Post Match Debrief: Brentford 3 Liverpool 3

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   Bartek on September 26, 2021 at 8:36 pm

   ok.. I genuinely don’t quite know where to start but that’s probably something I share with a good number of people at the minute… it was beautiful. and quite hilarious (I’m Polish and was watching it on a Russian stream – these are less likely to break – and their commentary gets me every time lol). most of the things were said already so I guess I’ll just share few personal observations. 1) Virgil is REALLY BIG. cmon now – Ivan The Terrible For Opposition Defenders is a big guy but van Dijk looked like he’s older brother… and while Ivan wasn’t bullied (outjumped and outrunned the guy on number of occasions) – Virgil outmuscled him 2 or 3 times in a way I have not seen before. we are talking about (in my opinion) the best centre back in the world and those 2 or 3 times aside Ivan played his game like he always does. it’s absurd. 2) Ivan – he now has 3 goals chalked off by VAR. they were correct calls so that’s fine. but what is more important is that all 3 of them were REALLY GOOD finishes (plus one brilliant piece of improv). if, by accident or design, the team/coaching staff end up coming up with a way for him to be at the end of those link up plays more often (or more often then…ekhm…Bryan) – he won’t miss many. Bryan should have scored…again. but, again, he does everything else just about faultless for now so I’m just going to give him a pass. again. besides – Wissa delivered and I don’t mind super subs. 3) I was surprised to see Jota scoring like that because our back 3 doesn’t mistime many jumps. and they have mistimed a couple in this game (even if Jurgen thinks we were surprisingly, to him, good in the air) but we were playing against some of the best crossers of the ball out there. 4) Hansi Flick in the stadium looking at Vitaly Janelt??? (well, unless he is hoping to convince Ivan to play for Germany lol) that was as good as a goal, seriously. 5) subs, for the first time, worked to perfection. I just hope it won’t be feast or famine when it comes to those moving on. 6) and I hope Ethan is OK. 7) bigwigs at Arsenal must hate watching Raya’s highlights… £10 mil and you would have one of the best keepers in the League. thanks for being absolute plonkers 😉 Bring on West Ham I guess but, somehow, I’m more worried about that game than I was about Liverpool. but that is probably because I have some expectations about that game and had none about Liverpool 😉

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