Liverpool Thread - Premier League Champions* 2019/20 (Part 1)

Gerrard and Torres both passed fit.

So much for ruling himself out

Job well done. Just need city to do the same to Chelski.

Overseas for work at the mo' so got to watch this one live (sorry to rub it in nairny).

Bloody good game, we dominated for long periods and a great result. Old red nose looked like he was going to explode towards the end.

Not only that but we did it without Torres and Gerrard for most of the game.

Here's hoping for a boring draw between Chelski and City.

Well worth the wait.

Man U started off playing brilliant football, but only lasted about 10 minutes. Alonso Mascherano dominated the middle. Kuyt, Keane worked and linked up well. Both probably should have scored. Also Arbeloa and Aurelio overlapped well. Played amazing today, don't know how we played so poorly before this.

Not sure why Babel isn't starting but I'm happy if he can be a impact sub,, like he was today

Well that was our best performance of the season so far (which wouldn't be hard). I thought the scum looked good early, we were lucky with the oggy, but completely dominated the game from then on. I thought Riera had some excellent touches and will prove a good signing based on what i saw. Once we equalised Manure looked suprising subdued.

Its all good!

congrats

Based on that game I'll look forward to the return match at Old Trafford, I'm thinking there will be a lot of Man Utd supporters sweating on the return of Ronaldo after that performance!

liverpool fans were "sweating on the return" of torres and gerrard before this game

Yep, but we showed that we can beat Man Utd without them. What has Man Utd shown they can do without Ronaldo?

just thought id say congrats to you lot for the win. good performance as well, and good to see man united slipping.

Thanks, Chelsea impressed me as well, I'll be interested to see if Ronaldo plays against your lot next week. Also I see you'll both be a Centre Back down with Vidic and Terry both getting Red Cards, I understand Chelsea will appeal over Terry's though.

Great win boys. Must be good to get that one off your back.

They did a good comparison on MOTD between Terrys' foul and the foul on Keane. Terry was clearly not the last defender and at least one other would have prevented Jo (I think that's who it was) from going all the way. On the other hand Keane had a good chance of a straight run in on goal and that was only a yellow. Some consistency would be nice.

Having said that, Terrys' was a blatant professional foul and anything they can do to stamp that sort of thing out should be encouraged.

As a United fan dissapointed with this loss today to Liverpool expecially considering the goals that we conceded. Og from brown because of Van der sar's stupidity for not diving on the ball. Dont know what the fk he was thinking. Then babels shot into the ground over our defenders. Alot of luk. However I believe Liverpool did deserve to win I just would have preferred them to win in a more appropriate fashion as apposed to conceding and own goal and Anyyyyone but Babel. Hate him. And yes ronaldo is back on wednesday for Villareal Clash. As for Terry wow wat a joke, definetely not a red. However thts great news for us!!!

What ever Pavlos8, WTF do you mean by more appropriate fassion?? A win is a win, and a wine is a wine (on behalf of all Man U fans). We were generally the better side accross the park mate, and i do recall alot of luck going United's way on several occasions over the last few years, so what goes around comes around mate..

Hate to burst your bubble well ard, but you're not top of the league

Pretty close to it though

Ha ha fair enough, but please dont take this away from me, it might be the only time i get to cheer it this year, ya cant deny me that!!!!

it'd almost be like the good old days

Just a note on the Terry send off.

He was red carded as the ref viewed it as serious foul play so it didn't matter if he was the last defender or not. That also means he has no chance of getting it overturned.

That puts it in the same category as say a 2 footed tackle.

I'm not going to comment.

Terry's tackle was a blatant foul. Ref saw it as a professional foul and sent him off.

Maybe if he didn't wrap his arms around him and looked like a semi genuine attempt to get the ball then he might of stayed on.

Champs League this week, not getting coverage till Friday (says espn)

Chelsea v Bordeaux, Barcelona v Sporting, Panathinakos v Inter WEDNESDAY

Man U v Villarreal, Real Madrid v BATE, Dynamo Kiev v Arsenal THURSDAY

Steua v Bayern, PSV v Atletico Madrid, Marseille v Liverpool FRIDAY

Bold is Live
linds2008-09-16 23:35:55

https://www.d1g.com/video/show/?id=2290445 Yikes!!!! 

Great win today, and from the looks of the highlights it should've been a lot more than 2 we put past Marseille.

Looking forward to 27 September when a matching goal to this one gets a similar "Yikes" from the entire Glawdys Street End.

How Ard were my goals tonight, F**k i,m good, just ask me i'll tell ya!!!

Once a European Champion, always a European Champion!!!

Stevie Me in a nut shell.

Whats with no sponsor on Liverpools shirts against Marseille? Is that a special CL shirt for this season for you guys?

Northern Rock, AIG, XL Airways  and now Carlsberg all gone under (Yeah Right - Whoever heard of a brewer going belly up )


French law forbids the advertising of alcohol apparently including shirt sponsors names, so we had the non-named version.

If our ownership finally ends up with Arab money, it will be interesting to see if this Carlsberg  sponsorship is continued.  I understand it is the longest agreement of any top flight club, and when renewed last year had been going for 16 years and was renewed for a further 3 years.

I thought I'd visit the Liverpool thread to ask a question that has me stumped. I watched most of the Liverpool - Stoke game and saw some of the post-match interview. Everyone seems to be complaining about the disallowed goal. Benitez can't understand it. Francis thinks it's been disallowed because of Kuyt's run to the far post.

I didn't think Torres was off nor was Kuyt, I have to agree with you thinking the linesman was looking at Torres, not Kuyt. I have to disagree that it was the right call as neither player made contact with the ball and I didn't think that they were off either

Didn't see post match stuff, way too frustrating. We have no aerial presence going forward (at set pieces) and when a team defends extremely deep then the space isn't going to be there for lots of good shots, we miss Hyypia on attack. Neither Carragher or Skrtel offer an attacking threat from set pieces. Torres is decent at best and Keane just doesn't have the height.

Stoke defended really deep and really well. Sorenson made some good saves and Keane, Torres, Kuyt were wasteful. I was impresses by Arbeloa even though he always had an overlap he delivered some nice balls and beat his man a few times.

Man U , Chelski even Arsenal have defenders who score from set pieces we don't have that, without our aging Hyypia.
linds2008-09-21 14:40:53

Kuyt had one or two defenders ahead of him, as he ran from deeper position so there is no question there despite what Trevor Francis thought. However, Torres was off when the ball was played. Honest. I had to replay and pause to see it, but I have done so several times. Torres started his run a fraction early. The defender reacted and got goal-side after the kick was taken. Whilst Torres didn't make contact with the ball, he did go for it and was ahead of the keeper so was interfering with play (exactly as defined within the LotG).