saya sangat happy dengan performance team Man Utd pada hari ini. few nervous moments from Jonny Evans, and lol at commentary saying Fletcher for Anderson is the worst substitution ever.
Another scrappy win against 10 man but with King Kenny in charge? so who really win? Liverpool la of course. they playing with 10 man for more than 1 hour but man utd only rely on soft penalty that howarb webb gave as early 2 minutes when the game was played (who obviously is man utd fan as all people know)
why cant we put the match to bed as early as possible eh. that is our best chance kill the game and win comfortably but we only managed to get 1 goal and my owen didn't score.
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Liverpool manages to withstand the United pressure, and somehow scrape only with a 1-0 defeat. United did not take advantage of the extra man advantage. OH DAMN INI KING KENNY PUNYA KEJE. ROY COULDN'T DONE THIS.
Evans totally tapao-ed Torres today, I rate him better than Rio. He won alot of challenges and very strong with his defending, my sarcasm towards his form was harsh but he did wonderful tonight, great young player!
Berbatov is a diver, damn, I think he would be proud of that. 1st time being labeled as diver.
of course Evans' better, because Torres dyed his hair brown. Evans was a bit sloppy in first half for me. Torres just had an amazingly horrible game, even Babel was way better than him.
even d.a.l.g.i.s.h kept his mouth shut after watching the replay... even the MANAGER(a person who knows way better about football compared to all the blinded fans) KEPT HIS MOUTH SHUT..
Dalglish knew it was a horrendous tackle with studs up, and two footed, and he didn't complain.
Funny to see him enter the pitch all smiles, and suddenly after penalty, frown all the way lol.
It was a penalty. Agger clearly tackled Berbatov. Berbatov went down too easily there, but it's still a penalty. If he didn't fell then, it would have been harder for him to make anything out of the situation since Agger delayed him a little by that tackle. The player doesn't need to fall for the ref to blew his whistle.
And it was clearly a red card in Gerrard's case. Two footed lunge. Not the first time he does it and actually in the past he got away with them. Not this time.
Rafael's could have been the same, but his was nowhere near as bad as Gerrard's was. He didn't lunge at Mereiles.
but Rafael didn't exactly dived, full body into the tackle. He manages to stay on his feet (OH FOOTBALL MANAGER TERM) for the tackle.
either way, I wanna talk about about Liverpool kalau boleh. sebab i sked masuk liverpool thread.
Shelvey came on and had quite a bit of impact on the second half, but I lol'd at that free kick clearance.
Kelly on the right was amazingly effective. Props to him. Torres was nothing, but N'Gog replacing him, takut la also, when Babel and N'Gog combined, scary man that.
it is time for the manager to show whose the boss. i'm sure it is true but some of liverpool fans told me that Gerrard and Carragher been running the show in Liverpool. not something good. No player should be bigger than the club.
right now, honestly, Gerrard's time is well over. inconsistent performances, and yet still holding on to the first team place.
I thought Kelly was good. He seemed to be playing well.
Johnson's partner took the wrong time to have a baby lol. (well I assume it's this way because he's on maternal leave)
anyway as for the penalty claim,
Agger was already positioned badly, with striker's back facing him. Tackling, nudging, pushing is already an instant offence due to tackling from behind. he should've only shield the ball, covering Berbatov in attempting not to get past him.
actually, his morale and motivation a bit low. which affecting his performance on the field. when he is confident, we will have a hard time to contain him.
personally (again) as a captain, he should've been more spirited and should be more influential on the pitch. in this game alone, I could see he's not really up to his game, even with Dalglish in charge. by right, Roy out, Dalglish in (a legend even) that should be an amazingly huge confidence booster.
Gerrard has been a disappointment for quite some time now. I had no respect for him as a person in the past, but at least he still commanded respect as a footballer. Now, he doesn't even have that.
last season, can see that his form has dippped very very bad. Stray passes, bad controlling, not very consistent even. Has his moments though for Liverpool last season, but overall, I think he doesn't have it anymore. Even for international (apart from his two goals against... Hungary?) he does not command the midfield like how he used to.
of course this is all a personal opinion. I've watched different matches, be it Chelsea, Liverpool, AS Roma, Blackpool. i am a keen observer of the game, and I show no hatred to any players, but Gerrard does not have his class anymore.