Daniel Sturridge returns to the LFC squad for today's (hopefully) competitive game against Celtic, but there's no place for wantaway striker Luis Suarez.
FULL TEAM: Mignolet, Johnson, Toure, Wisdom, Enrique, Lucas, Gerrard, Allen, Downing, Aspas, Coutinho.
SUBS: Jones, Alberto, Assaidi, Henderson, Sturridge, Coates, Borini, Sterling, Kelly, Flanagan, Ibe.
Raheem Sterling has clearly paid the price for his arrest last night, and Stewart Downing comes in to replace the youngster.
After being stabbed in the back (again) by Suarez in midweek, it's pleasing to see Rodgers do the right thing and banish the Uruguayan from the squad. This is the least he deserves for continually disrespecting the club, and with Sturridge back - and Aspas in excellent goalscoring form - he's not needed anyway.
Agger aside, I wouldn't be surprised if this starting XI is the same team that turns out against Stoke City next weekend.
Jaimie Kanwar
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FULL TEAM: Mignolet, Johnson, Toure, Wisdom, Enrique, Lucas, Gerrard, Allen, Downing, Aspas, Coutinho.
SUBS: Jones, Alberto, Assaidi, Henderson, Sturridge, Coates, Borini, Sterling, Kelly, Flanagan, Ibe.
Raheem Sterling has clearly paid the price for his arrest last night, and Stewart Downing comes in to replace the youngster.
After being stabbed in the back (again) by Suarez in midweek, it's pleasing to see Rodgers do the right thing and banish the Uruguayan from the squad. This is the least he deserves for continually disrespecting the club, and with Sturridge back - and Aspas in excellent goalscoring form - he's not needed anyway.
Agger aside, I wouldn't be surprised if this starting XI is the same team that turns out against Stoke City next weekend.
Jaimie Kanwar
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Interesting to see that Wisdom is starting more games in at center half than Coates.... Wisdom has been outstanding in there though and he brings the ball out with comfort too. Hopefully we stick with this kid instead of buying another young center back........ he could be class......and FREE.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it in Dublin?
ReplyDeleteGood line up :) but against stoke, wisdom out, agger in, and downing out, Sturridge in.
ReplyDeleteIt is
ReplyDeleteYes, it's good to see and experience life after LS. I wish LS out asap but not to Arsenal, definitely. He is more likely to train with the reserve squad of LFC rather than the Champions League-bound Arsenal squad given his present attitude.
ReplyDeleteI can understand why Sterling was dropped but why not play with Ibe.
ReplyDeleteI doubt Sturridge will start due to match-fitness issues. He's been recovering from injury all summer, and this will be his first football in months. He'll probably be on the bench again.
ReplyDeleteIt is a friendly!
ReplyDeleteSturridge will probably start the United game, this is his first game in months
ReplyDeleteso rodgers never promised suarez he could go is that a fact,we do not know how stabbed who in the back jaimie ,but obviously you have made your mind up,onto the team no henderson again ,shocking
ReplyDeleteI am very dissappointed in our resolve to keep suarez. the only thing he is capable on coming season is hurting squad morale and our finances. I cannot see him giving us 100% from now untill he is sold. he is just that selfish that one he wont apologise, two wont act like pro and play to his fullest.
ReplyDeletei hate that he is staying, dissappointed.
I suppose but I would like Ibe to start against Stoke.
ReplyDeleteHenderson has replaced Suarez as my 2nd favourite player due to his work rate and his versatility reminds a lot of a James Milner who is just as good at RB as he his at LW
ReplyDeleteThere are 11 players on the bench so expect to see 11 changes when in second half starts.
ReplyDeleteIt is all bout getting the players fit.
is agger rested/injured or are we actually concidering the barca bid? i would sell him for 17mill, but not this late in window.
ReplyDeleteYes, I hate to see him stay but I will hate more to see him go to Arsenal, the main contender for the 4th spot in the league. I rather sell him for 35 mil pounds now but to someone overseas.
ReplyDeletewhy should he apologise if he knows what rodgers said,(i am not taking sides but everbody is taking rodgers word as gospel,well lets face facts rodgers has been court out lying numerous times ,and if rodgers did say it to suarez he can hardly admit it ,it could cost him is job
ReplyDeleteWe have just made him vice captain for the season. If he was being sold we would have known about it already.
