Prem fixtures this weekend

mike65

Shocking game though. Boro 4-1 up on Bolton which is pretty much the opposite of what one might expect.

Mike.

MrPillowTalk

First time ever cheering on Pool, get in you scouse beauties.

homerjay2005

chelsea look a very average team at the moment. the likes of gerimi, mikel, kalou, wright phillips are not premiership winning qulaity plus 2/3 more players like ferreira/essien/ballack playing out of position. if i was a liverpool fan, id have my sights set on finishing above them now at this stage. surely terry can not be that good that they have fallen apart so much lately. has to be other factors.

WhiteWashMan

helguson off for second bookable at fulham.

Nuttzz

gilliespe the clown gets sent of within a minute of comming on

Xavi6

Fun and games at Reading. Hilarious stuff.

county

yeh,its all kicking off according to sky sports

Xavi6

Gillespie hits Hunt, Warnock jeers Hunt for going down, Reading coach Downes pushes Warnock. Warnock and Downes sent packing with Gillespie. Brilliant.

redspider

Liverpool 2-0 Chelsea
Kuyt 4
Pennant 18

A solid win for Liverpool. Chelsea, the club which many thought had a limitless pool of players for every position, have had the '3 buses in a row' problem and badly missed their Centre Backs. Some of that was due to unfortunate injury, Terry, Carvalho and Bhoularouz, although the falling out with Gallas and his sale to Arsenal is biting back at Mourinho. (I suspect Borinho was the main reason for his sale and not Abramo-bitch).

Rafa, is listening, I am sure he reads these threads (!) ;-) as he went back to the tried and tested 4-4-2 and played players in their correct positions. The formation was:

# 25 Reina

# 03 Finnan
# 23 Carragher
# 05 Agger
# 12 Aurelio

# 16 Pennant
# 08 Gerrard
# 14 Alonso
# 06 Riise

# 15 Crouch (85 Bellamy )
# 18 Kuyt (90 Gonzalez )


Liverpool played well from the off and tested the Chelsea CB's ealy on and Kuyt snapped on a ball coming through, turned Ferrera nicely and scored well. I think Terry would have stopped this.

Then, for the 2nd goal, Ashley Cole left his ex-colleague Pennant far too much room and the lad took his time and got off a great 30 yards shot and it was 2-0.

From then on Liverpool were in control, although when Alonso was off for a while injured Chelsea semi-threatened, and in the 2ndhalf Liverpool gave Chelse probably too much time and respect. But Chelsea's chances weren't many.

There was trojan work for Jamie Carragher who bottled Drogba up for the whole game. He is an immense asset to us. I didnt see much of Agger. Aurelio did well at left back but got lashed at by Gerrard when he was slow coming back to cover on one occasion. That's a Brazillian for you.

Gerrard of course was excellent, and the efforts of Kuyt were good. I think Rafa shoud have put Bellamy on earlier as with 15 mins he could have got that 3rd goal. It didnt matter anyway as the crowd did Ole's and ended with a loud version of You'll Never Walk Alone.

An important win for Liverpool, a much needed one. Now we have a chance to fight for 2nd at least, and that is good news because it should mean a comfortable finish in a CL place.

For Liverpool, a draw tomorrow between Arsenal and Man Utd would suit best. If Man Utd do win it, it will be one hand on the title. The table is now:

1 Man Utd 23 57
2 Chelsea 24 51
3 Liverpool 24 46
4 Arsenal 23 42

But if Man Utd do win an get a 9 pt lead with just 14 games remaining it is only their's to lose. If Man Utd lose, Liverpool will be 11 pts behind which is a long way, not impossible but not likely either by a long shot. The remaining top-4 games that Man Utd have (away to Chelsea and before that away to Liverpool) could likely be determining matches and could reduce an 11-pt gap significantly, but not enough imo.

a good day at the office for Liverpool, for Rafa and for me !

