did he get the night off from the curry house? 
fair play to villa, we were atrocious and they made up pay, score flattered them a bit but there ya go
you’d be wondering though what would have happened if one of our chances in the first had have gone in
how lame
:D:)
I hear the denizens of irishkop.com want to boycott that company Acorns, becasue they sponsor Villa…
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I know with your love for Nando this is hard to take Runty but come on its only a joke
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indeed, as lame as FDR
Big thanks to Alan Brogan for giving Ash a bit of training before the game tonight. :D:)
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below average football players better than a guy who plays gga as his full time hobby:D
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Pav was always told to take his points and the goals would come.
unlucky tonight EPL runt - shocking start to the season for the merseyside reds
I’m gutted. I’m probably going to take tomorrow off work to mull over tonights disaster. I saw La Liga mentioned on another thread. Whats that? Anything to do with baby biscuits?
Villa deserved to win that tonight even though they were distinctly ordinary with their biggest claim to fame that they marschalled Torres well.
And that says it all about Liverpool. Absolutely nothing going forward (with the exception of Glen Johnson again) + a defence looking shakier by the game = defeat.
What to do now - well bet Lucas out of there first. The guy’s confidence looks shot completely and he can’t even string a simple pass toegther. Revert to 4-4-2, Gerrard into midfield, Kuyt up top and Riera in on the left. And Carragher and Skrtel need to sort themselves out and quick.
Or else we will lose more games because we are playing muck.
[quote=“farmerinthecity”]Villa deserved to win that tonight even though they were distinctly ordinary with their biggest claim to fame that they marschalled Torres well.
And that says it all about Liverpool. Absolutely nothing going forward (with the exception of Glen Johnson again) + a defence looking shakier by the game = defeat.
What to do now - well bet Lucas out of there first. The guy’s confidence looks shot completely and he can’t even string a simple pass toegther. Revert to 4-4-2, Gerrard into midfield, Kuyt up top and Riera in on the left. And Carragher and Skrtel need to sort themselves out and quick.
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has alonso going to madrid wrecked the team?
It hasn’t helped matters but Liverpool are just playing shite outside of that.
I predicted that Liverpool would struggle compared to last season but it’s too early to conclude whether that will be the case. As an outsider, and having only watched the second half of the Spurs game and the second half tonight, I reckon Alonso’s departure is a big miss. Their other midfielders don’t look to get on the ball and knit the play together and there’s a real absence of creativity and guile in midfield. It seems they’re relying on Glen Johnson bombing forward on the overlap from right back to get behind teams. Villa played 4-5-1 tonight, were strong and well organised in midfield and Johnson’s runs forward were tracked all night. Liverpool just didn’t have the ability to break them down as a result.
Didn’t see all of that tonight but I’m still prepared to comment on the bit I saw and extrapolate that into a wider theory.
One time second half when Mascherano got the ball, fired out a decent crossfield pass to Gerrard I think who had drifted left. Cross was blocked and it spun back to Lucas who picked it up 10 yards outside the box with nobody within 10 yards of him. He decided to knock it square to Mascherano who was 5 yards to his right in exactly the same situation. He put his pass behind Mascherano and with too much pace on it and Mascherano had to go and retrieve it and feed it back to a defender. Just a very small thing obviously but you can’t have a guy so keen to pass the buck in your team, especially when he’s not capable of passing that same buck.
So many variations on that.
Whats the story with Liverpool financially these days? How much debt are they in and do owners want to sell or what? On paper they look a long way off Arsenal and Chelsea anyway and would need few signings to challenge with Alonso now gone. I think if they are holding their hopes on Gerrard dictating play for them they are fooked as for all his qualities he can’t to that
By all accounts Liverpool are fucked financially.
Benitez wanted to bid for Upson, around 10m, the Yanks went to the bank and were told to fuck off but they would give them 2m.
So he bought the Greek lad for 2m.