ReplyDelete1. after making the alleged "gentlemans agreement" why did suarez sign a new contract with liverpool without such a clause??? i honestly believe suarez was making something up there, it´s obvious IMO.
ReplyDelete2. henderson captained our team a few days ago, and he will have a run again today, i dont see any point in giving all the players chances, like hendo did all of our current midfielders impressed me this pre-season so why shouldn´t rodgers give all the guys same chance to show what they can??
and anyone has insight it there is truth in Downing to West Ham rumors? ill jump to ceiling with joy if we offload him.
ReplyDeletelate bids. and we need cash. 17-20 mill for centreback is a lot of cash
ReplyDeleteand we need CB´s, agger is a good CB
ReplyDeleteyou cannot fault his commitment
ReplyDelete17-20million £ good? i personally dont think so
ReplyDeleteI rather have a gamble of starting Assaidi rather than SD. Too bad for the 15 mil pounds loss but that's a realistic price so we have to accept it.
ReplyDeletecredit where credits due, Allen has been impressive pre season. He's put on some muscle, he looks quick and he looks dangerous. He's also dribbling with the ball a lot more which was his hallmark at Swansea. He's in line for a good one...........
ReplyDeleteWe are not going to sell Agger for the sake of getting 17-20mil.
ReplyDeleteWe would need to replace him with very little time left so there would be no sense in selling him.
He is staying.
i agree. atleast we save fortune in wages. time to cut our losses with just like we did with carroll.
ReplyDeletelook m8 i can guarantee come stoke hendo will be on the bench and allen will start
ReplyDeleteFully agree!
ReplyDeletethen thats two of us lol
ReplyDeleteSpread the word............
i think so too
ReplyDeletereguardless of form it was always going to be the case,as sure as night followers day
ReplyDeletei think we will find him on the bench against stoke, as an impact player for the last - lets say about - 20 minutes or so... depends on the game
ReplyDeleteDon't know who you are referring to with "fan-hero dumped", but I guess it is Suaréz as Agger surely isn't going to be dumped any time soon. Last time I have checked, Suaréz had little to no fans left at Liverpool, but plenty at Arsenal, flavour of the month there, though.
ReplyDeletethere is no point playing him unless hes fully fit ,it could damage his season
ReplyDeleteallen was superb in pre-season, so was hendo, you cant really blame rodgers there are only 11 men on the pitch, hendo and allen will fight it out this season
ReplyDeleteit would not have mattered what form was shown allen was getting picked over hendo ,
ReplyDeleteHey folks. by the way. does anyone know international service where you could buy all Liverpool matches for coming season to be visible as HD internet streams?
ReplyDeletelast season we got that option in finland but appears they havent been able to provide the service this year. so im trying to find way how i could watch the games with good quality. i dont want to pay 250euros for local operator to watch their picks of games. they only televise 5 or so per round so good chance i dont see liverpool playing.
I'll meet you on the roof............
ReplyDeletetry wizard ,or live football.org
ReplyDeletehey mate, welcome back!
ReplyDeleteyeah i´d say he lost pretty much everything now in england, as the media, football fans around the world and even we "hate" him now.
probably, or probably not we dont know you can speculate
ReplyDeleteagreed
ReplyDeletetype live football in they are loads of free sites ,i sent a message with a few decent ones but it is waiting modification
ReplyDeletedowning > assaidi
ReplyDeleteinternet stream quality is poor. i got my PC attached in my TV so if i want to watch full screen its bunch of blurr
ReplyDeleteI hope we have a new signing to come in, but i doubt it. I guess this will be the Stoke line up apart from Agger. Very disappointed if that is the case. This will not be a team for top 4
ReplyDeleteits funny coz Hendersons' first touch was a goal if i recall correctly
ReplyDeleteWhy would I believe anything Suarez says? I'll always take Rodgers' word over Suarez.
ReplyDeleteJK always likes a sneaky little dig ;)
ReplyDeletewe mite have to thank Uncle Sam again for that ,anyway that might work well for SD and AC ;)
ReplyDeleteSuarez has been a hero to LFC fans for the last two years, irrespective of his biting/cheating ways. I'm sure many still feel the same about him.