Redspider

MrPillowTalk

Xavi6 wrote:

Gillespie hits Hunt, Warnock jeers Hunt for going down, Reading coach Downes pushes Warnock. Warnock and Downes sent packing with Gillespie. Brilliant.

Not to mention Gillespie making his way over to Hunt on the way off the pitch and swinging for him again. Hillarious stuff.

WhiteWashMan

even in chinese, the spurs fulham game is pretty dull

county

peno for fulham


goal 1-0

WhiteWashMan

fulham 1 0 - penalty by montella

county

spurs get an equaliser,1-1

mike65

Boro 5-1 up.

Mike.

Chardee MacDennis

west ham are getting nothing season!!

WhiteWashMan

woohoo!
1 point closer to chelsea

mike65

Blackburn 2 - 0 Man City.

Mike.

ZENER

Chelsea were woefull today, like a headless - Terryless ??? - chicken. Liverpool caught them on an off day I think. MOTM, Arne Risse, I like him - always have. Wright Philips had a go when he came on too.

I expected more of a match to be honest but - unintended - 'Pool did Man U a favour today.

ZEN

kinaldo

Call_me_al wrote:

west ham are getting nothing season!!

Yeah they were only gifted 2 goals thanks to a defense which following Ramage's injury contained two 19 year old centre backs with only a handful of appearances between them, an attacking midfielder at right back, and a **** right back returning at left back having barely trained a week in over a month. Then Given gets injured against them again. I'd say they will be happy at having managed to double their entire away goals tally this season.

Edit: It really pisses me off having to listen to Mourinho every week constantly moaning about having no central defenders. I'll say this much for Roeder, at least he's capable of just getting on with his job without making excuses when it would be totally understandable if he was to take Mourinho's line. My guess is we haven't signed any defenders because of lack of money and all the takeover talk - not much Roeder could have done, unlike JM who's been given almost unlimited funds since he arrived at the Bridge.

griffdaddy

kinaldo wrote:

, unlike JM who's been given almost unlimited funds since he arrived at the Bridge.

yeah but at the moment it looks like the well has dried up. i'm a liverpool fan but today i thought josé was spot on in his post match interview, they are missing 2 main defenders and he has asked the board to amend the situation this transfer term only to be messed about. Terry and Carvaliho (sp.) werent there to keep an eye on Crouch and Kuyt, it could have been a different match if Carragher and Agger or Hypia hadn't been available in defense for Liverpool. In my personal opinion,(and it's just that) i think if you have a strong pairing in central defense, it echoes right up through the team and effects them confidence wise. I'd be more inclined to push up and try to create chances if i had Agger and Carragher behind me rather than Ferreira and Essien

homerjay2005

i have a feeling that hunt could get a bad name for himself if he is not careful, he has already had the chelsea incident and now this yesterday. also, im surprised nothing has been said or done about him sliding tackling the corner flag which then wacked the linesman. surprised that he didnt get at least a yellow for that!!

therecklessone

Spurs were absolutely appaling yesterday.

That is all.

Nalz

I hope United get a result today...I think if United win today and dont lose to Chelsea they will win the league.

I posted this on another site on Thursday. Hopefully Im right about United gaining a point at least

Trilla wrote:

Manchester United travel to in form Arsenal minus Gilberto

prediction : 1-1 draw. Rooney to end bad spell, Hleb to equalize

Chelsea and Liverpool

prediction: 2-0 Liverpool. Shocking defending result in a Kuyt brace

sweetie

Any stream for arsenal - utd?

Mad Dog

sweetie wrote:

Any stream for arsenal - utd?

