Reserves: Liverpool vs. Bolton

[Daffy Duck]

Liverpool team:

Martin Hansen
Emmanuel Mendy
Stephen Darby
Mikel San Jose
Godwin Antwi
Victor Palsson
Andras Simon
Jay Spearing
Krisztian Nemeth
Daniel Pacheco
Gerardo Bruna

Subs

Ryan Crowther
Dean Bouzanis
Vitor Flora
Robbie Threlfall
Gary Mackay-Steven


We're 1-0 up after 4mins; a lovely through ball from San Jose to Spearing who finishes cooly after having just the goalie to beat.

Bruna just hit the crossbar from distance after doing a Marseille roulette to win the ball from a Bolton defender.

[Assassin]

Good news from the ressies for a change

[Daffy Duck]

1-1
Darby loses the ball to Makukula in our half, San Jose tries to stop the big guy but is nowhere near strong enough and the Portuguese makes it 1-1 with a nice finish into the top corner.

Antwi was close now with a header from a corner.

[DannyMan2006]

Strong team for a change. Impressive start.

[DannyMan2006]

1-1
Darby loses the ball to Makukula in our half, San Jose tries to stop the big guy but is nowhere near strong enough and the Portuguese makes it 1-1 with a nice finish into the top corner.

Antwi was close now with a header from a corner.

I spoke to soon. Darby should not be making errors liek that if he wants to make the first team.

[Daffy Duck]

Bolton have a bunch of experienced players on the field (Smolarek, Makukula, Riga, Hunt...) but we're still a better team on the pitch.

Nemeth uses his head to set up a lovely ball for Simon, but his poor shot from a good position goes wide of goal. Both Hungarians have looked very lively so far, but are unable to produce a decent finish.

Pacheco shoots towards the far post from a 30m free kick and forces the goalie to concede a corner.


2-1 Spearing!!
Jay makes a run in midfield, passes the ball to Pacheco, he puts in a nice through ball for Nemeth who is fouled by Puygrenier, but the referee says play on as Spearing makes a run onto Pacheco's ball and blasts the ball into the top corner.

[Daffy Duck]

San Jose and Antwi are disposessing their forwards superbly.

Our youngsters have really outplayed the creativity-lacking Bolton side, who've so far only had one opportunity, and even that one was after an individual mistake (Darby is playing as a left back so we can forgive him one error). Pacheco and Spearing deserve special mentioning, both have been excellent in midfield.

Again, a nice one-two between Pacheco and Spearing, the latter with plenty of space in midfield, sends a lovely through ball to Nemeth who is through on goal but hesitates too long and loses the ball to Hunt.

A missed San Jose header leaves Makukula through on goal, but the striker shoots wide.

It's 2-2 now after a Riga corner. Some very poor marking there.

[Reece]

Spearing does a Gerrard and gets a hat trick

[Daffy Duck]

Penalty to us! Spearing hat-trick.
Spearing with a lovely through ball sets up Darby on the left, he sends the ball back to Nemeth who is in position to shoot but gets fouled from behind.

From what I've seen so far, Spearing should definitely get a few more first team matches this season.

Some poor marking from our defence again, a cross from the right meets the head of a nr.11 who almost makes it 3-3.

Spearing wins the ball in midfield from Makukula with a hard tackle, sends a perfect ball to the right to Pacheco who tries to return the ball to Jay but his cross gets blocked. Palsson then shoots a close header from a corner.

HT

[Ben_Itez]

****ing hell, sounds like a right game!

Good to see we're creating lots of chances and playing good football. Are we playing a 4-2-3-1? or more a 4-4-2?

[Ben_Itez]

Anyone got a link btw?

[Daffy Duck]

Something like this:
--------------hansen------------

mendy--san jose--antwi--darby

-------spearing-----palsson-----

simon------pacheco------bruna

-----------nemeth-------------

http://www.atdhe.net/6455/watch-liverpool-reserves-vs-bolton-reserves

here's the link

[Ben_Itez]

[Daffy Duck]

The second half has started.
I have to go for a few minutes, but will be back to report soon

****in hell Spearing is Superman himself!!!
We waste a corner (that Spearing has won), then Bolton have a quick counter, Hansen does a Reina and goes towards the ball but is beaten to it, Bolton's forward then passes the ball to Makukula who only has to put the ball into an empty goal, but Spearing slides and blocks his shot.

[DannyMan2006]

The second half has started.
I have to go for a few minutes, but will be back to report soon

Good man