Wee Baby Seamus
Yo, Goober, where's the meat?
I think Kovacic's performances with Chelsea this season are being really underrated. He's been great IMO, one of our better players. His movement on the ball through midfield has been a key part of our transition game, and he's one of the few guys we have right now who are really willing to take players on. Sarri needs to have more faith in him, because I think he can definitely reach a next level - if I'm Kovacic, I'm starting to get really discouraged by being substituted in the 70th minute of every single match. He still hasn't played a full 90.
Salah's diving is for sure overstated - the reason it's getting a lot of chatter right now is because there have been a few instances in a very short period of time, and so people have been inundated with it. Like most players who dribble in the box, he takes a lot of contact and has learned to sell that when he needs to. Hazard absolutely does the same thing (although I will say that Hazard also gets kicked to shit week-in week-out, and I don't remember the last time he won a call that I was like "okay, that's weak.") I think it's stupid that people are complaining about Salah diving Liverpool to a title right now because they didn't get that call yesterday - the thing to complain about with Liverpool and reffing is that Keita very obviously should've been sent off, and was not, not that Salah tried to win a pen and failed.
Salah's diving is for sure overstated - the reason it's getting a lot of chatter right now is because there have been a few instances in a very short period of time, and so people have been inundated with it. Like most players who dribble in the box, he takes a lot of contact and has learned to sell that when he needs to. Hazard absolutely does the same thing (although I will say that Hazard also gets kicked to shit week-in week-out, and I don't remember the last time he won a call that I was like "okay, that's weak.") I think it's stupid that people are complaining about Salah diving Liverpool to a title right now because they didn't get that call yesterday - the thing to complain about with Liverpool and reffing is that Keita very obviously should've been sent off, and was not, not that Salah tried to win a pen and failed.