2020-2021 PL: Liverpool vs. Tottenham Hotspur

(The Guardian) GOAL! Liverpool 1-1 Spurs (Son 33)
Spurs have equalised out of nothing!

VAR check! This might be offside...

GOAL GIVEN! And it was a brilliantly worked goal. Lo Celso ran to the halfway line and waved a lovely through pass without the outside of his left foot. Son moved through on goal, gave Alisson the eyes and drove the ball past him at the near post. It was a superb finish.

(The Guardian) 36 min: Good save from Lloris! Firmino has too much time to turn and drive a low shot across goal from 12 yards. Lloris dives to his right to push it away. The save was relatively routine; the impressive part was the 90-degree angle at which he pushed it away, because a normal save would have given Salah an open goal.

(The Guardian) 38 min “Like almost anyone else who has ever seen him play, I didn’t really trust Alberto Moreno,” writes Alberto Mor- Matt Dony. “I admired his scampering work ethic, but he generally scampered to the wrong place at the wrong time. Left back was such an obvious problem position, and Klopp decided to solve the problem by sending a (relatively) paltry £8m to a relegated team. The very definition of ‘underwhelming.’ I remember sending sarcastic texts to fellow Liverpool supporters. In hindsight, that £8m might just have been well spent. Yet another reason why I’m not a top-level football manager. Robertson is an unbelievable footballer.”

He’s not a footballer, he’s an elemental force.

(The Guardian) 40 min “As a Liverpool fan I’m torn here,” says Tom Barneby. “You don’t want situations like that to be given as offside, because otherwise what’s the point, but at the same time he’s no more onside than Mane was against Everton. The sooner they bring in the Dutch-style referee’s call with thicker lines the better.”

I would definitely have thicker lines. That said, I thought Son was onside.

(The Guardian) 43 min Every time I look up the ball is in the Spurs half. In fact, in the last five minutes Spurs have had four per cent possession.