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain mate, every saturday i'm stuck behind my small screen PC trying to work out if it's Gerrard or Johnson on the ball. But free streams have come a long way since a few years back.
ReplyDeleteBut if anyone knows a legal service i would be very interested
I know somebody who's selling NBC Accounts where you can watch all Premier League matches or something along the same lines.
ReplyDeleteyeah and? hendo scored a goal, allen did so too
ReplyDeleteAgreed. I still think we are 3 players short. AND 1st teasers at that 5th AT BEST if there's no more business
ReplyDeletewow ref is atrocious and celtic is like stoke city 3.0
ReplyDeletesigh just like last season liverpool cannot deal with physical teams
ReplyDeletemom imo for first half coutinho/downing(shudders)
ReplyDeleteWasn't expecting anything different from Celtic...a better Stoke.Am I missing b=something but why are the Celtic 'fans' booing Gerrard? I'd say what my opinion on the type of some people who support Celtic in Ireland but I'll earn myself a ban for it :P
ReplyDeletewhat?! we went down because wisdom made stupid mistake? cannot deal with physical teams? i think we have dominated the match, we havent been able to score is what im worried about
ReplyDeletetotally agree we all new what needed to happen this summer ,and it was completely ignored ,another thing what is the point of playing it out wide and getting decent crosses into the box ,when we have aspas and allen in there ,complete waste of possession
ReplyDeleteYeah I can tell you are disappointed to know that BR did not lie. You and Steve Nicol looking silly by the day!!
ReplyDeleteevery time they get in the box we are at sixes ans sevens ,
ReplyDeleteexplain jason how arent we dealing with them? are you guys watching the game. we are dominant side here. you cant compare this to the last seasons stoke games when we were bullied out of the park. we are losing atm, but we are better team. and it doesnt mean their physicality is winning this game.
ReplyDeletethey are winning this game cause of wisdom made youthfull and stupid defensive error
precisely crosses will not work on pyshical teams i don't know why we still do it sigh and before anyone starts mingolet save was exceptional he was just unlucky but 1v1 again great save come on danny
ReplyDeletethat dominant we are losing 1 nil....the concept of football is being lost with fancy stats and names ...the idea is to beat the other team anything else is failure
ReplyDeletetheyve gone to box three or four times? and our defence is leaking against small teams just as badly.
ReplyDeletewhy as it been proven no it as not ,or are you not letting on and you were there
ReplyDeleteim arguing against the claim that we arent coping with their physical presence. i strongly disagree, that they have physically overrun us. i dont think they have overrun us in any other aspect than the goals scored. which ofcourse is the most important. but their goal had nothing to with them being bigger meaner and stronger
ReplyDeleteA pretty pointless and invalid one in this case, me thinks.
ReplyDeleteyour wasting your time m8 ....most on here would believe the moon is made of cheese if fsg put out a statement
ReplyDeleteFrom what I've seen, he is a very popular figure amongst Arsenal supporters right now. Until they finally realise that they won't get him.
ReplyDeletewe did it all last season its called tika taka ...or lumpimg it up as we have no creative players in midfield
ReplyDeletewisdom was under pressure by a big player thats why he folded
ReplyDeletei'm against the idea of keeping suarez, but i quite like how JWH and BR are managing the situation.
ReplyDeletestewart Downing *shakes head*
ReplyDeleteAh its in ireland, most of thosevceltic 'fans' are probably manc fans who own a celtic jersey....
ReplyDelete"not needed anyway".......do I sence a bit of resentment?
ReplyDeleteurgh well at least this defeat will force FSG to see what we've seen all along lfc still need a few more signings to make it into a top four team
ReplyDeletethat is BS and you know it. he charged the ball. thats why he folded.
ReplyDeletenever F***** charge or you are out of it
goals win games not style of play and possession when it comes to it teams that have a dominant physical presence always beat this new liverpool and with teams like west ham, swansea, chelsea (demba ba), newcastle and others going for this we should be worried that we cannot deal with these teams oh yh aston villa to
ReplyDeletePositives-Sturridge playing 45 minutes, creating chances,ibe impressing again, same for Allen, Negatives-Not taking the chances we create and wisdom showing his inexperience, but he will get that over time. Need to bring In another CB soon.
