Matchday: Liverpool v. Wigan

By: Ed | December 21st, 2011
   
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Kickoff from the DW Stadium at 8:00PM GMT/3:00PM EST

Ways to Watch:

Live on Sky Sports 1 in the UK and ESPN3.com in the US.

Match will also run on delay on ESPN Deportes at 9:00PM EST (thanks to Jake for the tip).

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Liverpool:

Reina
Johnson Skrtel Agger Enrique
Henderson Adam
Downing Maxi
Kuyt Suarez

Bench: Doni, Carroll, Coates, Carragher, Shelvey, Kelly, Bellamy

Wigan:

Al Habsi
Caldwell Alcaraz Figueroa
Stam Diame McCarthy Jones
Sammon Moses Gomez

Bench: Pollitt, Crusat, Di Santo, Watson, McArthur, Rodallega, Lopez


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  • enfrique

    kenny, buy some fucking fresh players...PLEASeeeeee...for god sake man these guys wouldnt do well in the first division.....wake the fuck up liverpool you bunch a loosers

  • Luis Suarez dentist

    Now I know we have missed a lot of chances this season but lets not pretend this is all due to bad luck

    All of the rest of the top 6 would expect to create chances against Norwich, Swansea, Wigan, Sunderland, Stoke and Fulham. The difference is that they are beating these sides.

    I know i'm giving it a rest at the moment but what on earth has Downing contributed all season? Henderson has been neat and tidy and generally invisible. Adam has been inconsistent but isn't top 4 quality. Carroll is looking like a complete flop.

    Sadly we need large investment but mainly in the areas where we have already wasted millions on the buy British policy.

  • purify_the_body

    Hey, look on the bright side. We've got all the backups we need and are only 5 top quality starters away from being in the top 4 again!

  • Luis Suarez dentist

    Ha ha think you have hit the nail bang on the head there!

  • PDubz18

    Adam was okay today, Henderson was anything but invisible. Had a few of the first chances gone in, you would be heaping praise on both of them. Large investments aren't needed; we have a good squad that create chances.

    You start out by saying that the top 6 would create chances which is correct, but you end with saying that we need "large investment." We need to finish chances, we don't need to buy new players.

    Kuyt and Johnson are two players that we do not need to replace, and both of them could have easily won us that game with their two chances early in the game, one of them created by Downing. Which leads me to my next point:

    Downing creates chances, but no one is finishing them. He provided a beautiful corner for Shelvey against Aston Villa which led to the opener. He is always stretching the defense and running hard.

  • Luis Suarez dentist

    Downing should be doing more than creating one chance every 2 games!

    Question: Do you really think that Adam and Henderson would get anywhere near our Premier League runners up team a few years ago?

  • KC

    Which kinda makes me wish that instead of buying all these players who create chances, spend some of the money to buy just one player who finishes them. A proven finisher just like how we have proven chance makers.

  • Bgurakan

    We are so poor it's not funny. Well done Wigan And Matinez deserved draw.

  • purify_the_body

    We are something, all right. In a way it's kind of incredible that we've assembled a group of midfielders and attackers whose general level of play is so high, yet ability to score is so low. Bizarre.

  • Luis Suarez dentist

    That was very painful. The odd decent performance aside lets be honest. Henderson, Adam and especially Downing are not top 4 players let alone good enough for Liverpool players.

    With Kuyt off form and Bellamy and Maxi rarely getting 90 minutes it's going to be a long hard 8 games without Suarez.

    Still Liverpool should fight that verdic to the highest court in the land if needed.

  • purify_the_body

    I thought Henderson was brilliant. He ran miles, worked hard in defense, passed with accuracy and consistency. A good performance.

    Adam and Downing, on the other hand...let's just say they don't inspire confidence in the future.

  • Luis Suarez dentist

    The problem with Henderson is I feel he spends a lot of time been busy not doing a lot. But he's young so maybe he will improve.

    But Adam and especially Downing just are not good enough. Add Carroll to that list and that is a lot of money that has been spent for very little return.

  • Zach

    I feel like dying. And no, I'm not being dramatic.

  • purify_the_body

    Yes, you are. lol

  • Zach

    well... barely ;)

  • Into the wall then into the keeper. We're finishing sixth.

  • purify_the_body

    Yes, we are.

  • Where were we this time last year? We can improve.

  • I know, I know. Just frustrated at seeing the same shit over and over and OVER again. This is how every single fucking match since Sunderland has played out. Dominate, dominate, waste a penalty, come away with either 1 or 0 points. Very few exceptions so far and it's incredibly frustrating to see it happen yet again. Fourth is still a possibility, but just... NNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGRRRRRAHHHHHHHHHH!!! You see what I'm saying?

  • I know what you're saying. Years of Liverpool failure has given me an incredible tolerance to losing.

  • AdamSonOfIstanbul

    Pass the fucking Eggnog. 

  • purify_the_body

    Enrique is so, so good!!

