Liverpool thread

[Darren]

AFC Liverpool 5 Darwen 0

Published on August 9, 2008
AFC Liverpool kicked off the league season in style with a 5-0 victory over Lancashire opponents Darwen FC.
In an historic day for our new club, the weather was the only disappointment in a thrilling win.
Martin Smeaton opened the scoring for the Reds on 20 minutes after some clever interplay. Darwen also put it into the net but the goal was disallowed for a foul on keeper Paul Willis.
It was 1-0 at the break, but in true Liverpool style, the reds turned it on when kicking towards the Kop end.
Two minutes into the second half Thurston was brought down by the Darwen keeper inside the area. Thurston took the penalty himself and converted comfortably. Shortly afterwards he was on the scoresheet once again to make it three.
The reds had scores of chances. Kevin Poole came close, and Thurston almost bagged a hattrick with a fantastic glancing header that only just crept wide.
It was Wignall who put AFC Liverpool 4-0 up, before substitute James Croxton bagged the fifth.
Team Lineup:
1 Paul Willis
2 Andy Barlow
3 Martin Crowder
4 Mark Bloxham
5 Jay Chandler
6 James Dever (c)
7 Ryan Wignall
8 Ian Johnson
9 Martin Smeaton
10 Dean Thurston
11 Andy McCoy
12 Craig Cushion
GK Terry McCormick
14 James Croxton
15 Kevin Poole
16 Ian Sheridan

[aliando]

not only good to see afc starting well, but also kinda nice to see a team sheet reading 1-thru-11 consecutively!

[Big Gaz]

Standard Liege v Liverpool


Liverpool very lucky to be level at halftime....Methinks you may see Mr Gerard in the 2nd half.

[Darren]

Originally Posted by Big Gaz

Standard Liege v Liverpool


Liverpool very lucky to be level at halftime....Methinks you may see Mr Gerard in the 2nd half.

We did!

Lucky to be level at full time as well, very poor performance from us, Liege looked much the better side throughout the game.

[AK1979]

Doesnt look like Alonso's going anywhere - cup tied now.

[JackJarvis]

Feel sorry for the Belgians, they should have won that by 3 or 4 in all honesty...

Liverpool were horrendous tonight. I still cannot justify 20 million for Robbie Keane.

[Darren]

Originally Posted by JackJarvis

Feel sorry for the Belgians, they should have won that by 3 or 4 in all honesty...

Liverpool were horrendous tonight. I still cannot justify 20 million for Robbie Keane.

3 or 4? Wouldn't go that far, there weren't that many clear chances in the game...

For whatever reason we have tended to struggle a bit in the 3rd round qualifiers under Rafa. We seemed stuck in pre season mode tonight and really no outfield player had a good game for us. We could have done with Ryan Babel being there rather than in Beijing.

[friskyfitz]

Originally Posted by JackJarvis

Feel sorry for the Belgians, they should have won that by 3 or 4 in all honesty...

Liverpool were horrendous tonight. I still cannot justify 20 million for Robbie Keane.

To be honest Darren - 3 or 4 is not wrong

Liverpool were piss poor and deserved to lose and maybe by 2 or 3. Jack aint wrong!!! - Diabolical would be one word!!! - No amount of bias could hide that !!!!

[davidmphill]

Never saw the game, sounds like it was a lucky escape. Worrying though. Belgian football isnt exactle the strongest in Europe.

[Charlie Wong]

treated it like a friendly game, cant single out individuals, they all looked a yard short apart from Pepe.

expect a reaction at Sunderland, why Mascherano was allowed to go to the Olympics baffles me? We could have done with him last night to harrass Liege in midfield.

[Jonesy Knows]

True friskedfrizz after all "Biased" is your middle name!

Originally Posted by friskyfitz

To be honest Darren - 3 or 4 is not wrong

Liverpool were piss poor and deserved to lose and maybe by 2 or 3. Jack aint wrong!!! - Diabolical would be one word!!! - No amount of bias could hide that !!!!

[friskyfitz]

Originally Posted by Jonesy Knows

True friskedfrizz after all "Biased" is your middle name!

Settled	Bet Id	Placed	Description	Stake	Avg.Level	Status	DR (€)	CR (€)	Balance (€)
	2008-08-13 22:00	22159434	2008-08-13 16:07	Wednesday to Sunday Sheff Utd, Coventry, AC Oulu, Liverpool, Arsenal, Nottm Forest, AaB, Birmingham Back	75.0	31.87	Lost	(75.00)	-	0.00

You have no idea!! Liverpool result cost me €2,200 .

[Darren]

Originally Posted by friskyfitz

To be honest Darren - 3 or 4 is not wrong

Liverpool were piss poor and deserved to lose and maybe by 2 or 3. Jack aint wrong!!! - Diabolical would be one word!!! - No amount of bias could hide that !!!!

We can agree to disagree. They hit the post had missed the penalty that never was in the first 15 mins. Reina made about 2 big saves in the rest of the game. I don't doubt we were lucky not to lose, but regardless of how bad we were the margin was never 3-4 goals.

[AJ]

Not a great performance today, but you got the result, excellent goal from Torres.

You'll not be that far off the pace I think, but I don't see you winning much

[Darren]

A good result for us at Sunderland today, but again the performance wasn't great. First half we looked very unfit and well off the pace at times. The second half introduction of Alonso for Plesis helped us a hell of a lot.

Torres did nothing all game but popped up late on to score the winner. Job done really.

[WorkingForTheEnemy]

I think the key thing today was that last season that would have been a poor performance that we got a point from. This time it was a poor performance we got 3 pts from.

[davidmphill]

Agree with the above posts bar AJ's of course.

[Jonesy Knows]

Great result in the end considering, however Torres ain't going to be able to bail us out all the time.

Atmosphere outside the team is ominous and I think there will be a departure sooner rather than later!
If only it could be the owners , however I think it more likely to be Rafa having enough of being undermined or Parry. The relationship between Rafa and Parry seems to becoming untenable.

The owners have constantly aired their grievances for all and sundry to hear and this is just not the Liverpool way! We require stability and humility from the owners not an asset they plainly have in their locker!

Our perfomances on the pitch will continue to be affected by the feuding and our finances will become more and more depleted without the success we crave.

Time for the owners and for that matter Parry to move on and allow an owner to come in with one mindset and that is to fund Rafa and get the ground started. Success will follow because at the moment we are a journalists dream.

[AJ]

Originally Posted by davidmphill

Agree with the above posts bar AJ's of course.

You didn't think Torres goal was excellent ?

You must have pretty high standards.

[doublecee]

The Torres goal reminded me of the old times at Anfield when the Marvellous Billy Liddell would do hardly anything for 80 or so mins, and then pop one in, just as Torres did last night.
Just an old man's memory surfacing.