LIVERPOOL VS BLACKBURN ROVERS - Must win

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Postby bigmick » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:13 pm

The defence out of position one is interesting, I didn't see it like that. Scott said earlier that Konchesky was out of position prior to the goal, but I think that's harsh to be honest. That the ball to Benjani was pushed in the channel isn't in dispute, but Konchesky had been bombing on all game so he can hardly be in two places at once. In actual fact he tracked back into exactly the right place both when Benjani went past Skyrtel as if he wasn't there, and then when Carragher missed the cross. Other than that, I don't think they caused us an issue going forward.

All in all lets be honest we were far better than them (which we are entitled to be as well given we've got better players). Were it not for some wasteful finishing and the inevitable nerves setting in for the last 20 minutes, we'd have won it 4 or 5.
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Postby stmichael » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:17 pm

what would everyone's centre back partnership be if everyone is fit?
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Postby JC_81 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:25 pm

stmichael wrote:i'm actually looking foward to going to bolton next weekend now, which is not something i would have said 48 hours ago.

anyone else here going?

I'm heading down St Mike, have a mate who is a Bolton season ticket holder so going with him.

Haven't been to the Reebok before.  Don't expect it to be a great game but after the Blackburn result this is more than winnable for us.
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Postby stmichael » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:29 pm

john craig wrote:
stmichael wrote:i'm actually looking foward to going to bolton next weekend now, which is not something i would have said 48 hours ago.

anyone else here going?

I'm heading down St Mike, have a mate who is a Bolton season ticket holder so going with him.

Haven't been to the Reebok before.  Don't expect it to be a great game but after the Blackburn result this is more than winnable for us.

the reebok's a dump but it's normally a good atmosphere as it's one of the highest away allocations of the season along with blackburn. i expect we'll be taking 5000 or so down there.
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Postby JC_81 » Mon Oct 25, 2010 2:32 pm

stmichael wrote:
john craig wrote:
stmichael wrote:i'm actually looking foward to going to bolton next weekend now, which is not something i would have said 48 hours ago.

anyone else here going?

I'm heading down St Mike, have a mate who is a Bolton season ticket holder so going with him.

Haven't been to the Reebok before.  Don't expect it to be a great game but after the Blackburn result this is more than winnable for us.

the reebok's a dump but it's normally a good atmosphere as it's one of the highest away allocations of the season along with blackburn. i expect we'll be taking 5000 or so down there.

Good stuff.  Unfortunately I'll be stuck in with the Bolton lot as that's where my mate got the tickets, so I'll be keeping quiet!
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Postby RED BEERGOGGLES » Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:27 pm

stmichael wrote:what would everyone's centre back partnership be if everyone is fit?

Skrtel and Agger or Carragher and Agger ...but Agger for me is a must ...people forget how adept Hyypia was with the ball at his feet ..he could win the ball and distribute it with aplomb and Agger has the same essential characteristics .....
Hyypia was so underrated .... he would in my opinion  actually be second only to Hansen and equal with Lawro as one of the finest defenders we ever had at the club .... I think Agger could eventually equal this maybe given time even surpass it .....
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Postby RED BEERGOGGLES » Mon Oct 25, 2010 3:44 pm

Liverpool Echo 25th/10/2010
By Dominic King

THE owner was on his sick bed but the team climbed off theirs; flu may have prevented John W Henry making his home début but at least Liverpool have started to shake off their fever.

If Henry was under the weather yesterday, run down after two of the most draining, dramatic weeks of his life, it was nothing compared to how every Liverpool supporter felt after two of the most demoralising, dispiriting months in living memory.

Plummeting down the rankings at an alarming rate of knots and regularly embarrassed, Roy Hodgson admitted recently the Reds’ loss of form has been akin to an illness and the debilitating effects of it have been there for all to see – just look at the Premier League table.

So even though the arrival of New England Sports Ventures as the club’s new owners has helped ease some of the tension, there would have been apprehension and anxiety regardless of whether Henry had taken his seat in the director’s box for yesterday’s showdown with Blackburn Rovers.

Happily, the tonic Henry – watching at home on television – and every other Liverpudlian craved arrived courtesy of a first domestic win since August 29 courtesy of a performance that was undeniably the Reds’ best to date under Hodgson.

It would be wrong to say this means Liverpool’s house is back in order now – clearly, it isn’t – but what cannot be argued is the fact that, for the first time in a while, satisfaction is the overriding emotion heading into the working week.

“I don’t want to suggest everything is suddenly hunky dory,” said a pragmatic Hodgson afterwards. “For me, it was a very good victory against a tough team. It was more than deserved and I’m also very happy with the way the team played during the first 70 minutes.”

As he should have been. With a bit more ruthlessness, Liverpool would have had this one-sided contest wrapped up long before they needed Fernando Torres to put them back in front after Jamie Carragher’s own goal cancelled out Sotirios Kyrgiakos’ thumping header early in the second period.
Passing the ball with better accuracy and tempo, pushing forward from the first whistle and not allowing Blackburn the slightest opportunity to indulge the favourite two words of their caricature Sam Allardyce – go long – Liverpool’s efforts should have yielded more.

