Let a bit of time pass. Here's my 8itching about today's game.
Micah Richards - No yellow card after that first half? The referee really needs to explain how that happened.
Tevez - He's allowed to barge into players, thrust his arms around and generally bounce into players all the time, but the moment a player gives him a bit back he's straight to the deck and getting an automatic free kick.
Belletti sending off. No one on the CFC site has mentioned this, but for me Barry fouls Belletti out on the wing initially. Belletti was attempting to control the ball and Barry just jumped into his back.
I haven't watched the penalty incident closely, but Barry's only intention when he went into the box was to go down for a pen. Have read on the CFC site that Belletti didn't touch him, not so sure about that myself as you only need to clip someone to send them over.
Ballack's first booking. Utterly blatant corner that the ref and lino decide to give a goal kick for. No complaints about his second, and he should have been booked earlier when he attempted to handle a cross into the box. He's a waste of space and needs showing the door at the end of the season.
In order of blame for the first goal - Hilario - Carvalho/Terry - Joe Cole - Mikel - Lampard. All of them need a smack for that utter cack.
The blame for the second - Hilario - Hilario - Hilario - Ancelotti. If we're playing against Bellamy's pace, we shouldn't be left with Mikel against him like we did. Mikel did his job, he pushed Bellamy wide. Hilario shouldn't have been done like he was.
First half Citeh were dire. We made 5 or 6 decent chances. We finally work a goal on 40 minutes. Then we work another chance, which Lampard and Cole conspire to make a mess of, Citeh then go up the other end and are given an equaliser.
It really sucks. I want to be happy that finally the scousers are going to fail to qualify for the CL, but with the finances at Citeh I think it'd be better if the scousers did get 4th place.
