Ekitike deciding the ChooChoo Cup is below him and gets a 2nd yellow. Makes sure he only plays in the League and Europe where his talent belongs :D

Very interesting XI. Not surprised to see all the fringe players get minutes. Likewise, that Nyoni and Ngumoha start. Isak starting is because this is essentially his pre-season where he needs minutes. Bradley, Kerkez and Ekitike seem to be our break glass in emergency options.

Yes, Hugo ! 🔴👊🏼 #LFC #Liverpool #Ekitike

I love these false dichotomies. The people complaining that Arteta is too negative would also complain if he played 11 strikers every week. You can't win. They wouldn't like it if we played 11 goalkeeper or 11 strikers. They literally CANNOT be pleased as they don't know what they want.

How can you even try to hold a high line here with literally no pressure on the ball against a side with the individual quality of Arsenal is fucking beyond me. This is laughably inept defending.

Madueke subbed off as he goes against Arteta's gameplan to be shite in open play and try to win FKs and corners instead of trying to score.

First, they added on almost 4 minutes. The whistle blew here with Liverpool 4v2 on the counter and Pickford on the halfway line. So had they played any further time it would have been a 3-1 game. The ref saved Pickford the embarrassment of another highlight reel Merseyside derby goal to

That is a 'ready for the derby' XI if ever I saw one. I was saying to Dan yesterday that I'm happy to get out of these games with a point and no injuries. It seems cobbling a few of our players and derailing our season is the bitters aim most of the time. #LIVEVE #LFC #YNWA #Liverpool #Everton

Not sure if anybody has mentioned this but if you watch Isak for the 2nd Goal (Salah), he escapes and gets in behind the defence and can walk it into the net if Salah makes the easy square pass instead of the harder finish. And he is still showing how completely open he is for the pass after.

YNWA. A socialist idea that if you support those who need it most then when you are at your lowest, you too will have support. Therefore nobody is alone with their problems. Fans Supporting Foodbanks comes from the same idea Jesus has a similar outlook. It amazes me how fascists miss this point.

There is also the problem with xPts models that they are made to remove outliers. Teams with 100% or 0% records don't exist in them. Everyone drops/wins points every game. When we won the league with 99 points I think we had 73xts. Norwich bottom had 35. So instead of 1st being 5x better than

Chin up United fans. Progress is often one step at a time. Last year you were 15th. Now you are 14th. That's improvement. Get behind Amorim. He's the man to usher in project 2028 - or Project 150. Whatever he called it.

Still very very happy we didn't sign Sesko.

Liverpool doing Man City a favour today by taking points off one of their biggest relegation rivals.

Thing is... how the goal came about was lucky. A last minute of injury time penalty. But we only get there because we missed 3 big chances to score before that. It isn't a game where we won against the run of play. Or Alisson kept us in it. Or we failed to create a good chance and lucked a pen.

Obviously we all want to see Isak. But I think we all know that he is nowhere near the fitness levels needed to be involved at the moment. And given his injury history it would be mental to rush getting him there. He'll probably be on the bench v Everton, start his first game v Soton.

Charlie Kirk did push hate speech.

This is very disappointing. He took the club from 17th & the brink of relegation to 2nd for large parts of last season and almost UCL football & got them into the Europa League. I know his sacking has nothing to do with on-pitch performances. Just wanted to point out his superb achievements. I

The governing bodies of football - pretty much all of them with little exceptions - seem incapable or incentivised not to deal with these clubs breaking their rules.

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/footba... I think it is very interesting that we would name Rio ahead of Chiesa in our UCL squad. In Wirtz, Gakpo, & Ekitike we have 3 senior pros who would all prefer to start on the left if being named on the wing. Only Salah on the right. Maybe Frimpong is you see

Spot on. #AFC: strong defensively but blunted in attack because of it. #LFC: Blunted in attack because AFC were strong defensively. Then, what made it worse was, whenever openings appeared, we were crap. That's the story of the game, not "two defensive teams playing for a draw".

