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Hello readers.
I refrained from writing about the title race until it was done and dusted and there's plenty to
talk about, from pre-season predictions to key battles where the title was won and of course, what
the future holds for the 'big' teams.
Pre-season Predictions
What a joke!
A reader once said my posts are void of controversies. I guess the ice has just broken.
Here's another one
I would like to express my sincere thanks to all the Arse fans who sent in their appreciation of
my post. Buoyed by their response I would like to give them back a second installment of my
thoughts on yesterdays match.
Reina
Johnson Carragher Ayala Agger
Gerrard Mascherano
Maxi Aquilani Babel
Kuyt
Goals:
Gerrard 52' 59'
Maxi 74'
Babel 90+4'
Liverpool made hard work of it for far too long, but it ends 4-0, just like in the reverse fixture.
Are we sure there's no way for Burnley to avoid relegation?
Despite only just completing his first season in the red shirt of Liverpool, Alberto Aquilani
has never been short of speculation surrounding him about a move back to Italy.
Napoli are the latest side to be linked with a loan move for the player, who has taken time to
overcome the ankle injury he arrived with as well as suffering from a number of viruses once his
fitness had returned.
Normally, Soccernet's graphics are infuriating, often incorrect or unhelpful. But comparing the
average position of Liverpool's starting XI in Saturday's match to last March's 3-0 win is a
perfect encapsulation of the tactical differences between last season's team and the current
version.
Click on the image to see it full-size, where the player numbers are actually legible.
Liverpool currently sit 18th in the league with their worst start to a season 57 years:
What the hell has gone wrong? Here are six reasons...
1) The World Cup hang-over :- Many of the liverpool squad had terrible summers.
Agger crashed out with Denmark, Carragher, Gerrard, Johnson and Cole were poor for England.
3pm ET, live in the US on espn2
Last four head-to-head:
1-0 Liverpool (a) 12.29.09
1-3 Villa (h) 08.24.09
5-0 Liverpool (h) 03.22.09
0-0 (a) 08.31.08
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 1-1 Steaua (a); 1-2 Spurs (a); 3-0 West Ham (h)
Villa: 1-2 Brum (a); 2-4 Arsenal (h); 0-2 Blackburn (a)
Goalscorers (league):
Liverpool: Torres 5; Gerrard 3; Kuyt, Kyrgiakos, Maxi 2; Johnson, Ngog, Skrtel 1
Villa: Downing 4; Agbonlahor 3; Clark, A Young 2; Collins, Delfouneso, Heskey, Petrov, L
Young 1
Referee: Phil Dowd
Guess at a line-up:
Reina
Johnson Kyrgiakos Skrtel Konchesky
Kuyt Meireles Lucas Maxi
Ngog Torres
Other than Kyrgiakos for the injured Carragher, Liverpool's expected to deploy the same line-up
that narrowly lost to Spurs, nine changes from the side that drew in Bucharest on Thursday.
2:45pm, live in the US on Setanta
Last 4 head-to-head:
1-1 (a) 01.02.10
2-1 Liverpool (h) 03.15.08
1-3 Reading (a) 12.08.07
4-2 Liverpool (a; Carling Cup) 09.25.07
Last 3 matches:
Liverpool: 1-1 Reading (a); 1-0 Villa (a); 2-0 Wolves (h)
Reading: 1-1 Liverpool (h); 1-4 Plymouth (a); 1-1 Swansea (h)
Goalscorers (all competitions):
Liverpool: Torres 12; Benayoun 7; Gerrard, Kuyt, Ngog 6; Babel 3; Johnson 2; Insua, Skrtel
1
Reading: Sigurdsson 7; Rasiak 6; Church 5; Bignall, Hunt, Mills, Mooney, Pearce 2; Cisse,
Howard, Kebe, McAnuff 1
Referee: Phil Dowd
Guess at a squad:
Reina
Darby Carragher Agger Insua
Lucas Aquilani
Kuyt Gerrard Benayoun
Torres
So much for no winter break in English football.
