Football 5th-6th Feb 2011 **SPOILERS**

drunkenmaster said:
INcredibly dissappointing that the "new Liverpool" under Dalglish went for a draw, went to knock the ball long frequently with a lone striker and left a 23mil player on the bench because they weren't actually after the win. Oh well.
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I'm afraid I am just going to have to disagree with you there. I checked 14 different football pundits articles and blogs this week, not one, not a single one of them said Liverpool could win. Only 3 even said they could draw. Every other pundit had it as a chelsea win, one by 3-0 and two even by 4-0. Even on here, amongst the armchair pundits the massive general consensus was that it was going to be a slaughter by Chelsea.

It was Torres return, on paper the chelsea squad is multiple times better than liverpools. It was away and liverpools away form has been dire. It was against undoubtedly the best frontline in the league on paper. It was a game which I suspect could have done huge psychological damage to the Liverpool players if lost. Almost nobody gave Liverpool a hope of getting a draw , let alone a win. Imho, in that situation, Dalglish was very sensible in the choice of tactics and playing for a draw made perfect sense.
 
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Balance of play counts for nothing though. Chelsea had a lot of the ball but created next to nothing with it. On the other hand, we created another 2 great chances to score on top of the goal.
 
I'm not saying it would have been 1-1 but to me it looked a 100% penalty. Johnson was not going for the ball, he was deliberately obstructing ivanovic. I think it's hard to argue otherwise.

I agree that we were playing too much safe football. Lots of sideways passing. Also essien had a poor game.
 
AGD said:
I'm not saying it would have been 1-1 but to me it looked a 100% penalty. Johnson was not going for the ball, he was deliberately obstructing ivanovic. I think it's hard to argue otherwise.

I agree that we were playing too much safe football. Lots of sideways passing. Also essien had a poor game.
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Essien has been poor for quite a while in fairness, or well imo.
 
AGD said:
I'm not saying it would have been 1-1 but to me it looked a 100% penalty. Johnson was not going for the ball, he was deliberately obstructing ivanovic. I think it's hard to argue otherwise.
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I'd bet far worse challenges than Johnson's occurred at every single corner today. Considering what officials let go these days, Johnson's challenge was nothing. Like Burned Alive said, Johnson's not barged into Ivanovic, he's simply stopped and let Ivanovic run into him.
 
drunkenmaster said:
INcredibly dissappointing that the "new Liverpool" under Dalglish went for a draw, went to knock the ball long frequently with a lone striker and left a 23mil player on the bench because they weren't actually after the win. Oh well.
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As far as I'm concerned Liverpool got it spot on today and the result proves it.

And I completely disagree about the long ball stuff. Most of the play came down the wings and along the ground, including the goal, and Maxi's miss.

Maybe Chelsea didn’t play well, but I’d give the Liverpool defense at least some of the credit for that. The pleasing thing is they were able to take advantage of Chelsea's lack of form, especially since they’ve now bought one of our best players. Two months ago it would have been a different story.
 
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Stretch, just stick him on ignore as everyone else has.

Was a good game today, we (Liverpool) deserved to win in my opinion, I think Chelsea messed up their system to accommodate Torres, something which I think they will work out over the next few games.
 
YEEEAHHHHH, in your face Chelski!!! outdone tactically by the king. Why would you ever play drogba anelka AND Torres all up front. No width at all playing against wingbacks. Deserved win by Liverpool, not the prettiest or most exciting game, but 3 hard earned points and their approach was spot on.

All that with Suarez on the bench and Carroll still to come. :D
 
xxalxx said:
Stretch, just stick him on ignore as everyone else has.
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I enjoy listening to some of the more unconventional view points on here. The thing that gets me is some people are very partisan and anti Liverpool and you expect what you get, it's too predictable. However with DM it doesn’t matter what team he's talking about it's invariably rubbish, I think he lives in a parallel universe.
xxalxx said:
Was a good game today, we (Liverpool) deserved to win in my opinion, I think Chelsea messed up their system to accommodate Torres, something which I think they will work out over the next few games.
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I think you’re probably right about Torres. However he was still very quite today. I would have expected the move to have given him a bit of spark back but if it has it didn’t show.
 
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sunnysingh said:
Just seeing the highlights, it was defo a penalty for Chelsea. Johnson made no attempt to play the ball, both of his eyes were looking at the Chelsea player.
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Just as well really, would have been really worried if one eye was looking at the player and one eye was looking at the ball. Might explain some of his crosses though :D
 
Tombstone said:
Just as well really, would have been really worried if one eye was looking at the player and one eye was looking at the ball. Might explain some of his crosses though :D
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lool.

So what if Johnsons eyes were on the player, isn't he allowed to standstill where he likes on the pitch? Not like he moved to block Ivanovic.
 
Shamikebab said:
Just got back from a weekend away....I assume another ****** away performance but without the luck we've had before? :(
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Bang on the money.

It seems that most of the chances are being created from Rooney dropping deep to pick the ball up and feeding Nani/Berba. Our "attacking" midfielder may as well not be there.
 
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