22 Jul 2019 08:11:55
Awful tackle on Larouci. Hope he will be okay.


1.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 10:44:09
That wasn’t a tackle IMO - it was blatant kick out at Larouci out of frustration that he didn’t stop play and Larouci is lucky it didn’t break his leg.

It should be treated as assault pure and simple, and he should be given severe consequences otherwise you just endorse players hurting each other under the guise of a poor tackle.


2.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 11:48:32
No worse than Tommy Smith or Graeme Souness used to do in pre-season to liven up the game. Down off the high horse lads.


3.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 11:56:39
It was an absolute disgusting challenge that could of broken the kids leg. What a ridiculous response Irishman.


4.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 12:46:04
Its 2019 Irishman, not the 1980,s! It wasnt a great tackle by any stretch and the elbow on Wilson in the first have was unnecessary in a #"friendly" game.


5.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 13:01:50
for me should be a 10 game ban could have easily broken the kids leg, And finished his career and for an 18 year old kid could have changed his life with all his plans to be a footballer taken away from him. The velocity of the kick was a disgrace. he put that much force into the kick that both his legs where of there floor. For a friendly I just did not get the way Sevilla was playing it was like it was a cup final.


6.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 13:31:05
Is it 2019?


7.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 13:55:13
Bring back the Thumbs Down, Ed. I reckon Irishman would set a new record.


8.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 14:19:11
Sevilla played that game like it was a Hockey final, I was really shocked by how Banega came out flying into people.


9.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 15:15:16
Why would I set a new record? Because I don't go around crying when a player gets a kick? Snowflakes.


10.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 17:07:47
Irishman a troll so don't respond to him as that's what trolls want.


11.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 17:18:55
Yes not a Liverool fan if he thinks it's ok for someone to do that against one of our players in a friendly.


12.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 18:07:10
Irishman, gr8 b8 mate. I rate that 8 out of 8.


13.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 18:51:44
Irish dude, it wasnt a kick like a foul in football. It was an assault, plain and simple. If you did that in the street you would be in serious trouble. Especially a footballer who has massive legs. Could go to gaol. It was f#####g disgraceful. And to do it to an 18 yr old, in a friendly, and the guy is huge. Disgusting. If larouci was a few months younger it would be child abuse. Im all for a crunching tackle from a CM or a CB, i even appreciate a bit of the dark arts of sly fouls in the guise of a tackle (id rather teams were just clean, but yeah a souness type tackler is okay) but that last night was nothing but a spiteful bully kicking out at a kid who had just skinned him. Players have been banned from football for life for that sort of foul.


14.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 22:03:23
Irishman, you are wrong and I couldn't be arsed what Smith or Souness did cos that is not the point of the topic so stop with the pathetic deflection. Anyone calling that a tackle should go learn what a football tackle is. What Gnagnon did would be aggravated assault which in the U. S depending on the state, could lead to a decent amount of prison time. Worst of all, the guy is a rank bully and a coward.

If not, how do you not only kick one of the youngest guys at on the field, he kicked him from behind like all true cowards do. Then, he blamed his disgraceful conduct on the fact that the ref did not stop play to attend to a team mate when he was down or that LFC did not play the ball out for him to get treatment. Again, like all bullies hence, cowards do.

Would have loved to see Gnagnon go after VVD, Matip, Milner, Gomez or even Origi if the shoe was on the other foot if he was that tough. He's not hence, he didn't so he picked on the little guy, just like all bullies and cowards do.


15.) 22 Jul 2019
22 Jul 2019 22:55:11
I think playing some of these young kids against some of these big louts has to be looked at, even if it is a friendly pre-season game. I saw Monthe roughing Glatzel around, all game long at Tranmere, and I can't see how that can be beneficial to a youngster. It was not surprising that Glatzel eventually got injured (not by Monthe directly though) .

And enough has already been said about the Larouci "event". My take on that is, given the aggressive posture by Sevilla from the start, I'm sure that players were instructed to "show everyone that LFC may be European Champions but we still beat them every time" or something along those lines. I can't think of any other explanation because even after 9 new players came in for the second half, the bullying tactics and belligerence did not end.