Liverpool vs. Chelsea: *Bumper* Post-Match Analysis

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Post-Match Thoughts

Paul Tomkins

Commanding, authoritative, smart, sharp – and that was just Paul Tierney.

That’s how we want a ref at Anfield – a homer, just like everywhere else gets!

(After all the stick I’ve given Tierney I need to start with an acknowledgement of him finally having a good game, on his 50th doing the club as a ref and VAR, mostly in the last four years.)

Behind Tierney for the MOTM award are Conor Bradley, Diogo Jota and Alexis Mac Allister, while if the key metric was woodwork-struck, Darwin Núñez would now officially be the best-ever Premier League player.

With four, he took his tally of woodwork-hits in the league to 13 for the season, and it feels ever more like he’s following the trajectory of his compatriot Luis Suarez, whose 13 shots in a single game is still the record, if Núñez only had 11 or 12 tonight, as it seems.

Núñez is very different to Suarez but full of the same brio; a bit brainless at times, but he keeps his teeth in his mouth. A pair of crazy bastards all the same, and Suarez only became prolific in his third season at the club, with the team in 2011/12 hitting the woodwork almost every game.

But a fellow South American, Mac Allister, was the absolute boss of this game, whilst Bradley wrapped up four assists in four days and added a goal.

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