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[The Manhattan Project]

Excellent.

Fourth place for the Reds!!!!

I mean Yellows!!!!  

[zarababe]

..best defensive start for 20 odd years.. Keep dreamin Boss.. then let Montse tell us your middle of the night prophetic words...

Luuuurve Benitez

[zarababe]

Rafa Beneathus


P W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS
1 Chelsea 14 7 0 0 21 4 5 1 1 12 3 26 37
2 Man Utd 13 2 2 1 5 4 6 1 1 16 9 8 27
3 Arsenal 13 7 0 0 16 2 1 2 3 6 8 12 26
4 Liverpool 13 4 1 1 8 4 3 3 1 7 4 7 25
5 Wigan 13 4 1 3 9 8 4 0 1 7 2 6 25
6 Tottenham 14 3 3 1 7 4 3 3 1 9 6 6 24
7 Bolton 13 4 1 1 6 1 3 1 3 9 12 2 23
8 Man City 14 4 2 2 9 5 2 1 3 6 7 3 21
9 West Ham 13 4 1 2 12 6 1 3 2 5 7 4 19
10 Middlesbrough 14 3 3 2 12 12 2 1 3 8 8 0 19
11 Charlton 13 1 1 4 5 10 5 0 2 12 8 -1 19
12 Newcastle 14 3 2 1 6 5 2 1 5 6 9 -2 18
13 Blackburn 14 4 1 1 10 5 1 2 5 5 13 -3 18
14 Fulham 14 4 1 2 10 7 0 2 5 6 13 -4 15
15 Aston Villa 14 2 2 3 7 10 2 1 4 7 12 -8 15
16 Everton 13 2 1 3 3 5 2 0 5 2 11 -11 13
17 West Brom 14 3 0 4 12 12 0 3 4 3 12 -9 12
18 Portsmouth 14 0 3 4 3 10 2 1 4 8 10 -9 10
19 Birmingham 13 0 1 5 3 10 2 2 3 5 7 -9 9
20 Sunderland 15 0 2 7 7 20 1 0 5 5 10 -18 5

lol worth seeing this page again ...

Red machine flexing its muscles.. what did the Boss.. say 'never again will the gap between us and the top be so great..'   

[Dalglish]

Its a good sign when you aren't playing well and winning. Chelsea did that a lot last season winning 11 out of 38 games 1-0 and Everton about 10times

Good to see Alonso back in the team and with 2 assists tonight must top the goals created stats.

I fully expect us to beat Wigan and go 2nd, albeit for a couple of hours.

[neil]

real pity we lost the fulham game the other week though, winning that 1 would've put us clear second with a game in hand over chelsea, so 6points adrift with some 24 games left.

[A.B.]

Its a good sign when you aren't playing well and winning. Chelsea did that a lot last season winning 11 out of 38 games 1-0 and Everton about 10times

Good to see Alonso back in the team and with 2 assists tonight must top the goals created stats.

I fully expect us to beat Wigan and go 2nd, albeit for a couple of hours.

I expect us to beat Wigan as well but it will be a difficult game. They've managed to do quite well, far than anyone expected.

[babu]

Wigan have already achieved what must have their goal at the start of the season, enough points to aviod relegation. I have a sneaky suspicion that they will take their foot of the pedal now.

...but it might also mean that the players are not under so much pressure and will play better.

I dunno. but its critical we win this game, a draw wouldn't be too bad either imo.

[A.B.]

Can't agree with that, we're playing at home so a draw would be a poor result especially since we are playing against Wigan.

[azriahmad]

Wigan, so long famous for its rugby union or league (which one I don't really know as I find rugby boring, just running with the ball). Now its football team is doing ever so well.

In recent times, they are looking more and more short of that extra bit of quality but they are defenitely good enough for the EPL. It won't be easy and we have to be prepared to win ugly again, like we did against Man City.

Heck, I'll take any win.

[babu]

Can't agree with that, we're playing at home so a draw would be a poor result especially since we are playing against Wigan.

A.B i just reread my post, and i realised i'm probably getting splinters from having my butt firmly on the fence.

agree a win is a must, but beware the mighty wigan !

[A.B.]

They'll be a tough side to crack and we have to watch out for their counter-attacks. Tough game indeed.

[TheoRacle]

Agreed Azriahmad, Wigan have a had a good run up till now having not really played many teams who will be in the top half of the ladder come the end of the season. 

Their great confidence booster against Chelsea on day 1 really set them up well and they've been able to create their own luck in front of goal and convert their chances (which statistically have been limited).

Their defense is however playing really well and we could find it hard to break down. They tend to defend as a whole team and aren't afraid of letting the opposition have most of the possession.

If we score early while Wigan are still awe struck by the Kop it should be relatively easy to keep control and nick a 2nd goal as cushion.  The longer the game goes without us scoring though, the more chance we have of losing patience and making the mistake that lets in a counter attack.

Summary: we score early - a stroll in the park; dont score early - ugly game a'la Man City.

hey A.B. "SNAP!!!"

[azriahmad]

Theo, the fact that Wigan plays as one unit in a whole match is why I think they'd be tough to crack.

We need Xabi Alonso if we want to play more beautifully, and we really missed him against Man City. We are somewhat short in the creative department, as the real Kewell or the Kewell of the past is yet to show himself at Liverpool, and Stevie have to make do with being wide on the right.

[112-1077774096]

.. Letter to Benitez.. having faith is a great thing

a little dig at me.......ay.......must have took you ages to think that one up,,,,,,,,,,but if you read back and see what i wrote......... i say the side need to be more stable..........we need to play 442.........guess what..............since the side was more stable we have been winning...................its always good to get your facts right bfore attempying to take the p1ss............but i suppose you can always just lie about it...........maybe rafa can be your knight in shining armour...........and does really this really require its own thread..............i thought all your time now was spent sending judge derogatory pms...........sad woman

[Santa]

.. Letter to Benitez.. having faith is a great thing

a little dig at me.......ay.......must have took you ages to think that one up,,,,,,,,,,but if you read back and see what i wrote......... i say the side need to be more stable..........we need to play 442.........guess what..............since the side was more stable we have been winning...................its always good to get your facts right bfore attempying to take the p1ss............but i suppose you can always just lie about it...........maybe rafa can be your knight in shining armour...........and does really this really require its own thread..............i thought all your time now was spent sending judge derogatory pms...........sad woman

nah, I remember Chelsea did not get off to a flying start at the start of last season, grinning out many boring one-nil win but once the team settled and gel, good results ensured. Need to have more faith in Rafa, probably our best signing in the last 15 years