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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:36:34 GMT
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:39:40 GMT
(The Guardian) 7 min: The atmosphere is not quite a white hot as days of yore. But it lifts when Dalot concedes a corner from Robertson’s gallop down the left. There follows some shoving before the ball is hacked clear. Liverpool are looking to make a fast start.
8 min: United holding their shape and forcing the ball backwards. Casemiro, the main man, has not been much on the ball at all. Fred has been doing the sweeping up so far. Liverpool’s energy has been the key facet so far.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:45:44 GMT
(The Guardian) 10 min: Ten Hag is reaching for his notebook and four-colour pen. As he does, Antony has his first shot of the game, United’s first. The usual, left-footed from the right, and Alisson palms out. Still, United have territory. And problems, too. Casemiro is limping, and so is Rashford after being smashed into the advertising boards.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:46:28 GMT
(The Guardian) 12 min: Casemiro’s gait is certainly ungainly, even more so than usual. Antony is dropping into midfield to help out, as is Weghorst.
14 min: Liverpool’s early impetus slowed – for now. United attempt to build patiently but Antony, as he is wont to do, loses the ball. Salah, suddenly, finds space and then with his left hoiks the ball wide and high.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:46:50 GMT
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:50:18 GMT
(The Guardian) 16 min: Casemiro watch: he’s still slower than usual, and keeps giving the ball away. Meanwhile, it’s left to Fred to annoy Liverpool, engaging Nunez over in a squabble over a free-kick. Then, as the ball goes into the area, Liverpool can’t seem to get a clean hit on the ball, lots of looping and shanking of the ball. United seem determined to slow this one down to a clogfest.
18 min: The Allez Allez Allez songs begin. The Kop sounds a bit more confident. Salah meanwhile drops back and gets two kicks, one off Fred, the next off Antony. Feels like Salah is trying to make something happen for his team by pulling United players with him.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:52:07 GMT
(The Guardian) 19 min: A Nunez lash at United’s goal – wide – but he did so from an offside position.
21 min: Rashford forces a corner, sent clear by Casemiro and Weghorst and Van Dijk has to sweep up. The Dutchman is annoyed. And so is the Kop choir when United take ages over the corner. It’s taken short, and when it goes to Fred, all chance of a shot on goal is lost. A waste of time but maybe that’s the United plan right now.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:52:23 GMT
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:56:06 GMT
(The Guardian) 23 min: Martinez clears when a Robertson ball is arrowing towards Nunez. The pair of them have a discussion that is heated but cordial. One to watch. Both players are combustible.
25 min: Another shaky Casemiro touch, just when United seemed to be making incursions. Neither team is capable of keeping the ball. Liverpool have Nunez, United have Antony as their leading conceders.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 16:58:22 GMT
(The Guardian) 26 min: The best chance so far. Diogo Dalot whips the ball, Beckham-style, and Bruno Fernandes, off the left, heads wide. Erik ten Hag agonises on the touchline.
27 min: And now Luke Shaw sends Rashford away, only for the golden boy’s golden touch to desert him. United suddenly look as if they fancy this.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 17:03:46 GMT
(The Guardian) 29 min: Now Liverpool attempt to wrest back control. They pass it rather than push on. The word from a man in the stands is that Nunez is struggling after falling on his shoulder.
30 min: The first booking is Luke Shaw, for pulling back Salah. The resultant free-kick is cleared and Konate has to get the ball clear when Antony attempts to reach Rashford at the back post. Antony gives a knowing smile to his colleague.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 17:06:21 GMT
(The Guardian) 32 min: United have a free-kick, awarded when Gakpo crunches into Luke Shaw. Dalot gets on the end of a Bruno ball and Alisson claims but the momentum is with United for the moment.
34 min: Jürg is out of his seat, and raging. But is this their response? Gakpo smashes into Antony, and that’s his second foul. That sets off Jürg again.
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 17:07:37 GMT
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Post by Webster on Mar 5, 2023 17:10:14 GMT
(The Guardian) 36 min: Liverpool fans singing that anthem to the tune of the Fabs’ I Feel Fine. Their team is not yet doing fine, merely OK. It’s tense.
38 min: Liverpool’s turn to slow down things. The game yet to be anywhere near crescendo levels, though Dalot’s pass to Rashford catches the striker unaware. Bruno Fernandes has a big moan about his compatriot’s ball but the fault lay with striker rather than assister to these eyes.
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