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Higgins unofficially has been asking for a trade since January. He didn't want to be franchise tagged. He's going to put money over trying to win a Superbowl. He wants WR1 money & wants to be their WR1 when Chase is better than him. Cincy has still done the man dirty by not even trying to enter contract talks with him in the past year. Hendrickson is the often seen "I want to keep getting paid $15+ million a year even though I turn 30 this season even though most teams don't want to pay top dollar for a defensive lineman at that age" scenario. I still think overall the Bengals are going to quickly fall apart from being a team that is a legitimate contender because they are not a very well run franchise, and haven't been for pretty much my entire life.

It blew my mind when I started seeing a fair amount of people calling for him to be sacked. It's insane! By all means he deserves criticism too because he has gotten his starting XIs and especially substitutions wrong a lot these past 6 weeks, but to say he should be sacked is crazy person talk. We've been shit, but we're still 3rd!

Naw, he's still in Saudi Arabia, would be too difficult to work out. Woy is available though!!

The deranged thing is that there are people who genuinely think we should sack him right now!

Every single one of these Liverpool players should be embarrassed and ashamed of themselves. They have been out hustled and out performed by every single one of their Evertonian counterparts. Full credit to Everton. They've clearly wanted this more from the opening whistle. You'd think they are the team in a title race!

The funniest part about their moaning about Atwell being a Luton Town fan is all they had to do was file the request with PGMOL about their concern, and it's very likely Atwell would have been reassigned! But Forest did nothing, so nothing was changed! I know a lot of people on social media hate Dale Johnson for always trying to explain the VAR decisions, but I thought he was spot on with the explanations for the calls. The first and second incidents are the subjective shades of grey we've seen all season, and the classic "VAR was always going to back the on field call" because it's hard to determine a clear and obvious failure. If the ref called either/both a penalty, VAR would have backed the referee and agreed it was a penalty. The third call, I agree that VAR should be over turning the call on the field. The ref is saying no penalty because Young won/played the ball, but he very clearly didn't. That's a clear and obvious error to me. But Forest are so terribly ran & Marinakis seems to think rules should apply differently to Forest so I have no sympathy for them

I'm not saying any of them should have been a penalty, but Ashley Young alone has committed 3 potential penalties in the opening hour. I don't think the hand ball is a penalty with how close his arm is to the ball, but I have no idea how Everton have escaped from the other two challenges. Both times it looks pretty clear Young goes right through both players.

I fully expect Maye and McCarthy to go the way of Darnold or Rosen than a Josh Allen. McCarthy especially I think is ridiculously being overrated.

Wolves 1-2 Arsenal (Sat 7.30pm, Sky) Everton 2-1 Nottm Forest (Sun 1.30pm, Sky) Crystal Palace 1-1 West Ham (Sun 3pm)

Oh absolutely! What you and David both said are spot on. I've said before that he's just never been right since coming back from that injury. He's just played so poorly, and he's not alone in that. Jones especially has been really bad since coming back, and Trent and Jota as well. Which I can't really blame them for. It's really tough to come back and hit maximum levels of performance when you have no rhythm or fitness built up, but you're in the run in where every match has huge consequences to them. The crazy thing is that Liverpool I think I saw from the United draw, Atalanta loss, and Palace loss, Liverpool scored the 2 goals from over 9.0xG! They created loads in all 3 matches, but man they're just a really bad finishing side! The guys who helped us get through the injury crisis are definitely exhausted and it shows. Virg, Endo, and MacAllister all look spent, and I can't blame them. It sucks that what had so much promise 5 weeks ago, is going to end so meekly. I don't think a single Liverpool fan is expecting us to win the title at this point, sadly.

This has been a frustrating one to watch. Liverpool pretty much have just resorted to kick it long and hope for the best. They haven't really made Atalanta work for it at all. It doesn't help that Trent was asked to play when he's clearly not fit or has any rhythm, and that Mo Salah is pretty much a net negative for Liverpool right now. I don't think I've ever seen him play this poorly in his entire Liverpool career.

I can only imagine Tuchel is purposely taking the piss continuing to start him over both Upemanco and Kim Min-Jae. Also, for as much talk as there was on social media on Monday for the Osasuna player taking the worse penalty of the year, Bernardo Silva's penalty was freaking hilarious to see.

Origi scored in the 7th minute vs Barca in 2019. Salah's penalty was also in the 7th minute...

MLS has a significant issue with VAR in terms of having nowhere near enough cameras to determine offsides. They're using cameras from midfield, don't draw lines, and repeatedly make terrible calls because of it. The Union were eliminated in the playoffs last year because of it, and today had a goal ruled out for offsides that has universally been said to be onside by fans from both teams, and MLS pundits. Our manager Jim Curtin just had an all timer in the post match in response to how VAR uses clear and obvious to determine offsides or not.

That's kind of my point though. Liverpool will ultimately score goals eventually because they're an elite chance creation side. Either through shot volume, poor goalkeeping, or a Liverpool player eventually having a good shot, they will eventually score goals. But, when it matters most/in the big matches/against the other big sides/etc, Liverpool have been pretty poor at being clinical. Both Manchester United draws, home to Arsenal, and home to City all stand out as matches where Liverpool should have easily won the matches, but their profligacy cost them. The only teams to have a worse negative Goals-xG is Everton, Brentford, and Chelsea.