Liverpool Football Club Thread

[Oh Danny Boy]

http://www.thisisanfield.com/2014/09/daniel-sturridge-injury-results-confirmed/

Sturridge is out for the next 2 - 3 weeks.

[Sng]

Really hope it's not gonna be one of these seasons!

[Adrock]

The games he will miss are the ones you'd be quite happy with him not being in the team for, if you could choose.

Villa, West Ham and Ludogrets should be winnable. Everton is the one you would want him back for.

[Chewylegs]

Bit of a gutter, but with Balotelli, Lambert, Sterling, Lallana, Markovic and Coutinho at our disposal, we aren't too badly off.

I can't wait to see what Moreno will do against Villa's right side either!

A pleasing 3-1 win I'm predicting, Villa put to the sword.

[V3zna]

Did we not draw with Villa at home last season (a lucky draw for us as well) and then lost to them the season before that at Anfield?

[Keiths_Dad]

I can't see Lambert starting with Balotelli, so unless Borini gets thrown in (which I'd like to see, personally), we might be looking at a different formation. Perhaps Markovic to come in and a switch to 451?

[Kelthink]

http://www.thisisanfield.com/2014/09/daniel-sturridge-injury-results-confirmed/

Sturridge is out for the next 2 - 3 weeks.

Fucking England. Fucking Roy.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/liverpool-fc-manager-brendan-rodgers-7752782

Brendan isn't happy with them either. Makes sense considering we had Sterling (and still do) running his socks off the whole season. He'll probably be next

[Oh Danny Boy]

You'd have thought that the England set up would manage a player's fitness based upon the club's advice. Common sense really. It's odd that it doesn't happen. The result is that players miss games for club and country.

This is the fourth injury that Sturridge has picked up during international duty whilst playing for Liverpool. Not a coincidence. I'd be unhappy too if I was Rodgers.

[Kelthink]

Can and Allen are apparently injured now as well.

Just as well we bought all those players, eh? Piss!

[Chewylegs]

Did we not draw with Villa at home last season (a lucky draw for us as well) and then lost to them the season before that at Anfield?

Yep, but its time to put our bogey team to bed!

[Adrock]

Villa, if I remember correctly, had Benteke playing both games and he definitely has the hoodoo on the Liverpool defence.

[dizogg]

I was at Anfield for when they beat us 3-1 the season before last. It was so shit. Benteke done us.

[JamesTW]

i was at one game against Villa the season before that and we won, christmas time I don't think I've ever felt colder at a football match

[SMD]

i was at one game against Villa the season before that and we won, christmas time I don't think I've ever felt colder at a football match

Is that the one where Babel and Ngog played up front and we won 3-0? I got a chest infection cos of how cold it was that night.

[JamesTW]

Is that the one where Babel and Ngog played up front and we won 3-0? I got a chest infection cos of how cold it was that night.

Yeah 3-0, Houllier was manager for Villa

Just looking at that squad now, it had Konchesky, Kyrgiakos & Ngog in the team with Cole, Jovanovic & Poulsen on the bench! Grim

[Gabe]

I read in the paper this morning that Sturridge is now out for 6 weeks? Is that right?

In a way it's good, because it allows Mario the opportunity to settle into the team without having to compete with Sturridge (something that happened at the start with Suarez), but obviously it's a blow to lose a good player for a period. Guess it might let Lambert get some more minutes, too.

[Azrael]

No Sterling in the starting 11.

[Commander Jameson]

Who would have expected us conceding from a corner??

[Gabe]

Good to see our defence is carrying on the rather shocking effort of last season.

[Guest]

BB, before Balotelli - we lacked a second front man who would drag centre back wne deeper lying midielders around to leave space for Sterling. Only playing one up was a tactical error by BR.

Now Sterling is too knackered to play due to being the best English player we've got. And Hodhdggson, who I already noted was a dinosaur last week, doesn't seemingly know how to look after players.

That's the man in charge. And it means we are without two of our best players.

You can bet the Germans wouldnt be so foolish.

It's do good we got rid of Roy when we did. He's just not capable.

[tenrou]

Lovren makes more mistakes than Rooney on gcse maths. I hope it was counterfeit money they paid the 25 million in.

[Gabe]

This really has been awful. No penetration, no guile, no width. Villa could, and should, be about 3-0 by now and it wouldn't flatter them.

[Azrael]

Despite the few chances towards the end of the half I still can't see us scoring today.

What I can see is Mario getting pissed off with the constant kickings he's getting and reacting in a way that'll see him sent off.

[larrydavidsanger]

That was all down to Sakho letting the ball bounce... isn't that one of the first things they teach you about defending?

Coutinho's been off the pace all season, don't know if we'd do better just subbing him off for Lambert/Sterling and switching to the diamond. Whatever we do, we need far more pace in our passing in the second half.

[tenrou]

There is 45 million plus in Lallana and markovic though and I could barely tell you where I had seen them make a pass all game and there are over 300 passes for Liverpool in the first half.

You have to earn your fee a bit boys.

[Gabe]

Hmm, thought Lallana was starting to be an influence in the game, certainly more than Coutinho.

We still don't look like scoring, or even creating a decent chance at the moment.

[Stig]

This is pretty dire really. We are doing ok getting it to their area but once there we don't know what to do.

[Gabe]

It's been really, really poor. Created nothing all game and Villa have looked more dangerous, our defence looks vulnerable all across the back. I appreciate that is a new back line, but they don't look great as a unit - I shudder at what Arsenal/Man U/Chelsea's attacks could do to it, especially away from home.

[Azrael]

Villa >_<

Not good enough, load of utter shite.

Better get our shit together before Tuesday.

[Stig]

What an awful awful game, irregardless of the result.