Liverpool vs Sheffield United

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EPL Week 21 - Thursday 2nd December 2020 - Anfield​

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Officials:

Referee: Paul Tierney
Assistant Referee: Daniel Cook
Assistant Referee: Harry Lennard
Fourth Official: Anthony Taylor
Video Assistant Referee: Kevin Friend
Additional Video Assistant Referee: Matthew Wilkes

Coverage:

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Live TV Coverage:

 

[bromtom]

No-one can ever complain about the atmosphere at the Lane. Christ.

Barnet esque at Anfield.

Actual silence before their free kick.

 

[FriethBlade]

Moose needs to wake up

 

[shrubbery]

Our fans sound fantastic. Can barely hear the Liverpool fans (just like when they came to the Lane).

 

[FriethBlade]

And that I'm afraid sums our first hour up...3 opps to cross.it then blast it into Endas face

 

[bromtom]

Get it in the box man. Keith Edwards must be going spare.

We need to fashion chances from somewhere, drilling it in, could go anywhere.

We're not going to find a perfect ball into the Liverpool box. Play the percentages.

 

[essexblade73]

This ref may as well wear a red shirt

 

[shrubbery]

What the fuck are we playing at? 5 chances to cross and we piss around with it constantly and then smash it into Endas face. Fleck has excellent chances to cross, fucks around with it and gets caught it possession almost leading to another goal for them. Wake the fuck up!

 

[Chris the Blade]

What the fuck are we playing at? 5 chances to cross and we piss around with it constantly and then smash it into Endas face. Fleck has excellent chances to cross, fucks around with it and gets caught it possession almost leading to another goal for them. Wake the fuck up!

Steady on old boy

 

[FriethBlade]

Any chance of a tackle.going in lads ?

 

[VwBlade]

No point changing the front two when we don't have a midfield.

 

[VwBlade]

Any chance of a tackle.going in lads ?

We're sat here saying the same, showing em far too much respect

 

[bakeblade]

Steady on old boy

We've been shocking tonight, worst we've played in ages. Lunny, Fleck and Enda - embarrassing.

 

[bromtom]

Midfield playing like they shat themselves when they walked out and don't want any close ups of the pedigree chum running out of their shorts haha

Liverpool do look a different level tbf

 

[JS Blade]

Trailing to a better side tonight, seen us play better and seen us play worse.

I for one won’t be judging us on how we perform against the league winners. 42-45 points dependant and it’s job done. Nothing else matters.

One stand out for me though is the fact that for a lot of seasons recently gone by this Liverpool side would not finish top.

 

[Jimmy Fleck]

Why are we so crap now?

 

[FriethBlade]

No point changing the front two when we don't have a midfield.

The wing backs are having a mare too. I know the opposition is top class but Baldock and Steven's havent been at it.

I think the FA Cup break will do us good

 

[bromtom]

Bill busting a gut to keep it in and ends up in the stands, least we could do is keep possession a bit.

Christ.

 

[Blade58]

We’ve come such a long way in a relatively short space of time, but tonight unfortunately it’s men against boys, or perhaps more fittingly, World champs against boys

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Despite nearly a horror error on letting the Salah cross head onto the post, Henderson has been superb this game. No questions on our MOTM.

 

[bromtom]

Pass completion must be 20%

Have to say, didn't expect us to win by any stretch, but we haven't given a good account of ourselves at all, except for Bash and Hendo.

Poor.

Come on United, 15 minutes, do something.

 

[Ukkonen]

The BT Sport commentary is an utter farce. Everything’s from Liverpool’s perspective. An embarrassing circle jerk for 45 minutes, non-stop about how utterly wonderful they are. FFS McManaman can barely keep it in his trousers. Why is it suddenly fine for him and Carrager to co-commentate on Liverpool, or Neville on Man Utd for the matter!!

Agree totally on this, just being saying the same, you can hear McManaman on the vinegar strokes as he's doing the commentary! I thought Gary Neville can be one sided sometimes but he has nothing on McManaman.....

 

[FriethBlade]

Agree totally on this, just being saying the same, you can hear McManaman on the vinegar strokes as he's doing the commentary! I thought Gary Neville can be one sided sometimes but he has nothing on McManaman.....

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Well given they've had over 70% possession it's not too surprising is it ?

 

[VwBlade]

Gotta compliment the travelling blades fans for totally out voicing the Scousers on their own patch

 

[Ukkonen]

Well given they've had over 70% possession it's not too surprising is it ?

It is surprising, arent commentators supposed to be neutral?

 

[bromtom]

Think what this really illustrates isn't just ball at your feet, it's the connection between your feet and your brain.

Liverpool think twice as fast as we do. And pretty much the rest of the league, except Man City at their best.

Thoroughly done over tonight, need to learn from it.

 

[essexblade73]

It is surprising, arent commentators supposed to be neutral?

These two pricks have been sucking liverpool off all night. Just told my lad, the man utd team of the late 90s would have wiped the floor with them

 

[A Storm of Blades]

The work rate has been abysmal. No shame in losing to these, but it’s like we’re on the fucking stadium tour.

 

[FriethBlade]

McBurnie ????

 

[essexblade73]

The work rate has been abysmal. No shame in losing to these, but it’s like we’re on the fucking stadium tour.

100 per cent pal. Played like weve been smoking a massive bag of skunk

 

[silver blade]

21:38
Post update
Liverpool 2-0 Sheffield United

Stephen Warnock
Ex-Liverpool defender on BBC Radio 5 Live
If you're a Liverpool player now you'll be thinking just get through this half unscathed and prepare for the next game. This is like a training game now with Sheffield United frightened to lay a glove on Liverpool.