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Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:11 amby bigmick
zarababe wrote:Interesting thread 
It is Zara and when you see how well the team can play in games like tonight, it makes it all the more easier to understand why many fans get frustrated when we pick a team such as the one on Saturday and play like we did.
Tonight we were brilliant, and had we played anything like the same team/formation against Reading we would havw on that one as well. Ah well, never mind.
Posted:
Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:14 amby zarababe
BM - saturday was a blip for me that's why I didn't bother logging on this site and get reeadty to slit me wrists.. it's the fine line between success and failure.. we have a whole season to go let see where this man Benitez takes us.. and now for the highlights.. 
Posted:
Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:29 amby teamleader1
bigmick wrote:zarababe wrote:Interesting thread
It is Zara and when you see how well the team can play in games like tonight, it makes it all the more easier to understand why many fans get frustrated when we pick a team such as the one on Saturday and play like we did.
Tonight we were brilliant, and had we played anything like the same team/formation against Reading we would have won that one as well. Ah well, never mind.
Exactly Mick
Rafa just seems to have this uncontrollable urge to, not only rest players, but systems as well
When I saw to-nights teamsheet I felt confident we would go through, when I saw saturdays, I thought , oh fk
Tonight we were brilliant, Rafa got it spot on, but that dosnte make up for Sat
3pts gone forever, very poor management choices.
Its got to stop or we will throw any chance of winning the title as long as Rafas in the hot seat
Posted:
Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:33 amby Leonmc0708
teamleader1 wrote:bigmick wrote:zarababe wrote:Interesting thread
It is Zara and when you see how well the team can play in games like tonight, it makes it all the more easier to understand why many fans get frustrated when we pick a team such as the one on Saturday and play like we did.
Tonight we were brilliant, and had we played anything like the same team/formation against Reading we would have won that one as well. Ah well, never mind.
Exactly Mick
Rafa just seems to have this uncontrollable urge to, not only rest players, but systems as well
When I saw to-nights teamsheet I felt confident we would go through, when I saw saturdays, I thought , oh fk
Tonight we were brilliant, Rafa got it spot on, but that dosnte make up for Sat
3pts gone forever, very poor management choices.
Its got to stop or we will throw any chance of winning the title as long as Rafas in the hot seat
ITs happenened once.
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:39 amby Kharhaz
What made the Reading result worse was that he played a different formation with players who havent been playing regularly and it was 3 points thrown away. We could easily have to stuck to our recent formations and players and got a result then rest players late in the second half. A blip to some, 3 points thrown away for me. We have the squad to challenge in the league and europe, why he chose that formula on saturday still baffles me.
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:46 amby bigmick
Anyways Reading is done now, gone. Understandably people want to be happy, and even us doomers and gloomers are happy tonight. Feck me when we play like that we really do look a good side, a match for anyone. It's also entirely reasonable for the happier people to jump on any criticisers after a performance like that. I thought we were absolutely brilliant TBH. My feeling is that they actually aren't a bad team, we made them look like they are.
We had tempo, rhythm and cohesion while looking solid at the back. fantastic effort from the players and of course from the manager as well.
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:52 amby Kharhaz
bigmick wrote:Anyways Reading is done now, gone. Understandably people want to be happy, and even us doomers and gloomers are happy tonight. Feck me when we play like that we really do look a good side, a match for anyone. It's also entirely reasonable for the happier people to jump on any criticisers after a performance like that. I thought we were absolutely brilliant TBH. My feeling is that they actually aren't a bad team, we made them look like they are.
We had tempo, rhythm and cohesion while looking solid at the back. fantastic effort from the players and of course from the manager as well.
Like I said earlier, we looked like the home team. And like others have said an on form Harry Kewell makes a difference also.
I wonder are marseille a good team or a rubbish team? The press will no doubt decide.
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 2:56 amby Pedro Maradona
i dont think it was vintage liverpool, very committed and workmanlike and they blew away an average marseille team in the velodrome but liverpool only had 36% possession....now granted 2 nil up after 11 minutes might mean u play more counterattack football but lets not get too carried away here. fanastic it wasnt, solid and workmanlike it was.
I think Rafa deserves better than having to see his position being costantly under speculation, let the man get on with his job ...coaching the team lol
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:33 amby Lucky
Pedro Maradona wrote:i dont think it was vintage liverpool, very committed and workmanlike and they blew away an average marseille team in the velodrome but liverpool only had 36% possession....now granted 2 nil up after 11 minutes might mean u play more counterattack football but lets not get too carried away here. fanastic it wasnt, solid and workmanlike it was.
I think Rafa deserves better than having to see his position being costantly under speculation, let the man get on with his job ...coaching the team lol
Only 36% possession? Don't know where that statistics came from, but it didn't look like that to me.
Never mind. We're never good enough, we're just luck to win because our opponents were always rubbish when playing against us
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Wed Dec 12, 2007 8:35 pmby teamleader1
Lucky wrote:We're never good enough, we're just luck to win because our opponents were always rubbish when playing against us
Heard that one a few times!
The bluenoses in work were spouting on about how they want to get them in the draw,
Hope they do, and get fkn slaughtered home & away