Nobody was rewarding anyone, time was lost and that time was added on. It was more than 2 minutes too, and even though it was a head injury (or two) Oliver allowed Liverpool to play on although even Salah was calling for the game to be halted cause that contact was nasty.
Okay let’s wait for the confirmation that the call from Konate was blown, just like we got confirmation that we got that the Odegaard could was blown. I will admit Konate basketball if they do. But you have to admit Odegaard basketball if they don’t. Deal?
It’s not excuse it’s reality. Everyone knows what was at stake for Everton today. This isn’t even controversial.
How is it not rewarding Everton? They got extra stoppage time (in excess of the delay) because of that. That’s a reward
Yes - Oliver butchered it and gave Everton too much time.
Of course Everton wanted it more. It was their cup final. It would be weird if Everton didn’t want it more. And they still wouldn’t have scored any goals today if it wasn’t for Oliver
Liverpool dropping points wouldn’t be surprising. A healthy Arsenal that picked up a striker making up the gap would be conceivable but I’m incredibly skeptical Arsenal in their current state can do it. For any of Chelsea (14), City or Newcastle (16) to erase their points gap would take a meme level monumental collapse
Arsenal’s attacker injuries do not matter if they can keep scoring set pieces.
7 points is not that much. Things can spiral quickly
7 points is not that much. LFC have too many dumb draws. They should be clear. Now they are in the hard part of the schedule and keep letting everyone stick around.
Most teams have terrible draws. Arsenal drew Brighton, Fulham, and Villa in recent memory and that last one was a blown two goal lead.
Here’s my issue. LFC have had two chances to take three where they would have hit the after burners. The United game, and this game. They are letting Arsenal linger around, when they’ve had two chances to put them away. If LFC have those extra 4 points, and are up 11, suddenly things look a lot different. City made other teams give up hope. LFC have had the chances to do so and stumbled both times.
Kelleher literally dropped the ball on that. Reminded me of that f'n Atletico game with Adrian in 2020 that I was at Anfield for. Just bad flashbacks of being screwed by the backup keeper. The funny thing is that was the flukey draw; the Newcastle player that scored the equalizer didn't even know where the ball was going he was just trying to keep it in.
I swear Oliver screwed us today just so the Arsenal fans would leave him alone or something. The whole game, especially stoppage time was so horribly officiated. Which the stats and eye test should both back up. Did LFC really have 11 more fouls than Everton today? Get real.
It's the same issue Arsenal had the past 2 seasons, could just never put it away when they needed to.
Man that is a cool shot.
