Football The 2010/2011 Season Thread

[Lethul]

LOL Maxi

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[tierk]

Dont intend on getting banned again. Remember who beat you at Anfield lad.

There is always the FA Cup i suppose

 

[Scouse]

Most Liverpool fans have been in this thread throughout the season, except Scouse

Not been doing much posting full-stop since November last year. Got me a new job. Good un with one problem.

A 170-mile round trip commute

 

[Achilles]

Same old red scousers, full of mouth when you win, full of bitterness and tears when you lose. Everton might not win much but at least they understand dignity, I look forward to revisiting this moment when the sun sets on your new false dawn.

Indeed Liverpool fans are full of mouth, we drown out most opposing fans away from home and god help anyone coming to Anfield whilst Dalglish is manager. On the other hand Chelsea fans were leaving in their droves with 15 minutes to go and 1-0 down and you hardly heard them all game long. Your own great Captain Keane called the Old Trafford crowd the "prawn sandwich brigade" and lacking in passion. Too true Roy.

 

[Embattle]

Indeed Liverpool fans are full of mouth, we drown out most opposing fans away from home and god help anyone coming to Anfield whilst Dalglish is manager. On the other hand Chelsea fans were leaving in their droves with 15 minutes to go and 1-0 down and you hardly heard them all game long. Your own great Captain Keane called the Old Trafford crowd the "prawn sandwich brigade" and lacking in passion. Too true Roy.

Well you lot are use to being all noise and no substance so you've certainly got most other teams beat

PS I guess you could do the usual and go back some 20 years for the substance as you normally do.

 

[soze]

That's what I thought about Arsenal today. Absolute joke. From Diaby to your performance. Wenger will blame it all on the ref, but you did it to yourselves. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you can fix it.

I think that is spot on. I know Diaby had a bad injury but he has got to have better self control than that as a professional footballer. As soon as Johan went off our defense looked shaky I really do not rate Squillaci and think not bringing in another CB in January could be a mistake.

From this game the only thing you can really say is what Nolan did was as bad as what Diaby did but still losing 4 goals and two of the to stupid avoidable penalty's is a joke.

 

[ilaya]

chelsea v liverpool was worst game i seen since england v algeria.

oh and a tip to liverpool fans: learn more than 2 songs and when you hold your scarves up.. make sure they are the right way up.

if that was premiership football.. it was hardly an advert.

 

[tierk]

Most important things to take away from that game were as follows.

1. Winning away from home

2. Clean Sheet against, what some people on this thread were calling, the best strike force in PL

3. Scoring without any out and out strikers on the pitch

4. Raul Meireles, not just because he scored but his overall play was great. His work off the ball was for me outstanding

5. Lucas - admittedly not one of my favourites - looking more and more comfortable in his role, bar the hand ball he got away with didnt put a foot wrong

6. Glen Johnson was solid and put in some crunching tackles!!

and last but not least

7. Torres being completely cancelled out for the entire time he was on the pitch.


*****EDIT*****

Did i mention what a cracking game our defence had?????

 

[Talivar]

Not much you can do vs 10 defenders tho!, imo liverpool pwned us long before the game started by offloading Torres to us. We were just starting to regain form and the goals were flowing and then we add a new striker..... The old ones like Drogba probally felt threatened and then add to fact formation was made to accomodate him so people like malouda was dropped to the bench. We did everything to make life easier for a 50mil flop and well flopped

 

[Talivar]

Btw as a side note Liverpool barely even got a look at the ball once Torress was subbed so that says everything to me. Sadly one of the few times they did get a look they scored lol

 

[tierk]

We did everything to make life easier for a 50mil flop and well flopped

I for one will not get into that type of commentary about Torres. The guy is class and it will show over the length of his contract. He was a great servant to the club and wish him all the best at his new club, even though i did find his timing some off, though 50 million more than makes up for that imo.

Anyone writing this guy off on the back of that first performance either kows nothing about football or just has an axe to grind.

 

[Raven]

Liverpool knew exactly how to deal with him (as you would expect after he played for them for, what, 3 years?)

I wouldn't write him off until the end of the season, though I am still not sure he was worth 50 million.