ReplyDeleteallen was better than hendo tonight. and all preseason long
ReplyDeletemight not be a bad thing losing it will give a few a kick......whats worries me is we seldom come back and win when we go behind....like ive said its great looking good against bad teams but there are no easy games in the prem
ReplyDeletemost on this forum have been saying we need another Cb
ReplyDeleteYeah..... that was the first real test of the pre-season and they failed miserably. I can see why LS wants out of this mess (not justifying his tactics thou)
ReplyDeletewell done celtics kids and reserves i can hear our balloon popping from hear ,cue the rodgers i thought we were fantastic dribble
ReplyDeleteSo have I, but I think Rodgers is waiting for papadopoulous to get fit so he can have his medical.... But we will see what happens :)
ReplyDeletei honestly believe rogers and some of the fsg fan boys thought we where going to go through pre season and the season unbeaten......like you put it m8 thats the first half decent and i mean half decent team we have played and got beat
ReplyDeleteI'll be very surprised if he goes. We don't need money as we won't spend it anyway
ReplyDeletejust what we need another crock
ReplyDeleteif max says hes staying hes staying end of
ReplyDeletetake back that comment on downing
ReplyDeleteWell if he gets fit, passes a medical then maybe he isn't a crock. I imagine most players have some injuries during the career
ReplyDeleteHe had same Injury Lucas had with his knee and he came back and looked good, with our medical staff he be fine and he looks a excellent player when fit. And wouldn't call him a crock.
ReplyDeletesome posters on here think its ice skating and you get points for poise and style...tuff season ahead im afraid
ReplyDeleteLets be honest we didn't fail miserably. We dominated the game (i know goals are important) and probably could have scored a bucket load. I know this is what has happened the last few seasons. But give me 2 top class players and i think we will be set. LE for me needs to be replaced asap!
ReplyDeleteour medical staff are you having a giraffe...the same guys who let allen play with his shoulder hanging by a thread...f*cking geniuis
ReplyDeletebut we wont be getting two world class players....and please we lost ...forget about all of this possession Bs the aim is to score more than the other team we didn't and got beat
ReplyDeleteYou are getting upset because of losing a friendly?
ReplyDeleteIs this the first time we have lost a friendly?
What's the supposed to do with it? we are talking about people coming back from Injurys.
ReplyDeleteim not upset just amazed we lost...having read your posts about how we have got rid of the deadwood and signed brilliant cheap players i was expecting a cake walk
ReplyDeleteI didn't say world class players, i said top class, for me that is a level below world class. Also like i said i know goals win games, possession isn't BS as that is how we are trying to play. But it's Celtic, pre season, we lost due to a reserve player making a mistake, so let's calm down a little?
ReplyDeleteLike it or not, Suarez looks like he will be playing for us next season and he has a cutting edge that we need
We got beat by a goal which started From a mistake not the end of the world. Only pre season
ReplyDeletelol when I think about it more,What you say is usually the truth
ReplyDeletePositives - Kolo Toure. Negatives - majority of everything else. It shouldnt really bother me that much but we clearly went there to destroy them given the team we put out and Celtic fielded a bunch of inexperienced youngsters. I dont even think Celtic were particularly physical despite what most people said. We probably thought it was in the bag and could just run through them. I can only hope that FSG see that we still need reinforcements and Rogers sees that Coutinho has to be played behind Sturridge. Unfortunately, this pre season seems like a missed opportunity to experiment with some different formations because I think we'd all like to see Henderson, Allen and Coutinho in the centre of the field but I cant see how that will happen.
ReplyDeletelucas came back then got injured straight away...allen and Gerrard where both playing when there was nothing to play for yet both required ops...
ReplyDeleteHe got injured from a Different Injury not the same one.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but where did i say the likes of reina was dead wood?
ReplyDeleteI find it quite funny how the club is making you so sad?
well i do like to amuse
ReplyDeleteAs quoted from Brendan rogers bumper book of bloomers
ReplyDeleteI can imagine the torture you put yourself through.
