Liverpool v Kaunas 2nd leg

mike65

The team

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Carson

Finnan-Hyypia---Whitbread-Warnock

Garcia---Hamann--Sissoko--Zenden

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Crouch-Morientes

Not exactly 1st 11 but should good enough.

Subs Reina Riise Gerrard Cisse Alonso Carragher Potter

Mike.

ianomccabe

good to see steve finnan captaining the club in the champions league too

galwaydude

good team.Im looking forward to seeing Sissoko, whitbread and crouch playing.We should win 5:0 been at home and all.
Crouch to have a field day

Jivin Turkey

Looking forward to seeing Sissoko getting a start. I was impressed in the first leg.

Hopefully the Hyypia/Whitbread partnership wont get shown up for pace, they had some nippy players in the first leg.

Ill go for a 4-0. Kaunas are in turmoil, sacked their manager last week.

Shred

ianomccabe wrote:

good to see steve finnan captaining the club in the champions league too

Hyppia's captain tonight dude. I'll go for 3-0 to the 'pool

ianomccabe

apologies i thought i heard on ssn about finnan captaining but obviously not

Chucky the tree

got the camera sorted at least.

ianomccabe

wtf is up wit tv3's camera angle

Brian017

Are the commentators actually at the match?

thejollyrodger

is the net in front of them or something

to borrow a phrase from a romanian

liverpool will humilate them tonight 4-0:D

finnan isnt captain !! hypia or someone is

baros has a real girls bag with him. it looks so gay

Jivin Turkey

Hahahahaha, I usually wouldnt come online during a game but did anyone see Baros's handbag???

Priceless!

Töpher

Jivin Turkey wrote:

Hahahahaha, I usually wouldnt come online during a game but did anyone see Baros's handbag???

Priceless!

Very stylish!

cournioni

LOL. Had to laugh at Baros.

I'd say Shelbourne would beat either of those teams out there.

mike65

Biggest cheer of the evening is for Gerrard warming up! Its that sort of game.

Mike.

ianomccabe

When i was in Turkey for the final in May a lot of the players had those gucci handbags over their shoulder.

Couldn't quite see the attraction myself!

Dr. Dre

What a truly mind numbing first half.

Töpher

I find it amusing that players stylish handbags are dominating the match thread. Stupid Liverpool and their stupid girly players

/edit: Kaunas unlucky there. Incredibly sloppy defending to allow the shot.

Ronan|Raven

Glorified training match at the moment.

Ronan|Raven

You will never have guessed.....
Although the keeper did his best to get out of the way.

county

gerrard 1 nil

BrookieD

2-0 Cisse with a good take after Garcia cross to pick him off the back post

Ronan|Raven

And the man with the hair cut that looks like he robbed the groundskeeper paint can makes it 2 with a great finish.

mayordenis

well thats that

Necronomicon

Sissoko was good I thought, seemed very bright. Cisse was also very good when he came on. Great finish.
Comfortable performance for 'Pool, but at times their finishing left a bit to be desired.

mike65

The main problem for me was definitly the lack of quick wide balls comming in, Crouch and Morientes needed the sort of crossing that er Beckham would provide. Hey Rafa...!

Mike.

thejollyrodger

maybe thats why they are offloading baros , he is making the rest of the team to pick up the soap in the shower :P

'pool never really looked troubled but it was a boring game. Good to see potter on the pitch but didnt exactly change the game.

PHB

Gerrard for footballer of the year this christmas?
After the CL final, if he has a good first half, he is going to be up there.
That's a bet i'd like some odds on

Jivin Turkey

Was impressed enough with Sissoko. Made tonnes of interceptions. Some nice passes as well. Needs to fill out a bit too, very skinny for the size of him. But so far so good.

Happy enough with the result overall. Some players still looking a bit sluggish but it was never going to be an easy game.

Lex Luthor

mike65 wrote:

The main problem for me was definitly the lack of quick wide balls comming in, Crouch and Morientes needed the sort of crossing that er Beckham would provide. Hey Rafa...!

Mike.

Have to agree with ya there Mike....Zenden had a poor game and there was nothing coming in from the right. Sissoko and Hamann were comfortable all night but there was never going to be much creativity from CM with that pairing, probably why the wide guys never got good ball in.
Zak played well. Needs a master class from Didi on how not to get shrugged off the ball and use his arms a bit more.
They really didn't get going till SG came on. Did you see him just before he got on the pitch? He was like a coiled spring ready to unload....
He was itchin to get on.
It just goes to show, in the PL next season, either him or Alonso are gonna have to be on the pitch at all times, otherwise I can't see them doing much damage going forward.

Bonner was his usual bumbling babbling self who can't read his lines to save his life :rolleyes:

yom 1

I was out last night and only caught the last 20 mins but I'm just wondering did I hear it right that Crouch went off injured?

Thought Cisse took his goal really well and it was a lovely move. I'm impressed with what I have seen of Sissoko.

Lex Luthor

yom 1 wrote:

I was out last night and only caught the last 20 mins but I'm just wondering did I hear it right that Crouch went off injured?

Hamstring.
Getting a scan on it today.
It must be all he has on those legs cos he's like a stork.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Best cheer of the night was for the Kaunas fans when they sang their bit of a tune. And when that lady came over the loudspeaker telling them to stay in their seats till 5 mins after the game. Spent the last 10 minutes letting people out past me thinking I hope that they miss a goal for going early and they did

Solid performance from the pool, Zenden looked a little lost for long periods, Garcia, some nice touches and good cross but a bit out of it besides. Was played like a friendly, Kaunas didn't bring anything really. Impressed with Whitbread again, he is not as slow as he is made out to be. Momo all arms and legs but some nice touches and made the challenges when necessary.

All in all a decent performance, as for neither of those teams being able to beat Shelbourne. :rolleyes:

galwaydude

decent preformance from liverpool as it was just like a training match at times.Im a bit worried though as nando looks very sluggish at times.
Whitbread looks a fine prospect and afterall we rested reina, carragher, risse and alonso, with cisse and gerrard coming on as subs so a good workout overall.The real job starts in 2 weeks when the premiership starts.

~Rebel~

least competitive competitive game i've seen for a while. kaunas just didn't seem to have any ambitions of trying to get a win, got forward about 4 or 5 times in the whole match (and when they did they didn't look bad!). Pool were comfortable but not particularly impressive. Sissoko looks like he could be a great one for the future at only 20 though! Will get a lot stronger and bigger then he already is - very promising didi replacement. Cisse looked very lively when he came on i thought. Gerrard really got the team going as well.

I only saw from halfway through the first half, but crouch didn't overly impress me..did he do anything special in the first half hour?