After the massive disappointment of losing out on Chris Smalling, when Man Utd trumped Arsenal's
offer for the youngster, Arsene Wenger must be feeling hard done by today. Smalling was due at Old
Trafford for his medical this morning, and if all went okay he is probably signing a contract at
Old Trafford as we [.
Reina, Insua, Carragher, Skrtel, Kyrgiakos, Mascherano, Aquilani, Gerrard, Riera, Kuyt, Ngog. Subs:
Cavalieri, Agger, Rodriguez, Babel, Lucas, Darby, Pacheco.
Reina, Carragher, Skrtel, Agger, Insua, Kuyt, Lucas, Mascherano, Maxi, Gerrard, Babel. Subs:
Cavalieri, Torres, Benayoun, Aquilani, Riera, Aurelio, Kelly.
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Liverpool's visit to Romania ended up in them scoring a sum of three goals for the first time
since September last year. A relief after one of the dull matches of this season at Eastlands.
Although a lot of interest is generated towards City after their FA cup exit at this post, lets
take a ride with some of the fun filled Europa moments from yesterday night.
Babel lofted the clearance from deep inside Liverpool's half. The ball somehow latched on to
Torres' homing beacon. The defender let it bounce. Torres ate it up like a starved Bengal tiger.
He kept the other defender just at bay, picked his moment and flicked the ball over the sliding
keeper.
Losing to Manchester United was hardly a good end to what had otherwise been a good week for
Liverpool.
It's always desperately disappointing to go down at Old Trafford – particularly after what we did
there last season. But there's just too much at stake now for Liverpool's players and fans to dwell
on it.
I have been experiencing some extreme levels of mood swingings of late, courtesy of the club I
follow. Infact, It was that day when Steve Bruce's head rolled on to the pitch from the hands of a
bewitched supporter and scored a goal against us. It was about that time the spate of injuries
kicked off.
What did I say about my constant mood swingings. Coming from the back of a flamboyant victory
against Sunderland, I for once finally came to a conclusion that the team has turned the corner. We
have already discussed to death on how Liverpool are better off going forward than their overtly
cautious approach.
After today's very disappointing draw at home to Fulham, people have been calling for wholesale
changes to the team in the close-season. Torres, Carra and now Benitez have been calling for £60
to £80 million to be reed up by the club to buy new players. Yes, I would to see a David Villa,
Silva, Aguero or a Ribery or two at the club, but its just not going to happen.
10am ET, live in the US on espn2 (HD!)
Last 4 head-to-head:
1-3 Fulham (a) 10.31.09
1-0 Liverpool (a) 04.04.09
0-0 (h) 11.22.08
2-0 Liverpool (a) 04.19.08
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 4-1 Benfica (h); 1-1 Brum (a); 1-2 Benfica (a)
Fulham: 1-0 Wolfsburg (a); 2-1 Wigan (h); 2-1 Wolfsburg (h)
Goalscorers (league):
Liverpool: Torres 18; Kuyt 9; Gerrard 7; Benayoun 5; Ngog 4; Babel, Johnson 3; Aquilani,
Kyrgiakos, Skrtel 1
Fulham: Zamora 8; Dempsey, Duff 6; Murphy 5; Gera, Nevland 2; Elm, Greening, Hangeland,
Konchesky, Okaka 1
Referee: Andre Marriner
Guess at a squad:
Reina
Johnson Carragher Agger Insua
Mascherano
Maxi Gerrard Aquilani Babel
Torres
Had you told me this would be a match-up of the last two English teams in European competition, I'd
have laughed right in your face.
I was such a big fan of the 4-2-3-1 with Gerrard as a second striker/in a free role because it
seemed to get the best of out Gerrard and Torres. That and it led to Liverpool nearly winning the
league. But after how this season's gone, we rightfully have to wonder if that's consistently
possible without Alonso.
COS contributor Donovan Ried conducts an end of season Anfield autopsy.
Win the Club Shirt Of Your Choice Simply by Speaking Your Mind!
May of us have our own views on where this season when wrong. Here's mine
Let me take you back to the end of last season.....
We had a good season in which we ran the old rivals Man Utd close to the Premier League title;
and it was time to start making plans for next season.