ReplyDeletewe lost because the other team scored more goals
ReplyDeletei dont know reading your posts isnt that bad
ReplyDeleteWe lost because a kid made an error
ReplyDeleteWe learn from mistakes :) so it's fine. Least they will be more determined to be stoke now and not layed back if we had won.
ReplyDeletekids make errors all the times but good teams have men to make up that error
ReplyDeleteI am not talking about my posts.
ReplyDeleteI am talking about you supporting LFC.
All it does is make you a sad person.
For God sake! Whats the purpose of pre season if its not to be able to assess your level of competency?
ReplyDeleteon another day we would have scored
ReplyDeleteNot too up when we win.........Not to down when we lose.
ReplyDeletea few things:
the bad
1) I don't like Coutinho out wide. He's tricky but not quick enough out there
2) Our midfield shut down mentally and lacked confidence after we conceded which is worrying. We completely dominated beforehand.
3) Glen Johnson really needs to go on the outside once in a while. I knew exactly what he had in mind everytime he picked the ball up
the good
4) We look good when we have Ibe's raw pace on the flank. We need another couple of players like him to fill those wide roles and keep teams constantly on the back foot.
5) Toure and Wisdom looked pretty good.
We still had enough chances to win. We had Studge half fit and Suarez practicing his scouse back in Pool. Overall not great but not the end of the world either.
ive posted its probably a good thing we lost im not a fan of coasting through pre season winning all the games...it breeds ciomplacency
ReplyDeleteLeast we agree on something :-)
ReplyDeletesorry i jumped the gun ....you said torture and i put 2 and 2 together with your posts
ReplyDeleteWe have a threat in the box from corners now. Toure will get a couple this season.
ReplyDeleteon another day my aunt could be my uncle
ReplyDeletePurpose of Pre season is to get fitness up and work on general play. Also work on any mistakes we have done. Learning curve for the players, like wisdom :)
ReplyDeleteYou're right, i see my error now. We are shit, we have no one that can score, we will not score goals. We might as well pack up as we lost to Celtic in pre-season.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to pre-season 14/15, maybe we then can beat Celtic
now your talking
ReplyDeletedid i say good i meant bad hahaha
ReplyDeletefor sure. Just can't the overly positive and negative people on this site. It's pre-season let's just relax?
ReplyDeleteNot the end of the world? I really really admire your coolness on this. Its a total disaster........ nothing has changed dont you see? Whats the difference between this team and the team that started last season? We dont have a goal scorer and now without LS goals its smells relegation battle to me! Im freaking out!
ReplyDeleteHe's big strong and quick. When he 1st got into the Arsenal side he played LEFT WING and I remember thinking "What a player!" He used to fly past the full back! The following season Wenger sticks him in at center back much to my surprise and he looked class.
ReplyDeleteYou're right he'll give us something extra in the air this season but he'll also give us a little extra composure on the deck.
Over react much...
ReplyDeletePlanet X is on a pathway to earth. Run as fast as you can!
ReplyDeleteMe too, but I am against selling him to Arsenal even more.
ReplyDeleteCool, calm and collective. Doesn't panic like Skrtel.
ReplyDeleteIt is my pleasure.
ReplyDeleteWhat I saw was a team who were playing like a safe mid table cup final team in the last league game of the season. It was testimonial pace at times today. No one wants to miss the opener against Stoke, maybe this was a factor in our sometimes lethargic approach.
ReplyDeletegoogle ronaldo7 dot net, and the team. yhey have decent HD feeds, and play most games. also atdhenet dot tv is good, but not HD
ReplyDeletelet's hope Skrtel get's to grips with the system or someone makes a 10m bid. either way I'm probably being overly optimisitic.....but heres hoping.
ReplyDeleteHe was not in the squad today. Could be that he was left behind to not risk injury? Napoli maybe?
ReplyDeleteExactly! the only decent team of the whole pre season and its a loss.......... On top of that, its the LAST game of pre season forcing me to watch first game with a bitter taste
ReplyDeletei cant see the point of pointing out the positives...there where some goods things today but i want to know whats wrong with the team and ideas on how to address it i dont to keep reading what a bargain tino is
ReplyDeletetrue no one went into the challenge with vindiction... can't blame them though i mean look what happened to agger
ReplyDeleteafter watching the game in the flesh from the aviva I can assure you we will not get top 4, fcuking disaster.
