Date: Saturday 7th January
Kickoff: 20.00
Venue: Anfield
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On Saturday Wolves will take on Liverpool in their 3rd round FA Cup clash.
Wolves’ record in the FA cup against Liverpool is very good having won the previous two meetings by a 2-1 margin, in Jan 2017 at Anfield and in Jan 2019 at Molineux.
This is rather surprising as Liverpool have won the previous 11 league games dating back to January 2011. I can only imagine that it is due to Jurgen Klopp putting out a reserve side in cup games to rest his best players for Premier League and Champions League games.
I assume that with his underperforming side currently in 6th place in the league and 16 points adrift from league leaders Arsenal, it will be a reserve side again for this game.
Gem’s prediction: 1-2
Liverpool v Wolves Match Day Thread
posted on 9/1/23
In this day and age when the technology is so important how the hell is Anfield able to get away with a "blind spot". Very convenient for Mike Dean that the blind spot just happens to be exactly in the place needed to prove the Wolves winner was legitimate. This is the same VAR at Anfiled that managed to catch Moutinios (?) heel being offside when he ran backwards to pick up a ball that had been played behind him just before he crossed for Neto to score.
posted on 9/1/23
Who is responsible for ensuring there isn't a blind spot? Liverpool? FA? The company that manages VAR?
Only positive that I wish would come out of this is that someone might conclude VAR is more trouble than its worth. And its also a nonsense that some FA Cup games have VAR and some don't depending on what league the home team plays in. There were a couple of offside goals scored yesterday at grounds without the technology and i'd rather go back to those days. At least when the referee pointed to the centre spot the fans knew they could celebrate
posted on 10/1/23
Interesting film of wolves disallowed goal clearly shows Nunes onside when the ball is passed back to him. Then when the goal goes in, the linesman starts running back to the centre circle until the referee, 30 yards from goal, makes a signal to him and he puts his flag up. Comments from the tv reports that the linesman immediately flagged when Nunes received the ball were simply not true
posted on 10/1/23
I think the biggest problem with this is that they didn't have the camera angle to review. This has been shown to be incorrect since, as there are plenty of camera angles.
I'm also unclear as to why we haven't seen footage from the camera which shows the goal line, which is required to show the decision from the goal line technology. Surely VAR should have had access to that camera footage.
Something, somewhere has gone wrong. Did VAR have the camera angles but not use them? Did Liverpool not make all cameras available for VAR and therefore should there be action against them? Is it corruption from the FA to deliberately cause this situation?
There should definitely be questions into this.
posted on 10/1/23
comment by Spangles (U17289)
posted about 3 hours ago
Interesting film of wolves disallowed goal clearly shows Nunes onside when the ball is passed back to him. Then when the goal goes in, the linesman starts running back to the centre circle until the referee, 30 yards from goal, makes a signal to him and he puts his flag up. Comments from the tv reports that the linesman immediately flagged when Nunes received the ball were simply not true
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Comments that he flagged when told to by the ref could well be true - now I wonder who was whispering into the Ref's ear to get that to happen?
posted on 10/1/23
comment by Vinnie Garstrokes (U2138)
posted a day ago
In this day and age when the technology is so important how the hell is Anfield able to get away with a "blind spot". Very convenient for Mike Dean that the blind spot just happens to be exactly in the place needed to prove the Wolves winner was legitimate. This is the same VAR at Anfiled that managed to catch Moutinios (?) heel being offside when he ran backwards to pick up a ball that had been played behind him just before he crossed for Neto to score.
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The only VAR blind spot was on the front of Mike Dean's head. The man is a cheat and a liar and will do all within his power to ensure that decisions go against Wolves.
posted on 10/1/23
Wolves have evidently written a letter of complaint to the FA and VAR operators about Saturday. Hope we get to see the response
posted on 10/1/23
still really annoyed about it. The videos clearly show something is off but you can bet nothing comes of it.
How can the linesman be heading back to the halfway line after the goal until the ref tells him to flag. It is feckin outrageous.
posted on 10/1/23
The replay against Liverpool will be next Tuesday at 19:45 and will be live on BBC
posted on 10/1/23
Difficult, Cinci, to know what could conceivably come of it. The result can't be affected, they won't discipline the officials, the operation of VAR won't change midway through a season.
If there had been no VAR (as in ties played at non-PL grounds) the goal would still not have stood, but then we'd simply be moaning, quite rightly, about poor officiating.
The issue here is with the operation of VAR, which was badly handled.