, while they have three games in hand and only down by 2 points (with a big GD advantage) have to play ManU, a fighting for their literal existence Everton, Arsenal, Newcastle, City, and Villa. Southampton possibly mathematically relegated by their match vs Brighton. But yeah, I would posit the possibility that the Villa v Spurs match will decide 6th vs 7th place rather than 7th vs 8th. Brighton might have a collapse. Or they’ll earn their Europa spot the hard way.
I know we are an easy target because we do it to ourselves, but I was surprised how much talk on the radio this morning about how much we got screwed yesterday and even against Man U. I thought about it at the time, but if Richarlison doesn't score there with the tip of his frosted hair that could also have been a high boot offense by Van Dijk. That was pointed out by the radio announcers today. I understand why Liverpool fans think Skipp should have seen red earlier, but the way that challenge has been called all year it mostly hasn't been (although Arsenal got that call with Royal). Not sure I can remember a time when a guy gets kicked in the face and blood is drawn and it is not even reviewed for red. I would be surprised if we see an apology, because that just doesn't seem to fit the narrative this year.
Liverpool is one of those clubs that one of their guys has to murder someone to get shown a red. That's just the way it is, despite their fanbase's "the league hates us Scousers we never get any calls" narrative. Anyway, it's not why we lost yesterday. Spurs came out a complete shambles for the first 20 minutes once again, gave up 3 butter soft goals, battled back and then Lucas Moura was a fucking moron.
I know we are programmed to just accept losses when we do what we do, but Spurs came back and were continuing to threaten when that happened, so it certainly factored heavily into why we lost. He scored the winning goal and knew he was in the wrong.
I'm not accepting the loss -- the loss sucks -- I'm just not going to blame this one on the calls. Skipp should have at least been on a bright orange after he studded that guy's ankle... probably the reason he didn't get the red was because of stupid "makeup call" reasons (though if we're playing Bournemouth, that guy gets shown the red immediately).
There were other incidents and like I said as much as I understand why that could be called red on Skipp, it was low enough on the leg where more often than not we don't see that called. Then there was the pull back on Richarlison in the box and that would have been a red as the second yellow and a PK. There have been so many games like this where we don't think we deserve the win or the draw and we just accept it, but we are literally just unlucky in addition to playing ugly soccer. The first Newcastle game comes to mind where Lloris was definitely interfered with. The one game where we got ANY luck (Brighton) everyone made such a big deal of it.
It has been called this way this season. Haaland just did it and only saw yellow. I thought it was an easy red though, but so was skipp’s cleating earlier. I don’t know if they just decided to call nothing. kane got away with it last year when they also showed Robbo a red on hardly a murder.