Definite penalty. Mane bagged straight after and Klopp & co gave the fourth official the full force of their celebration
Not great for the team though - we have a ton of games coming up. I’m surprised he didn’t use Shaq first - there’s something not quite right with that relationship.
Matip up for a corner jumps for cross and Lascelles grabs him round neck and pulls him whilst in the air . Apparently despite commentators crowd and viewers all seeing it it was deemed to not be a clear & obvious error. Told you VAR was ****. Origi off injured btw
Cracking finishes for both teams first goals . quite pleased with how calm we stayed when we went behind and just kept probing to get a decent opening. Defence still looks shaky though .
Thought both full backs were poor for the first 15 minutes, things seem to have improved since then probably due to our domination of possession. Until Origi and Mane swapped positions we looked disjointed up front, since Bobby has come on we are more our normal selves. Newcastle could still catch us on the break with a one off goal like their fisrt so we need another goal for a bit of a cushion.
I think they've changed the use of VAR. Decisions that are down to opinion (was he holding or not) are no longer reviewed, only black or white decisions (which side of the offside line was he) are looked at. I could be wrong though
thing is you know that very soon a drective will be issued to lower the threshold so the same incident will be ruled as a pen by VAR. The only good thing about VAR is that i feel vindicated in my dislike of the whole idea
I’m waiting on that second goal being credited as a Firminho assist. How the **** is a through ball not an assist £155 that ****, raging.