ReplyDeleteI love how the typical doom and gloom people on here come out basically saying "told ya so" because lfc lost... wait a sec...IT WAS PRESEASON GAME. meaning it was worth zero points! and didn't affect any cups. it's just preseason people. I know everybody likes to see wins. fact is that no one has ever gone undefeated, losing can be more beneficial than winning because it allows you to see what went wrong and where you can make adjustments to hopefully correct it. at least wait to be doom and gloom until a couple games are at least played, in the actual season where it affects the points haul
ReplyDeleteback to the 90's? eh? football is about running and who has the biggest players. the best of all are Vieri and Vinnie Jones?
ReplyDeleteUnderperforming players is whats wrong with the "team", why pretend you don't know that.....
ReplyDeleteIts just the same old, yet again.....
Why does one defeat out of seven - which makes it the EXCEPTION not the rule of current form - take precedence? Why do the previous six victories suddenly no longer matter?
ReplyDeleteSo LFC lost a game? Big deal. It wasn't a bad loss, yet people are making it out to be some season-ending disaster. Why would you watch the first prem game with a 'bitter taste'? Since when did one narrow pre-season defeat mean that the world is ending?
ReplyDeleteRelegation battle? With respect, aren't you embarrassed to be this melodramatic?
ReplyDeleteI love it when people assure me we won't get top 4. It makes it seem like you're telling me something we don't already know. Most of us realize that top 4 is a long shot and really don't expect it, we just want to get close.
ReplyDeleteMark my words we will be in the championship next year, losing to Celtic, what a shocker, we should actually be relegated now and banned from football for being an embarrassment to life!
ReplyDeleteExactly. Pre-season is important, but results are secondary. For example, the last time LFC won the league (89-90) pre-season was a mixed bag, with 2 defeats, 2 draws and only 3 wins in 7 games. Did it matter? Not in the slightest. There's no real correlation between pre-season results and league performance.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Why would the players bust a gut with new season only a week away. No one wants to get injured - competition for places is fierce so if someone gets injured now, it may be hard to win back a place in the team.
ReplyDeleteToday's game was a showpiece, not a competitive game that mattered, and the result is irrelevant. If some of LFC's players come out of it a little bit sharper and hungrier for the first league game of the season, that's more important.
It's preseason.. its only getting into shape, yeah the team is not sorted yet and that will take two or three games to sort, however, anyone that thinks the players are dedicated to win these games need to take a rain check.. no one wants to pick up an injury for a friendly. Lets wait and see and have some hope
ReplyDeleteI think a fair few players have been told they can move on. Skrtel's confidence is shot to pieces. He likes to defend the 18 yard box with a bank of four in front. Either Napoli or England then....
ReplyDeleteglad to be of assistance :)
ReplyDeleteI would say that he'll still give 100% - but only for himself. And that means that we will be back playing less as a team (which is what happens whenever he is in the side). We did reasonably well without him in the side and looked more like a team, especially going forward. He's a great player but just too disruptive and I can see where Jamie's coming from - even with him in the side, we weren't really going anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI agree as we saw last season Allen can be injured and still get picked over Henderson who at the time was one of the most influential players in our team.
ReplyDeleteAllen better perform otherwise I'll be calling him and Rodgers out for it. Especially if he's playing further up the pitch, that's not his position.
It's not as if he has the status of Gerrard or Messi, someone who is always in the team. And don't say he's the Welsh Xavi either...
If you think about it, Gerrard is a guaranteed starter, so is Lucas, and Allen is the golden child, that's all 3 places in midfield guaranteed
How on earth can you not expect at the very LEAST a top 4?? Are you telling me that Liverpool has become a mid-table team for good and we should settle for that? Should we pop champagne if we make it to Europa League? What are you saying m8? It infuriates me how people are lowering the bar year after year..........
