Klich was very good today guys. Stats won't show what impact an in form Klich does for Bielsaball. Most of it goes unnoticed but at 1:45 of the highlights below there is a great example of what he can bring to the team. Initially its great play on the ball but the genius is off the ball later in the clip. Once he realises he isn't getting the return pass he runs to the corner flag. This drags the centre half over with him leaving James 1v1 at the back stick. That centre half has to move across so James doesn't attack the huge space made by Klich. Gelhardt plays a great cross over him and its a simple header by James. Klich won the ball, turns a defender, nutmeg another, then creates all the space for Gelhardt and James. It's really top class stuff especially that late in the game. Genius. He used to do these runs all the time and 9 times out of 10 it comes to nothing and he has to sprint back to defend. When the other players do their jobs and the passing is crisp in the final third it makes Klich input crucial to our play. Replacing him will be very hard.
I think any suspension is competition-specific, so Llorente is available for the FA Cup game vs West Ham but not for the league game the following week.
Didn’t he get booked for it? Did Cornet? don’t think so, the whole board of referees needs to be looked at, they think they are untouchable, a lot need demoting to lower league status.
The only problem with that is you would have to move a lot up from the lower league to replace them. There's a reason why they're refereeing in the lower league.
Only works if they can be replaced, there's a chronic shortage of referees all the way down grassroots level.
The referees have to be more transparent to clubs and fans. We as a club should be able to ask for an explanation on the Llorente yellow. That yellow impacts our season in a couple of ways. The first is he is suspended for a game. The second is that after 19 games without a ban, all yellows are voided and you start at zero again. If Llorente gets another 5 yellows by 32 games he misses two matches for accumulating 10 yellows in a season. We should ask the question and at the referees review (if they have one) if they accept it was wrong then the decision is reversed.
Maybe he would have done if some prick hadn’t thrown a bottle and hit a player in the face. Once you book a player after that you’re kind of condoning that fans action. Anyway, my reply wasn’t in relation to the referee and his actions, it was in relation to a reply saying players should be told how to behave and not wind up home fans
The problem with refs is a big one and this weekend we saw Henry Winter kicking off about the quality of prem refs being not good enough in many cases, he also had a lot to say about VAR and why it doesnt get used when it should, so whats the point of VAR and some refs? Winter was saying he has seen too many matches whereby the same incident happens in a match yet gets treated differently. 2 nailed on penalties for exactly the same offence yet one given one not. Struijks sending off was a classic case of a ref who made the right call, but was bullied into changing his mind by Klopp, then the ref being protected by the VAR official who backed up his change of mind by saying the ref made no obvious error. That ruling is a catchall for all ref mistakes
When you're picking from a smaller pool the standard will decrease. Blame society not the refs. Good young refs give it up because of the abuse they take when starting out. Not just verbal abuse but physical abuse. Lets not forget they get no protection at the lower levels.
I’m sure refs are better now than they were 30 years ago. 30 years ago they made a split decision and it would only be a handful in the ground who got a good view. You’d turn to the guy next to you trying to confirm if it was a penalty or not, did they see it better? You never had replays and unless you were featuring on match of the day it wasn’t put out for all to see. There was no Internet, no text messaging, YouTube, FB, Twitter or forums to discuss that bad decision and watch it over and over again. Technology just means we can analyse and discuss it more now, before that it would be “my mate was at the game, he swears it should have been a penalty”
I’m out at the minute so can’t check but I’ve just heard a reply of the game is being shown on Sky at 1:20pm today
IMHO that's also a reaction to the players doing what he's trained them to do, and what he's seen in eg Firpo and James coming through. What a guy.
