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[Mama Smurf]

Just like the friendlies, Torres looks great...until the crucial moment.

Liverpool are beginning to take the game to Villa though.

 

[psycho_snake]

Unlucky villa. Kuyt deserves credit for chasing that ball instead of letting it roll out.

 

[h0pper]

1-0 Liverpool. Own goal. lol.

Torres is playing well. He's had some nice opportunities he should've buried but I'm impressed by him so far.

 

[Wes]

Noooooooooo :*(

 

[Steroyd]

woooo yay goal.

 

[Mama Smurf]

:lol Not his fault, but :lol

 

[hadareud]

no Liverpool striker would have put that one in

 

[Wes]

no Liverpool striker would have put that one in

Exactly! That was such bad luck

 

[psycho_snake]

Its good that gerrard is being used in the centre. He's not bad on the right, but he's a much more neffective player when he plays in central midfield.

 

[celestial body]

Wait, City just won. Away from home. With a clean sheet.

SVEN MADE INGLAND OVERPERFORM.

 

[Wes]

I'm starting to get that "being given the run around" feeling.

 

[FuturusX]

Torres looks classly, great first touch. Hopefully he can find the net today to build his confidence.

 

[psycho_snake]

If you're a Liverpool fan, are you not a bit pissed off that your team has spent tens of millions of pounds this summer...and you've put out last year's side with Torres?

i think what annoys liverpool fans more is that they're always buying decent squad players instead of making big name signings. They signed torrres, but thats the only big name signing they made. All the other signings were avergae, they're no better than the players Liverpool already have.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Liverpool look impressive.

Still though, if I was a fan I'd be thinking "fuck the £30m we spent on Babel, Leiva, Banayoun and Heinze" (well, the money's clearly available for Heinze anyway) "why didn't we buy Mancini and Bent along with Torres?"

Then I think they could mount a real challenge.

 

[psycho_snake]

Liverpool look impressive.

Still though, if I was a fan I'd be thinking "fuck the £30m we spent on Babel, Leiva, Banayoun and Heinze" (well, the money's clearly available for Heinze anyway) "why didn't we buy Mancini and Bent along with Torres?"

Then I think they could mount a real challenge.

Thats pretty much what I think. Why buy several average players instead of a couple of big names. People like babel and benayoun are not going to make Liverpool a much better team. they just add to the squad depth and Liverpool already had a big enough squad.

 

[Mama Smurf]

They can pick up players like Voronin on a free to add to the squad, I bet they could have had Distin if they really chased him.

Villa coming back into it. I'd say this game is a million times better than last season, but you can't multiply zero.

 

[Mama Smurf]

The incredibly creative Blackburn supporters have come up with a new chant. It's called "Santa Cruz is coming to town".

Look out for that piece of genius as the headline for every Blackburn match report in tomorrow's papers!

EDIT: McCarthy is ok apparently. I think we'll rest him for Thursday though, it's the UEFA Cup qualifier against MyPa. We shouldn't need him, we have Santa Cruz, Roberts, Derbyshire and Rigters.

 

[Wes]

Cahill on for Laursen. He better not be injured

 

[Steroyd]

Liverpool look impressive.

Still though, if I was a fan I'd be thinking "fuck the £30m we spent on Babel, Leiva, Banayoun and Heinze" (well, the money's clearly available for Heinze anyway) "why didn't we buy Mancini and Bent along with Torres?"

Then I think they could mount a real challenge.

Yeah I'm still scratching my head with that one, we was linked with Mancini and Queresma.

MANCINI AND QUERESMA

 

[Mama Smurf]

I reckon one more foul and Finnan's booked.

 

[Wes]

Looks like Reo Coker has pushed forward, Barry has fallen back into his spot

 

[Wes]

Pennant you ****!

 

[Mama Smurf]

First 10 minutes of the second half, Villa are the better side, particularly through Young. If it stays at 0-1, I can see Harewood coming on for the last 15 minutes and causing problems.

 

[Wes]

GET HIM BOUMA!

 

[Steroyd]

Sounds eventful on the radio.

 

[Wes]

Gardner you hero

 

[Mama Smurf]

Gardner paid dearly for playing so far back behind the rest of the defence and leaving Kuyt onside.

 

[Wes]

What the hell? Bloody linesman

 

[Steroyd]

When I get that feeling
I get sexual healing.

 

[painey]

day 1 and we are bottom of the league :lol oh well.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Torres' link up play is great, if only he had a finisher around him.

If I was O'Neill I'd send on Harewood for Petrov, go to a 4-4-2.

 

[Steroyd]

Has Benitez even made a sub?

 

[Mama Smurf]

Nope.

I forgot about Moore, I guess Barry's gone to left back.

 

[Wes]

Luke Moore! MON YOU HERO!

3-4-3 BOOM!

 

[Steroyd]

hmmm.... 4-3-3?

 

[Wes]

hmmm.... 4-3-3?

Can't see if Barry has dropped back to Left Back or not.

Edit: Yeah he has done. Barry and Gardner to charge up the wings.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Well we've got 3 ideas for the formation now, but I'm probably right.

I thought it'd be Pennant going off for Babel, let's see if he can prove me wrong and do well down the wings.

 

[Wes]

This feels like a cup match now

 

[hadareud]

great play by Babel. He looks a good player, would have been a great goal.

 

[Mama Smurf]

I'm really enjoying this game, best of the day that I've seen.

 

[Wes]

Babel looks incredibly agile

 

[hadareud]

fuck me, Voronin looks incredibly unsympathetic. Looks like a real twat.

 

[Wes]

Give them hell O'Neill!

 

[psycho_snake]

Torres' link up play is great, if only he had a finisher around him.

If Liverpool had a good goalscorer then he would make a brilliant partnership with torres. I thought kuyt could step up his game and score more often, but from what ive seen from him today, I dont think it can happe. He works hard, but he's expected to score goals more often.

 

[Mama Smurf]

Get a haircut, Voronin!

Babel's made an impact, more than Pennant did. Though to be fair, Villa did change their system at the same time.

 

[Steroyd]

the hell?!

Oh noes.

 

[Osorio]

Penalty!

 

[psycho_snake]

If he was john terry he would get away with that.

 

[velvet_nitemare]

It's on

 

[Mama Smurf]

...I can't believe that handball. I actually yelled out when he did it. I just...what just happened?