CHENNAI: World Chess Champion and fantasy football aficionado Magnus Carlsen sparked outrage among fans of Liverpool FC last week when he "mocked" forward Roberto Firmino.
On Sunday, he went even further. The 29-year-old star, who has dominated chess for a decade, said Firmino is "one of the worst" finishers in Europe and he finds it funny to wind up the Reds because they are "trigger happy".
Carlsen originally brought up Firmino when talking about his own performances in the chess24 Legends of Chess event, in which he has won 10 out of 10 matches. Carlsen, despite being red-hot favourite to win the tournament, said: “It seems that in the last few matches, to use a football analogy, I am getting Lewandowski level chances but I am converting them at Firmino level. For those who don’t watch football, that’s pretty bad. But at least the last two games were kind of ok.”
Liverpool fans went apoplectic in defence of the striker who scored just 12 goals in 52 appearances, and only one at Anfield last season. Sunday witnessed Carlsen, who finished 11th worldwide in this year's Premier League fantasy football contest, dig himself in deeper. He said: "I think a lot of people are misinterpreting the point I was trying to make because the point was not really about this particular footballer's ability, it was just about conversion rate and those are facts, objective facts not really too much for debate so that's what I was discussing.”
"Now it has to be said that Firmino, he's not statistically the worst finisher among the best clubs in Europe. He's just one of the worst. But I thought it was so much funnier if I talked about a Liverpool player than anyone else because Liverpool fans are quite trigger happy,” Carlsen pointed out.
"They don't like it when their players get insulted, so I just thought it would be funnier that way,” said Carlsen.
August 02, 2020 at 11:56PM
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It was funny to insult Liverpool fans over Firmino: Magnus Carlsen - Times of India
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