Midweek Matches 15/16 April
- Thread starter ricobats
- Start date
- Latest activity Latest activity:
- Status
We can draw with any 1 team Gary. 10 points will guarantee it.
Says the man who reckons we have more of a chance without Sturridge.
Nice.
Yup, it'll be a cracking own goal.
Anyone else find the way the ball moved really fortuitous? Look at the part where Bale is coming back onto the pitch. The ball just makes a slight left turn and then goes straight, right back into Bale's path. It's like there was a magnet pulling it.
Really? What about this? I think oh may be confusing him with AVB? This is from December.
When Jose Mourinho left Chelsea the first time around, more than six years ago, Brendan Rodgers was the club’s reserve-team manager with a page in the matchday programme and a profile that did not extend much further than the gates of Cobham.
There are some over the years who have overstated their closeness to Mourinho, or claimed tenuous status as one of his coaching prodigies, but there is no doubting that Rodgers was the real deal. “One of my best friends in the game,” was how Mourinho referred to the Liverpool manager this week, and with none of the excruciating forelock-tugging that once accompanied his elegies to Sir Alex Ferguson.
There is exactly 10 years between the ages of Rodgers and Mourinho – they share the same birthday, 26 January – which is not far from the 11-year difference between Mourinho and his mentor, Louis van Gaal. Of course, like Mourinho, Rodgers has ploughed his own furrow, but there is no question that the association has been a help and that the friendship between the two is genuine.
And also this
“The manager is one of my best friends in the game, so no rivalry. Full respect for a team with the history like Liverpool. He’s doing fantastically. But he’s training every week in a calm way. Every day. Maybe twice a day. Which is a big, big advantage.
Against Chelsea last time we were without Gerrard and Sturridge, Rodgers won't fuck up by playing 3 at the back again and hopefully Agger, Aspas and Smith won't see pitch-time in this match ! For Chelsea our chief tormentor (Hazard) will be missing, Oscar is also well off form and there will be no Mata.
Eto' could and should have been off in the first few minutes, Sakho's header hit the bar and a stonewall penalty for Suarez by Eto's tackle was denied.
It was not a game where Lady Luck smiled on us, despite Chelsea playing the better football for the most part. This is not going to happen this time. This time we are a much improved team, hopefully at full strength (bar Henderson but I don't mind at all that Allen - on current form - will be standing in for him), and if there is any justice in this world then we are going to blow them away (though I'd settle for a last minute winner for us via a scrappy dirty OG).
It would be a tragedy for football in general if our spectacular football this season went unrewarded whilst Mourinho's anti-football won the title.
I never once said that.
Wait... did we play three at the back that game? We had 3 centrebacks on the pitch, but I think Agger was played as the leftback with Sakho as the left CB. Understandably as well, since the other option was to start with Cissokho or Smith, with Flanagan out injured. Also, Hazard might still be available for the game at Anfield. Next to Hazard, I think Willian is their next most difficult player to match up against. Would've been great if we had Henderson available, but I guess we'll just have to find a way to deny him the ball or space.
For what it's worth - I think if Chelsea are desperate for a goal near the end of this game, we might well still need to dust off that three at the back setup again as they throw Ivanovic and Terry forward as emergency strikers to try to get to the end of their crosses.
Ah I think I remembered it wrong. Yep 3 CBs but not 3 at the back. Still it means we should have an improvement with Flanno over Agger (or was it Sakho) at LB and surely no Smith coming on to replace Sakho for half a match.
Amazing innit, it was the same in their last home game with Southampton. Bizarrely they want to increase their capacity from 60,000 to 70,000.
You're right, I must've have been getting confused with an avb interview (whom I dislike for different reasons to a much lesser degree than Mourinho).
My apologies!
My fear about Chelsea is that they are playing poorly, generally avoiding draws/defeats where you'd hope the opposition get something e.g. Stoke 1-0, Swansea 1-0 etc and they are running out of games for the opposition to capitalise on this.
Really hope Sunderland can pull something out of the bag. Belief will be high and they must be getting to the attitude now that a draw is as bad as a loss and so need to go for the jugular!
Really hope Sunderland can pull something out of the bag. Belief will be high and they must be getting to the attitude now that a draw is as bad as a loss and so need to go for the jugular!
Ooters ftw!
There was a Greater Manchester police report that mentioned that United and City have had thousands of empty seats for most home games this season, but they always report a full house because technically all the seats have been sold but many season ticket holders are not turning up.
Maybe the Citeh empty seats are of season tickets purchased by Emirates Airlines as part of their "sponsorship deal" 😉
He's done a good job, but it's a matter of time before the fans or the board turn on him, like they did at Stoke. The same football that saves their skin is also the same football that they eventually decry when things don't go well or fans get complacent and clamour for better, sexier football, while still working on a relatively small budget.
Liverpool vs Chelsea Stamford Bridge
- 22 Mignolet
- 02 Johnson (Iago Aspas - 83' )
- 05 Agger
- 21 Lucas
- 37 Skrtel
- 17 Sakho (Kolo Touré - 90' )
- 24 Allen (Smith - 60' )
- 14 Henderson
- 07 Suárez
- 31 Sterling
- 10 Coutinho
Eto'o was a cunt & Webb was a fucking disgrace. Just saying!
The problem for Pulis at Stoke was that by the end he wasn't working on a relatively small budget, and he wasn't doing any better. He's yet to prove he can do more than the kind of excellent organisational job he's doing at Palace.
That really is a filthy thought.
- Status
Similar threads
-
- Locked
