Match Thread: Liverpool v Everton

[LFC-DPG]

Was working last night so missed the game but just seen the highlights.

I’m gobsmacked that he didn’t get a red card. That was a leg breaker and there was intent to injure the player. Disgraceful actions.

[Daffydd]

Klopp would have been all over that. Slot let that one go sadly. Didn’t show enough mettle for my liking. Opened the door for Gollum to claim the goal was offside to counter and steal the headline,

Tarkowski is a danger to the sport. He’s a thug and that should be an extended ban. That’s a deliberate locked leg studs into the standing leg assault.

Tierney should be stood down

I'd imagine Slot was mindful of the last derby where his "emotions got the better of him" and he got sent off for his 'rant' about the ref. In an ideal world he wouldn't need to say anything because it is so blatant but the fact is nobody really cares about this outside Merseyside.

[miller0863]

Paul Tierney biased against Liverpool?? Don’t be daft.



The PGMOL, English football’s refereeing body, have confirmed their stance that James Tarkowski should have been sent off for his tackle on Alexis Mac Allister.

Tarkowski avoided dismissal in the opening stages of Liverpool’s 1-0 win over Everton despite a studs-up challenge which could have left Mac Allister with a serious injury.
Fortunately, Mac Allister was able to play on, but the force with which the Everton defender collided with his planted leg was clearly worthy of a red card.

Referee Sam Barrott’s decision was to caution Tarkowski, which VAR Paul Tierney decided was not a clear and obvious error.

Therefore, Tierney did not intervene and recommend a further review and a dismissal – which the PGMOL have now admitted was wrong.
In a statement communicated via various journalists, including the Times‘ Paul Joyce, refereeing body conceded that Tarkowski’s challenge “met the threshold for serious foul play.”

Barrott is claimed to have viewed the tackle as “reckless” which Tierney upheld, in another high-profile error from the latter.

Eyebrows were raised when Tierney was appointed VAR for the derby, given his history of controversial decisions whether as a referee or in the booth at Stockley Park.

Last season, per ESPN, no official made more VAR errors than the 44-year-old.
That included his failure to overturn a red card for Mac Allister in the 3-1 win over Bournemouth at the beginning of the 2023/24 campaign.

The referee that day was Thomas Bramall – an official of similar experience to Barrott – who sent Mac Allister off for a routine boot-on-boot foul on Ryan Christie.
While the decision was unclear in realtime, Tierney had the benefit of a number of slo-motion replays and, as with Wednesday’s derby, did not deem it a clear and obvious error.

Mac Allister’s red card was overturned following an appeal, with the PGMOL admitting fault, and this latest development has followed the same vein.

[Kev0909]

bit worried about fulham away but next 3 after should seal the title, even if we don't beat fulham.

[ianlfc]

Fuck, that was a hard watch. You can feel the tension in the ground unbelievable to think that we're still not totally convinced we're going to win the league !! Even in this great position.
As for the atmosphere, the Annie rd was louder than the Kop .

[faridtoxteth]

I know every team feels hard done by in VAR issues, but the endless litany of wrong calls by Tierney against Liverpool is reaching ridiculous proportions now.
He is a Man City fan who pretends he supports Macclesfield or someone like that. His father and two brothers both go to watch Man City. Perhaps he should just stick to reffing lucrative games in the middle east.

[justme]

The obvious thing with the likes of Tierney, IS hes probably got narcissistic traits.. Like some in authority. He hates us.so therefore HE will decide on calls.. Doesn't matter how obviously wrong he appears to be does not matter to him. cause yep HES deciding. Most of us even though we dislike other teams. we've have sent off our player in that incident. its calling being honest

[Daffydd]

Tarkowski has now equalled a Premier League record, set by Oriol Romeu, for the most yellow cards without a red card in Premier League history (63).

[LFC vs PFC]

Slot was made an example of in the last Derby and given a disproportionate fine.
I wonder what sanction they'll give their own man in the vein of consistency...?

[Nineteenx]

Tierney’s a disgrace