  • purify_the_body

    OK, 4 minutes!! Come on, dammit!!

  • Yann

    I've said this many times before and I'll say it again. We should have grabbed that makeweight Sturridge when we had the chance. He's a finisher.

  • Yann

    Who are Liverpool kidding? Do we seriously expect Carroll to get 5 minute runs and run into form. Either give him 30 minutes or sell him. I hope I'm proved wrong and he scores but I don't think so. 

  • purify_the_body

    Plenty of boos for Suarez coming off, eh? Fuck 'em.

  • KC

    What's Suarez done to Wigan? Seriously fans of opposing teams should just shut the fuck up with their disrespecting boos.

  • ejbauer11

    Is this actually happening?

  • purify_the_body

    Moses is making Downing look like a chump.

  • Ryan

    One thing I've noticed about our defense. Skrtel and Agger never get fooled by dummy runs by the strikers to make space for the man with the ball. Barcelona use this tactic to an extreme, pretty much everytime they are in the opponents half. They stand their ground and focus on the ball. No man-to-man marking. 

  • purify_the_body

    Getting outplayed now.

  • purify_the_body

    Enrique is amazing. Downing, not so amazing.

  • Luis Suarez dentist

    I may make a point a million times, but i'm seldom wrong.

    Downing is never a Liverpool player.

  • purify_the_body

    Oh, no, all our players taking turns now giving it away...

  • Jordannnnnnnnn....

  • Ryan

    Well, I deserve credit for getting the on-subs right.

  • purify_the_body

    Good subs. Come on, we can win it still!!!

  • Yann

    I can't be philosophical about this any more. This is becoming depressing. If we can't pinch this one, given results elsewhere, I can feel our Champions League chances slipping away.  

  • I trust in Comolli to bring reinforcements in January. We could do another late run like we did last year.

  • purify_the_body

    More players would be great. I just hope they don't let Kenny give any input as to who they will be.

  • Yann

    Yeah, and have them sit their expensive arses on the bench watching this diabolical shit unfold like the rest of us. Ugh!

  • Suarez from the car park...

    i've always maintained this team's time is the run in, the last 10 games.

    But we need leaders to do the business,  make the right decisions that really creates danger.  At the mo, there's too many people who are ok, but don't change the game, sometimes miss the obvious pass, send it back or sideways.

    We might be setup to pass and move, but we're not setup to finish.  we seem to have noone in on goal or a few bodies in near the goal and no one near the D to pick up the loose ball.

    Adam was a disgrace today.  He's so determined to be the penalty taker and then takes the worst pen i've seen in a long time.

    Very hungover about yesterday, and very bad after tonight.  5 points gone against fulham and wigan.  effin disgraceful.

    2 summers of poor transfers decisions.

  • Yann

    The problem with the run in scenario is that playing catch up is hard and you rely on other teams dropping points. Don't fancy it at all.

  • purify_the_body

    No obstruction call for Suarez. Bad refereeing.

  • Ryan

    Hey....you're stream is faster than mine. Tell me, do we score in the next 15 seconds?

  • purify_the_body

    lol, sorry!!

  • Ryan

    I don't care if you guys say Kuyt is putting them on target, or whatever. He's got goals in him. Today. 

  • purify_the_body

    Good work by Downing! Let's raise the pressure.

  • Yann

    Seriously, we'd be close to top if we could finish

  • purify_the_body

    There was the good side of Adam.

  • ejbauer11

    I'm having a very hard time maintaining my composure right now

  • purify_the_body

    Bellamy warming up! Here comes some swagger.

  • purify_the_body

    Run, Downing, run!! There you go.

  • Ryan

    Alright lads. 

    --------------Reina-----------
    Johnson--Skrtel--Agger-Enrique
    ------------Hendo-Adam------
    -Bellamy-----Shelvey----Maxi-
    ----------------Kuyt-----------

    2 swaps with 1 left for injury. Suarez and Downing off. 

  • purify_the_body

    One day, we will have a good midfield again. One day...for now, we just need Bellamy to come on for Kuyt or Maxi.

  • I concur, need Bellamy NOW

  • Ryan

    I would much rather see Aston Villa be relegation threatened then Wigan Athletic. They seem to have some good players, amongst a bunch of duds. And their manager doesn't seem to be an idiot. They don't look 19th place bad. If they just had some financial backing to get some young quality, like some good midfielders to play along McCarthy, who knows where they go be?

  • purify_the_body

    Sweet move until Kuyt's brain fart.

  • "Everything's going wrong for the OHHHH-uguyan!" Shut your stupid fucking mouth, you grotesque stupid cunt of a man.

  • alex_snow2

    hahahah the commentator just called Suarez a "Errr-You-Guayan". Says a lot about his intelligence

  • purify_the_body

    I can hear Ed grinding his teeth all the way over here.

  • Ed

    I've got none left at this point. Charlie Adam ruined them.

  • Lis

    He doesn't want to be the only one with bad teeth.