Steven Gerrard
For those Liverpool fans upset at this weekend's loss to Chelsea, I say 'What are you upset
about?'. The loss that Liverpool have just experienced, has ironically just ensured that their long
term rivals Manchester United will fail to win a 19th Premier League title this season, overtaking
Liverpool's 18.
For the past week Nike has been floating little spoilers across the interweb in the
build up to this advert. This 3 minute world cup themed ad made by Alejandro G. Iñarritu (21
Grams, Babel) was well worth the build up...
Click here to view the embedded video.
Let's face it, Nike advertisements are renowned to be some of the most creative and memorable
showpieces designed. Nike launched their World Cup ad campaign with a catchy slogan "Write The
Future" viral during the 2010 Champions League final and it's impact has got everyone excited.
Directed by renowned Hollywood director and producer Alejandro G.
A true "midvoor"... Kees Kist
The bad thing is...we don't seem to have that many sensational wingers and strikers knocking on
the door... Elia? Sure! Babel? Lens? Amrabat? Biseswar? Hmm.... Maybe not...
The good thing is, I believe Bilardo saw it right in 1986... "In the future, teams will play
without a [read more]
Liverpool lead 2-0 on aggregate.
Kickoff is 2:45pm ET. Once again, it's not on live in the US. Hopefully this'll be the last time
that's the case for the Europa League, at least for those of us with DirecTV. I'm getting really
sick of watching internet streams.
Guess at a line-up:
Cavalieri
Johnson Carragher Skrtel Wilson
Cole Lucas Gerrard Jovanovic
Aquilani
Ngog
In lieu of refreshing Twitter and multiple Liverpool forums hoping for concrete news on the
possible departure of our current custodians, what say we worry about the football for a little
while?
Todays Lineup against Arsenal for the opening game of the 2010/2011 season. Reina, Johnson, Agger,
Skrtel, Carragher, Mascherano, Gerrard, Cole, Jovanovic, Kuyt, Ngog. Subs: Cavalieri, Lucas, Babel,
Torres, Kelly, Maxi, Aurelio.
Liverpool lead 1-0 on aggregate.
1:30pm ET; not on TV in the US. Again. And so far, my DirecTV guide only has Sunday's West Brom
game on delay: FS+ at 7pm. Not good. I'm blaming Purslow for this, too.
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 0-3 City (a); 1-0 Trabzonspor (h); 1-1 Arsenal (h)
Trabzonspor: 3-2 Fenerbahce (h); 0-1 Liverpool (a); 2-0 Ankaragucu (a)
Referee: Ivan Bebek (CRO)
Guess at a line-up:
Reina
Johnson Carragher Skrtel Aurelio
Lucas Poulsen
Kuyt Cole Pacheco
Ngog
The traveling party, announced this morning, seemingly tells the world where Liverpool's priorities
lie.
Reina, Johnson, Kelly, Kyrgiakos, Carragher, Aurelio, Lucas, Poulsen, Kuyt, Cole, Ngog. Subs:
Gulacsi, Pacheco, Babel, Spearing, Shelvey, Skrtel, Eccleston.
The Reds face league two side Northampton Town tonight at Anfield and Roy should surely be looking
to do well in this competition with the realisation that the Premier League for Liverpool this
season is more than out of reach. It would be nice however to see a mixture of youngsters play
tomorrow but also a [.
The Liverpool FC line up v Spurs for the Premier League fixture at White Hart Lane on Sunday
November 28th 2010, has been confirmed as follows:
Starting 11:
Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Skrtel, Konchesky, Lucas, Meireles, Rodriguez, Kuyt, Ngog, Torres
Subs:
Jones, Cole, Kyrgiakos, Aurelio, Babel, Pouslen, Jovanovic
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Liverpool are beating Aston Villa 2-0 at Anfield, with Babel and Ngog getting the goals. Watch
them both here!
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Barcelona midfielder Xabi Alonso watched his former team-mates rip Aston Villa apart at
Anfield tonight 3-0.
