ridiculous - Malouda the cheating git and combined with Rob Styles woeful refereeing when he booked Essien Twice?? and didn't send him and pictures show he clearly card Essien for the 2nd yellow no excuses. Rafa did well to hold back. Styles should never ref again in the Premiership with decisions like that another Graham Poll have no sympathy for the incompetent man. As for Malouda fits chelsea's club perfectly cheating scum no wonder no one wanted you at Anfield with characteristics like that in your locker you don't deserve to call yourself a footballer.
can't believe it. But its not THAT bad. I think we can take some real positives from the game. We played some good neat football and we were the only ones trying to do it. 4 from 6. Its not over yet. YNWA
we deserved better. Style sent Kitson off against ManU - he loves being the centre of attention deos'nt he?
3 points should have been ours we were cheeted, referee was a disgrace, thought the game showed some really postive stuff goin forward, and we should be afraid of no one, we are good enough I know we are contenders for the title.
Its idiots like that ref that are making young people turn there backs on football.Its very sad when even Man Utd fans are saying we were robbed.Words cant even describe how bad styles was today.If come the seasons end we lose the league by a point or two then he should be sacked as an offical.Shocking.Besides that i think we where fantastic in the first half and good in the second.I really believe we will contend this year for the title.Just thank god that styles isnt refereeing our games every week.Wan*er
A case of 3 points pickpocketed rather than lost, but to be honest, we should have been out of sight. Very encouraging that we destroyed the premiership favourites, didnt give them a sniff and with better finishing (again) we should have been out of sight. Before the game Id have taken a point, though I dont feel that way now!! As for the ref, Im hoarse shouting expletives, if i try typing then Ill get a stress fracture of my fingers. Cretinous Useless Negligable Tosser!!
i think styles is a chelsea fan. no dought about it. i think we should referees with a tv screen infront of them from the stands . my friend has sky plus and if u miss some thing it only take a second to rewind and see it again. but we were the better team out of united and chelsea today i did nt see arses game so i dont know. i know its early but if we play the way we played today we should be right up there if not on top of the leauge
Im gutted,robbed from a dirty cheat and idiotic refereeing. Also worth mentioning how nasty Terry and lampard were. I thought we were the better team and i take a lot of positives from the game but it still smarts to be robbed the way we were today.
Saying we were robbed or cheated is smalltime imo. Clear cut chances were few and far between in the first half and it took a bit of magic to take the lead. After that I cant think of a single decent goal scoring opportunity. If it was going to happen it was going to be from distance by Riise or Gerrard. Pizarro and Terry both wasted good chances for them. Im not saying Styles wasnt a joke,he clearly was but when you control and dominate a game but fail to turn the pressure into chances the suckerpunch is inevitable and it wont be the last time this happens. The main positive for me was the ball retention. It is so much better than last season and we're finally starting to play the way Rafa has always wanted. If you dont give the ball away you dont concede goals and when you have Gerrard and Torres on the pitch you will score and that is why we will be title contenders in May.
Rob by name rob by nature Terry is ALWAYS nasty On the cheat business its plausible that Malouda was jumping out of the way of the ball to leave it for Drogba in which case it should've been a free out as ironically he denied Finnan the chance of clearing it by fouling him. I'm inclined to think its more of a case of that than him diving (its nearly too bad a dive with no contact with the ball or defender to be consciously intentional). It makes the ref's decision, from a perfect position to see it, all the worse. I cannot think of a worse deno decision for any team made the worse by its impact and compacted later by not sending off Essien when clearly booked him and just to hit the full house the 4th official backs him up, he refuses to comment and the opposition manager (predictable in this case but maybe not if was any other team) justifies the worse decision you'll see all season. OK a perfectly valid goal was denied yesterday but humans can't see as clearly as a slo-mo reply but 45k could see that was never a peno and ref was right on top of it so thats down to incompetence. Apparantly the FA's hug bear for this season was meant to be clamping down on the bullying of refs and serial divers, and the usual suspects were actually warned. So much for that. For all of the valid gripe fodder though.......what a goal by Torres. We haven't had a player since Owen left capable of scoring one like that, it was an instant case of now THAT's what we've been missing. Also like the look of Babel but I will still remember this game as the one where Torres showed us what we all hoped he would. The mancs in the pub thought goal was top drawer and peno was literally the worse decision they'd ever seen, sums up the match.
No doubt about it, we were well and truly robbed. thing is, I can bear no grudge against Chelsea, which makes it even more sickening that we didn't win. Its not like Malouda should have expected to get a penalty and its not like Essien should have walked off when he got that second yellow card. The blame well and truly rests on the shoulders of Styles and I'd be very surprised if he ref'd a game in Anfield again this season. I thought that German ref in Athens was the worst I'd ever seen, but that was before today
But they never actually gave us the suckerpunch did they ? It was handed to them in the most ridiculous manner which is why we feel rightly robbed. Scoring via distance or 'magic' is surely as valid as any other way ? Drobga's one moment of magic decided last year's game at the bridge. One bad crucial decision in match this tight is bound to decide it and did so when its an off the wall one tis fair to say we wos robbed, nothing smalltime about it just accurate. I think our ball retention is generally good anyway and I can think of games against the chavs (both league games last year) and the mancs were we had excellent retention of the ball and against the latter completely dominated midfield but it was what we did with the ball in the latter third that was lacking which will still need to improve on.
Agreed. Had Styles not had that moment of madness for the penalty, there is no doubt in my mind we would have taken all 3 points. However, at 1-0 we were alway vunerable, and possibly should have taken the onus upon ourselves to go ahead and push for 2-0. However, this result could have a positive effect. If the players are put into the frame of mind of a "them versus us" mentality, it could end up with us having an even more determinded group of Redmen for the rest of the season...
If you dont think it was a suckerpunch fair enough but I dont like blaming referees on dropped points and Im not starting today because we had enough play to of put the game beyond Chelsea. We didnt because we couldnt create anything around the box. Everything went wide and even though we got some good balls into the box we failed to get on the end of them. Scoring spectacular/magic goals is great (and valid ) but they dont happen often against one of the best keepers in the world especially when your star striker is knackered for the last half hour. My comments on ball retention is more a reflection on the 3 competitive games so far rather than just today. At Anfield we are as good as any team at keeping the ball but away from home we've given it away cheaply over the past few seasons but things are looking up from what Ive seen. Once we add a bit of magic up front we'll be flying.
As Rafa said Unbelieveable, but leaving that aside. Thought we dominated them for the majority of the game. The "chosen one" got his tactics wrong again. Torres scored a beauty. Stevie with one leg is 10 times better than Fat Frank and Man Ure lost. Could have been a great day but it was still not bad.