Rodgers - We Can Win the PL.
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No it proved we need everyone fit to win it for the rest of the season.
Southampton where always a bit of a bogie team for us...
More so back in the day when they played at the postage stamp..
More so back in the day when they played at the postage stamp..
They used to be a bit of a bogey team for Utd as I remember. That was a characterful wee ground.
were
We are going to win it.
Don't blame it on the sunshine...
Each game's like a cup final...
... of two halves.
... to make it end-to-end stuff.
First ever Liverpool game i went to was at the Dell, Rod Wallace and Matt Le Tissier tore us a new one that day, 2 goals each i think it was, Beardsley penalty for us, 4-1, ouch.
As you mention we rarely beat them at the Dell, i went to a fair few of them, another game in a lot of snow there in the early 90s, Le Tissier again bumming us, scored after 25 seconds, lost 4-2, never saw us win there, couple of 1-1 draws was the best it got, remember Don Hutchinson scoring in one and Redknapp i think it was in the other.
Didn't John Barnes score from 90 yards out there in 96/97 for a 1-0 win?
Straight from the training ground...
Yes, i remember that, wasn't there, Dave Beasant in goal for Saints i think.
Another game that sticks in the memory against Saints at the Dell is the 3-3, we were 3 up with 15 odd minutes left and blew it, that short arse little Latvian Marian Pahars scoring a couple.
... until it slams shut.
As long as we set our stall out early doors...
It was refreshing to hear Brendan Rodgers declaring that his team could end their long wait to be crowned champions after their thrilling 5-3 win at Stoke on Super Sunday.
Liverpool should be challenging the elite and rather than talk down their title hopes, Rodgers' words will help focus minds on what can be achieved at Anfield this season.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers was pleased to see his side score five and end their bad record at Stoke with a 5-3 win.
Of course they remain outsiders; they're competing with the financial muscle of Chelsea and Manchester City, while Arsenal are probably a season or two ahead in terms of their development.
But Liverpool have to be taken seriously; particularly when they have the league's most deadly goalscorer in their ranks.
Luis Suarez is well on the way to a record-breaking season: 22 goals already - three more than any other striker has managed at this point in a Premier League season; he has become ruthlessly efficient.
At Stoke, for example Suarez, had four efforts on goal, three of which were on target, and he scored with two: not a bad ratio.
His goals go some way to explaining why Liverpool's fortunes have improved this season.
The meeting with Aston Villa at Anfield last season is a case in point.
Liverpool lost the game 3-1 despite having 72% possession that afternoon and 29 attempts on goal of which only eight were on target. That day Suarez himself had seven efforts (three more than at Stoke) but only two were on target and neither beat Brad Guzan in the Villa goal.
Liverpool this season are still dominating games and shooting just as much but now they are shooting from better positions and their strikers are thriving. Not just Suarez, but Daniel Sturridge too, who burst back into action at the Britannia as if he'd never been away.
But that Villa performance at Anfield back in December 2012 was arguably the best of Paul Lambert's reign: certainly right up there with the opening day victory at the Emirates.
We saw then the counter-attacking machine at its best: somehow thwarting wave after wave of Liverpool attack before breaking with pace and real quality.
Perhaps that was the game Christian Benteke really came to the fore with two goals and a dominating display of poise and power.
We saw a glimpse of that again on Monday night when the Belgian ended his four month search for a goal and Villa need him back to his brutal best to be sure of dragging themselves away from the bottom three.
It was this time last year Benteke's goal glut began with 14 in five months to see him become one of the most sought-after strikers in the Premier League.
He will relish a return to Anfield on Saturday with confidence restored but lethal Liverpool will take some stopping.
Liverpool should be challenging the elite and rather than talk down their title hopes, Rodgers' words will help focus minds on what can be achieved at Anfield this season.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers was pleased to see his side score five and end their bad record at Stoke with a 5-3 win.
Of course they remain outsiders; they're competing with the financial muscle of Chelsea and Manchester City, while Arsenal are probably a season or two ahead in terms of their development.
But Liverpool have to be taken seriously; particularly when they have the league's most deadly goalscorer in their ranks.
Luis Suarez is well on the way to a record-breaking season: 22 goals already - three more than any other striker has managed at this point in a Premier League season; he has become ruthlessly efficient.
At Stoke, for example Suarez, had four efforts on goal, three of which were on target, and he scored with two: not a bad ratio.
His goals go some way to explaining why Liverpool's fortunes have improved this season.
The meeting with Aston Villa at Anfield last season is a case in point.
Liverpool lost the game 3-1 despite having 72% possession that afternoon and 29 attempts on goal of which only eight were on target. That day Suarez himself had seven efforts (three more than at Stoke) but only two were on target and neither beat Brad Guzan in the Villa goal.
Liverpool this season are still dominating games and shooting just as much but now they are shooting from better positions and their strikers are thriving. Not just Suarez, but Daniel Sturridge too, who burst back into action at the Britannia as if he'd never been away.
But that Villa performance at Anfield back in December 2012 was arguably the best of Paul Lambert's reign: certainly right up there with the opening day victory at the Emirates.
We saw then the counter-attacking machine at its best: somehow thwarting wave after wave of Liverpool attack before breaking with pace and real quality.
Perhaps that was the game Christian Benteke really came to the fore with two goals and a dominating display of poise and power.
We saw a glimpse of that again on Monday night when the Belgian ended his four month search for a goal and Villa need him back to his brutal best to be sure of dragging themselves away from the bottom three.
It was this time last year Benteke's goal glut began with 14 in five months to see him become one of the most sought-after strikers in the Premier League.
He will relish a return to Anfield on Saturday with confidence restored but lethal Liverpool will take some stopping.
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