ReplyDeleteok, yes you have a point. On the other hand Celtic was playing full throttle since a victory for them was as big as lifting the world cup
ReplyDeleteSigh......youre missing the big picture Jaimie. It was the only pre season game against a profesional rival. The other 6 were semi-profesional or lets say amateur. You are trying to foul yourself if you believe otherwise
ReplyDeleteLike JK said I will take BR word over Suarez any day! Didn't the PFA chairman confirm there was no such clause about letting him go if we do not make CL?? I know when it comes to you the sky is pink!!!
ReplyDeleteHey gilstrap Suarez has a bridge he wants to sell ya!!
ReplyDeleteAfter 70 minutes the score will be 0-0 and that's the best case scenario.
ReplyDelete*poof* What's that? That's the sound of the pre-season positive bubble bursting
ReplyDeleteBecause I'm realistic. With the team we have right now, we have no chance at top 4. I'm not lowering the bar, I'm very much not happy about being outside of the top 4. We need more investment, if that happens then maybe top 4 is doable
ReplyDeletei only can think one occasion from last season we went down and won the game. first west ham game.
ReplyDeleteyeah we dont seem to win the games if we dont score first
Preseason is for auditions in and out. Soon Assaidi, Spearing, Coates,skrtel and possibly Downing will be gone. We should play Kelly, Alberto,Aspas and Ibe under the condition that learns to pass a bit. Add Cissoko and Siquiera and drop anchor. Lets see what the team can do.....
ReplyDeleteValerenga played europaleague semifinals couple of seasons back and olympiaikos is a decent team.
ReplyDeleteunited lost bunch of games to teams from orient. i doubt their fans think their season is over already. they should though, im enjoying watching moyes F*** up over there
kolo is a beast of a defender still. our best CB
ReplyDeleteallen started ,hendo came on and was shipped out on the left
ReplyDeletehes got to play some wear
ReplyDeleteyour right m8 the only way they will learn is the hard way;-)
ReplyDeletebecause we where playing whipping boys ...Celtics second team are the closest we have come to a prem team in pre season and we didn't really threaten goal....that's a cause for concern
ReplyDeleteI think Henderson will just do what he did last season, prove he is better. Rodgers made him captain for a game and also specifically mentioned him as a leader when Agger got vice captain. I'm disappointed Allen starts but if he plays out of his skin to stay in the team and we do well so be it mate, as much as I like Hendo.
ReplyDeleteagree but if hendo performs better he should be dropped but ,even then he will get every chance
ReplyDeleteI know but its better than nothing..its not like Hendo is likely to be sold unlike last summer. No more BS though, the better performer plays, simple, no favourites, or I'll end up smashing the tv at 3am in the morning when Allen is announced in the starting line ups :P
ReplyDeleteI think it was an important work-out for the team. Clearly it was the first game they played at closer to full tempo and you could see they wanted to win. Confidence is one thing but Liverpool have had enough wins in pre-season. You need a good kick in the pants to show you precisely where your level is just prior to starting the season and that's what we got. The team needs another step up and now they know just how far off they are. A really good work-out.
ReplyDeleteInterestingly Skrtel doesn't even make the bench, I think he's certain for Napoli which means we can sign one of our CB targets. Good news.
they get expensive them tvs ;-)
ReplyDeleteYou've put it right here! HAS BEEN. It's something in the past. FORMER Liverpool fan-hero...
ReplyDeleteAnd I am not sure at all about you suggestion that many still feel positive in any way about Suaréz. I still think that he is a very, very good football player. So is the fake Ronaldo and I don't like him one bit, want him no-where near our club.
Absolutely ridiculous comment Jason. 1. The more games he plays, the fitter he will get, no? 2. With your logic, there is no point in playing ANYBODY as it could damage their season. I mean, its dangerous crossing the road, right?
ReplyDeletethanx for your imput
ReplyDeleteGod that's patronising. Maybe they just have more pride in the shirt......?
ReplyDeleteWhat did you think of the atmosphere?
ReplyDeleteI was amazed that we outnumbered the Celtic fans at least 4 to 1 yet they outsung us. Typical over-confident LFC fans - give it the big 'un outside the ground then (apart from YNWA) they just sit there and clap politely. That's why the atmosphere is crap at Anfield too. There's too many people going for the experience, instead of to support the club.
What an anti-climax :(