West Ham vs Liverpool.

[Mystic]

I'm hoping Carragher comes out of retirement for this game.

 

[Mystic]

Some stats.

There have been three own goals in the last three Premier League meetings between the Hammers and the Reds.

Glen Johnson has scored in three of his last five Premier League games against former club West Ham, including the last two trips to the Boleyn Ground.

Liverpool have won seven and lost just one of the last 10 Premier League games against West Ham.

72 points after 32 games is a Premier League high for Liverpool and only in 1987-88 have they accrued more in the three-points-for-a-win era (76).

Liverpool have scored 88 goals this season, a record for any team after 32 matches of a Premier League season and have netted in their last 22 games since losing 0-2 away Arsenal

Luis Suarez has scored six goals in his last five Premier League matches and is just two away from the Premier League record for a 38-game season (31) held by Alan Shearer (1995-96) and Cristiano Ronaldo (2007-08).

60 per cent of Liverpool’s goals have been scored in the first half, the highest proportion of any team in the top flight this season.

Liverpool have hit the woodwork more times than any other team this season (24), while West Ham’s uprights have been struck the most (20).

Liverpool have scored with one in every five shots attempted this season, a better rate than any other side in the top flight.

Liverpool have dropped more points from winning positions than any other team in the Premier League away from home (12).


There have been three own goals in the last three Premier League meetings between the Hammers and the Reds.

Glen Johnson has scored in three of his last five Premier League games against former club West Ham, including the last two trips to the Boleyn Ground.

Liverpool have won seven and lost just one of the last 10 Premier League games against West Ham.

72 points after 32 games is a Premier League high for Liverpool and only in 1987-88 have they accrued more in the three-points-for-a-win era (76).

Liverpool have scored 88 goals this season, a record for any team after 32 matches of a Premier League season and have netted in their last 22 games since losing 0-2 away Arsenal

 

[HC]

Messy game this. I think we will earn a hard fought three points. 1-2

 

[Jack D Rips]

I saw a stat today that out of 70 penalties awarded in the PL this season we have got 10 of them. Admittedly 3 of them were in one match.

 

[Modo]

 

[singlerider]

I see rather than the conventional Management or Pundit route, Stevie is opting for the Catalogue Model retirement plan

 

[refugee]

Joe Allen starting and Sterling dropped?

 

[Modo]

Joe Allen starting and Sterling dropped?

Time for the bib theory.

Based on the pictures in this link:

http://www.gettyimages.se/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=482851785&EditorialProduct=Sport

Line up vs West Ham:

Mingnolet (Not in the pictures but, come on), Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Flanagan, Gerrard, Allen, Henderson, Coutinho, Suarez, Sturridge.
Subs (most likely) : Jones, Sakho, Cissokho, Lucas, Moses, Sterling, Aspas

 

[Modo]

I see rather than the conventional Management or Pundit route, Stevie is opting for the Catalogue Model retirement plan

Love seeing Gerrard smile. That's why I added that picture.

 

[Modo]

If this isn't improvement, then what is?

 

[ctlovesred]

Love Sakho's all black boots. Enough with the neon colors already.

 

[juniormember]

I see rather than the conventional Management or Pundit route, Stevie is opting for the Catalogue Model retirement plan

Or he's smiling at Sterling while fiddling his dick with a finger up his arse.

 

[Brizzle]

Gotta love bib theory! Cheers @Modo

 

[eecheerow]

Love Sakho's all black boots. Enough with the neon colors already.

Blackout Nike Magistas, but love the look.

 

[Jack D Rips]

Brendan's been lavishing praise on Lucas this week. I wonder is he thinking of "resting " Stevie. Hope not

 

[Modo]

Don't think so. I think he just got asked about it.

 

[the count]

Good to see our defenders practicing their shirt pulling techniques

 

[mark1975]

It'll be interesting to see if he does play Allen, because it was one of his worst games last season (he wasn't alone though), he was completely muscled out of the game.

 

[Modo]

Looking at the team I posted earlier I noticed that we have 6 Brits in the starting eleven.
It's quite remarkable imo. Man C, Chelsea and Arsenal don't even have that many Brits in their match day squad.

 

[Spaghetti Legs]

Good to see our defenders practicing their shirt pulling techniques

Kelly needs to practice the being a useful footballer technique, would like to hear from Rodgers about him one of these days.

 

[RedZeppelin III]

i heard one of their chairmen mention how we could well be the best team in the world on form . Not sure about that but what i am liking is that teams genuinely fear us now . For too long teams fancied themselves against us , now they're not expecting too much from the game . Ok we can't switch off ourselves but it's a great psychological advantage to have .


This will be a tough game though and I picked this one a few weeks ago as where we slip up in the title race . I'm alot more confident than back then but we still need to be right at the races for this .

 

[Dreambeliever]

Don't the hammers play at Upton Park?

They will park the bus so hopefully we can sneak and early goal and avoid what happened to Chelsea there.

 

[mark1975]

We know what we'll be getting, it's big Sam. He'll do what he's always done to the likes of Arsenal, quick closing down, kick shit out of everyone and lump it up to the big forward.
Carroll's in a little bit of form right now, that coupled with his obvious desire to prove himself against us, I can see him being more than a handful.

 

[Boozer]

Don't the hammers play at Upton Park?

They will park the bus so hopefully we can sneak and early goal and avoid what happened to Chelsea there.

No, the Boleyn Ground. Upton Park is the area.

 

[tombrown]

Time for the bib theory.

Based on the pictures in this link:

http://www.gettyimages.se/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=482851785&EditorialProduct=Sport

Line up vs West Ham:

Mingnolet (Not in the pictures but, come on), Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Flanagan, Gerrard, Allen, Henderson, Coutinho, Suarez, Sturridge.
Subs (most likely) : Jones, Sakho, Cissokho, Lucas, Moses, Sterling, Aspas

I thought you recently said the bib theory is no longer valid?

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

Based on the bib theory, we'll also be having 11 subs on the bench.

 

[hamstrung_pigeon]

Wish someone would ask Rodgers about Luis Alberto, so we can get an angle on why he hasn't even been on the bench.

 

[Holle]

Wish someone would ask Rodgers about Luis Alberto, so we can get an angle on why he hasn't even been on the bench.

Because he isn't a good footballer?

 

[Mystic]

No, the Boleyn Ground. Upton Park is the area.

I'm with DB on this one, it seemed up until this season, everyone always referred to their stadium as Upton Park, now all of a sudden everyone refers to it as Boleyn Ground, what's changed?

 

[Gerry_A_Trick]

I'm with DB on this one, it seemed up until this season, everyone always referred to their stadium as Upton Park, now all of a sudden everyone refers to it as Boleyn Ground, what's changed?

Revelation to me too.

And apparently Arsenal's old ground was actually just called Arsenal stadium, and never Highbury, just similarly to West Ham, was in that area.