Liverpool FC Forum

[SouthCoastShankly]

it'll be interesting to see what team rafa picks. personally, i'd be temped to rest hyypia and bring in agger.

Agger is out with a thigh strain. BBC Sport reckon Sissoko will return. I personally wouldn't risk him and save him for the Chelsea game next week.

[redmikey]

I think momo will have all the yellow cards wiped. don't quote me but that is why he was rested against bolton.

[RichardLFC1]

a win at blackburn will be massive as man utd are still level and theres 5 minutes left

[fivecups]

0-0, 2 points unexpectedly dropped by the mancs. Can we catch them?

I would freakin love it!

[Bad Bob]

0-0, 2 points unexpectedly dropped by the mancs. Can we catch them?

I would freakin love it!

Anything's possible and the Mancs do not have an easy run in:


Mon. April 17th: Away to Tottenham (Spurs will be up for it to consolidate 4th)

Sat. April 29th: Away to Chelsea (Chelski will be up for it because they'll be so enraged that they lost to us in the FA Cup Semis the week before )

Mon. May 1st: Home to Boro (Boro will look to do the double over them)

Sun. May 7th: Home to Charlton (the masters of the nil-nil draw)

Come on lads, let's do this!   

[stmichael]

0-0, 2 points unexpectedly dropped by the mancs. Can we catch them?

I would freakin love it!

did anyone hear the mackems singing "YNWA"?

classic

[RichardLFC1]

0-0, 2 points unexpectedly dropped by the mancs. Can we catch them?

I would freakin love it!

Anything's possible and the Mancs do not have an easy run in:


Mon. April 17th: Away to Tottenham (Spurs will be up for it to consolidate 4th)

Sat. April 29th: Away to Chelsea (Chelski will be up for it because they'll be so enraged that they lost to us in the FA Cup Semis the week before )

Mon. May 1st: Home to Boro (Boro will look to do the double over them)

Sun. May 7th: Home to Charlton (the masters of the nil-nil draw)

Come on lads, let's do this!   

thats looking good for us

[Ciggy]

Hope Morientes doesnt start  , weve been scoring since he hasnt featured in the starting 11.
Doubt Cisse will even travel broken leg there plus the sh!te performance at Anfield against Bolton.
Crouch and Fowler upfront or Crouch and Garcia behind him.
God bless our players If Lucas Neil plays............

[metalhead]

Ewood park, the cursed ground again 

Hopefully we will win because we can't afford to drop anypoints

[Ciggy]

Going to post an article now from the Blackburn forum I kid you not you would think he was an evertonian or a manc but he's a yank LOL  How bitter and jealous could ya get silly Yankie b@stard


I was hoping Blckburn would pip and Spurs for fourth, but I really hope we slaughter them now, the inbred, woolyback .

Liverpool: The Red Sh!te, the Red Scum, the Dirty Kopites, the Scouse Barstards. They go by many names, but if asked, they’d prefer Champions of Europe. Of course they would, but who listens to them anyway?

The club everyone loves to hate currently sits in 3rd place and are within spitting distance of 2nd, a position they could not even hope to attain last year. Their emphatic win over Everton recently coupled with their 7-0 embarrassing thrashing of Birmingham give them 10 goals in two games and 18 in their last four in all competitions. An impressive number for any club but when before March there was a serious power outage from the numerous strikers that Liverpool have under their employ the number seems all the more impressive.

Our last match was one that given a visit from Souey’s ever elusive mistress Lady Luck we might not have lost all three points. This was the match of the controversial Zurab Khizanishvili sending off (was he in the box or out of the box?) to which Ryan Nelsen saw fit to sound off on a few months later when recalling referee Halsey’s propensity to send Rovers off on red cards. For this “Improper Conduct” Ryan was almost brought in front of a tribunal as a result. But I digress, the past match in October saw Rovers defend mightily with 10 men for 42 minutes before Cisse struck a sneaky free kick in past Big Brad who had no chance. Who could say what would have happened if Zurab would have stayed in the game. One of those We’ll Never Know kind of things. At the time Liverpool were 1-4-1 with a whopping total of 4 goals scored. We were 3-2-3 with a total of 7 goals scored with our leading scorer of Gamst with three.