Liverpool showed former manager Gerard Houllier that life without him at
Anfield was much better after he claimed that in his time at the club he dragged them into the 20th
Century, while also taking the credit for making Steven Gerrard the World Class midfielder he is
today.
12:15pm, live in the US on Setanta
Last 4 head-to-head:
2-1 Liverpool (h) 03.15.08
1-3 Reading (a) 12.08.07
4-2 Liverpool (a; Carling Cup) 09.25.07
2-1 Liverpool (a) 04.07.07
Last 3 matches:
Liverpool: 1-0 Villa (a); 2-0 Wolves (h); 0-2 Pompey (a)
Reading: 1-4 Plymouth (a); 1-1 Swansea (h); 1-1 Bristol City (a)
Goalscorers (all competitions):
Liverpool: Torres 12; Benayoun 7; Kuyt, Ngog 6; Gerrard 5; Babel 3; Johnson 2; Insua, Skrtel
1
Reading: Sigurdsson 7; Rasiak 6; Church 4; Bignall, Hunt, Mills, Mooney, Pearce 2; Cisse,
Howard, Kebe, McAnuff 1
Guess at a squad:
Cavalieri
Darby Carragher Skrtel Insua
Lucas Spearing
Kuyt Gerrard Babel
Ngog
Benitez has firmly stated that the FA Cup's more important with the state Liverpool's in, yet I
can't help but expected a weaker line-up.
Tonights Liverpool team to face Reading in the FA Cup Reina, Darby, Carragher, Skrtel, Insua, Kuyt,
Gerrard, Lucas, Aurelio, Ngog, Torres. Subs: Cavalieri, Aquilani, Benayoun, Kyrgiakos, Babel,
Spearing, Degen.
Rafa Benitez has named his side to face Reading in the FA Cup replay at Anfield tonight, with
Alberto Aquilani again in the starting line up. The team in full is: Cavalieri, Degen, Carragher,
Agger, Insua, Aquilani, Lucas, Benayoun, Kuyt, Gerrard, Torres. Subs: Aurelio, Babel, Ngog,
Spearing, Skrtel, Gulacsi, Pacheco.
Cavalieri, Degen, Carragher, Agger, Insua, Aquilani, Lucas, Benayoun, Kuyt, Gerrard, Torres. Subs:
Aurelio, Babel, Ngog, Spearing, Skrtel, Gulacsi, Pacheco.
Liverpool completed the signing of Argentine forward Maxi Rodriguez from Atletico Madrid on a
three-and-half-year contract, the Premier League club said on Wednesday.The deal is now subject to
him gaining international clearance but he was at Anfield on Wednesday to watch Liverpool's FA Cup
third-round replay against ReadingSo, what do we think of this deal?
Cavalieri
Degen Carragher Agger Insua
Aquilani Lucas
Kuyt Gerrard Benayoun
Torres
Goals:
Bertrand (og) 45+1'
Sigurdsson 90+3' (pen)
Long 100'
Comical. Unfortunate. Deserved. Typical. And no, there's no acronym there.
It looked like Liverpool would hold onto the one slice of luck received – a chance deflection in
the last minute of the first half – but not this season.
7:45am, live in the US on espn2
Last 4 head-to-head:
4-0 Liverpool (a) 08.19.09
0-0 (a) 01.10.09
0-0 (h) 09.20.08
8-0 Liverpool (a; League Cup) 11.29.2000
Last three matches:
Liverpool: 1-2 Reading aet (h); 1-1 Reading (a); 1-0 Villa (a)
Stoke: 3-2 Fulham (h); 3-1 York (h); 0-1 Brum (h)
Goalscorers (league):
Liverpool: Torres 12; Benayoun, Gerrard, Kuyt 5; Ngog 4; Babel, Johnson 2; Skrtel 1
Stoke: Beattie 3; Etherington, Faye, Kitson, Shawcross, Tuncay 2; Fuller, Huth, Sidibe,
Whelan 1
Referee: Lee Mason
That would be the same Lee Mason who sent off Carragher and Degen at Fulham and Masch at Pompey in
his only two Liverpool matches this season.
