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- Rafa has made sure that everyone knows this is his club when he stated that Torres' performance
last night doesn't guarantee him a place at Wigan on Saturday. It might be best to start him on the
bench anyhow as we should have a fresh Kuyt and Voronin, both of whom should be looking to redeem
themselves after Saturday's subpar performance versus Birmingham.
Home Away Oct 3, Marseille (h) Sep 18,
Porto (a) Nov 6, Besiktas (h) Oct 24, Besiktas (a) Nov 28, Porto (h) Dec
11, Marseille (a) Last years finalists have Marseille visit Anfield for this seasons first
Champions League fixture as they try to go one better. To [...]
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.
And the envelop reads...
Reina
Arbeloa
Carragher
Hyypia
Finnan
Riise
Mascherano
Gerrard
Pennant
Voronin
Torres
Bench:
Itandje
Kuyt
Benayoun
Babel
Lucas
Still no Babel starting and Lucas on the bench. Interesting. As long as there's no Crouch.
Well, before I get to the actual match, once again Fox Soccer makes themselves look like a bunch of
donkeys. Apparently Torres' extra-time header was the 'game-winner'. I wish, but at least it gave
me a little chuckle, something I need after that pathetic display.
I don't know where to start. Our whole side played pretty poor and the worse part is if we hadn't
been distracted by the stadium intercom announcer, (btw, what was that about?
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.
Let me first say, I have absolutely no faith in these picks, even Fabregas. Sorry, but that's just
how I feel. Anyhow, here they are, Yahoo!UK only.
Forward
Mido, Middlesborough 7.20
Yes, I'm purposely trying to squander the lead I currently have in my group. Rupert Murdoch's son
is in the group and he's paying not to care.
Torres, Liverpool 9.
Here it is:
Reina
Aurelio
Carragher
Hyypia
Finnan
Leto (--------->)
Sissoko
Gerrard
Benayoun
Torres
Crouch
Bench:
Itandje
Arbeloa
Riise
Babel
Voronin
Kuyt
Mascherano
Leto to start! Can't wait. Babel must be in the dawg house with Benitez.
Screw Rafa. He'll probably put out the usual boring, recycled line-up that he usually does, same
players, different names. This post is about what I would do. So here we go.
Let's start up front where I would pair Babel with Kuyt. Babel hasn't played in the last three
games and I'm sure is itching to get back on the pitch. He says he wants the opportunity to play
forward, so let's see what he can do.
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, it looks like our old haunt of not being able to finish has returned. Kuyt couldn't kick the
ball into the stands if he wanted to. All his tireless effort seem to just get him tired and I hate
dogging on the kid, but gees, I feel like I'm watching Toronto FC out there at times.
This is the third straight match that I've disagreed with Rafa's selection.
After viewing this match for the second time, with much less emotion involved since I knew the
outcome, I have to say that the reason Liverpool did not get the three points is because most of
the team, particularly up front, were mentally unprepared for this match while Birmingham seemed
quite the opposite.
Kuyt was appalling and Voronin wasn't much better.
Last week was a nightmare as I had to drop and add players left and right due to injury and then
had to count on Pascal Chimbonda to save me from a complete disaster, which he amazingly did. You
never want to count on someone as volatile as Chimbonda. I would also like to thank Didier Drogba
for throwing the Fulham match last week, I'm sure Abramovich took notice.
Voronin's put-back.
Torres' 'game-winner'. ha.
Here it is:
Reina
Riise
Hyypia
Carragher
Finnan
Babel
Mascherano
Gerrard
Pennant
Kuyt
Voronin
Subs:
Itandje
Hobbs
Alonso
Sissoko
Lucas
Benayoun
Crouch
No big surprises except maybe Crouch not starting. I could care less, after his Marseilles
performance he can rot on the bench until January and then sold.
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?
Well, we went from arguably the easiest match to predict so far this season, to quite possibly the
hardest league fixture so far. Wait until our Cup ties start, then it gets next to impossible to
guess what Rafa the Mad Tinkerer will come up with.
There are a lot of outside factors to consider this week, especially at right midfield. It's Yom
Kippur so that may rule out Benayoun.
Here it be:
Reina
Riise
Carra
Hyypia
Arbeloa
Babel
Mascherano
Gerrard
Pennant
Voronin
Kuyt
Subs:
Itandje
Finnan
Crouch
Torres
Sissoko
Interesting having Mascherano in there. I thought for sure he'd be given the day off to think about
his performance against Porto.
