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Liverpool fans are either cringing in anticipation or eagerly waiting the distraction of their
midweek football forsaken boredom, as a plethora of their club's players take the pitch on
international duty. Two pair of which have the pleasure of facing one another on Wednesday. Why do
I get the feeling we will not see any sort of Rooney-Ronaldo fiasco like we did in the 2006 World
Cup?
Great team work. Torres won the foul, Finnan took the kick, Hyypia got the header assist, and Kuyt
headed it home. It's Kuyt's third CL goal this season and fourth for his career. Cheers.
Liverpool fans are either cringing in anticipation or eagerly waiting the distraction of their
midweek football forsaken boredom, as a plethora of their club's players take the pitch on
international duty. Two pair of which have the pleasure of facing one another on Wednesday. Why do
I get the feeling we will not see any sort of Rooney-Ronaldo fiasco like we did in the 2006 World
Cup?
- Well, at least we'll have Carra. With the Agger injury and Hyypia coming off two full matches in
five days, it was unclear what we were going to do for centre backs come Saturday, but it looks
like Jamie Carragher will definitely start. I assume that Arbeloa will be there along with him. As
for the full backs, it would be great if Aurelio was declared fit and ready, but I doubt it, and I
haven't heard anything in regards to Finnan's condition.
As I sat around with some friends this past Sunday watching some NFL and patiently awaiting the
US-Brazil friendly in Chicago, I got to thinking how Javier Mascherano would make a bad ass
American football player, particularly at running back. He seems to have the perfect low-gravity,
wide, muscular build with powerful tree trunk like legs to propel him forward while carrying a
couple of players with him.
Where to begin? Well, first, that was the worse match I've ever seen Mascherano play. From the
beginning it looked as if he was somewhere else. I'm not sure it was because he rarely plays for us
these days, but his decisions on the ball were atrocious. I was actually surprised to not see him
collect a few yellow cards (Yes, a few).
Pennant was also a joke.
- Despite reading several reports saying he had injured his hand, apparently Danny Agger is okay.
Supposedly the reason he was taken out in the Latvia match was because he was already booked, but
looking at the official report from UEFA, this is not the case. Maybe he was being a bit reckless
and out of fear of receiving a card he was substituted, I don't know, I didn't get to see the
match.
Here it is:
Reina
Arbeloa
Carragher
Hyypia
Finnan
Babel
Mascherano
Gerrard
Pennant
Kuyt
Torres
Bench:
Itandje
Lucas
Voronin
Benayoun
Aurelio
Agger
Crouch
Looks scarily familiar. Just as a heads up, there's little to no chance I'll be doing a halftime
thoughts post because I'll be at the pub.
Well, the vagueness of this article has me rolling my eyes, but apparently the Aussie could be back
for our October 20th date at Goodison Park. That would be quite a boost if it's the case.
There's also a chance that Xabi could return for that match as well. I don't think we need either
player nor Agger to win at Everton and especially don't want Rafa to rush anyone, which he rarely
does anyhow.
The biggest and really only significant match of this group is Spain at Denmark. Both teams need to
win this match if they hope to advance. Both sides will be missing key players due to injury as the
Danes will be without Daniel Agger and the Spanish, David Villa. Helping Denmark out will be the
return of Christian Poulsen and Spain should have ample firepower at forward to replace Villa,
though Torres is slightly hobbled.
Before I begin to criticize other's reactions to the match, let me make it clear that with our
horrid performance and the fact that it was away, we really had no right taking a point yesterday.
If it weren't for the performances of Carra, Kuyt, and Finnan, we probably wouldn't have. Babel and
Torres weren't bad either, but other than those five, those were some of the worst efforts I have
ever witnessed from our side.
Whoa, were my fellow Liverpool fans watching the same match I was? I just checked out the Fan's Man
of the Match over at the official site and it had Dirk Kuyt voted first by the fans followed by
Sami Hyypia and Mascherano?! Holy shit on a stick! Are you serious? Do I have unrealistic
expectations of our Argentine midfielder or were you all drunk?
