Recapping Liverpool’s opening games – including highlights
By Ethan Lowe
Week 3 – Tottenham
The commentary for this game made me laugh. As you can hear early into this video, the commentators made a deal about how Harry Kane hasn’t scored a Premier League goal in August. Wow, what a thrilling discovery. I’m sure the month effects whether or not he’ll score!
Funnily enough, he actually didn’t score in this game.
This match was one of those that I enjoyed, but found myself frustrated with. In all fairness, we played brilliant. The creative play between Coutinho, Roberto Firmino and Mane was a joy to watch.
Mane bullied Danny Rose until both resorted to diving on the floor in order to prevent further battling. He looked promising, but Rose gave 100% in order to try to keep him quiet.
For all our promising play, Vorm managed to shut it down. The Spurs keeper had a great game – sadly.
Cutting it short, this game caused conflict due to the new penalty rules on holding. I’m not going to debate what should or shouldn’t have been a penalty, because everybody will always disagree on each incident.
Liverpool were however awarded a penalty for a challenge on Firmino, which James Milner scored easily. Then Sadio Mane scored a second for Liverpool, but Adam Lallana was ruled offside. This call was SO close, and he actually looks pretty level, but the decision was made.
In typical Liverpool fashion, one big defensive blunder lead to a Spurs equaliser, and the game ended as a draw. I feel that this result showed our improvement, but it was one ruined by such heavy debate regarding decisions.