For our next game the Red Scum look somewhat formidable with their strikers throwing in goals to finally help the midfield. The one interesting note is that even though they are not on top of our fan favorites list, they do play Bolton before our game. So for that moment, I have to say I will be a Liverpool fan…for that 2 hours only! After that, though, they do not play any of our direct competitors (Arsenal, Wigan, Tottenham) for the rest of the season.

This Q&A was taken the day of the Brum thrashing as I just recently moved and wanted to make sure my USUALLY delinquent friends would reply in time. As I soon found out, they had no problem this go ‘round. Regardless, the Q&A from my delusional Liverpool co-worker (whose responses are in red) was pretty much what I expected, so I included a scouse friend of mine (whose responses are in blue) who has been a Toffee from the day he was born for a bit of comic relief, and also a bit of sense.

Liverpool's season had taken a turn for the worse, but now seems to be on the up. Can it all be attributed to the lack of legitimate firepower up front or is the fixture list just too packed?
I think it is a little bit of both. First, liverpool has played so many games this season because they had to start their Champions League in the middle of july. That with the league, the FA and Carling Cup, it makes a busy schedule. This week alone, they played on sunday, will play tomorrow, tuesday, in the FA cup, and again this weekend. That is crazy. On the other hand, liverpool also need a poachers striker similar to that of michael owen. At the moment no one is doing that for them. But things are looking up, 8 goals in the last 2 matches, so we will see.
In an age where footballers are supposed to be bigger, stronger and fitter than they've ever been, all this talk of having too many games is just an excuse. Liverpool have a squad of more than thirty players, surely they can handle ninety minutes of football every week or four days. Liverpool's strike force is the worst I've ever seen. They have a 6'7'' striker who can't head the ball, a multiple European Cup winner in Fernando Morientes who's forgotten how to play since he moved there, Djibril Cisse who spends more time worrying about how to make his hair look stupid than scoring goals (His penalty against Newcastle recently was his first for fifteen games) and Robbie Fowler, who will never be the player he was when he was twenty three. Combined in the league, they have sixteen goals. (Crouch, 6, Cisse, 5, Morientes, 4, Fowler, 1.) With Steven Gerrard top-scoring in the league with eight, I think it's plainly obvious what the issue is.

Do you feel that Liverpool's European run hindered their chance at the Premiership
I think the amount of games they had to play early in the season hindered their chances in both. But pushing for 2nd is not bad at all. Would that be the European run that they cried their way into? ...and never should have been allowed to compete in? I'm surprised Benfica eliminated them, I'm shocked that they didn't lodge a complaint for re-instatement on the grounds that.. they are the Champions of Europe and should be treated as such.

Do you happen to have any memorable Blackburn vs. Liverpool memories?
I always just remember from the games I have seen between the two, they are usually entertaining. Both teams, especially Blackburn, get up for the game.
Carragher(?) Babbel and Cisse having their twigs snapped at Ewood Park

Who on Liverpool should Blackburn be afraid of?
The liverpool midfield in general. With stevie g and xabi alonso leading the way, they are one of the most dangerous midfields in the league/europe/world.
Blackburn are a team that can be exposed by pace, and almost every time I've watched him this season, Andy Todd has gone to sleep and let someone streak by, so I suppose Djibril Cisse would threaten in that respect; not that he would score a goal, of course.. but if by a miracle he found another player for once, there could be danger there. ...and of course there's always danger in the form of Steven Gerrard, though sometimes the danger is more that he'll cynically break your leg.
Who on Blackburn should Liverpool be afraid of?
Brad Friedel is a really good goalkeeper and is hard to beat a lot of the time. Bellamy could have his day too...
Craig Bellamy. Goals in each of his last three premier league appearances, his pace stretches any defence. He also has great ability and in form is an asset to any team. I also fully expect Morten Gamst Pedersen to turn Steve Finnan inside out.
What do you think of Rafa? A bonafide tactical genius or a clueless, plodding plonker?

