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In case anyone feels the need to get into some pointless transfer excitement, this is a pretty good analysis of Felix U last season - key takeaway, he outpaced Werner in a match vs Leipzig, so yeah, rapid AF. https://totalfootballanalysis.com/player-analysis/felix-uduokhai-201920-scout-report-tactical-analysis-tactics

Didn't want to mention it before, but Jurgen's Dortmund pretty much did exactly this. Went from being a machine for 2 seasons to looking really ropey in the third. Back then put it down to selling all the good players to Bayern, but maybe it's too long at a crazy intensity? The outlier is looking like Palace game, out of our past month or so.

Worst I've ever seen Trent. Pub team quality frees so far. Wtf.

Yeah, really don't understand the inconsistency between our (and others') situation earlier in the season, and the recent postponements due to Covid cases.

Agree with this. Trent is a sensational passer and crosser, but is light-years behind Robbo defensively.

Loved this from the Guardian MBM: “Liverpool are close to top scoring for India today.”

Doubly true for the Hodge, for whom social media probably means reading the classifieds in the Barking & Dagenham Gazette. Anyway, wouldn't be surprised to see Taki on the left - from memory he popped up there a lot for Salzburg when he did so well against us.

RIP Gérard. Complete gent and an LFC legend. Pulled us back up from nowhere, signed the SH's, brought through Owen & Gerrard, gave us some cracking finals, and won a lot of silver things. YNWA.

This. That was my immediate reaction when they showed the replay. Pretty sure the defender behind Bamford plays him on easily with his backside. Unless he has no a***, in which case, I stand corrected. Also: I'd have thought where the linesman is standing gives a pretty good clue as to where the furthest back part of that 2nd defender is.

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Looked like it. They said it's his bicep but it looked like another arbitrary drawing of lines, and arbitrary timing of when the ball is played. Is it really? If it is, that is truly mad - and surely the whole issue of precisely when a ball is 'played' can't be judged to the millisecond, so making centimetre-level decisions completely illegitimate?

Yep. Coote again with a f'king unbelievable decision, actually even worse than the Henderson/Mane one.

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Konate. 6'5 I think. Like Upamecano is French and 21, and looks brilliant for his age.

A few years ago I worked at one of the big sports data providers, and did a huge analysis of ref stats over the past 20 years. The most shocking thing wasn't the awarding of pens, but how many fouls it took to earn a yellow card, and how much it varied per team for a single ref. From memory, as an example Webb took 12 fouls per yellow given to Man U players, but fewer than 4 for LFC ones, across their entire career.

So if we bid €40m they'll be forced to Lego of him?

Agreed - didn't mean to run Mo down! He's been our sharpest attacker by a mile, but Sadio is a freak of a player with his pressing allied to his creativity in attack.

Not sure if you're kidding, but yeah - not sure either Mbappe or Sancho presses quite like Sadio, ignoring their similar skill levels.

That made me laugh, which is quite the achievement given the circumstances.

6-1 was Jurgen's worst ever defeat as manager, at Mainz. And here we are.

Sadly I think this might have been OGS' last match in charge.

Yeah. Now they're absurdly too good for lower league oppos. Jones, Shaq and Tak looking great.

This could get a bit ugly for Lincoln. Our B team is very, very good.