He stumbled?! Hahahaha
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He stumbled?! Hahahaha
what a ridiculous conspiracy theory. me and my middle aged mates never thought up nothingOriginally Posted by Thispilgrim
Agreed, bad for the squad both tactically and for morale within the team.
IMO it seems quite simple. He did it to avoid taking on the chance which when you're low on confidence (and lets face it crap with his right foot) becomes quite miss-able. Taking the easy way out and winning the pen meant he wouldn't have to risk messing it up - if Suarez had been up there with him he'd have squared it to him rather than shoot most likely.
But, Krul didn't come steaming in and his dive was blatant so the whole thing backfired.
35m pounds worth of ****- house
Yeah this makes more sense to me than the OP.
Then he should have his contract terminated. I'm left footed and I could put that chance away with my right. He gets 80000 pounds a WEEK to play football and he can't kick it with his right foot.
He was hardly taking on a chance, it was an open goal. He could've slotted it in no problem, dead centre, around the keeper, no defender on the line. The man might be a complete donkey, but he's still capable of scoring in an open goal, regardless of which foot he has to use
This. He made a decision to dive in order to try and win a pen and get their keeper sent off. Nothing to do with who we were playing against. He is a red and showed that yesterday when he was so upset with being taken off.
Nothing to do with ability but more of a mental decision to go down. He expected contact, none came, he went down, dive - free out.
That's not what i saw. A premiership striker should have still slotted it in, but he was running across the penalty box, not through it face to goal, at pace with a defender (Jonas) coming coming in from behind who could maybe have tackled him had he not taken it quickly and then Perch heading back to goal to try and cover. He wouldn't have had enough time to stop look up and shoot, it was a case of taking past Krul and placing it with his right foot in a fluid movement
I'm not defending how bad it was - i just think its more likely he took the dive to save himself having to take the chance himself rather than a dive so he wouldn't score against his old club.
Well it was either that or tap it into an empty net, Im sure Newcastle would fancy their chances from our poor penalty record this season.
It fell onto his right foot which is no more use than an ashtray on a motorcycle. He decided to go down and he couldn't even do that convincingly.
There was more chance of him getting sent off yesterday than scoring.
I think he was just scared he would do a Torres and miss an empty net. He was on his wrong foot and if you look carefully the touch of the ball pass the keeper was quite heavy and was going to be blocked by the defender.
And even if he ******* stumbled, which is unlikely, that's still his fault and doesn't absolve him from blame - he shouldn't be "losing his balance" in such a crucial situation.
Maybe he was scared he would do a Torres and miss..
I was being facetious as in my mind, diving to win a penalty is worse than scoring a good goal against his boyhood club.
He was probably upset at his performance and the abuse he received, perhaps he was expecting a hero's welcome?
I doubt he was expecting a hero's welcome. But being subbed off and being booed by all your old fans is not particularly nice, especially considering he really embarrassed himself earlier that match.
I have no time for conspiracies but in this case i honestly thibk sone other forces were at work. Its unforgivable for a player to fall over like that. His show of amger at the end was also out if character.
Either way his goose is cooked at Anfield. Waste of time effort amd money.
You though his whole performance was embarrassing or his dive?
As bad as we werei thought he was easily our mom and I was at the game.. He was only one that looked bothered
For the first 20 minutes or so.
I'd say Shelvey was comfortably our man of the match despite drifting out of the game second half.
Carroll was MOTM for the first 15 minutes, after that he was useless.
That's 20 mins more than rest of squad apart from shelvey.. Who for some reason nearly gifted them a goal with his inexperience or stupidity whichever view you want to take
Whatever reason he had for deciding to go down instead of try and score there, they're all equally worth getting rid. I don't want a striker who doesn't try and score, whatever the reasons.
Theyre a better team than us atm and they most certainly have better scouts..
I don't think it's anything to do with scouts regarding us.. We were lazy and tried buying British, we were linked with cisse long ago, we didnt use any scouting system in the past few windows and I don't think it had anything to do with rubbish scouts
Their players are under a lot less pressure. If Cisse, Ba & co came to Liverpool they wouldn't play as well as they do for Newcastle. And if Downing, Henderson, Carroll etc went to Newcastle they would be playing a lot better
He should of hit it with the outside of his left foot, early as poss, over the keeper..... Well thats what a Van Persie would have done. Heck even i could of done it.
It looked to me asif soon as he took it away from Krul, onto his right foot, he didnt want to attempt it with his right incase he fell over/missed and had the staidum laughing at him. Thats why he proceeded to dive.
Its a shame he only put the effort in for Andy Carroll FC yesterday however brief, and not Liverpool FC.
I love how freely people try to give Carroll MOTM nods these days ...
He must have about 5-6 now despite being mostly horrific all season ...
The comedy continues.
I don't agree, for me he completely lost his bottle in front of goal and try to take the easy way out of the situation.
I think he didn't appeal for a pen because he realised how awful his dive was.
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