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Liverpool 1; Wigan 0
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So Torres played but we didn’t win easily. Still, another clean sheet and three more points can’t be sneezed at.
Apparently Yossi’s goal was a (nother) cracker but it won’t be on TV here in Canada for another hour or so and I can only find this link which shows the finish and a crazy Middle [...]
Category: Post Match Reaction
Wigan Preview
By: ed_ | 4 Comments
If Torres starts, we win. Easily.
If Torres doesn’t start, we win.
My team would be:
Reina
Finnan
Carra
Arbeloa
Riise
Pennant
Gerrard
Mascherano
Babel
Torres
Kuyt
A lot of changes from Tuesday night’s game but the pace and creativity Babel, Pennant and, to some extent, Riise will give us should hopefully mess nicely with the sort of expansive game Wigan will be playing at home. Wigan are far [...]
Category: Liverpool Match Day PreviewWhich super-striker extra value combo will you have?
By: ed_ | 3 Comments
Rotation, Rotation, Rotation has been the refrain from the press this week as the hacks on the Liverpool beat try to analysis (and understand) Rafa’s methods. I was disappointed that Torres was rotated out of the starting XI for the Birmingham game, but can understand the fact that the team he played (not just the [...]
Category: Player NewsReading 2; Liverpool 4
By: ed_ | 2 Comments
Phew, what a game. Back and forth and back and forth again before we eased clear.
4-2 doesn’t really do the Liverpool performance justice – Convey’s goal, while a superb strike, was through a veritable bevy of offside Reading players and how Torres wasn’t awarded a penalty after Bikey yanked him down. Even more confusing [...]
Category: Post Match ReactionEl Zahr the Magnificent | Arbeloa starts in the middle
By: ed_ | 1 Comment
Just watched the highlights from the reserves’ game against Wigan and El Zahr did the most outrageous piece of skill.
From a standing start, and with the defender about a yard and a half away, he did a great impression of the famous Ibrahimovic/Ronaldinho “elastico” where you push the ball away to your right with your [...]
Category: Liverpool Match Day PreviewBenitez: Nice Guys Finish Last?
By: ed_ | 4 Comments
Over on the always excellent This is Anfield, Neale Graham has a really long, very thoughtful post on Benitez’s potential legacy, should he leave today.
Neale says that Benitez is a good manager who’s career is being undermined by two factors:
1. His love of rotation
2. He’s too nice a guy
Please take five minutes to check out [...]
Category: Rafa BenitezBrum reaction
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Bleurgh.
That was pretty disappointing for us. Credit where credit’s due though, Birmingham did all the right things, played a very deep line, played nice and tight and let Carra and Sami to their own devices while pressurising us in the important areas.
I thought we really missed Agger on Saturday. We missed a ball-playing centre-back because, [...]
Category: Post Match ReactionBrummy Preview
By: ed_ | 5 Comments
So, Birmingham tomorrow and Steve Bruce has cleverly identified Jermaine Pennant as the danger-man his side needs to keep quiet. Talk about a Kop-out. If I was a highly paid manager, what if I picked the one player I knew the most about, regardless of the talent of his team-mates, and focus on him?
Why not [...]
Category: Liverpool Match Day PreviewFantasy Football Question
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Should I make Carragher or Torres my captain for this week? I’m confident of a win against Birmingham but not sure if I should expect goals as well.
What do you think?
For what it’s worth, here’s the rest of my side:
GK – Niemi (Fulham)
GK – Given (Newcastle)
DEF – Carragher (Liverpool)
DEF – Chimbonda (Tottenham)
DEF – Richards (Manchester [...]
Category: Fantasy FootballAgger, Alonso out | Translator sacked
By: ed_ | 4 Comments
News that we all feared to hear has come out of Melwood. One of our central defenders, the position we are woefully short of back-up in, has been ruled out for six weeks with the dreaded broken metatarsal. Yes, we’ll be missing the Great Dane, Daniel Agger until, I believe, early November.
This means that Xabi [...]
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