Not another one :eek:


Plenty of them here

Mossy Monk

do people really need to be spoon fed that website every time there is a match on

anyway, any news on andy johnsons injury. looked pretty serious

pp_me129

United vs Arsenal build up!! All they are talkin about is liverpool vs chelsa haha:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Mossy Monk

homerjay2005 wrote:

i have a feeling that hunt could get a bad name for himself if he is not careful, he has already had the chelsea incident and now this yesterday. also, im surprised nothing has been said or done about him sliding tackling the corner flag which then wacked the linesman. surprised that he didnt get at least a yellow for that!!

what happend with Cech was an accident and nothing has been said about him sliding into the corner flag because it was just that, nothing. maybe Long should be done for gbh due to his celebration with the mascot? then again probably not

homerjay2005

this is the united team i think -

GK: VdS

RB: Neville
CB: Ferdinand
CB: Vidic
LB: Evra

RM: Ronaldo
CM: Carrick
CM: Scholes
LM: Giggs

CF: Rooney
CF: Larsson

Subs: Kuszczak, Borwn, Henzie, Fletcher, Saha


as to why park and ole aint on the bench i dont know. we look like we have a strong squad now

Mossy Monk

Wigan 0 - 2 Everton

Artetta again. great cross from Phil Neville. excellent goal

Full Time

eirebhoy

homerjay2005 wrote:

i have a feeling that hunt could get a bad name for himself if he is not careful, he has already had the chelsea incident and now this yesterday.

What did Hunt do wrong yesterday? I just watched the match of the day highlights of the Reading game there. It's 4 minutes long with obviously the goals and that incident. Why the BBC decided to throw in a Hunt foul I don't know. Just a 10 second clip of Hunt making an average foul. Any other player and it certainly wouldn't be in the highlights.

On today's match, Arteta seems to doing very well at Everton. Rangers sold him for less than half the price they got him for and even Sociedad made a bit of a loss on him.

Gillie

Its all United at the moment! I would put my house on a sending off today - especially with Bennett in charge!

Peyton Manning

Id hardly call it 'all United' but an encouraging start considering we're the away team..

bucks73

Cant understand why Rooney is on the left and Giggs thru the middle though.

Peyton Manning

Fergie probably wants Rooney to cut in from the left with his right-foot. Ludicrous decision really. He should be in the middle. But if it works, I wont complain.

2 obvious displays of 'simulation' by the Gooners thus far.

Nutmeg of the season by Evra

Gillie

Peno or not? Henry made the most of it. Was there contact tho?

Peyton Manning

Minimal contact. Henry made a meal of it tbh. Still, Ive seen them given. *cough Wayne Rooney cough*

Mad Dog

Mossy Monk wrote:

any news on andy johnsons injury. looked pretty serious

Sky Sports News are saying he is gone to hospital with suspected broken ankle.

Mad Dog

Pen all the way, just seen the replay :eek:

Aquos76

Mad Dog wrote:

Pen all the way, just seen the replay :eek:

From a Chelsea Fan, why does that not surprise me.

bucks73

Yeah it was. Maybe if his fall didnt look so stupid he would have got it.

Peyton Manning

We look awfully suspect in the left side of defense

Rooney very unlucky - what a shot/save!

Larsson aswell, God - we should be one up...

Mad Dog

Aquos76 wrote:

From a Chelsea Fan, why does that not surprise me.

Who I support or not doesn't have anything to do with my eyesight but I guess it does yours

MisterAnarchy

bucks73 wrote:

Cant understand why Rooney is on the left and Giggs thru the middle though.

Because Ferguson is stubborn.
He keeps on playing this formation and it doesnt work.
Give it up ,stop putting square pegs in round holes.

Aquos76

I felt that he went down very easly but Pens have certainly been given in the past for less.

bucks73

MisterAnarchy wrote:

Because Ferguson is stubborn.
He keeps on playing this formation and it doesnt work.
Give it up ,stop putting square pegs in round holes.

Completely agree.

Peyton Manning

Rooney - right footed, but playing on the left.
Giggs - left footed, playing in the centre.

Now, Im no rocket scientist....but....

Vokes

Definite peno plus don't think Henry made a meal of it.

Peyton Manning

^Really? So a strong gust of wind just blew him up into the air?