Nottingham Forest vs. Liverpool: *Bumper* Post-Match Analysis

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Post-Match Thoughts

Paul Tomkins

Divock Origi, playing against the Reds, was the old dramatic goal hero, but with another deft header from another Alexis Mac Allister cross, Núñez is now the man.

Origi clearly remains the best omen the club can ever have. He even helps Liverpool win where they never usually win, albeit Forest being in the lower divisions for about three decades played a role in that.

The 100th minute, and up Núñez stepped – the shit Andy Carroll, who already has 50% more all-competition goals in a season than Carroll ever managed while in the top flight, to head home, hopefully with a glance off the ponytail to rub it in, in Origi-time.

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Paul Tierney has now passed 50 games as a ref and a VAR in charge of the Reds, almost all of them since 2019. He has never given Liverpool a single Big Decision away from Anfield (as either ref or VAR), bar one yellow card Michael Oliver upgraded to a red from Stockley Park in 2020.

Here, once the Forest fans, on his back about absolutely everything, turned his acceptable display into utter homer madness halfway through the first half, he lost the plot. Near the end he denied a clear penalty on Jayden Danns who was wrestled to the ground in about 100x more of a foul than we saw last week with Wataru Endo. At least the officials didn’t give Forest a penalty for Joe Gomez’s foul five minutes later, albeit Gomez was fouled first.

On this, title dreams are built.

What a week. The third game (including a period of extra-time) in six days, with injuries running between 10-14, and kids starting (full league debut for Bobby Clark) and coming on as subs, against a club that signed 400 players in the past year or two.

There was no balance to the Liverpool starting XI, other than who was fit.

Gomez was in midfield. None of the rest of the front six has proper pace, and Gomez, as the quickest, was the no.6.

Pace finally arrived from the bench, as two not-quite-fit players came on and helped change the game in the 15-30 minutes they were allowed by the medical staff.

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