Allardyce, possibly for the first time in his managerial career, accepted Blackburn got precisely what they deserved at Anfield – nothing – but even he, a man who will tell you something is black even if you can see it is white, would have been hard pushed to contest this final score.

Which begs the question: what changed? This is not suddenly making Liverpool out to be the best team in the country – they are still statistically not even the best in the city – but had they played with this vigour a month ago, there is no way Hodgson and Company would be in such a mess.

Everything looked right from the word go here. The back four worked cohesively; Lucas and Raul Meireles knew when to go and when to stay (something to do with their native tongues being Portuguese, perhaps?), while ahead of them, the attackers functioned efficiently.

Maxi Rodriguez, for example, had his best game since Hodgson became manager, doing things in that elegantly simplistic way, Steven Gerrard was a constant menace and Joe Cole left his Goodison Park nightmare well behind, providing a peach of a pass for Torres to settle things.

One passage of play early in the second period summed up the returning confidence; the ball made its way from left to right with Meireles, Gerrard, Torres, Maxi and Cole all, at some point, producing flicks of nonchalance, leaving Blackburn heads in a spin.

This was much more like it. True, it might have taken a one-dimensional goal to break the deadlock but had Liverpool kept Blackburn at arms length for another five minutes – or if referee Phil Dowd had awarded a penalty for a push on Kyrgiakos – they might have ended up running amok. At long last, everywhere you looked there was a man clad in Rred staking a claim to be named man of the match. Lucas rarely wasted possession, Meireles gets better by the week, while Carragher produced a performance that prompted Hodgson to call him “Carlos Alberto”.

Yet as good as they all where, none could surpass the outstanding Kyrgiakos and the highest praise you can give this Greek colossus, who stands as big and strong as one of the columns on the Parthenon, is that he absolutely deserves his place in the starting line-up.

He might not be the classiest central defender nor could you ever say he is the quickest but every game Kyrgiakos plays, he gives nothing other his maximum, takes great pride in wearing a Liverpool shirt and wants to help his team win.
In other words, he cares. Since making a mistake against Lyon in a Champions League group game last November, Kyrgiakos has hardly put a foot out of line when called on and he is quickly building up a quite a following on the Kop.

Whether he will ever get to the levels of adoration reserved for Torres is open to debate but while Kyrgiakos’ goal was welcome, the strike from the Spaniard which ultimately settled the game was celebrated more with relief than anything else.

Watching his form betray him in the last few weeks has, to put it mildly, made uncomfortable viewing and just to see him smile and acknowledge the crowd again provided some reassurance, hinting that there are better days ahead.

Sentiments which can be applied to the team; that Liverpool are still in the bottom three demands the situation be put into perspective and they will have no easy task when tackling Bolton Wanderers next Sunday. But, for once, you get the impression that the scent of recovery is in the air; after so much doom and gloom, that, surely, is something to embrace.

“If we had come in at half-time several goals up no-one could have said a word; it was a very deserved victory.” Roy Hodgson points out that Liverpool’s confidence booster could have been by a landslide

“We would not have let Fernando Torres in there if we’d had Chris Samba or Ryan Nelson.” Sam Allardyce predictably finds an excuse for Blackburn’s defeat


Good match report from King .... especially the pointer towards Lucas and Meireles using the same native tongue PORTUGUESE 
these two should now be allowed to develop together and build a rapport in the middle and use Gerrard further up the field ....my choice would be on the right with Cole left wing and play Rodriguez behind Torres .... they shown Yesterday that they could build a more than efficient partnership
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Postby maypaxvobiscum » Mon Oct 25, 2010 4:20 pm

stmichael wrote:what would everyone's centre back partnership be if everyone is fit?

Kyrgiakos and Agger. Carra on the right. Konchesky on the left.
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Postby worcester_red » Mon Oct 25, 2010 5:17 pm

stmichael wrote:what would everyone's centre back partnership be if everyone is fit?

Agger and Skyrtel. Carra should not be a regular starter any more and we should NOT have given him a new contract.
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Postby zarababe » Mon Oct 25, 2010 6:57 pm

maypaxvobiscum wrote:if we win our next game, 7-0, we'll be up to 7th :D

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Good win no-doubt really pleased - lets hope its onwards and upwards..  :buttrock
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Postby devaney » Thu Nov 04, 2010 11:35 am

worcester_red wrote:
stmichael wrote:what would everyone's centre back partnership be if everyone is fit?

Agger and Skyrtel. Carra should not be a regular starter any more and we should NOT have given him a new contract.

Who do you think actually bosses the defence? Ok Carra is not as good as he used to be but show some respect of course he should have been given a new contract. He can't do everything in defence and look what he has around him!
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