THAT WAS A PENALTY! | Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal | Chloe’s Match Reaction

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Chloe (0:45)

I mean, I thought he was a contact sport, and it's not, I mean, it's just not. The referee just doesn't have a grip of the game, like the time wasting and stuff like that. I really wish, you know, I could sit here and say, Arsenal played brilliantly, they played us off the park, that's why we lost. But every slight touch was a far layaway, mental. And I'll talk about Liverpool, I'll talk about Arsenal, the first 25 minutes, which was appalling, absolutely appalling for us. But we should have had the penalty, that's where I'm starting. Alexander Isak should have a penalty, VAR doesn't see it, the referee doesn't see it. But if that's not a penalty, I don't know why we're here, I don't know what we're doing, to be honest. We are, a ball is being put in by Bradley Barcola. Alexander Isak, one of the best number nines in the league, is inches away from it. He's getting ragged back, and apparently that's not a foul, nor a penalty.

And that is where my anger is there. The time wasted, the amount of time spent on the floor, it's absolutely wild. The ref is being booed off the par.

I don't think he had a grip of the game for either side, to be perfectly honest with you.

Just wild, wild, absolutely wild.

Yeah, the first 20, 25 minutes, I thought Liverpool were appalling. I really did, I'm sorry. But, they started the better side. It was just a, see you lads, it was a simple stuff. It was not tracking runners, letting people run off, yeah. Odegaard, Madiweki, they all had acres of space to play into, and yeah, Liverpool, Liverpool didn't get a grip of it the first 20, 25 minutes, and then the goal, it's just, it's all lost, isn't it? Where the reason that goal goes in, Alison Becker, mate. Alison Becker's doing this once again. He really is. Passes it to Nye there. All right, Black, Norah, Sensor, R. They latch on to it. And I just mentioned the lack of running and track and runners in that first 20, 25 minutes. Well, yeah, that happens. Declan Rice goes round, Madiweki, you've got Bradley Barcola there, you've got Kerkhez there, one of yous lads track the runner, preferably if any, Barcola in that situation. Doesn't track her. A ball's whipped in. I think Virg could potentially do short and at the front post declare her. He doesn't. He goes back post and have it. She's unmarked, but just a really, really poor, poor, poor way to concede a goal. And I think we get better. I think, you know, after the 25 minutes, Liverpool are the better side. They get the ball. Like I mentioned, obviously, Isak has that chance where it's not his fault he's being ragged. And the fact that he doesn't make a big deal out of it means we don't get a penalty, which is ludicrous, which is why they probably get everything, because they go down, like they've been shot from a mile away, and they win every decision.

And yeah, I think Liverpool did enough in the second half of that first half to try and get back on level terms. Like it misses the golden chance, but there was no one really who was outstanding. There was no one who grabbed the game and went, yeah, go on, I'll be the one.

Second half, I think Trey. The moment Trey comes off the pitch, I actually think Liverpool get worse. Trey, I thought, was Liverpool's best player. That is mad, that, innit? Like, in terms of his age, I saw him go off when I turned round, and everyone was like, he's been our best player. He was finding the gaps to do the passes between the lines and the callister, and yeah, I thought he played well. People are talking about some tackles he made. I've not seen him back, so I don't know. But, yeah, I thought he was our best player, and I thought we actually became our worst footballing side once he went off the pitch. That's my thought. I thought Liverpool lost control of the game, and yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Tom came on, and I don't think he did much. I think we were better with Trey on the pitch, but he is a young lad. You gotta protect him, I get all of that. In terms of us in that second half, I am struggling.