Liverpool 1-0 Everton. Saturday 6th February @ 12.45.
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Have you been on the sauce t-bone?
Seamus Colemole
Previously deathbyropeandglass
So--first post-match post after sitting around depressed.
Here is what I saw:
1/This wasn't football. It was rugby. Carragher set out to deliver a message in the first minute. Then they kept on pounding. When our enforcer (Fellani) went out, they were beating up on us, and we weren't fighting back.
2/This should have been a great 2nd half for Arteta. 11 v 10, and lots of space to create. This was his opportunity to orchestrate some magic. Instead he looked tentative and uncertain. Obviously it's hard to have all your quality after so much time out, but the team really could have used it today.
3/The tactical shift with the subs turned out to be the wrong move. What Moyes saw was that the center of their back line was tiring, and so put in Yakubu and Anichebe to pound the middle. Then he pulled Donovan over, and told him to work the middle as well (even drifting left). The problem was, with the RS parking the bus and packing the middle, there wasn't room there. The room that did exist was to attack via the wings, where LD was beating Insua with speed. Plus, as others have said, the fullbacks needed to be streaking up the line as well. That's not Neville's kind of game, and he wasn't well suited to this one.
4/Finally, the most annoying thing. Did you see Kuyt's little smile as he kept barging into Howard right before the corner, trying to rattle him? He knew exactly what he was doing, and the truly annoying thing was that that crap worked.
Here is what I saw:
1/This wasn't football. It was rugby. Carragher set out to deliver a message in the first minute. Then they kept on pounding. When our enforcer (Fellani) went out, they were beating up on us, and we weren't fighting back.
2/This should have been a great 2nd half for Arteta. 11 v 10, and lots of space to create. This was his opportunity to orchestrate some magic. Instead he looked tentative and uncertain. Obviously it's hard to have all your quality after so much time out, but the team really could have used it today.
3/The tactical shift with the subs turned out to be the wrong move. What Moyes saw was that the center of their back line was tiring, and so put in Yakubu and Anichebe to pound the middle. Then he pulled Donovan over, and told him to work the middle as well (even drifting left). The problem was, with the RS parking the bus and packing the middle, there wasn't room there. The room that did exist was to attack via the wings, where LD was beating Insua with speed. Plus, as others have said, the fullbacks needed to be streaking up the line as well. That's not Neville's kind of game, and he wasn't well suited to this one.
4/Finally, the most annoying thing. Did you see Kuyt's little smile as he kept barging into Howard right before the corner, trying to rattle him? He knew exactly what he was doing, and the truly annoying thing was that that crap worked.
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Dublintoff
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I wasnt gonna post anything today after that [Poor language removed], i just have so much dissapointment flowing through my veins.
Where do you start after such a poor performance, we made an ordinary team look good with our total ineptitude in possesion it was frightening to watch.
We had no creativity apart from arteta who at least tried the right things. We made bad decisions on nearly every occasion we got near their box. Why the **** was donovan not hugging the sideline evertime we had possesion, he seemed to be tucked in allowing neville the space wide, NEVILLE FFS. The one time 2nd half we actually gave him the ball with space in front of him he skint insua and put a good ball to the back post.
As for the goal, **** me, a comedy of errors, 1st donovan takes an extra touch in their half and gets robbed of the ball, then further on neville shows stevie **** face gerrard inside onto his right foot to cross the ball when everyone knows he loves cutting in on his right side like that, show him down the line ffs, use your brain. The howard is more concerned about pushing UGLY then concentrating on the ball.
I agree with what a few others think, we bottled it again against them ****s and i have had enough of them kinda performances in derbys, grow balls lads and produce performances we know yous can and have done recently against city and arsenal but sadly not against ****ers.
Where do you start after such a poor performance, we made an ordinary team look good with our total ineptitude in possesion it was frightening to watch.
We had no creativity apart from arteta who at least tried the right things. We made bad decisions on nearly every occasion we got near their box. Why the **** was donovan not hugging the sideline evertime we had possesion, he seemed to be tucked in allowing neville the space wide, NEVILLE FFS. The one time 2nd half we actually gave him the ball with space in front of him he skint insua and put a good ball to the back post.
As for the goal, **** me, a comedy of errors, 1st donovan takes an extra touch in their half and gets robbed of the ball, then further on neville shows stevie **** face gerrard inside onto his right foot to cross the ball when everyone knows he loves cutting in on his right side like that, show him down the line ffs, use your brain. The howard is more concerned about pushing UGLY then concentrating on the ball.
I agree with what a few others think, we bottled it again against them ****s and i have had enough of them kinda performances in derbys, grow balls lads and produce performances we know yous can and have done recently against city and arsenal but sadly not against ****ers.
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Not really a good idea for managers to admit making mistakes....... when was the last time your boss said oh bollocks i've really fu*ked that one up??? - it doesn't happen he just blames someone else - right.
For moyes to say his plan was flawed would be a sign of weakness and at the end of the day this is his livelyhood so he just blames the players/ref etc...etc have you ever heard fergie apologising for an error in his judgement - never.........thats just the way it is.
GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
do you think he should be in the stands like Sam Allardyce?
GhostOfDixie
Player Valuation: £70m
Right, well how come all the top managers in the world don't adopt Sam's policy?
You can't get a better view from behind the goal mate - that's just ludicrous.
i've moved on now, i did as soon as they scored. i don't expect much from anfield and they wanted it more to make up for atkinson wrongly sending the greek off. i don't think we bottled it, moyes just wanted to keep his dick in osman a little longer. february has just been made 1000 times more impossible than it already was. pienaar's got no excuses and now misses chelsea, man u and spurs, cheers lad and fellaini might be out for a bit aswell. and distin has turned into yobo and found his hoof ball gene.
lets hope for a performance against chelsea.
heads up, move on and think of a song for john terry.
lets hope for a performance against chelsea.
heads up, move on and think of a song for john terry.
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