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Absolutely embarrassing result for England. How can you not bowl a team out when you have them so far away from the target?? Entirely unacceptable.

Yet England manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Madness. Well played, Sri Lanka, but my word, England bottled that badly.

The result in the SA v Aus game is why the Test is the best format of the game. In their innings, South Africa were in a world of trouble and were dug out by an initially obdurate Bavuma before his bowlers then rattled through a stunned Australian batting line up. Fantastic work by the Proteas.

Batted Brook! 👏🏻

The Grav10 experiment has been a bit of a disaster. Barely involved in possession and nonexistent without the ball (0/7 in duels). Basically the anti-Wirtz.

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Three goals conceded in 14 minutes since he's been at right back, and at least two of the three have come from a cross down his side. Not good enough. #LFC

Frimpong cannot defend, can he? #LFC

Kjør! Great stuff by Viking!

Gode Gud

Frimpong once again proving that he isn't it. Pack him up, and frankly send Wirtz with him the way he's playing at the minute.

Modern day Del Boy and Rodney if it was cast today. Amol's coat and the height difference is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. #TheCelebrityTraitors

Lots of european competition women’s football overnight but I want to draw your attention to this epic defensive effort by Hearts in the UEFA Europa Cup. Haven’t seen such a siege defence since the Siege of Orleans in the 15th century.

That's three times now

Michael Oliver is doing a great job of blocking passing lanes...

Grav is being far, far too casual. Hasn't he learned anything whilst sat on the bench watching Mac A?

Contract year you say?

WHAT A HIT, SON!

This ref is awful. Genuinely an embarrassment to his profession, and that's saying something.

This new ten seconds rule to come off when substituted doesn't really allow for a grand goodbye to a club legend at the end of the season. Hopefully common sense will prevail should Van Dijk leave at the end of the season and be substituted with four minutes to go at Anfield.

It's not about immigration and never has been. It's just racism. The more ground we cede to this idiocy, the worse it gets.

The ref is looking right at this and doesn't give the foul despite it being clear and obvious, and VAR also doesn't bother. Great process, guys. #LFC

Notable that Iraola hasn't changed the back four tonight with subs, even with Kerkez on a yellow. You have to imagine his is the back four for Atlelético next week. #LFC

Wirtz has to stop losing the ball. He's got to be better at protecting it. He always seems to want too much time and space.

#LFC have now seemingly sunk to Ipswich's level and it's a stalemate. Fingers crossed LFC up it to kill this game off.

How much of his shirt does he have to have!? #LFC

What was Szobo doing!? #LFC have started this half poorly and need to wake up. They're coasting again.

Jacquet is just daydreaming a bit. He needs to get into this second half or changes have to be made #LFC

Gakpo gets cleaned out after he passed that. Absolute stonewall foul #LFC

Kerkez needs to do a lot more to close down players crossing in from his flank #LFC

Victor Muñoz through the middle of the Ipswich team #LFC

Has Mac A been unleashed in the 6? Being a bit of a midfield general organising things? Would be great to see. #LFC

That it incredible from Gakpo #LFC

Love Iraola giving it biftas on the touchline when Isak scored his first #LFC

www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bbm... Just in case you've not all seen this #LFC, it's Ali taking it out on the fourth official's subs board

Having turned over to the Test, I really want England to declare and bowl on this with it doing absolutely loads and going along the floor every now and then. If Brook is finding it hard work, there's no way the Pakistani batters are going to be able to cope against our attack.

If you're an optimistic type: #LFC have played poorly and not lost in the last two games If you're a realist: LFC have played very poorly and look a long way off challenging for anything If you're a pessimist: LFC are awful in every respect, and our DoF doesn't know what he's doing.

Get in Munoz!! What a thumping shot that was! Let's go #LFC

Szobo to right back. We've seen this before. Unfortunately, we've also seen Rio at RW, and that's not it either. Is Iraola sending a message??

#LFC

That's not a penalty, surely!?

FINALLY! Really well done from Gakpo, and good to see Isak is still awake #LFC

Munoz is actually dumb. Why are you fowling and picking up a yellow there!? You're about to win a corner! #LFC