We missed Alonso tonight

[Nic83]

No we didn't. He gives too much away with his Hollywood passes and is too slow. We missed Momo in the midfield, he would have kicked the crap out of all of the Portugese cheating ****

WTF?

Alonso rarely gives the ball away. He's had a couple of missed placed passes recently but I can tell you that chabbi's pass % is one of the highest (if not THE highest) at the club.

[Nic83]

Exactly. 2 years ago! He wouldn't have made the slightest bit of difference tonight. You'd only have seen him on camera if we'd won any free kicks....and then it would only be briefly whilst he knocked the ball tamely into the shins of the opposition wall.

I can't take you seriously. You have no clue about football.

[Nic83]

Carheex, in the league he's won more tackles than anyone else for us in the last 3 years.

That said, I think tonight we just missed playing as a team more than anything.

and the one who instigates us playing as a team is Xabi. He picks the ball up off the defense and gets our attacks going. Noone was doing that last night. They were playing long balls most of the time and when Masher did do it, he gave it away.

[red g]

we missed alonso, becuase gerrard and masher both ahd massive off days.
Both players are more than capable of playing together and not missing xabi

[friedk]

Personally I think we missed Gerrard, Mascherano, Torres, Carragher, Babel and Pennant

[Joe King]

WTF?

Alonso rarely gives the ball away. He's had a couple of missed placed passes recently but I can tell you that chabbi's pass % is one of the highest (if not THE highest) at the club.

Rarely gives the ball away, maybe so but the game yesterday needed fast passing, Chabbi still takes his time and picks his pass. I thought the midfield two needed more help from the front two

[saj]

No we didn't. He gives too much away with his Hollywood passes and is too slow. We missed Momo in the midfield, he would have kicked the crap out of all of the Portugese cheating ****

Thats quite racist mate - think you need to calm down a bit as racism is not one of the characteristics of EST1892

[Joe King]

Thats quite racist mate - think you need to calm down a bit as racism is not one of the characteristics of EST1892

[saj]

Personally I think we missed Gerrard, Mascherano, Torres, Carragher, Babel and Pennant

funny guy

[saj]

Saying "Portugese Cheating ****" is like "Cheating Indian ****" etc etc. If you said that on the streets during a football match or something, you'd get the **** kicked out of you

[Joe King]

Saying "Portugese Cheating ****" is like "Cheating Indian ****" etc etc. If you said that on the streets during a football match or something, you'd get the **** kicked out of you

I'm sorry if I offended anyone who is Portugese. I take my words back.

[saj]

I'm sorry if I offended anyone who is Portugese. I take my words back.

By the way, I knew you never meant it to be racist. But they were cheating or rather overeacting little **** bags, and the referee was very strict and just gave them everything. i'm confident they'll get hammered at Anfield

[Red_Polo]

and the one who instigates us playing as a team is Xabi. He picks the ball up off the defense and gets our attacks going. Noone was doing that last night. They were playing long balls most of the time and when Masher did do it, he gave it away.

Sorry, but whatever improvement people feel Xabi gives us ahead of the CM we put out yesterday, it pales in comparison to the effect it would have had if we had pressed in the right areas and moved better off the ball to open up the easy pass. Which is what I was saying.

[carheex]

Yep, there is no better match to show exactly what Chabbi does for the team. I know it goes unnoticed by a lot on here and those numpties won't even have contemplated that the fact Xabi was out contributed to our kick and rush performance but those of us who appreciate good football know exactly how big a difference Xabi would have made.

Good post.

When I said that xabi wouldn;t have made a difference, for once it wasn't a particularly low blow comment aimed at him. My point was that the team was bobbins on the whole - the person we missed the most was gerrard!

[carheex]

I'm sorry if I offended anyone who is Portugese. I take my words back.

Stand up for yourself you big blouse! there's nothing at all racist about saying someone is a "portuguese cheating ****". After all, the guy in question was indeed portuguese wasn't he?? another example of oversensitive PC types dictating what we can an cannot say. Have some balls lad!