The Emirates FA Cup 2023/24

[therockbox]

Great cup tie. Lower league team coming back from the dead, a missed penalty, comedy own goal, shit pitch invader. It's had everything.

[Baddar]

That Sterling free kick 🤣

[stokeriño]

It's a tricky freekick to take that close, but holy shit Sterling just fails SO spectacularly.

Mudryk taken off rather than Sterling and the home fans are audibly livid.

[Baddar]

But Pearce and Keown think they're booing Mudryk and had no idea of the red card/double jeopardy rules surrounding the FK instead of the pen.

[Szumi]

Wasted way too many chances to put this match to bed, frustrated that. And to let a League Two level player equalize of all things!

[Bobfoc]

This is all a bit dramatic.

[Hobo]

Liverpool didn't do enough to kill this game off.

 

[Bobfoc]

Rashford found a good way to avoid a VAR check there by missing a sitter.

[Hobo]

1 minute ago, Bobfoc said:

Rashford found a good way to avoid a VAR check there by missing a sitter.

 

[Bobfoc]

This is a match that both teams would kick themselves for losing.

[Szumi]

Liverpool have absolutely bottled this. Just a series of ridiculously stupid mental mistakes. 

[Bobfoc]

Looks as though it's just Man City and three minnows left.

[Baddar]

Amad!

Had no right winning that after we fell apart in the first half. 

[Hobo]

3 minutes ago, Szumi said:

Liverpool have absolutely bottled this. Just a series of ridiculously stupid mental mistakes. 

don't really like the term "bottling" to be honest

Liverpool didn't take their chances and the players looked a bit tired towards the end of the game.

we can talk about how bad Man Utd are now but naturally, they're going to raise their game against Liverpool, who've just played their third game in a week, and this one is probably the less important one of the three.

 

[Baddar]

Least important game when you were already about 12 goals ahead against Prague 🤣

[Szumi]

10 minutes ago, Hobo said:

don't really like the term "bottling" to be honest

Liverpool didn't take their chances and the players looked a bit tired towards the end of the game.

we can talk about how bad Man Utd are now but naturally, they're going to raise their game against Liverpool, who've just played their third game in a week, and this one is probably the less important one of the three.

 

Blowing a lead twice because of very foolish mistakes and conceding a goal at the death from your own corner kick...I don't know what else you can call that! 

Fair play to Manchester United for getting back into it and keep going, and it is nice to see a huge flop like Antony and fringe player like Diallo to get goals.

The hope for Liverpool is that no one comes back healthy from the international break, and that this performance wasn't the start of players showing how physically and mentally exhaustion. 

[DavidMarrio]

Mickey Mouse cup... Least my bank gets a break from all the Wembley trips we've had the last few years  

 

[stokeriño]

21 hours ago, stokeriño said:

Not sure whether it feels more inevitable for Man City to draw Coventry in the semis, or for Chelsea to squeak past Leicester, squeak past Coventry, and then lose to Liverpool again in the final.

lol okay nevermind.

At least going out in the semis will be less grim than another final loss. 

[Hobo]

50 minutes ago, Szumi said:

Blowing a lead twice because of very foolish mistakes and conceding a goal at the death from your own corner kick...I don't know what else you can call that! 

I'd call it shit happening. You can't win every game. Sometimes you have bad days. That's just the way it goes.

49 minutes ago, Baddar said:

Least important game when you were already about 12 goals ahead against Prague 🤣

I mean in the sense that the FA Cup is not as important.

From a pure prize money perspective, you get more for reaching the semi-finals of the Europa League than you do from winning the FA Cup.

It's nice to get far in the FA Cup but the Europa League and the Premier League as more important. The Europa is very winnable for Liverpool. The FA Cup will probably be won by Man City at this point.

And maybe Man City playing more games is good for Liverpool's league chances. Probably not but you never know.

*shrug*

 

 

[DavidMarrio]

Game should have been abadoned purely for that "get stuck in lads banner" in the United end