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Lucky with injuries is just another Manc/LiVARpool narrative. Part of the mentality monster thing is about making the most of the cards you have been dealt, which we have done. Lallana called it - Klopp will love dealing with the challenge; the likes of Henderson, Milner, Gini etc. will make sure we step up rather than wallow in feeling sorry for ourselves. Leave the injured to the medical staff - Shanks and Paisley style; while they can't do anything for us on the pitch, let's focus our attention on supporting those that can play.

Apart from the 'protocol' of using the first frame when the ball has left the foot - which clearly in this instance undermined any claim of millimetre levels of accuracy in the process, the other factor I haven't seen in play in this is the selection of Mina's foot as the rearmost point of a defender; they use the 'centre of gravity' process to determine where the vertical line from Mane's shirt sleeve would cross the ground, (which again introduces marginal errors), but no similar analysis was applied to Keane's backside which on a simple look could as easily push the defensive line back a fraction. Moreover, they probably couldn't do that calculation, because you can't see Keane's feet on the freeze frame, needed to decide where the vertical meets the ground - if that is the case, then the actual offside line was indeterminable, and the one they went with was, by definition, an arbitrary choice.

He's apparently not as Allardyce in his social outlook as you would expect from his demeanour, tbf. Not a Brexiteer, anyway. (and Allardyce certainly didn't avoid picking black players, to be clear, however much a k****ead he is). Burnley itself - the town - doesn't have great reputation for openness to diversity - BNP councillor(s), weren't there? Maybe black players are understandably put off, or tend not to stay.

Would like to see the comparison of the actual xG and the xG of what MOTD choose to show. Not for the first time, what they highlighted on Saturday supported the narrative that they had loads of chances but we nicked a couple of goals. Shot stats, off and on target, xG all roughly matched the 2-1 score in reality.

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If that game is midweek, it's really going to f*** them up, though.

It was an accepted truth on here that he was playing better than VvD in the latter stages of 18-19. His CL Final assist was worth more than any goals as well

A legitimate multi-club legend, with Balls of Steel.

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So... both Jones and Mignolet were shipped out and went on to win their respective leagues, didn't they? That track record should see someone desperate come in for Karius permanently, surely?

Don't think there was enough on the ball Gomez was shepherding back - Adrian couldn't be sure he could pick it up and stay in the area before the Ajax lad might get a toe on it ; the decision to boot it clear was right, I think, if the execution was poor.

'until it mattered' doing a lot of heavy lifting there. The Shevchenko double stop ought to be more widely recognised as the greatest save ever made, however much papish influence from beyond the grave was involved.

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Quite excited to see this the other way round - of course defensive solidity has to be the prime concern at the moment, but longer term he could be a catalyst for re-inventing Centre Back in the way we have already done for Full Back - a modern libero or variant on the classic creative Brazilian Centre-Half (*subs - check sexy Portuguese word for this in Jonathan Wilson's book). He has already, I think, adapted his initial relatively pure DM role into one where he gets forward effectively and disruptively - imagine him doing the same from CB with tactically savvy and technically excellent players like Thiago, Henderson and Gini ahead of him to respond and adapt. Of course Gomez, Matip and VvD are good on the ball and can step out, but if anything our most recent shift has been for them to go long as an alternative for opposition coaches to think about. The watchword of this group has been adjusting tactically as teams adapt to the problems we cause them; the grounding for our dominance in the 70's and 80's (and influence on all sorts of teams) was Paisley converting midfielders to defenders (Thompson, Hughes, Smith even). A talent like Fabinho coming out of defence could be another change like that.

Still had one good game in him...

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The Brighton Free Kick issue wasn't the speed it was taken but the Brighton player in the wall. Atkinson was objectively and indubitably wrong to allow it as the laws stand.

Returning to his spiritual home. We should go for that Fraser Hornby at Reims as well while we are at it.

Keita and Gomez were both excellent on Monday, poor tonight. How we respond now matters, not ripping the team up and starting again. Like Spurs 3 years ago, make sure it's a long time before we feel this way again after a match - which we are still very capable of doing

It was only as the video reached the end that I realised that they were all from the one game, not career highlights. I know it should have been obvious from the opposition kit, lack of crowd etc., but the sheer magnificence blinded me to everything else. Pure porn. (Also - the brilliant instant control of the recipients, even under direct pressure. Compare with Maitland-Niles attempt to trap Luiz's pass - although he was offside anyway, of course)