Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

If we don't beat Cardiff next week (just about the same side did the double on us inc a 3-0 dicking at home in our promotion season), there are some pretty harsh fixtures to see us through to October. I think we'll be rooted to the bottom of the table for some time yet. Character building stuff for these extra 12000 fans we've acquired in recent history!

tbf you get an extra {(sum of all football fans) - (sum of Cardiff fans)} fans when you play Cardiff

of course you get Colin's hordes of autograph hunters, in their dozens as well!

After Cardiff play you though, their next 7 league games are Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City, Burnley, Spurs, Fulham & Liverpool

Oh I definitely think as the season takes shape, Cardiff will be rock bottom. We might be a bit vulnerable this time, without the cushion of a good start - even though he has made some shit tactical decisions so far and sometimes his extreme pragmatism is infuriating - I have faith in Wagner to not let the decline become terminal. I think we've just been beaten by the Champions and runners up so far, when you are 2-0 down against Chelsea and Hazard comes on, you might as well abandon all hope, and Man City's 2nd string would finish top 4.

man, that's a tough one to take for Palace

decisions were all correct by the letter of the law but they definitely deserved something out of the game. If they got rid of Benteke they could be a real force

Liverpool no great shakes but fairly terrifying on the counter as always

Thread title is so spot on it's relegated my experience of watching LFC to getting a flat beer.

Boo hoo

Palace looked very good but I thought we deserved the points. Game management was a nice improvement on yr typical lpool

Great result, Palace are always a team we slip up against. Keita looks class, there was a little turn he did from deep in defence followed by a long ball to Salah that was incredible. Salah looks a bit off the pace, he could have scored a couple of goals yet he was still involved in the two goals we got. I'm not so sure about the sending off, think Wan-Bissaka (who looked excellent) was hard done by alright. Mané is back to his best form, he took his goal well

Yeah, Salah took a v heavy touch fractionally before Wan-Bissaka got to him, which concievably made it a much less clear goalscoring chance- in real time it initially looked like he might have got the ball.

Still, even Salah off his game is fckin terrifying to face

I'm not really moaning about the sending off tho tbh, he was brought down when clean through.

VR football feels like a fundamental misunderstanding of what actual football fans want to see, so business as usual you Sky cunts

Do they still do that PlayerCam thing? I could never work out why anyone would bother with that.

That Salah penalty isn't even an issue if that game kicked off at 3pm on a Saturday. It's about three fouls. Oliver significantly better than some of the refs, even with his trashcan heart.

sloshed Lloris loves getting pickled

fucks sake

no it was probs fucks chablis in this case!

ha!

heh

dammit i came to make the "blotto lloris loves getting ticketed" joke

how about

at least he has more points than arsenal

^ charlesfosterkane.applauding.gif

this is a good contest

it's almost like if you try and compete with Man City rather than stand off and admire them, then you don't get fucking arseholed by them!

indeed

How a player of Jimenez's experience got himself offside there I don't know, but yeah this is our best performance so far this season, can see some of ours starting to find their feet. Back 3 way more frightening than last season tho.

Need to unleash Traore sooner rather than later second half, give their defence something else to occupy them

Wolves doing well!

deservedly in the lead as well imo.

lol handball!

goal was kind of handed to them though

Gold and black specs on but not deliberate imo

it's kind of upsetting me that this proves we were just completely embarrassingly bad last week. But fuck these arrogant twats!

Closer to offside if anything

my position has always been that you can't award a goal that's come off someone's hand, deliberate or no

but fuck it like

I turned on the telly and City immediately scored. Sorry Wolves fans.

Aguero loves a dive doesn't he

More points dropped at home, worrying.

Luckily there's no law about goals bring disallowed from accidental hand contact, arses, or beach balls on the pitch.

Wish Adama had come on sooner but he's still building fitness I assume. He's gonna be a lot of fun.

3pms pass without a single comment

milner should be off but thats not how refs work is it

lol even Danny Mills said he shd've been booked

felipe anderson can carry it huh

Top of the league, lads

reffing that finds giving a penalty for that tackle on coleman difficult but sending richarlison off for rubbing eyebrows easy is the fucking problem

I heard earlier that Karius had been exiled loaned to Besiktas for 2 years, harsh but fair!

jesus this ref

that push on wilson could not have been more obvious

pretty dumb selfcunt from keane there but hope hes ok

red card for mendes lang there all day