Liverpool v Marseille- Build Up Thread

[kopash]

I hope so mate, me gut feeling aint telling me the same
Kuyt is a big match player(v Chavs & Milan for ex) whos gonna show up and help EL NENO upfront.

Kuyt will be fresh having not played on the weekend. He will run his a*se off.

Crouch will get called up for free kicks - always does away from home in Europe so not worth starting him.

Hope Lucas plays - possesion is key.

did Agger travel?

[redblood]

Well Sissoko seems to have hit out at not being included in the squad:-

http://sport.setanta.com/en/Sport/Ne...with-Reds-axe/

If that's what he's really said then bye bye Momo.
Rafa won't put up with that although I do believe his days are numbered anyway.
I think Rafa wanted to see 2 things, one could Lucas make the grade and two would Masher stay.
Both a resounding yes.

[Dhav]

If that's what he's really said then bye bye Momo.
Rafa won't put up with that although I do believe his days are numbered anyway.
I think Rafa wanted to see 2 things, one could Lucas make the grade and two would Masher stay.
Both a resounding yes.

I tend to agree, IMO Sissoko's contract was renewed not so much out of a strong desire to keep him but as a precaution in case Mascher couldn't be made permanent. As soon as the Mascher deal is finalised, Sissoko should be the first out the door.

[the rev leeroy brown]

need to go for the win so my line up would be:

------------------reina----------
arbeloa----hyypia----carra-----riise
benni-----gerard----masher----babel
---------torres------crouch------

[desertscouser]

I hope so mate, me gut feeling aint telling me the same
Kuyt is a big match player(v Chavs & Milan for ex) whos gonna show up and help EL NENO upfront.

Trust me Art, we'll do Marseille. In true LFC style we'll do it the hard way and then we'll fear no one in the knock out stages.

[Armchairkopite]

Kuyt will defo play.

[REDSCOUSER]

Trust me Art, we'll do Marseille. In true LFC style we'll do it the hard way and then we'll fear no one in the knock out stages.

Fingers crossed mate.

[tomasjj]

Bolo comes out with some inside stuff on Pako and also on match preparations from Rafa.

BBC SPORT
Marseille tipped to dispatch Reds
By John Sinnott

Champions League, Group A
Date: Tuesday, 11 December
Kick-off: 1945 GMT
Venue: Stade Velodrome
Listen: BBC Radio 5 Live Updates: BBC Sport website and mobile

Boudewijn Zenden believes Marseille are favourites to reach the last 16 of the Champions League at the expense of Tuesday's opponents Liverpool.

Zenden, 31, who played for Liverpool in last season's Champions League final defeat by AC Milan, moved to Marseille in July after two years at Anfield.

"In a way we're favourites as we're at home and we have our fans behind us," the midfielder told BBC Sport.

"We'll approach this game as one we must win. A draw might not be enough."

Depending on the result of the other Group A game between Besiktas and Porto, a draw could send either Liverpool or Marseille through, although whoever wins at the Stade Velodrome will be guaranteed a place in the knockout stages.

While Liverpool stumbled to their first Premier League defeat of the season at Reading on Saturday, Marseille recorded a morale boosting 2-0 win over local rivals Monaco.

"We approached the game against Monaco as our priority rather than the Liverpool match because we need our points in the league as we've had a terrible start to the season," said Zenden.

"The win against Monaco should also improve our confidence and get our fans behind us."

Benitez knows how to deal with opponents' strengths and weaknesses, especially eliminating the strengths and exploiting the weaknesses
Boudewijn Zenden
Marseille's poor start to the season has already led to the French club switching coaches, with Eric Gerets replacing Albert Emon.

Gerets had a memorable start as Marseille coach as his side beat Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield in his first game in charge back in October, a match Zenden played in.

"We played too individually at the start of the season," added Zenden. "We didn't play as a group, as a solid unit, and that cost us a lot of points.

"Eric Gerets is very much about organisation and discipline and slowly we've started to get the results we wanted.

"That's the biggest thing he has done since arriving - get us playing as a team.

"If you go out and do your own thing you'll end up in trouble, so Gerets has been focusing on team performance and collective play to make it more difficult for the opposition to score."

Zenden was signed by Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez on a free transfer from Middlesbrough in 2005 and the former Dutch international was impressed by the Spaniard during his two years at Anfield.

Like all Liverpool players, Zenden had to get used to Benitez's rotation system, in which the manager bases his selection policy on computer analysis of players' fitness.

"I always enjoyed working with him. The rotation system was something I hadn't experienced before and it was a new thing for me," revealed Zenden.

"As a player you want to play week in, week out but Benitez has his views, he has his way of working and every player has to deal with it.

"He has four or five players that play 90% of the games but the other six players change round. That's hard for those six players.

"But he has got results. Two Champions League finals, including one win, an FA Cup as well as a European Super Cup victory."

Not long after Zenden left Liverpool in the summer he was followed out of Anfield by Benitez's long-time assistant Pako Ayesteran.


606: DEBATE
East_Coast_NYC
Story from BBC SPORT:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport2/hi/football/europe/7137018.stm

Published: 2007/12/11 06:46:54 GMT

© BBC MMVII

[Kenneth]

Kuyt will defo play.

and should imo, just for his energy if nothing else.

[tomasjj]

FYI

Scando Ref for tonight.

That is all.

[Los Rojos]

I wish I was feeling more confident about tonight's game than I am. Hopefully we'll get a couple of early goals to settle the nerves.

[Skillz]

So where was the inside stuff on Pako?

[royzared]

So where was the inside stuff on Pako?

In the link mate,only the first part is above.

[Skillz]

Cheers

[Jazzmaster]

FYI

Scando Ref for tonight.

That is all.

Who or what is scando