Our priority is still left and right wing, we have enough striker at the moment with carrol, suarez, kuyt, ngog, pacheco

remember, playing with 3 strikers doesnt guaranteed u a win

No offence but that formation aint gonna work. Just last Sunday Chelsea has shown when u pack your team with strikers you will only end up getting bullied in midfield. Charlie Adam should be the priority, as well as a fast-winger, maybe a left back too...but I don't think we should buy anymore CF during summer (unless Carroll turns out to be a huge flop that is...touchwood!!). And at any rate Ngog is becoming a quite reliable backup..so why waste money on Benzema who is another unproven striker in BPL?

Good read which reinforces my point that we did not go to Stamford Bridge to park the bus. Those who didn't watch the game would automatically assume we did when they saw 5 defenders on the team sheet. Watch the game however and you'll note that we did attack in numbers. It's just the players had to start buidling from a deeper position than usual. When we did go forward, we often threw caution to the wind. Instead of having players line up behind the ball like Houllier and Rafa used to, Dalglish instructed the players to make forward runs, leaving us exposed to counterattacks.

agger has more tattoo than skrtel

I like the inscriptions. Death is permanent but its timing is not... something along those lines. Curious to see Skrtel's and Mereiles' artwork.

Viking,typical danish

We also played 5 defenders against Stoke at home, if I'm not mistaken. KD's belief is the defence must be rock solid. Remember how leaky our defence has been this season?

With 3 in the centre, the fullbacks can support the attack according to their capabilities. It's enough to play with one recognized forward when we have 4 or 5 proven scorers - Gerrard, Meireles, Maxi, Kuyt ..

call them whatever!

our defense is more solid since KD took over. we are playing with 3 CB and it is good..

Well not surprising really because SC is good in defensive that's why KD bring SC in.

no offense, his got his tattoo shop..
same with Arshavin, fashion designer.

We are scoring goals from everywhere since that certain someone left the club. But suddenly i do miss stevie G scoring goals like he used too, but the club is above any players, so i don't care who scores, as long its for the team.

This post has been edited by aiyish: Feb 10 2011, 12:05 PM

Denmark prodigy Christian Eriksen leaves England and Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere in the shade

England came with eyes on Jack Wilshere but, in Copenhagen, it was a Dane, once again, who was the young Prince: Christian Eriksen. Little wonder Liverpool and AC Milan are monitoring him closely.
Wilshere, we were told, was to play in the Claude Makélélé role but that was quickly eschewed. Wilshere played in the Wilshere role, trying to shape the game with quick darts forward and also setting the tempo from deep.

He played well. His problem was that Eriksen played better and, time and again, stole in behind Wilshere who twisted his neck from side to side to see where his rival had gone.

It was never in more evidence than in the opening minutes. Wilshere was caught with Eriksen 10 yards beyond his left shoulder and the ball was threaded through. The Dane ran on and it was only because Nicklas Bendtner had sprinted too early that he was offside when the ball was then played through to him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/...land-Henry.html


hmmm...only 18 but already better than wilshere..will be great if we can grab him from ajax again

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ok. i get the idea now. yeah. u're right. Iniesta and Xavi is the perfect example.

Benzema still at RM so he still available for anyone to sign, with the right money of course.

one thing that good about pass and move is u can easily distrupt opposition coordination. but there's a risk of fatigue. Yes, if can, every team need to field in their best team every week but squad rotation is needed too in order to give an extra break and chances to other players.

I know we should be looking forward to the next game against Wigan. But I find this article below from the us soccernet site to be very funny indeed:


Liverpool 1, Team Torres 0

Well, so much for the conventional wisdom that Kenny Dalglish had been out of soccer too long to understand the modern game. Either the game hasn't changed all that much in the 13 years since he last managed in the Prem or Liverpool's talent was better than anyone realized under Roy Hodgson. What a brilliant psychological gambit by Dalglish not to throw Luis Suarez into the deep end of Stamford Bridge after the Uruguayan scored in his debut midweek. Astonishingly, the Reds didn't need him or their $55 million injured striker Andy Carroll to beat Team Torres on Sunday.

History was made at the Bridge, as Liverpool secured its second league double over Chelsea, the only club to have managed the trick during the Roman Abramovich era. Dalglish basically employed the same bunch of players (with the notable exception of Fernando Torres) who had stifled the Blues 2-0 at Anfield in Uncle Roy's one memorable moment in charge. The difference, of course, is that when Dalglish wins with this collection of workhorses and international stragglers, it's the result of motivation, confidence and tactics -- not sheer dumb luck. With its fourth consecutive win of the King Kenny 2.0 era, Liverpool is now in sixth place, only six points behind Chelsea and those two beautiful words, "Champions League," are no longer spoken by just deluded Reds supporters.

This overly hyped meeting was always going to be about the turncoat Spaniard, especially after his midweek references to "going to a big club" and "kissing the badge." It looked friendly enough in the pregame handshakes, but clearly Liverpool had something else in mind for Fernando to kiss.

It was, truth be told, a dull, ragged affair. After Saturday's pyrotechnics, which included 41 goals scored around the league, the tedium of the match made for long stretches when the traveling supporters drowned out the home congregants, booing Torres' every touch and willing the likes of Jamie Carragher, back from injury, into a heroic performance at the back.

Carlo Ancelotti made it easy on Liverpool's three center backs by returning to the dreaded diamond formation with little boy lost Nicolas Anelka at the tip. Frank Lampard was nowhere to be found as the presence of Steven Gerrard must have had the poor man thinking he was wearing his England shirt. Chelsea lacked width, imagination and even a hint of danger, and surely Roman expected a greater return on his $80 million investment -- perhaps something more than a single shot on target.

On balance, Liverpool deserved to take home the three points. Maxi Rodriguez missed a goal so open that Dalglish may take away his Argentine passport and make him Welsh. But Raul Meireles continued his run of being the best player on the field during Liverpool's resurgence. On the sole goal of the match, it was his relentless effort and run that allowed him to latch onto Gerrard's vicious cross as Petr Cech could only scramble across his goal mouth.

Ironically, Liverpool showed the very grit and character that Torres complained was lacking as he thrust himself out the Kop front door. Such was the speed at which he racked up goals at Anfield that there's little doubt Fernando will eventually find his scoring tough -- and ability to smile. But on Sunday, I'm afraid he was dead on arrival.

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/news/_/id...prang-back-life

OMG!!! new thread already n im so late....
bring it on wigan....oh yeah!!!

Interesting you should post this. Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend some time back. Whilst its nice to see your team score spectacular goals, it is at the some time discerning that we had to rely on the spectacular to win games. I'm sure goals like Riise's freekick against the mancs, Gerrard's against Olympiacos/West Ham or Xabi's against Luton provide good talking points but I'd much rather we work out how to score simple ones, because this means the team played well, not the individual. Its good to know we can score 30 yard screamers but its more important to know that we can create opportunities for simple tap-ins. Look at how the team attacks now. Often you see players attacking in triangles, or 3's, passing the ball about and running into space. When you have players playing ahead of the one in possession, you give him options to move the ball forward. Not long ago, we struggled to get past average sides because they had more men behind the ball, and we were afraid to over commit men forward, hence our forward players were always outnumbered. Quite often we played the ball up to their penalty box and either lost possession or had to pass it back to a deeper player coming from midfield to belt it towards goal. Nowadays, we play the ball into the opposition box, to feet more often.

I agree. I don't care so much for spectacular goals anymore. I prefer scoring goals as a result of good team work.

Good looking oriental dragon there. If it were on the back of some China man, I would've thought he'd be a Klang taiko.