Liverpool V Fulham [Archive]

Liverpool-law

07-11-2007, 04:33 PM

I'm going to this one too and I was a bit worried about what kind of performance we were going to get, until last night!:D

I don't care who the opposition were, it can only be good for the team morale and confidence!

redeagle

07-11-2007, 09:21 PM

Have fun all who are going.

back to the topic I expect a good win again and a solid display. Be interesting to see if momo and drik are brought back into the team.

Fantasy rafa awaits..w00t

reina
finnan carra sami aurelio/arebloa
yossi gerrard masch kewell
voronin
Crouch

south

07-11-2007, 10:33 PM

i'd like to see Crouch and torres start together,
yossi gerrard mascherano Babel (needs to get a good run in the team)
finnan carra sami aurelio/arebloa ----as said above

yodabenitez

07-11-2007, 11:44 PM

This maybe belongs in another thread but any takers for a pint & a Fulham stuffing on Saturday?

Ashbourne or a trip to the Tram will work for me...?

Dub13

07-11-2007, 11:55 PM

Somebody take a camera we need to start getting a few pics of our trips.

LOU2

08-11-2007, 02:19 PM

will have one as always bring it everywhere, ive a few from the derby trip if ya want me to send them on to ya.

kingdomkop

09-11-2007, 12:03 PM

Attack Attack Attack :-)

9Torres

09-11-2007, 01:38 PM

I wonder what odds you'd get for a 10 euro bet on Rafa picking the same team as Basiktas?

For a start I think Kuyt will be selected again. Maybe even Kewell on the left and Riise reinstated at LB.

Kopite

09-11-2007, 02:22 PM

Somebody take a camera we need to start getting a few pics of our trips.

Yeah yeah take the pictures when the good looking members are not goin, typical!

liverbird!!

09-11-2007, 02:27 PM

Come On Redmen! 8 More!!!!

Aido82

09-11-2007, 02:34 PM

Yeah yeah take the pictures when the good looking members are not goin, typical!

No im actually going on this one :p

sean

09-11-2007, 03:24 PM

In the Paddy Power weekly email they actually have included a quote Liverpool to win 8-0 tomorrow.

500/1 for whoever's interested...

Aido82

09-11-2007, 03:34 PM

we want nine, we want nine

gav003

09-11-2007, 03:46 PM

Would like to see the team line out as follows:

Pepe
Finnan Carra Sami arbeloa
Yossi StevieG Masch Kewell
Crouch Torres

(Although that would be harsh on Voronin who was excellent during the week)

Let's believe we can push on from here and get a proper challenge going.

Alan80

10-11-2007, 10:26 AM

I would like to see the same team again myself, i think it would help to get a bit of momentom and hopefully get a good run going. plus i doubt he would start with Torres just yet.

Jockser

10-11-2007, 12:14 PM

yeah id leave torres on the bench...next game isnt for 10 dyas or so, so id rest hime and make sure he is 100% when we come back. id go for the same team as midweek except kewell for riise

sean

10-11-2007, 01:53 PM

yeah id leave torres on the bench...next game isnt for 10 dyas or so, so id rest hime and make sure he is 100% when we come back. id go for the same team as midweek except kewell for riise

Thing is Torres is going to be heading off with Spain for the next 10 days anyway. We might as well get some use from Torres while we can cos he could just come back from international duty injured again :eek:

Kopite

10-11-2007, 03:52 PM

the same team as tuesday night!! The media idiots will jump on this.

redeagle

10-11-2007, 04:07 PM

lol.

cue john giles.. "second time in 3 years he has named a unchanged team, about time" FECK OFF JOHN

is this on the radio anywhere?

vodkacolly

10-11-2007, 04:09 PM

Im off to the pub now , come on u REDS!!!

christymc

10-11-2007, 04:16 PM

Same team,same result?

Elnino_the_kid

10-11-2007, 05:15 PM

nope

haft time 0-0

we look dangerous

so hopefully a few second half goals

south

10-11-2007, 06:06 PM

well taking goal it was..

Elnino_the_kid

10-11-2007, 06:14 PM

good win and torress shows them what we missing

Kopite

10-11-2007, 06:16 PM

jesus christ thank fcuk for Fernando Torres, what a goal, nearly another home draw disaster, but FT done the business for us. Great to see the crowd singing "Super Danny Murphy"

stamullenredmen

10-11-2007, 06:54 PM

looking at today we need another striker who who is as dangerous as torres and a left back who can play left back and doesnt drift all the time.riise jogged after two knocked out balls to our left in quick succession tonight when if hed been where he was ment to be a shot was on

Jockser

10-11-2007, 08:30 PM

Torres class
Benayoun pleyed very well again picking out little passes on edge of box
babel is definately improving too
aurelio solid
veronin very good again
mascherano excellent
arbeloa very good
gerrard very good

Block102

10-11-2007, 08:42 PM

I wonder what odds you'd get for a 10 euro bet on Rafa picking the same team as Basiktas?

Hope you found the odds and backed it mate....

Nice to win ugly again.

We're only three points off the lead - not bad for a team supposedly in crisis.

