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Bamaga man wrote:

Alonso14 wrote:Since Stu isn’t here I’ll do the honours.

Reina – 9 – First FA Cup final in your first season in a new league, well you’d get nerves too, that’s what I put the goal down to. Made up for it with a double save, a tip on to the post as well as 3 pen’s saved. Good concentration should throughout. Couldn’t be blamed for Konskchy’s goal.

Finnan - 8 – Was solid and provided good width and good crosses.

Hyypia- 7 – Decent game.

Carragher – 7 – unlucky with the goal, didn’t let his head drop, played solid.

Riise – 7 – Again provided good width and support.

Gerrard – 11 – Was involved in everything, and a 40 yard wonder goal, just another day in the life of Stevie G. If there’s a better Midfielder in the world, I’d like to see him.

Alonso – 5 – Looked a shadow of himself, although provided some neat passes.

Sissioko – 7 – Great energy right until the death, broke up play well.

Kewell – 5 – Didn’t touch the ball many times, although when he got into the middle he showed some good link up play.

Crouch – 7 – Done well, I thought he was unlucky to go off. But he did cover a lot of ground.

Cisse – 5 – He’s goal got us back into it. Looked awful in the second half of the game.

Morientes  – 7 – Played fairly well when he got on, was chasing and really played like he wanted to win it.

Kromkamp – 6 – Worked hard.

Hamman – 6 – The hitman done well when he got one and broke down play well.

You are joking right ?

Reina 9 ? I'm sorry, and I know I'm probably in the minority but Reina has not totally convinced me. Harsh but true Reina in my opinion was at fault for all three goals. Konchesky's is debatable but for me Reina was average. He did well obviously on the penalties thou 

Finnan? again for me he had a bit of a mare, we come to expect a good consistent standard from this guy, but to be fair the whole of the Liverpool defence were ran ragged in the first half especially, so uncharacteristic from a team who usually has such a stern rea-guard.

For me all three strikers that were on the pitch didnt really look like a goal threat. Cisse to be fair had a good first half and out of the three he'd just about pip it for me.


  Gerrard 

Did you actually watch the game. God there is some posted here.

Reina to blame for all 3 goals... Jesus...!! Your kidding right. You have obviously never been between the big sticks.

The only person to blame for the first goal is Carragher.

Reina did contribute to the second by not holding the ball. However, every keeper makes these kind of fumbles occasionally. Why do you think you tell young strikers to follow through on all shots. ?

The 3rd goal was pure . Reina's positioning was fine. You have to have the front post covered. It would have been a criminal offence to let a striker nip in and score at the front post. The cross was all and floated in. No sane person could seriously let the blame fall on Pepa's shoulders.

Besides Stevie G... Reina's performance in the shootout one us the game.

Alonso14 wrote:Since Stu isn’t here I’ll do the honours.

Reina – 9 – First FA Cup final in your first season in a new league, well you’d get nerves too, that’s what I put the goal down to. Made up for it with a double save, a tip on to the post as well as 3 pen’s saved. Good concentration should throughout. Couldn’t be blamed for Konskchy’s goal.

Finnan - 8 – Was solid and provided good width and good crosses.

Hyypia- 7 – Decent game.

Carragher – 7 – unlucky with the goal, didn’t let his head drop, played solid.

Riise – 7 – Again provided good width and support.

Gerrard – 11 – Was involved in everything, and a 40 yard wonder goal, just another day in the life of Stevie G. If there’s a better Midfielder in the world, I’d like to see him.

Alonso – 5 – Looked a shadow of himself, although provided some neat passes.

Sissioko – 7 – Great energy right until the death, broke up play well.

Kewell – 5 – Didn’t touch the ball many times, although when he got into the middle he showed some good link up play.

Crouch – 7 – Done well, I thought he was unlucky to go off. But he did cover a lot of ground.

Cisse – 5 – He’s goal got us back into it. Looked awful in the second half of the game.

Morientes  – 7 – Played fairly well when he got on, was chasing and really played like he wanted to win it.

Kromkamp – 6 – Worked hard.

Hamman – 6 – The hitman done well when he got one and broke down play well.

Good Bob wrote:

Alonso14 wrote:Since Stu isn’t here I’ll do the honours.

Reina – 9 – First FA Cup final in your first season in a new league, well you’d get nerves too, that’s what I put the goal down to. Made up for it with a double save, a tip on to the post as well as 3 pen’s saved. Good concentration should throughout. Couldn’t be blamed for Konskchy’s goal.

Finnan - 8 – Was solid and provided good width and good crosses.

Hyypia- 7 – Decent game.

Carragher – 7 – unlucky with the goal, didn’t let his head drop, played solid.

Riise – 7 – Again provided good width and support.

Gerrard – 11 – Was involved in everything, and a 40 yard wonder goal, just another day in the life of Stevie G. If there’s a better Midfielder in the world, I’d like to see him.

Alonso – 5 – Looked a shadow of himself, although provided some neat passes.

Sissioko – 7 – Great energy right until the death, broke up play well.

Kewell – 5 – Didn’t touch the ball many times, although when he got into the middle he showed some good link up play.

Crouch – 7 – Done well, I thought he was unlucky to go off. But he did cover a lot of ground.

Cisse – 5 – He’s goal got us back into it. Looked awful in the second half of the game.

Morientes  – 7 – Played fairly well when he got on, was chasing and really played like he wanted to win it.

Kromkamp – 6 – Worked hard.

Hamman – 6 – The hitman done well when he got one and broke down play well.

Hillairious.

We draw with west ham 3-3 and play one of our poorest games this season and players are getting nine's and tens...

What planet are you people from?

Reina - 6. Made some excellent saves, was excellent in the penalty shoot out which ultimately won us the game but was at fault for two if not all three goals.

Finnan - 5. Looked lost, left Carragher exposed and had a bad game. Worst game of the season.

Riise - 5. As bad as Finnan. Look lost defensively and contributed little to the balence of the team, followed Benayoun to much instead of staying in his position.

Hyypia - 6. Dealt well with Ashton and Harewoods physical presences but far from his best.

Carragher - 5. Bullied out of the game by the west ham forwards, dragged all over the show and left Sami exposed while wrongly trying to cover Finnan.

Gerrard - 8. Wasn't the best over 120 minutes but scored two great goals and set up the first. Played well but his performance was massively overated by most.

Kewell - 5. Never got into the game at all.

Alonso - 4. Awful. Simply awful. Looked flat, tired, unfit, poor passing and generally switched off. Was glad he came off when he did. Couldn't get away from Ashton and Harewood who marked him superbly.

Sissoko - 7. The only other Liverpool player bar Gerrard who decided to turn up. Gave his all and covered so much ground. Felt sorry for him as for 60 minutes he was in the middle on his own.

Crouch - 5. Offered next to nothing. Was very poor. Angered me seeing a far far far far better player playing for the opposition and performing against far better players.

Cisse - 4. Pathetic. Took his goal like a world class striker but done nothing for the rest of the game. Absoloute shocking player.

Subs:

Kromkamp - 7. Done well off the bench, caused Konchesky problems and forced him to defend.

Hamann - 7. Come on an kept it simple, helped us regain some control.

Morientes - 5. Ran round, covered ground but offered little.