 

[tierk]

Liverpool knew exactly how to deal with him (as you would expect after he played for them for, what, 3 years?)

My thoughts exactly.

I wouldn't write him off until the end of the season, though I am still not sure he was worth 50 million.

He is worth a lot more imo but i still think he did himself a disservice by going to CFC. He should have waited until the summer and tried his luck in one of the big European teams.

They have a team which is bordering on geriatric and if he thought we have rebuilding to do at LFC - which we clearly do - and that CFC wont be doing the same he is wrong.

Still class is class and that guy is going to be one hard act to replace.

 

[Vladamir]

The difference is, Chelsea have the capability to rebuild and challenge for honours at the same time; Liverpool at present do not.

 

[tierk]

The difference is, Chelsea have the capability to rebuild and challenge for honours at the same time; Liverpool at present do not.

Lets wait and see who will be replacing people like Lampard, Drogba, Terry, Anelka to mention a few and if the level of play at CFC will be same.

I for one think you will struggle as you have this season once key players are out.

 

[Talivar]

You mistake what i meant, i didnt base the flop tag on yesterdays game, i based that on the last 18 months at liverpool

 

[tierk]

You mistake what i meant, i didnt base the flop tag on yesterdays game, i based that on the last 18 months at liverpool

That is nothing to base anything on tbh. Through injuries and the previous owner problems. Look at him when he was in peak condition with players around him that provided him with good service.

 

[Vasconcelos]

 

[Lethul]

5 meters (?) offside too

 

[Vasconcelos]

5 meters (?) offside too

Still very impressive to say the least. Put the whole stadium on their feet

 

[Cerb]

Haha he meant to do it an all. Good lad

 

[Vladamir]

Guuuuuuapa!

YouTube - Guapa!

 

[JingleBells]

Steve McClaren's just been sacked at Wolfsburg - wonder if he'll try and get another decent European job or come back home, the WBA job is available after all

 

[Scouse]

Not much you can do vs 10 defenders tho!

Typical chelski fan. Doesn't know when they're up against a more attacking formation than any played under hodgeson...

 

[gohan]

to be fair was massivly defensive, but how shit are chelsea that they let a team with 0 attackers score?????


hmmmmm


works both ways mega tards



and tbh despite having no real attacking line up we still had 3 times more shots on target than you (to be fair you only had 1 BIG LOLZ)

 

[JingleBells]

In other news: BBC Sport - Football - Kidderminster Harriers need £155,000 to avoid CVA

Harriers are fucked

 

[Ch3tan]

Typical chelski fan. Doesn't know when they're up against a more attacking formation than any played under hodgeson...

It was a flexible formation, the truth is in the middle. It was set up to counter and exploit chelski's lack of width, for large periods it was very defensive though. But I thought Torres comment that "Liverpool took us by surprise" was funny. What the hell is Ancelotti paid to do? It's the same formation Pool used at Stoke, hardly a surprise. So we had Dalgish, whose been out of the game for ages, beat supposedly one of the best tactical Italian managers in the game - by using better tactics. Heh.

It was a 3-5-2, so at any time you had Johnson, Maxi, Gerrard, Miereles and Kuyt as attackers, or just Kuyt up front, and the rest in midfield or defence.

 

[Vladamir]

Ancelotti's tactics this year have been a little worrying in contrast to last year;

Away at the Emirates in '09, let Arsenal have the ball and show them out wide (Arshavin was the only fit striker, no way he was going to get one over JT, Alex or Ivan) then hit them on the counter attack.

Away at the Emirates in '10, take off Mikel who was doing a reasonably good job of putting out the fires, and concede 2 goals within 5 minutes of the restart.

Our clean sweep of Liverpool, Arsenal and United has so far left us with 4 defeats and two games against United left, feels a bit like Scolari all over again in those big games that really we should be winning.

 

[Everz]

In other news: BBC Sport - Football - Kidderminster Harriers need £155,000 to avoid CVA

Harriers are fucked

Bye bye. Your fans all come across as bitter as the Walsall lot.

Spoiler

joking, realistically, hope they can survive, must suck being surrounded by huge clubs

 

[Marc]

joking, realistically, hope they can survive, must suck being surrounded by huge clubs

how does it feel?