So, Roy Hodgson's Footballing Style

[Molbystwin]

[quote author=Binny link=topic=40824.msg1129955#msg1129955 date=1278066544]

If I asked 'What sort of style will you bring to Liverpool Football Club?', what would you say?

The club has style, it has always had style. You can see the club has always played in the right way. A passing game, a way in which players work very hard for each other, a way that means when players lose the ball they get back and help the team as soon as possible. That ties in very nicely with my philosophy of how the game should be played. There will be absolutely no conflict of interest where that is concerned. I want Liverpool to play as Liverpool have always played and we'll work hard on the training field to get that.
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i like that, in a way its a shame that the shitstorm around the club has prevented many of us from being optimistic what with a new face in charge. I think Hodgson might be a good appointment, hope so anyway.

 

[Squiggles]

I've watched a fair bit of Fulham over the last few seasons.

In defence they're compact, determined, and defend as an eleven. This will be nothing new to most of our team. In attack they move the ball faster than we have in the last ten years, they believed in width, movement and pace.

They've over-achieved because they found the right balance between caution and risk, between defence and attack and they always played for the manager and as a team.

Whether or not this is Hodgson's 'footballing style' I'm not sure, but that's certainly how Fulham were set up and we'll see of that here, certainly.

 

[manwithnoname]

[quote author=Squiggles link=topic=40824.msg1133297#msg1133297 date=1278665795]
I've watched a fair bit of Fulham over the last few seasons.

In defence they're compact, determined, and defend as an eleven. This will be nothing new to most of our team. In attack they move the ball faster than we have in the last ten years, they believed in width, movement and pace.

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That's bollocks.

 

[Squiggles]

The season before last is the one exception I can think of. Oh and before Owen lost his pace, I guess.

Other than that we've been pretty unadventorous for a very long time.

 

[Asbo]

Champions League record win was in 07 😉

Liverpool 8 - 0 Besiktas

Game Date :: 06.11.2007
Competition :: Champions League First Group Phase Stadium :: Anfield
Spectators :: 41,143
Starting line-up
25 Jose Reina
17 Ãlvaro Arbeloa
4 Sami Hyypia
6 John Arne Riise
12 Fábio Aurélio
23 Jamie Carragher
20 Javier Mascherano
8 Steven Gerrard
11 Yossi Benayoun
15 Peter Crouch
10 Andriy Voronin

Subs
40 David Martin

3 Steve Finnan

7 Harry Kewell

19 Ryan Babel

21 Lucas Leiva

9 Fernando Torres

18 Dirk Kuyt


Goals
Peter Crouch 19'
Yossi Benayoun 32'
Yossi Benayoun 52'
Yossi Benayoun 56'
Steven Gerrard 69'
Ryan Babel 78'
Ryan Babel 81'
Peter Crouch 88'

Just imagine if we had been 'adventurous' that night?

 

[Delinquent]

Are you holding up that result as evidence of adventurous football for the duration of that season?

 

[Loch Ness Monster]

That was a wonderfully attacking season though, almost as adventurous as the year before that. And the year before that. And last year too.

I would take 38 victories at 1-0 this season, just to enjoy a bit of negative football for a change.

 

[doctor_mac]

With Paul Scharner instigating the attacks and our new front partnership of Dempsey and N'gog it will be champagne footy fo sho.