At best, this is Chelsea beating to death the spirit of the rules with the letter of the rules. At worst, this is them actively taunting them. They made a 3m profit on the sale to strasbourg (more if you work on book cost). I haven't seen the repurchase fee get disclosed. How is this in the

I will miss Ederson, who gave me one of my fave Liverpool Twitter moments:

This is fucking daft logic from Michael Owen. Players have been doing this for as long as I have been following the game. 99% of what happens isn't in the public. So when things go public we assume this is everything that happens. In reality, players, club, agent etc are all in dialogue constantly

For the #FSGOUT brigade. Isn’t it strange that we haven’t heard a word from them all summer. 🤔 😉 Thought you might like this… 😉 😂😂😂😂😂😂 #LFC #YNWA

See lots of talk about Elliott. I love watching him play but the fact is Slot had him all last year and seemed to have little use for him - then signed Wirtz in the one position you think would be his. The way I view this is simple:- 1. It is Elliott out, Guehi in for the same cost. We need CB

Arsenal play boring, ponderous football and then complain about losing to a worldie. Maybe if you went for stuff, the margins wouldn’t be so small. Showed up against a team leaking goals with three 6s in midfield.

Thank god arsenal fucked that counter attack because they had numbers in that attack and we only had 2 or 3 behind the ball

As someone who lived in Ipswich for around 10 years and was a season ticket holder for most of them - I fucking love this. Players don't move between these two clubs. I think Andy Marshall is the only one in my lifetime and that was when his contract expired. THAT was a big deal at the time. But

It bothers me that today I had to point out… To former Tory MP @PhilipDaviesUK That the Hillsborough families invoked the ECHR in their fight for justice Because he, like so many, either doesn’t know …or is being disingenuous about the vital protections the ECHR affords us.

Put your hands up if upon reading the news that Newcastle had signed a striker you immediately thought 'we will put a second bid in for Isak now'. Congrats, you are now an ITK as Indy and others will report the same thing. Because that's how it works. Make educated guesses & hedge your bets. When

Just... so much information on the Premier League football feed at the moment

Updated next saviour list. The problem for United is that they aren't looking for a good coach - they have gone through a few of those - its that they want one man to be a miracle. Someone who can solve every problem at the club.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Yep, yep, yep. Maybe not directly relevant but I think Feynman was getting at something similar here: youtu.be/ga_7j72CVlc?...

Klopp and Slot too. I think elite managers can solve problems. Get the most out of players. Man manage people to keep them content with whatever their role is. They know that recruitment is to solve an absence of skillset and rejuvenate the squad, not a 'press button for help' solution to all your

Its because they are shite. Glad to help Gary.

And so it begins...

I was talking to my boss during the game and we were both absolutely miffed at having a new 80m striker who is your LAST outfield player to take a penalty. Nothing screams 'confidence' quite like that.

The people saying Gomez should start ahead of Konate next week - I can only assume that enough time has passed since they last watched him play at CB to remember how horrendous he is there. Especially coming in cold. You think Konate struggled with the size of physical presence of Dan Burn? Gomez

We won 6/22 aerial duels in our half tonight. 4/10 in our own box. Its definitely an area teams will target this year with both Kerkez and Frimpong being full backs you can test back post and Grav being the only big player in midfield. It's also where we know Arteta's Stoke are strong.

Thought he was meh today. I feared the worst with him at RB but he was OK. Didn't win (m)any of his duels. Stood off a bit too much. Let Barnes come inside way too easily which almost cost us a goal first half. Superb dummy though for the winning goal but overall though he was just OK.

Another week. Another 2 goal lead thrown away. Another injury time winner from a player written off as someone we cannot rely on to come off the bench. Another poor performance from our biggest names (Wirtz, Salah, Konate, Dom) We really are doing things the hard way right now. We won't get

As I said... I'm fine with a path being cleared for Ngumoha to get minutes and win us Premier League matches in the 11th minute injury time. Fine with it.

All jokes aside though, whoever thought showing the Championship Winning Liverpool side a DVD of Ossie Ardilles Spurs team and suggesting they defend like that is quite the prankster.

I have no idea why we defended that FK the way we did. The risk is always if you don't clear the first ball then you have a problem because then its a foot race into the box

Honestly impressed with how badly the league is using the referee view thingy

Grav needs to be careful here. Ref will have no problem evening things up 10 v 10.

Trying to play on with what looks like a separated shoulder for Tonali is wild.