Liverpool FC Forum

[iolsi]

they have a great defense and pacy strikers but their midfield is not very good

                   roma

maicon   rodriguez  squillacci  evra

kallon    perez  zikos   farnerud

            adebayor   saviola

chevanton is injured and it's a good news for you

[Zardoz]

For those wanting to know more about Monaco :


tonight's French Premiership Monaco Starting Eleven was :

GKeeper : Flavio Roma.
Def.: 19 Sébastien Squillaci, 27 Julien Rodriguez, 3 Patrice Evra, 13 Maicon.
Mid.: 15 Andreas Zikos, 21 Pontus Farnerud, 5 Diego Pérez.
Att.: 8 Mohammed Kallon, 9 Javier Saviola, 24 Sheyi Adebayor.

subs: 1 Fabien Audard, 32 Gaël Givet, 35 Hassan El Fakiri, Modesto.


Monaco players this season are :

GK :
Fabien Audard 25   
André Biancarelli 33
Flavio Roma 30   

DEF:
Hassan El-Fakiri 26
Patrice Evra  22   
Gaël Givet-Viaros  22   
François-Joseph Modesto  25   
Joseph Dayo Oshadogan  27 
Julien Rodriguez  26 
Maicon Douglas Sisenando  22
Sébastien Squillaci  24 

MID:
Lucas Ademar Bernardi  26   
Pontus Farnerud  23 
Jimmy Juan  21   
Gregory Lacombe  22   
Diego Fernando Ruso Perez Aguado 23   
Jaroslav Plasil  21   
Vassilis Andreas Zikos  30   

ATT:
Sheyi Emmanuel Adebayor 19
Souleymane Camara 21   
Ernesto Javier Chevanton  23
Mohamed Kallon  24 
Shabani Nonda 26   
Javier Saviola 23

[iolsi]

squillaci and rodriguez are not very quick but maicon and evra are both exellent

[Starbridge42]

Evra will be difficult to deal with.  But for all his pace and his presence at the back he does have a bit of a tendancy to drift up the field.  Quick passing or a long ball over the top (Alonso looks even better then Gerrard at that) would probably be able to catch him out.

I think Cisse could play a role in the match, he scored 4 goals against Monaco (in all competitions) so he would be my first choice striker ahead of Baros.

[The_Rock]

Cisse did not really have a good game yesterday. He showed some good moments though (like running at defence & blasting a right footer from a tight angle which the WBA goalie did well to save). For Cisse to come good, i really think we should have good width. Kewell is OK at left but finnan at right..... Don't get me wrong finnan had an OK game but we need a better right winger.

And 1 more thing, why doesn't dudek catch the ball. Every shot that comes to him, he just palms it away......

As for against monaco, i think it would be a very hard match. They have some great players. We might need to play ugly to win against them.

[azriahmad]

Garcia missed a good chance and he shot wide instead of passing to Gerrard who was better placed to have a good shot at goal yesterday. He was intent on scoring and having scored yesterday, I think it will do his confidence a lot of good.

Finnan's goal was the pick of the lot as he could have chosen to fall down under a challenge from a WBA defender and then skipped past another to plant a shot past Hoult's near side post. Good win but Monaco will be a harder nut to crack.

[The_Rock]

I prefer garcia's goal. I liked the way cisse, gerrard & garcia linked up for that goal. Simply class.........

I guess RB is gonna play with 1 withdrawn striker supported by mobile wingers....

1 good thing for me yesterday, my fav player kewell seems to be getting back to his best...... Just imagine with kewell, Garcia & Gerrard on form (thus pulling defenders off them), Cisse & Baros will score load of goals..

[fritzylfc]

we could see for the first time the way rafa wants to play the game. good passing with good movement, garcia looked good the future is red big game coming up can,t wait 

[The_Rock]

Beating the scums at OLD THRASHFORD will start our season. If we can stop ronaldo, should have no problem beating them.

[Gerrard#1]

Yeah but tht is if...i think we have a stong chance tho

[A.B.]

If we can beat Manchester with our old squad then we can beat them with a new squad.

[the great one]

finnan goal was the best on my opinion he took it well josemi and garcia where more happy he score than he was hoult must feel embrassed gettin beat at his near post like dat

[JBG]

I wouldn't read too much into yesturday's game either way as we also had a few nice home victories under Gerard Houllier last year as well.

It was nice to see us win and win well, but there is a hell of a lot of progress to be made yet.

I also have a sneaking suspicion that our forward play will be based around Garcia playing in a withdrawn role behind Cisse, and I'm not convinced that Benitez sees Baros as first choice at the moment.

[Leonmc0708]

It was nice to see us win once again at Anfield. Great performance

I was surprised to see Alonso and Baros on the bench,possibly to rest them for Monaco. I think they were tired for this game so Rafa wanted to rest them for Monaco which is a probably true.

I think we have a good chance of beating Monaco if we continue playing as one, and a win over Manchester would be great as well.

Did you watch the game lad? If so you would see that the team selection was nothing to do with resting players, more to do with picking the best team to beat the baggies.

Luis Garcia was superb.

[A.B.]

It was nice to see us win once again at Anfield. Great performance

I was surprised to see Alonso and Baros on the bench,possibly to rest them for Monaco. I think they were tired for this game so Rafa wanted to rest them for Monaco which is a probably true.

I think we have a good chance of beating Monaco if we continue playing as one, and a win over Manchester would be great as well.

Did you watch the game lad? If so you would see that the team selection was nothing to do with resting players, more to do with picking the best team to beat the baggies.

Luis Garcia was superb.

No I didn't watch the game, I stated that based on what I read.