00:15As one that we haven't had yet, and that's almost impossible, because all the things
00:20we've experienced this season, you could write a book about it, as I said earlier, and every
00:28time I think, OK, now there's nothing that can happen anymore that didn't happen yet.
00:33But we saw it today, a goalkeeper on the floor and then conceding a goal, but the end result
00:41is of course positive that we were able.
00:45In a game where we of course conceded a goal that you never prefer to concede a goal, but
00:52not in this way, but we kept on fighting till the end and even scored the 3-1, so bad
01:00luck
01:00we've had many times this season, usually that ends up in us dropping points, but not today,
01:06and that's a very positive thing.
01:07If you just look at the performance of both teams, I think Palace deserve to come back
01:12into the game, because they were playing a good game, they were close to scoring goals,
01:15the margins were really small, but another injury, of course, after a win, so that sums
01:25up again our season.
01:27How has Mermadee looked to be taking his time going off the pitch, is there a chance that
01:32might be as long as a year or not?
01:36Yeah, we don't know, so that's the best answer I can get, because if I say there might be a
01:40chance,
01:41that's probably all the headlines, there might be a chance, so we simply don't know, but
01:44what we do know is that the season is in four weeks, it's over I think, four or five weeks.
01:51So yeah, not a lot of games are being played, so we have to wait and see how his injury
01:56is,
01:56if he's able to return to play.
01:58What I do know about Mermadee is that he's taken throughout all these years so good care
02:03of his body, that he will have the minimum time required to recover from an injury, and
02:11let's hope for the best, that he's available in the last part.
02:14Richard?
02:16Bye.
02:17Hi, Anand.
02:18Just to under Isak's first Premier League goal here at Anfield, your reaction to that
02:25and his performance, and also to have him and Florent scoring together must have been something
02:29you would have liked to see him earlier?
02:33Yeah, my first reaction would have been, if you wouldn't have said the last part of your question,
02:37did anyone ever thought we would say this eight or nine months ago, end of April,
02:43to say that Alexander Isak scored his first goal for Liverpool at Anfield?
02:48That sums up this season a lot, that an unbelievable striker has had such a long time with injuries,
02:58not being available to play, and now scoring his goal.
03:03But it's really nice that he scored one, because when we signed him we knew he could score goals,
03:11and that's what he showed today, and many times this season we've had better chances than we had today,
03:17but that's why it's also too important to have players that can score also goals like this,
03:22because that can give you a big lift in a game, and that's what we've missed for eight or nine
03:27months,
03:28because he wasn't available, and when he was available, as we all know he was available,
03:34but wasn't at the level he can be.
03:39James?
03:39You must think of how Freddie stepped up.
03:43Yeah, that's an understatement.
03:45I think I've said here many times, telling you guys that we've created a lot of good chances,
03:51and then the first one of the other team went in, now I cannot say that today,
03:55because they've had enough good chances and enough moments that they were really close,
04:01but I think the moment of the game was of course the lead-up towards 2-0,
04:06where Freddie made a big save, otherwise it would have been 1-1,
04:09and ten seconds later it's 2-0.
04:11These are the current margins in the Premier League, and today they were on our side,
04:16as so many times they haven't been not on our side.
04:20When you went down in the second half, what were you expecting the referee to do in that situation?
04:30It wasn't obviously a head injury.
04:32No, but do the referee only stop the game for head injuries at this time?
04:38The amount of times that players were pretending that they were injured,
04:44not only head injuries, and the referees buy into this,
04:46it's become a tactic in football, and I've said many times over here,
04:51and someone can find one or two moments that we dived,
04:54because we say this in a certain way in Holland, I don't know how you say it over here,
04:58but we are not known for this, but maybe once or twice this season we've done that.
05:05But in general, even today, the referee gave a penalty,
05:09which was completely correctly overturned by the VAR because there was no contact.
05:14Why was there no contact?
05:16That's an important question to ask.
05:19Mo jumped over the tackle, where I can come up with many players and many examples
05:26and many clubs where they leave their foot on the floor,
05:29and then the tackle comes in and then there's contact and then it's a penalty.
05:32I think as a referee it becomes time that they know who they are refereeing.
05:38So this same incident happened to us against Man Utd, when McAllister was on the floor with a head injury,
05:45Michael all over the referee, keep on playing, keep on playing, keep on playing,
05:48we couldn't see the goal, five stitches.
05:51And the amount of times, even today, that the referee stopped the play.
05:56So yeah, you can probably feel my big frustration about this.
06:00It's already fair because people always talk about the Paris Saint-Germain game.
06:04Yeah, there was no diving, there was no pretending, there was just fair playing football.
06:09And the amount of times that games have been stopped because players pretended to be injured,
06:14that has happened so many times that I can't believe if you are refereeing Liverpool
06:18and there's a goalkeeper on the floor that you don't stop the game.
06:21The only reason I could come up with is that the referee, the moment he saved the ball,
06:26the ball went to a different position, he looked at that and the next moment he looks up
06:29and he sees that the goalkeeper is on the floor.
06:32That would be only fair explanation why he didn't stop the game.
06:36Otherwise, I think he should have stopped the game.
06:40And the last one?
06:41To pick you up on that, Albert Glasner's take is it would be dangerous for football
06:46if the referee started stopping the game as soon as a goalkeeper goes down.
06:51He could make a save, go down, and then there's no second place.
06:55Maybe the goalkeeper would start.
06:58I know that that is going to happen because that's what I constantly see
07:03in the Premier League or everywhere around the world.
07:06So since we know that the referee can stop the play if there's a head injury,
07:11I see a lot of players that have been touched over here taking their head
07:15and then the referee always falls into their trap.
07:19But since we are not there yet, there's not been a tactic yet used by making a save,
07:25stay on the floor because I see there's a difficult situation coming up
07:28because the situation wasn't difficult.
07:30The ball fell 30, 40 yards out from the goal, I think.
07:34So that's not a smart tactic then to go on the floor as a goalkeeper
07:37if you don't have an injury, is it?
07:41And the player that took the shot might say I wasn't aware of the fact
07:46that the goalkeeper was on the floor.
07:49But if one of my players tries to take a shot like that,
07:53if he thinks there's a goalkeeper in the hole, I would ask him.
07:56That's not the smartest ball to play.
07:58Maybe you can better cross it in or have a bit of a harder shot on target.
08:01So I do agree with what he's saying.
08:04So if from now on, if a goalkeeper is on the floor, the referee stops the game,
08:09I can be 100% sure that there will be teams in the future who are going to use that
08:14tactic.
08:15I'm sure about that.
08:17But today no one has tried that yet.
08:20So ten minutes before Pino was on the floor, we were going for a counter-attack,
08:24stop, there was a player on the floor, there was no head injury, there was a body,
08:29and he stopped to play.
08:32But another game, another referee decision, yeah, that's also part of a season, isn't it?
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