Jurgen Klopp has another of his Liverpool moments, but Trent Alexander-Arnold and Virgil van Dijk problems to sort. For Newcastle, that was unforgivable.
3) Their requisite Referee Blame Pass was issued pleasingly early on, as was the one Liverpool promptly discardedDid Trent Alexander-Arnold commit two bookable offences in the opening six minutes? Maybe technically, but if any degree of nuance and context is applied then it is nonsense to pretend he should have been sent off.
This was not that. The chess pieces were dynamite. The board was a raging pit of fire. The turns were taken frantically and seemingly without prior thought. Jason Tindall kept shouting “checkmate” in everyone’s face. It was carnage. It was rapid. It was unsustainable. But in terms of the pace in the first 20 minutes or so of a Premier League game, it must have been close to unparalleled. And the longer it went on, the more it would play into Newcastle’s hands.
“It was just really bad, bad, bad,” said Jurgen Klopp of Liverpool’s defending in that 4-1 defeat, in which Lovren was taken off at half-time. But their collective meltdown at Van Dijk’s red card for tripping Alexander Isak was embarrassing, with the Dutchman’s actions particularly pathetic. Leaving aside the contortions that are necessary to disingenuously pretend it was an outrageous injustice rather than simply a difficult call which was ultimately made correctly, those reactions were shambolic and deeply unhelpful at an almost impossible time for officials.
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