Keep the faith,

Joe

redeagle

10-11-2007, 09:01 PM

yea, good win today. Still think we miss alonso a bit aswell as agger but a great performance from us.

I think its times like this when we can see the result of how rotation works..ie with babel coming off the bench. Imagine if we played our strongest team from the beginning forgetting injuries babel would have hardly played. Looks alot more confident now aswell and good to see more from Lucas.

SUPERFAN

10-11-2007, 09:42 PM

lol.

cue john giles.. "second time in 3 years he has named a unchanged team, about time" FECK OFF JOHN

is this on the radio anywhere?

his only defence after Tuesday Night was that there was no way Rafa would Play the same Team again Today,he wouldn't give the Team any credit for an 8-0 win.
can't wait to hear to hear what he has to say after Tonight....

9Torres

10-11-2007, 10:52 PM

Delighted of the win today.. hopefully this kick starts a run of good form again.. for all the crisis reports... we're not that far off the top teams... plus if that turns out to be our bad spell for the season, then I wont be too bothered considering we havent lost a game.

Watched, the highlights on RTE, delighted for El Nino, top top striker. Shows his class - on the pitch for a few mins and makes a major contribution. Mind you, I wanted to smack "the spanner houghton" for his analysis - sick of the negativity from the man... had to turn it off.

Come on the Pool.

Plus, good to see Danny Murphy back on the playing field. Was wasting his time at the over-rated Spurs.

wickla_mucker

10-11-2007, 11:13 PM

just back in the door after a good day at Anfield!
Good team performance- kept pluggin away and were patient despite some poor first half passing and moving.

Risse was simply awful, and is surely in trouble for a place even on the bench now.
Thought aurelio fitted in well and arbeloa should rightly keep finnan out with another accomplished performance.
how good was sami today? looked so confident and broke things down well.
voronin was dissappointing despite some very good movement - his erratic finishing meant that he had to come off.
thank god for torres. he was born to play in the red jersey.
oozes class and could yet set up a fruitful partnership with crouchy.
benayoun was good and babel troubled fulham when he came on although his youth did show some poor decision making.
again, i cant overemphasise how good lucas looks both on and off the ball. gets around the pitch so quickly and gets in there. looks so promising for the young brazilian...

very happy with the result which pushes us back up where we ought to be (at least).
confidence is growing within the squad again.... :D
cmon the reds!

SUPERFAN

10-11-2007, 11:54 PM

arbeloa should rightly keep finnan out with another accomplished performance.

can't agree with you there mate,i'm not going to knock Arbeloa but a fully fit Finnan is by far a better Defender.
i thought he looked exhausted during the Besiktas Game and i'm glad Rafa recognised it.i for one am looking forward to a fully refreshed Finnan when he returns.....

sean

11-11-2007, 09:35 AM

Is it just me or is anyone else still buzzing after yesterdays result? Delighted with the result and some inspiration from Torres taking that goal. Hard to find fault with any player yesterday, but Sami, Masch, Stevie, Yossi and Voronin stood out for me big time. A bit mad that Setanta gave Torres man of the match when he was only on for 20 mins. Table looks very promising this morning - onwards and upwards from here!

Garrett

11-11-2007, 09:44 AM

Ah, Setanta & Sky both tend to award the man of the match to whoever scores the goal ... no real thought goes into it imho.

What's of concern, is that we had some seriously good chances during the match and didn't convert them into goals. If this does not change and quick, we are goosed ! .... we can't leave it all on the shoulders of Torres and yet, we need him playing if we are to have any chance.

I'm not yet prepared to start making references to how great we were at scoring goals midweek ... lets face it, that was unreal ... but also, almost something from fantasy land. We must be scoring goals from open play in every game ... and that, as of yet, we ain't doing enough of imho.

Good result given it was looking very dodgy with Fulham for sure, but we left it late and what if Torres had not come on, would it have been another 2 points dropped ? ... thankfully, we didn't find out :)

carramagic

11-11-2007, 11:48 AM

Delighted with the result but it was looking like we were going to drop more points at one stage which is worrying. We kept knocking on the door and great credit to the lads, especially the quick thinking of Nando to fool the keeper. We were a bit pedestrian at times. Yossi was good at times but kept drifting in when we needed him to stay wide. We miss Pennant's natural width at times. Don't like seein Riise left midfield and really hope Kewell gets fully fit as he has been looking promising recently. Babel seems to be growing in confidence the last few weeks and I felt he changed the game and gave us that injection of pace and urgency that we needed. His power and pace are phenomenal and he left the opposition for dead in the run up to the "penalty" incident. Hope to see him as Fernandos long term partner up front. Torres is obviously just a class act - brilliant goal and what a great attitude he shows all the time. Please play him as often as possible Rafa!

RedMurph08

11-11-2007, 12:21 PM

Great second half performance against a stubborn team, just shows the extra wee bit of class we were missing in Torres and how it makes us click and look like real contenders. One thing i think that is being overlooked is the contribution of Babbel his pace scared the life out of them, such a young kid his potential is huge, still a bit green with alot to learn but i really think he could be the real deal!

