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

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Post-Match Thoughts

Paul Tomkins

The peak-end rule of the game mirrored the season: excellent, rip-roaring, then a bit flat.

So, as per the rule’s suggestion, don’t over-emphasise the end, as the end is what most distorts. The overall picture was a fine 4-2 win, and the glass is more than half full.

Somehow Spurs ‘stole’ two goals, with Richarlison grabbing Trent Alexander-Arnold to open up a route to the second (not that the VAR could be bothered to check, naturally), but the Reds could have had seven by then, and a couple more after.

Bronze; third is somewhere. Third and a trophy in the face of adversity is progress. Entry into the Champions League when it offers even more money, and maybe more cachet, while other clubs are either financially doping or looking around for loan sharks to tide them over.

To be able to get to 84 points in a season that may not see the champions reach 90 is to be commended, against a catalogue of injuries, terrible officiating, lowest turnaround times and BT/TNT’s time-slot crusade against Liverpool (time to unsubscribe from them, I think).

No league can be fair when you make it harder for one team than you do the others, and that has happened a lot of little (and big) ways this season. The decisions in games against Spurs, Arsenal and Man City have been atrocious, but the Reds have done themselves credit.

And maybe the title could have been won had Andy Robertson not had a dislocated shoulder for half the season, and Jürgen Klopp used him as a centre-forward.

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