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Unfortunately, I came out of watching a gripping and exciting game full of rage, and that’s like a soccer fan regardless of club loyalty.
We’ve allowed VAR to mess up a lot in our game with its ridiculous pursuit of perfection and its absurd offside rule that allows no room for error.
Life is being sucked out. On Saturday we had the joy of ruling out a late winner because an armpit or some other body was an inch from where it should have been, and I don’t even think they know for sure, it was so close.
Not only that, but for what the VAR was introduced, correcting something clear and obvious that the referee overlooked, is not doing it correctly. Otherwise, Jordan Pickford would have been sent off for breaking Virgil van Dijk’s leg, an incident for which he was not even booked.
How someone who knows the game could have checked that and not punished the Everton goalkeeper, I don’t know. Totally disconcerting.
I know that people might think that this spiel is because I supported and played for Liverpool, but it is not.
I feel robbed if technology breaks a game. It’s too much.
If we absolutely have to use VAR, there has to be a margin of error, which means introducing ‘the daylight rule’, or we just agree that if a player’s foot is out of play, they are out of play, but ignore the rest of the body.
It can never be an exact science, and under the circumstances we cannot unfairly rule against attackers. They have to get the 50-50 profit.
Before VAR, there used to be a rule that said level was not offside, but that seems to be gone.
I am a soccer fan. I love euphoric moments. I like the natural flow of the game and the goals it creates.
The decision to discard Jordan Henderson’s ‘winner’ after dissecting him within an inch of his life is rendering the game obsolete.
Pickford’s entry that forced Van Dijk out was horrendous and it’s a joke that no action was taken.
Richarlison’s red card was justified, he lost his mind, but the officials didn’t need the VAR to see that.
I really enjoyed the game, but I was still aimless at the end.
If that’s not a warning about how football is going, I don’t know what is.
THE ‘NEW SCHOOLS’ RISE LIVERPOOL
Liverpool were the best team. Jurgen Klopp brought in Thiago Alcantara, Sadio Mane and Henderson down the humiliated 7-2 side at Aston Villa and they all made a huge difference.
As for the attack, they were like last season, with Mane and Mo Salah electric at their end.
If Van Dijk hadn’t been injured, I think Liverpool would have won because Everton’s two goals came from headers that the Dutchman could have stopped, without detracting from the quality of Michael Keane and Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s shots.
As a midfielder, I loved Thiago’s performance. He is very productive with his passes. There is a bit of Paul Scholes in it. If you move away from him, he will kill you with passed balls. If you try to squeeze it and close it, he will effortlessly pop it around you.
THE BEST AND WORST OF RODRIGUEZ
Everton can be proud of the way they defended themselves twice.
They look better than they have in years, and in James Rodriguez they have a true star quality player.
But the best teams will have seen how the Colombian’s unwillingness to back down can be exploited when the opposition’s left-back is bombarding forward.
Andy Robertson in capital letters. Liverpool were a real threat on that side and of course that’s how they got ahead early with the wing crossing for Mane.
Carlo Ancelotti is a smart coach. He will discover a way to use the best of Rodriguez, who is a threat in the future, while hoping that Everton will be less vulnerable in another way.
Klopp will be concerned if he runs out of Alisson and Van Dijk for long periods, but Joel Matip came back and looked great.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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