The first Merseyside derby of the new season.

riflehunter77

Well lads the first major derby of the new season is just about on us.. What are your predicitions and do you think both teams will end the game with eleven players on the pitch. Roll on saturday............

Edited to add more information.

Right here we go again the first Merseyside derby of the new saeson is this saturday the 27/09/2008 and his live on sky sports from 12.45pm. Liverpool have had a great start to the season but we all know that can go out the window on the day here is link to both liverpool and evertons form guide so far this season.
http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG...Liverpool.html

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/teams/Everton.html

And to make both sets of fans happy, news just in is that Mike Riely will be the ref in charge of the Merseyside derby. God only nows what will happen now after his performance last weekend.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archiv...ref-derby.html


FEED THE YAK AND HE WILL SCORE

Karmafaerie

I'd expect a temporary lock here.
Other games in the mean time after all.

I wouldn't want Liverpool looking beyond the midweek yet.;)

riflehunter77

My apologies temporary lock if needs be.

Mr Alan

sort out some sort of thread title change as well-the one on it now is a mess!

zAbbo

The onus is on the thread starter of a match thread to provide as much information on the game as possible, squads, kick off, tv coverage, team news etc.

Not just a one liner....

monkey9

I'm getting sick and tired of Andy Gray consistantly calling Yakubu 'The Yak'! He even called Drogba 'the Drog' the other day!

Bluetonic

Keane to get first goal.

Torres to score.

Gerrard to get 100th goal.

One of more of these things are sure to happen.

Nalz

monkey9 wrote: »

I'm getting sick and tired of Andy Gray consistantly calling Yakubu 'The Yak'!

Everton fans call him that too!

Mr Alan

Andy Grays Mrs would get it.

monkey9

Trilla wrote: »

Everton fans call him that too!

Yeah, i know. Feed the Yak and he will score and all that......i just hate when Andy Gray calls him it. Once off, fair enough. But not all the time.

Xavi6

I can haz draw?

Sherifu

Carragher for a hat trick. Man City for relegation.

aidan24326

Let the battle for 4th place commence!!

Nalz

Mr Alan wrote: »

Andy Grays Mrs would get it.

lol Its scaring me that I'm agreein with you lately, well on most things

riflehunter77

zAbbo wrote: »

The onus is on the thread starter of a match thread to provide as much information on the game as possible, squads, kick off, tv coverage, team news etc.

Not just a one liner....

Right here we go again the first Merseyside derby of the new saeson is this saturday the 27/09/2008 and his live on sky sports from 12.45pm. Liverpool have had a great start to the season but we all know that can go out the window on the day here is link to both liverpool and evertons form guide so far this season.
http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/teams/Liverpool.html

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/teams/Everton.html

And to make both sets of fans happy, news just in is that Mike Riely will be the ref in charge of the Merseyside derby:mad::mad:. God only nows what will happen now after his performance last weekend.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/riley-to-ref-derby.html

Malice

riflehunter77 wrote: »

And to make both sets of fans happy, news just in is that Mike Riely will be the ref in charge of the Merseyside derby:mad::mad:. God only nows what will happen now after his performance last weekend.

I'm pretty sure I watched Mike Riley referee a Liverpool game recently (maybe towards the end of last season) and I remember thinking he did alright. That's probably the kiss of death now. I expect a Rob Styles-type howler now :mad:.

Charlie

Mr Alan wrote: »

Andy Grays Mrs would get it.

Yer wan that was on that cribs episode with him. Indeed, proper material. You do know that the plonker did the dirt on her in Marbella wit his mates gf, and got chucked out on his ear.

LuckyLloyd

One game at a time imo.

The Rooster

Keane, Riera, Benayoun and Babel fighting for one starting spot. I believe Riera will get it and the others will be benched.

Reina

Arbeloa - Carra - Skrtel - Dossena

Mascherano - Alonso

Kuyt - Gerrard - Riera

Torres

pesireland

The Rooster wrote: »

Keane, Riera, Benayoun and Babel fighting for one starting spot. I believe Riera will get it and the others will be benched.

Reina

Arbeloa - Carra - Skrtel - Dossena

Mascherano - Alonso

Kuyt - Gerrard - Riera

Torres

Im so sick of looking at Dirk Kuyt, he makes me sick just looking at him, I stuck up for him long enough last season as his father passed away and he was in mourning, but now Die Kuyt Die.:mad:

I'd have Elzar (sp?) on before kuyt at least he can control a ball and take a player on.

Mr Alan

are you for real??

PiE

Generally I'd agree - but these are the only types of games I would actually like Kuyt to start in.

It's the matches like last week vs. Stoke where I don't want to see him - those kind of games are where his hard work combined with wastefulness in front of goal are not needed.

DeadSkin

pesireland wrote: »

Im so sick of looking at Dirk Kuyt, he makes me sick just looking at him, I stuck up for him long enough last season as his father passed away and he was in mourning, but now Die Kuyt Die.:mad:

I'd have Elzar (sp?) on before kuyt at least he can control a ball and take a player on.

There is no way in hell ElZhar will replace Kuyt in such a big game.
I'm not a huge fan of Dirk, but you can't question the man's attitude and work rate.
"Die Kuyt Die" cop on would ya!

