Feb. 23 Weekend Gamethread

Pesky Pole

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The Sturridge for Firmino sub is what cost Liverpool a chance at 3 points today. Sturridge does nothing in this system and shouldn’t find the field again.
 

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Some of Liverpool's passing has been fuckin woeful. Simple passes, simple looks...so wasteful with the ball. It's like Liverpool have run out of ideas. The squad seems thin.
 

Mighty Joe Young

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The Sturridge for Firmino sub is what cost Liverpool a chance at 3 points today. Sturridge does nothing in this system and shouldn’t find the field again.
Agreed .. all the subs were by position rather than form. Klopp was very stubborn in regards to keeping Salah on the right. Shaqiri for Firmino , with Salah moving to the middle seemed the obvious change. Henderson was playing really well and got subbed. Even Salah, despite having a poor game gets subbed for Origi. All head scratchers. If I had to guess the game plan was switched to route 1 football. They weren’t lacking in set piece opportunities.
 

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For United our top four hopes took a little dent but after the injuries you’d have to say Liverpool were the favorites to take all three points so it’s not the worst result in the world.

At this point you need to throw away the psg second leg and use it as a rest for some people. Herrera, Lingard, Rashford, Matic, and Mata are all looking at some time on the sidelines. Hopefully Martial can come back soon.
 

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Quite the meme turnaround for Luke Shaw.

Even Sarri seems to have abandoned Sarriball. Looks to have adapted Mourinhos tactics today. Really boring cup final. Started so promising with Jorginho trying to KO Aguero at the opening kick
 

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...and Arrizabalaga saves against Sane in the shootout. 2/3 for both sides after three penalties.
 

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Chelsea down 3-2 after 4 kicks (Jorginho was saved and David Luiz hit post, Sane was saved)

Hazard converted but Sterling can win it here.
 

Dummy Hoy

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That whole sequence from Kepa through the penalties was bananas.

Sterling’s kick was ridiculous, as was Hazard’s panenka.

Hazard MOTM for me.

Edit: forgot Azpiliueta’s too. The stones of him and Sterling to go top shelf are staggering.
 

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Sarri obviously gone soon, but the club needs to suspend the player, that's insane
 

teddykgb

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Do you really still fire Sarri? That performance today by him and his team showed something.
He should probably resign while maintaining some reputation and dignity. Chelsea are never going to back him on this issue and we just witnessed mutiny on the pitch.

Although that draw was probably not ideal for Liverpool today the injuries to Laporte and Fernandinho were. City won’t keep pace with either out. That match only changed because Kompany couldn’t match hazard for pace or pass between the lines like Laporte
 

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Do you really still fire Sarri? That performance today by him and his team showed something.
A player refused to be subbed, and none of his teammates except David Luiz thought it was a big deal. He's a dead man walking unless his bosses back him in basically sending Kepa to rot in the reserves for the remainder of his contract.
 

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Yeah, I mean I guess you guys are right, although I disagree that Laporte’s injury was the turning point. I thought it was maybe 10-15 minutes later that Chelsea really started pushing the MF further up on the counter.
 

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You can’t keep the manager who can’t control such insubordination.

You can’t keep the player either IMO.
 

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Amazingly, there was very little Sarri could do there. The laws basically back up a player refusing to come off, and I suspect Moss had very little choice but to tell Sarri he was going to continue play.

The real issue is Kepa’s insubordination and Azpilicueta being completely MIA.
 

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Not sure how reliable the source is, but the Evening Standard claims Kepa won’t be punished.

Even if Sarri is sacked first, I can’t see how you can continue on without some sort of rebuke for the goalkeeper. Chelsea’s inmates continue to run the asylum when they decide they don’t like the warden anymore.