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Congratulations are due to Liverpool for winning the above competition by beating the Brazilian club Flamengo in Qatar this evening. They won 1-0 after extra time.
I have to admit I rate this competiton on a par with the English pre-season Community (formerly Charity) Shield, a sort of glorified practice match. Although European clubs have apparently regularly won the competition since its inception in 2000 it's not taken as seriously in Europe as it is in South America, with Jurgen Klopp saying that things would have to change this time. I suppose he would say that given that he had an important League Cup match this week and had to field a near youth team that was hammered 5-0 by Aston Villa as Klopp had chosen to prioritise the World Club Cup and his team could not be in two places at the same time.
The competition means that Liverpool have had to squeeze in two more matches (the semi final and final of the competition), one of which went to extra time, in an already crowded season and before the hectic Christmas and New Year glut of Premier League matches that are immediately followed by the FA Cup third round.
The strange decision was also made to appoint a Qatari referee with little if any experience of refereeing at this level who, the more the game went on, came out with some bizarre decisions himself culminating in a penalty that wasn't and a foul that apparently wasn't or so he seemed to be saying.
Having awarded a penalty when a Liveprool attacker was clean through but who then appeared to be tripped by a Flamego defender he issued a yellow card to the defender. In such circumstances it should have been red, but there was always the chance that VAR would overturn the whole thing.
The location of what was undoubtedly a trip appeared to be the key: inside the area a penalty, outside a free kick, but whether a foul inside or out the defender should still have seen red. After an age the VAR referees asked the match referee to view the tv himself. After another lengthy look it seemed that the offence occurred a millimetre outside the penalty area so a free kick. Not in the opinion of our ref. He decided there was no foul against the Liverpool player at all. I don't think many people saw that coming.
Ironically the Liverpool player who scored the goal was Firmino who is Brazilian himself. Incidentally, why do so many players continue to remove their shirt when they score a goal as Firminio did this evening? They know it's a guaranteed yellow card and it only needs a mistimed tackle later in the game to get a second yellow which then means red. To me it's unprofessional and plain daft anyway. If I was a manager I'd be screaming at any player who went out to deliberately get himself booked which is what removing the shirt amounts to. But why do they do it anyway? What does it signify? It never happened years ago and so far as I'm aware doesn't happen in women's football.
I have to admit I rate this competiton on a par with the English pre-season Community (formerly Charity) Shield, a sort of glorified practice match. Although European clubs have apparently regularly won the competition since its inception in 2000 it's not taken as seriously in Europe as it is in South America, with Jurgen Klopp saying that things would have to change this time. I suppose he would say that given that he had an important League Cup match this week and had to field a near youth team that was hammered 5-0 by Aston Villa as Klopp had chosen to prioritise the World Club Cup and his team could not be in two places at the same time.
The competition means that Liverpool have had to squeeze in two more matches (the semi final and final of the competition), one of which went to extra time, in an already crowded season and before the hectic Christmas and New Year glut of Premier League matches that are immediately followed by the FA Cup third round.
The strange decision was also made to appoint a Qatari referee with little if any experience of refereeing at this level who, the more the game went on, came out with some bizarre decisions himself culminating in a penalty that wasn't and a foul that apparently wasn't or so he seemed to be saying.
Having awarded a penalty when a Liveprool attacker was clean through but who then appeared to be tripped by a Flamego defender he issued a yellow card to the defender. In such circumstances it should have been red, but there was always the chance that VAR would overturn the whole thing.
The location of what was undoubtedly a trip appeared to be the key: inside the area a penalty, outside a free kick, but whether a foul inside or out the defender should still have seen red. After an age the VAR referees asked the match referee to view the tv himself. After another lengthy look it seemed that the offence occurred a millimetre outside the penalty area so a free kick. Not in the opinion of our ref. He decided there was no foul against the Liverpool player at all. I don't think many people saw that coming.
Ironically the Liverpool player who scored the goal was Firmino who is Brazilian himself. Incidentally, why do so many players continue to remove their shirt when they score a goal as Firminio did this evening? They know it's a guaranteed yellow card and it only needs a mistimed tackle later in the game to get a second yellow which then means red. To me it's unprofessional and plain daft anyway. If I was a manager I'd be screaming at any player who went out to deliberately get himself booked which is what removing the shirt amounts to. But why do they do it anyway? What does it signify? It never happened years ago and so far as I'm aware doesn't happen in women's football.
..Either way well done to Liverpool, another trophy...and guaranteed dogs abuse for the losers when they get back home
