Carabao Cup Final - Liverpool v Chelsea

[Kenneth]

Debut on Wednesday, Wembley cup final win on the Sunday. A crazy week for the lad.

[Buzzo]

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[Kenneth]

Chelsea are the first club to ever lose six straight domestic cup finals.

[baitman]

So where was Ali and Trent

[Irishnev]

So where was Ali and Trent

With Jota and Thiago - Trent was there btw in a knee brace

[Exiled_red]

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[Kenneth]

The decision gets more outrageous every time I see it. He didn’t block anyone, he did **** all other than exist and stand still. Refs are a ****ing disgrace.


The ell highlights has a view from behind that shows just how bad it was (7 mins 30 seconds)
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[Pablo]

Yeah it is a shocker. He is just standing there, he's not holding anyone, inactive really, if anything he's being held by the Chelsea player. One of the worst decisions I've ever seen.

[Kenneth]

The laugh

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/s/ejFQ3cuJq2

[rudedog]

Yeah it is a shocker. He is just standing there, he's not holding anyone, inactive really, if anything he's being held by the Chelsea player. One of the worst decisions I've ever seen.

He was offside when the ball was hit. The officials deemed that he became active by blocking Colwill which prevented him from challenging for the ball.

Technically, the decision was correct.

Had the officials not highlighted this, I doubt anyone would ever have noticed though. Seems that 'sometines' they go looking for reasons to disallow goals

[Kenneth]

He didn’t block him. The Chelsea player wasn’t going be jumping against vvd. Endo never became active, he just stood still 18 yards from goal. We have seen decisions where players are in the eye line of the keeper, or interfering with the a defender who’s about to tackle, but not to players being passive near a defender miles from goal who may or may not have possibly had some involvement if some hypothetical scenario had happened. It was a hugely tenuous interpretation of the office rule, the likes of which has never been seen before, and they pulled it out in a cup final.

[rudedog]

He didn’t block him. Chilwell wasn’t going be jumping against vvd. It was a hugely tenuous interpretation of the office rule, the likes of which has never been seen before.

He did block him though, it was pretty obvious.

[Kenneth]

He literally stood still while Colwill ran into him, he was entirety passive. We could replay that exact goal but with endo holding his arms in the air shouting “I’m not involved” and it would have gone exactly the same way. If Colwill had tried to go passed him and he’d made a move to stop it then fair enough, that is a block, but he didn’t. The idea that a random player can look for a player in an offside position, run into them to make them active and have a goal disallowed is clearly not the intention of the rules, but this interpretation makes that a valid strategy from now on.

[danperkins]

Yeah it was a terrible decision to disallow that goal, that stuff happens multiple times in every game in the calendar year.

[Irishnev]

Arsenal are the most effective team from set pieces this year - they do thus all the time with 2 or 3 ”blockers” and not a word. As Kenneth said - to pull this out in a cup final stinks

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