Mr Alan

the same Dirk Kuyt who scored 2 penos against Everton last year to win us the game by the way.

shambolic post. Dirk is big game player. We need him for this game.

Malice

pesireland wrote: »

Im so sick of looking at Dirk Kuyt, he makes me sick just looking at him, I stuck up for him long enough last season as his father passed away and he was in mourning, but now Die Kuyt Die.:mad:

I'd have Elzar (sp?) on before kuyt at least he can control a ball and take a player on.

Every time I hear El Zhar's name I think of this guy from Futurama:



Also there's no way El Zhar will start ahead of Kuyt.

Handsome Bob

riflehunter77 wrote: »

Right here we go again the first Merseyside derby of the new saeson is this saturday the 27/09/2008 and his live on sky sports from 12.45pm. Liverpool have had a great start to the season but we all know that can go out the window on the day here is link to both liverpool and evertons form guide so far this season.
http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/teams/Liverpool.html

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/teams/Everton.html

And to make both sets of fans happy, news just in is that Mike Riely will be the ref in charge of the Merseyside derby:mad::mad:. God only nows what will happen now after his performance last weekend.

http://www.evertonfc.com/news/archive/riley-to-ref-derby.html

****.:(

I'm dreading this game(I seem to be doing a lot of that these days). I don't think this is a game to rely on Keano to break his duck so I wouldn't mind seeing Gerrard play behind Torres. This is a game that we just can't afford to 'hope' that everything will work out with the partnership of Keane and Torres.

Boggles

Saha 8-1 to get the first goal, appartently he played well the other night and actually came throught the 90 minutes.

Mr Alan

Gerrard at 9-1 to get his 100th goal is a much better bet imo.

DeadSkin

Gerrard is 9-1 to be anytime scorer in tomorrow's game??

Mr Alan

according to a lad who sits opposite me in work. cant access bookies sites in work to check.

NabyLadistheman

Stevie G is 11/4 anytime goalscorer with Paddy Power

DeadSkin

Mr Alan, tell that lad who sits in front of ya he's a fool :pac: :pac:

Mr Alan

will do! in fairness though he is 8-1 for first goal scorer....probably 9-1 somewhere! and well worth a punt.

DeadSkin

Most definitely!

The Rooster

From LFC.tv

Liverpool will give late fitness tests to midfield duo Javier Mascherano and Yossi Benayoun ahead of this weekend's Merseyside derby at Goodison.
Mascherano is trying to shake off a calf injury while Benayoun has an ankle knock.

Brazilian defender Fabio Aurelio is back to full fitness and is available for selection.

sitout

Everton to take it down today, to make up for the rape that was last seasons game. The yak to bag 2.

PHB

Should be a fun game

whatawaster

PHB wrote: »

Should be a fun game

Everton are going to play 3 in midfield, so i think we need to match them there and we should control the game.

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Reina

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Arbeloa

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Carragher

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Skrtel

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Dossena

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Mascherano

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Alonso

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Gerrard

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Kuyt

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Riera

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Torres

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Harsh on Keane, but these are the games Kuyt often thrives in.

zing

Reina, Arbeloa, Dossena, Carragher, Skrtel, Alonso, Gerrard, Kuyt, Riera, Keane, Torres.

Subs: Cavalieri, Agger, Hyypia, Aurelio, Pennant, Babel, Lucas.

Pighead

What's wrong with Mascherano. Is he injured?

PHB

Wow. No Mascherano! Against Cahill and Arteta?

I'm going to take back my belief in Liverpool winning after this, this system may well just not work. It will all depend on how Gerrard does as a central midfielder, something I don't think he can do much anymore.

whatawaster

No Masch! Absolute disaster.

mike65

4-4-2

subs Cavalieri, Agger, Hyypia, Aurelio, Pennant, Babel, Lucas.

Mike

Sherifu

Hmmm, Gerrard in central midfield. Well dodgy.

cruiserweight

According to BBC Mascherano failed a fitness test on his calf injury

jesus_thats_gre

Doh!!

I had a dream that Arteta is going to have a big game.So come on everton.

eagle eye

If one player is that important to Liverpool for games against average teams then there is a serious problem at Anfield. You should be able to win this match comfortably with half the first team.
Everton are a mess at the back so far this season so you'd expect to see a top four club scoring a lot of goals.

Edit to say, don't get me wrong I expect Liverpool to win this comfortably. They are better than even money with the bookies and that looks like serious value to me.

whatawaster

Sherifu wrote: »

Hmmm, Gerrard in central midfield. Well dodgy.

I doubt anybody thought 7 or 8 years ago that that would be a perfectly acceptable statement about Gerrard.

highgiant1985

I'm watching the match on line at mo good start to the match so far -

http://www.justin.tv/sportcenter3

~Rebel~

a lot of this game comes down to Gerrards descipline.

If he allows those ahead of him to do their jobs instead of forcing himself into their positions, pool should be fine.


<edit> so far noone's put a foot wrong, except dossena, who's not put a foot right.

<edit> Andy Grey still calling Yakubu "the Yak" every time...