James

11-11-2007, 12:31 PM

I didn't think the result was ever in doubt and I was happy with the performance. We passed the ball well and created chances. Benayoun always looked a threat and I love having his type of player in the team. He might not offer the width that Pennant does but his intelligence is second to none and he has to start every game. If we can get Kewell and Babel fit the width issue won't be a problem as all 3 players are comfortable at interchanging.
I thought Gerrard had a good game and Masch did well after he settled down (which seems to happen regularly)
Aurelio too was solid and if he can get a bit more consistent with his crosses he will be our first choice left back for a long time. We play much better football on the left when he is in the team.

All in all a good days work.

sean

11-11-2007, 12:38 PM

Good result given it was looking very dodgy with Fulham for sure, but we left it late and what if Torres had not come on, would it have been another 2 points dropped ? ... thankfully, we didn't find out :)

I was thinking that to myself too last night. Setanta kept going on yesterday about how Fulham concede so many goals in the last 10 minutes, so you'd wonder if we could have actually done it without depending on Torres. Anyway, its irrelevant really now isn't it :p

Incidentally, I've noticed Torres hasn't been included in the Spain squad for the upcoming internationals which is fantastic news. The lad should be raring to go when we head to St. James Park.

Kopite

11-11-2007, 06:58 PM

I was thinking that to myself too last night. Setanta kept going on yesterday about how Fulham concede so many goals in the last 10 minutes, so you'd wonder if we could have actually done it without depending on Torres. Anyway, its irrelevant really now isn't it :p

Incidentally, I've noticed Torres hasn't been included in the Spain squad for the upcoming internationals which is fantastic news. The lad should be raring to go when we head to St. James Park.

that is a great spot, delighted with that, Rafa being Rafa, Fernando Torres must be a shoe in to start V Newcastle.

gp25

11-11-2007, 08:49 PM

Last night showed torres's one track mind,the second he got the ball he had only one thing on his mind.Babel also looked lively and showed good strength in the lead up to the peno.Crouch though deserves a lot of credit for his link up play and attitude

vodkacolly

12-11-2007, 12:11 AM

Definitely an improvement on recent performances in the league but I agree we shouldve killed the game off before Torres came on. Nice to see us playing like that without Alonso, Agger and Kewell.

LOU2

12-11-2007, 10:10 AM

What a game, standing watching it from the kop i think we all went through every emotion, as soon as torres came on the kop lifted we all had a very good feeling bout this change. voronin deserves alot of credit he tried so hard to get the ball in the net and worked very hard,
crouch had some great link up's and as previously said a great attitude.
the only person who we spotted to be lacking was riise he seemed lazy at time, he was chasing as much as other, once he passed in the ball he didnt move much.
all in all the team played very well and we got the more important 3points.

yodabenitez

12-11-2007, 06:58 PM

Sammi man of the match no doubt.

Is Pepe to get any credit for his pass to FT for the goal?

fitzpatrickgary

12-11-2007, 07:11 PM

sami had a great game and great finish by torres
our final ball wasnt great and it made fuhlam look good at times
but 3 point s is 3 points so im happy

Aido82

12-11-2007, 08:03 PM

just saw the highlights again, missed most of the second as i was in the anny road end, and boy did we bosss it, also neimi made 4-5 world class saves

great goal by torres and crouchy has earned his place against newcastle

fitzpatrickgary

12-11-2007, 09:19 PM

Gerrard85

13-11-2007, 12:15 PM

crouchy and torres. with youse all the way on that one! what a goal to finally break the deadlock. unbelievable talent. if we can keep him fit, the impact he will have on us will be huge.

jackie hanlon

13-11-2007, 04:25 PM

i'd like to see Crouch and torres start together,
yossi gerrard mascherano Babel (needs to get a good run in the team)
finnan carra sami aurelio/arebloa ----as said above

Ye totally agree. Two of them make such a difference.Fed up with all this rotation system.

jackie hanlon

13-11-2007, 04:27 PM

torres and crouch up front. Stop all this rotation c***. Sat game very poor torres came on and made such a difference.

Gerry

13-11-2007, 05:23 PM

torres and crouch up front. Stop all this rotation c***. Sat game very poor torres came on and made such a difference.

Torres has been injured not rotated and maybe i was watching a different game as the one i seen was not very poor !

Liverpool-law

14-11-2007, 12:03 PM

Was at the game and overall happy with the performance but I thought our main problem in trying to break them down was that we were very narrow in midfield and attack. I think they were there to be stretched if we had used any bit of width.

Didn't think Stevie had a great game but Sami was back to his best. Babel frightened them when he came on by running directly at defenders. Riise couldn't put a foot right, even when swapped with Aurelio. Benayoun always looked to be making good runs and is very clever on the ball.

Voronin looked very good but came in for dog's abuse from two drunk Dubliners by us in the Anfield Road end. Every opinion was shouted out, including "If Rafa doesn't take this f***er off, he should get the sack too, that c**t is not good enough to wear the red jersey" Two scousers next to me were saying "there's too many f***ing Irish coming over here" and for once I didn't find it hard to understand them, embarassing... :o