Rafa is a GOD. haha. Seems like he is bringing liverpool back to their glory days. Turned down real madrid to resign with us, which shows hes committed. He has the capability to out coach anyone.
Rafael Benitez is a tactical buffoon. Anybody who thinks they can let Kaka wander around a pitch unchecked needs a CAT scan as soon as possible. I thoroughly believe that had Harry Kewell not been injured against Milan, the Italians would have continued their dominance right through to take an easy win. It took him an awfully long time to grasp how to play against lesser English teams in the premier league, it seemed he fully expected them to lay down before the might of Liverpool. The strike force that he has assembled all on his own is a testament to his perception of players, and the fact that Liverpool are worse than Bolton in terms of hoofing the ball from back to front all goes to show that the only reason there is any perception of this man who seems only able to say 'We work berry hard' as a decent football manager.. is that Liverpool are the media's perception of a "big club" and he is their boss.


Who is/was your favorite Liverpool player?
past: kenny dalglish, present: stevie gerrard of course. I like Brad Friedel a lot because he is american...and good, but liverpool doesn't really need a goalkeeper.
All the dead ones.

Now that your Euro Cup run is over, will you now please stop calling yourselves the Champions of Europe?
We defeated chelsea and ac milan on our way to glory. It was well deserved. I will now say we are 5 time champions of Europe
Nobody but their lot believed that anyway...

Some interesting head to head facts if you all will indulge me….
The last time the Red Scum was beaten by Blackburn was in the FA Cup in 2000. Interesting that Dominic “Private Pyle” Matteo started and Thommo came on as a sub. Oh yeah and that Blake bloke scored the lone goal…

The last time the Red Scum were beaten by Blackburn in a League game was

1996 when Wilcox scored betwixt a Sutton brace. Again Matteo was a kopite starter as was eventual Rovers Bjornebye and McAteer.

Since that win our head-to-head record in the League is 0-8-7…ouch…

The last time Rovers finished above the Dirty Kopites…Championship year, although in 2002 we finished just below them in the standings.

The last time Rovers have swept a season series is 1993-1994 season.

If we just looked at our head-to-head history we look a bit out of our class, however, if the boys can get the stigma out of their heads and play as brightly as we all know they are capable of, I think Blackburn can pip the 3 points. I believe that we get up for this match and show them who’s boss with a 2-0 win.

Liverpool will be trying to either concrete or gain that second place spot and provide even more ammunition for their defense of being one of the best in England. Pfft, who believes that dross anyway?

[metalhead]

Rafael Benitez is a tactical buffoon. Anybody who thinks they can let Kaka wander around a pitch unchecked needs a CAT scan as soon as possible

lmao@ stupid idiot! 

When i read this i thought if this guy is for real or what?

He must have missed the second half of the final!!

[ivor_the_injun]

Completely forgot Man U were playing tonight - excellent result for us.

That's the games in hand evened out in the race for second now. 4 games each to go, 6 points in it.

I can see Man U losing away at both Spurs and Chelsea, but they'll need to drop points against Middlesbrough or Charlton to give us a sniff of getting 2nd. And that's assuming we take maximum points in our last fixtures.

I just hope this isn't one of those all-too-regular occasions where a team does us a favour only for us to fluff our lines when things are in our hands. Big, big game on Sunday.

[GOAT]

Big 3 points this, dont take maximum points and we can forget 2nd for good, take the 3 points and that is our hardest remaining game out the way and it gives us a good chance of snatching 2nd as i cant see man u getting max points against chelsea or tottenham

[ivor_the_injun]

The problem is that, because of our inferior goal difference, Man U have to lose at least 2 of their last 4, and drop points in at least 1 of the other 2.

Although that said, if we can continue our blistering goalscoring form of recent weeks and overturn Man U's +10 headstart (and if they lose 2 games, that's at least 2 goals chalked off it, potentially more if Chelsea have one of their on-song days), maybe 2 Man U defeats will do it for us after all. I think Villa in particular are in for an unpleasant afternoon in a couple of weeks.

I hope Robbie's got his shooting boots to hand for Sunday. Blackburn's as good a place as any to show our intent.

[laza]

Hope we do well but mainly just hope we are in good shape for semi final next weekend

Can still see a 2-0 win for us