  • This ridiculous commentating isn't helping matters. All we need is a goal to shut them the FUCK up. 

  • fastrail

    Ugh..am I the one having problem with streams? Haven't been able to watch since the first minute, and after 60 minutes all I'm doing is refreshing the streams over and over and all I got is a blank screen. Fuck, I just wasted my sleeping time. Well anyway, I hope we win today YNWA. Good night guys.

  • Suarez from the car park...

    streams totally screwed tonight.  T'internet tooooooo busy with so many games on at once.  Even reliable but grainy sopcast was poor tonite.

    but then, so was our game.

    No goals.   It's costing us badly, and is in danger of filling the team with doubt.

    Adam - the worst pen I've seen?  He needs to justify his place.

    If we're going to dominate possession, we may aswell have Carroll up front to try and take chances.  There's no point in bringing him on with 5 mins to go.

    sell him if you're gonna do that.

  • fastrail

    It seems like we really really like to buy flops, ever since Benitez and now Dalglish. Yes, I'm calling them flops right now cause it has been close to January and their performance are not convincing at all. It's sad really. Why can't we manage our transfer a lot better, the money is already there, please don't waste it. Yes, one could argue that it is hard to attract top players without CL prospect but surely we can do better than what we have right now. It's sad that with what we have spent we are still not better than what we are last season.

  • purify_the_body

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  • alex_snow2

    I don't care if Gerrard can't walk from now on I want him on the bench every week to be stretchered on in case we get a penalty.

  • Yann

    Absent Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt is our best penalty taker.

  • Ryan

    Shelvey for Adam, please. Probably won't happen because it would show Dalglish's disappointment in Adam, somehow, and he's probably not disappointed. But Shelvey knows where the goal is, Blackpool knows it. 

  • purify_the_body

    Adam is undroppable for Dalglish. We just got to hope he picks it up.

  • I think I've seen enough mediocre ex-Blackpool players in my time without another cropping up. ;)

  • Yann

    Bellamy needs to come on. Need to spook and get around them with more pace

  • Adam, why do I bother with you?

  • Lis

    FOR FUCK'S SAKE

  • heitz11

    why do we suck at PKs???

  • purify_the_body

    we just suck at shooting of every kind, dammit

  • Ryan

    oh what the fucking hell. 

  • Ryan

    At least that was a fancy handball, right?

  • Suarez is probably second only to Blatter as the most vilified figure in football.

  • alex_snow2

    Adam you fucking cuntwankshitbag.

  • PENALTY! Let's not fuck this one up, boys.

  • And we fucked that one up, boys.

  • Yann

    free kick was "far from accurate" - this commentator is a fuckwit. The keeper had to tip it over. I'm sick of this negative mindset against Suarez.

  • SUAREZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ... damn "he got the dip, but... far from accurate, really!" I'm seriously starting to dislike Englishmen. Ironic given the whole anti-racism backdrop of this match. 

  • alex_snow2

    quote the commentator "not an accurate free kick from Suarez at all really".
    ....... it was on target you mug. That IS accurate.

  • purify_the_body

    Good pressure on the ball by Adam. (Did you like that, Gadsby? :)

  • very good indeed. I think Adam's a great player, we just need to sort out our DM situation so we can get him in the right position.

  • purify_the_body

    And right on time, a nice through ball from him...and a penalty!!

  • purify_the_body

    And btw, I agree that he should take it.

  • purify_the_body

    lol, and that's we get

  • Antonio

    In Villa game Adam did not take any corners, Liverpool scored twice from corners. I guess Ferguson suggest a player that just from corner itself worth 10 million did not live up to that.
    We are very casual in the middle area at time, Wigan rob our ball off easily from our DMs, very worring.
    Com'on Liverpool.

  • purify_the_body

    OK, time to win the game, right here!! It only takes one goal.

  • alex_snow2

    Anyone wishing to complain about Adam's workrate as of half time nobody else on the pitch has covered as much ground... just saying

  • Luis Suarez dentist

    Over the last 10 years we have been spoilt. Lucas, Gerrard, Alonso, Masc, Hamann, even Momo before his injury.

    I'm trying to stay positive about Henderson and Adam but it's difficult.

    Come on Liverpool
    Luis Suarez - YNWA

  • Damien will bring someone in in January, I wouldn't be too concerned.

  • Suarez from the car park...

    not sure that excites me too much.  In theory , our squad was complete.

    We're now missing an influential DM and a goalscorer and sooooo many doubts about Downing.  Even suarez wasn't going for the jugular tonight.  He's trying to play others in but they aren't good enough for him and his passing is off.

  • purify_the_body

    I am bullish on Henderson, and I like what he's shown today again. In the early season I despised his weakness in the tackle and lack of physicality and athleticism overall, but I have come to respect his ability to keep the ball moving and play clever touches with his teammates. He is good!

  • Ryan

    NO WE DONT WANT MANCHESTER UNITED HIGHLIGHTS DAMNIT!

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