Roberto Firmino

[marksared]

World Class

[Red_Polo]

Centre forward = so >2016

We’ve evolved RP.

You're the one that said striker, not me

[Rich]

Kind of glossed over but it was a terrific finish

[Fierce]

Kind of glossed over but it was a terrific finish

Almost Fowler esque

[McDermotX]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/jan/14/roberto-firmino-liverpool-manchester-city-anfield

Decent enough read.....

Roberto Firmino’s fire and fury trumps Pep Guardiola and Manchester City

Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain took the ball deep in Liverpool’s half and played a snaking pass inside John Stones. As Stones turned to shield the ball he was bullocked out of the way with malevolent glee by Firmino, a player for whom pressing and closing down is not so much a chore as a hungrily devoured pleasure.

With Stones on his knees Firmino paused, looked up and produced a moment of startling delicacy, from sledgehammer to scalpel in a single shift of feet, lifting a lovingly dinked finish past Ederson as he rushed out. For a moment the ball seemed to hang dreamily under the lights, the air rushing out of the stadium, before falling in a gentle parabola and bouncing in off the post.

If Firmino led Liverpool’s surge here, Sterling was a key part in City’s stumbling start. Frankly, he had a nightmare. Sterling left the pitch with 25 minutes to go, roared off to a standing anti‑ovation by the home crowd after one of those performances where no matter how hard you try, how furiously you work to put things right, they just keep slipping away, the bobble off the shin, the muffed dribbles, the inevitable booking. As he brushes his teeth this evening Sterling will no doubt find himself taking a sneaky look up in the mirror just to check that shape lurking by the bathroom door is not Andrew Robertson steaming out of the airing cupboard to make another sniping, raking challenge at his heels.

[Les Zeffelin]

[SB]

You're the one that said striker, not me

RP meet sarcasm. Sarcasm meet RP

There you go, your no longer strangers

[Red_Polo]

RP meet sarcasm. Sarcasm meet RP

There you go, your no longer strangers

Sorry about that SB, I don't tend to pick up on it unless it's actually funny

[SB]

Sorry about that SB, I don't tend to pick up on it unless it's actually funny

Ouch . Touchy somewhat

[dom9]

https://www.theguardian.com/football...r-city-anfield

Decent enough read.....

Roberto Firmino’s fire and fury trumps Pep Guardiola and Manchester City

Did Danny Murphy write that?

[Norbs]

Quality

[Red_Polo]

Ouch . Touchy somewhat

[baitman]

any news on the FA inquiry into holgategate yet.

[Scratch]

any news on the FA inquiry into holgategate yet.

No doubt it will be announced today, guilty as charged and any match that he has participated in since will be forfeit, 3-0 victory to the opposing team.

[baitman]

No doubt it will be announced today, guilty as charged and any match that he has participated in since will be forfeit, 3-0 victory to the opposing team.

i dreamed that outcome too, not that the FA [fergies assholes] have any bias