Liverpool v Newcastle Buildup

[souliv]

So have to say I think this game is a potential banana skin, as bad as Newcastle are, we will have to be careful

Do think Gerrrard will be back I would be happy to see this team if he is , i think Carra needs a rest, probably wont happen

Reina
Aberloa Skrtel Agger Aureilio
Kuyt Alonso Masherano Riera
Gerrard
Torres

[Chris]

They're absolutely hopeless, im 100% certain we'll beat these. If a ****e team wants to get a result against us you have to be compact, solid defensively and have a big work rate, these have none. Of course they have to be taken seriously by the players but theres no way we wont win here.

[cannotmakeit]

nah, they are ****e. more worried about West Ham

[cannotmakeit]

i see Owen has already given up.

Newcastle doomed to defeat at Liverpool, admits Owen• 'Home games are our focus now,' says striker
• Swearing opera singer criticised by Portsmouth
Digg it Louise Taylor guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 28 April 2009 22.05 BST Article history
The Newcastle United striker Michael Owen reacts to a miss during Monday's 0-0 draw with Portsmouth. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

There was a time when Michael Owen routinely returned to Anfield with his head held high but the Newcastle United striker has suggested he is virtually resigned to defeat there on Sunday. With no goals in his past nine appearances for the relegation-threatened Tyneside team Owen is currently a shadow of the young striker who made his name at Liverpool. Indeed, following Monday night's 0–0 home draw with Portsmouth his critics are urging Alan Shearer to drop him to the bench at Anfield.

"We go to Liverpool next and we finish the season at Aston Villa and, if we can get some points from those games, then of course we'll grasp them," said Owen. "But, being realistic, it's the home games [against Middlesbrough and Fulham] that are our major focus now."

Shearer's four-game tenure at St James' Park has yielded two points and a solitary goal, though against Portsmouth Owen spurned an excellent chance to improve that record. Newcastle's stand-in manager, whose side are three points behind fourth-bottom Hull City, has diagnosed a lack of self-belief on the striker's part. "Confidence in football is huge," he said. "But we know if we keep creating chances for Michael one will go in."

Unfortunately, right now, Newcastle seem better at conjuring moments of crass embarrassment. Just before kick-off on Monday night Graeme Danby, a Geordie opera singer, led an on-pitch rendition of Blaydon Races before crudely patronising the smattering of Portsmouth fans who had made the journey north, a round trip of 800 miles and 18 hours. "Have you come in a ****ing car?" bellowed the microphone-wielding Danby before further taunting them with: "You're the Mackems of the south coast."
Pompey will not be making an official complaint but they were distinctly unimpressed. "It wasn't good," said a club spokesman yesterday. "It was unnecessary, cringe-making and embarrassing. The guy clearly got carried away."

Should Newcastle get carried away to the Championship, though, they could be punished for neglecting to insert clauses in their players' contracts stipulating a drop in wages in that eventuality.

Not that Shearer is resigned to such a fate. "Everybody will write us off at Liverpool," he said. "I understand that. But I saw Liverpool win at Hull last Saturday and they didn't play particularly well. Going for the title, they are under pressure too. You never know in football."

[the rev leeroy brown]

would love to see

reina

agger
skrtel
carra

mash
alonso

kyut
babel
yossi

gerard
torres

sort of an all out 3-5-2 formation with gerard up top with torres, babel and kyut giving width and yossi roving midfield. 3 at the back to combat the 3 pronged attack newcatle will have with martins, viduka and owen.

[SB]

would love to see

reina

agger
skrtel
carra

mash
alonso

kyut
babel
yossi

gerard
torres

sort of an all out 3-5-2 formation with gerard up top with torres, babel and kyut giving width and yossi roving midfield. 3 at the back to combat the 3 pronged attack newcatle will have with martins, viduka and owen.

Swap those two and I'm with you 100%

[PTP]

If we keep solid at the back and just come flying out the blocks from the first min then Newcastle will fold - they practically already have, an early goal and it could turn into a rout - ideally be one up before half time - we don't want them to get into half time at nil nil and then thinking htye have a fighting chance of a point

If gerrard fit and still keep yossi in who has been our best player recently

Reina

arbeloa
carra
agger/skrtel
insua

mascher
alonso

kuyt
gerrard
yossi

torres

get 3 nil up and take off gerrard and torres for lucas and ngog and then one other sub maybe alonso or masher

[red g]

i would like to see us coasting by 3 after an hour and give the likes of spearing,n'gog possibly even nemeth some playing time

[Exiled_red]

would love to see

reina

agger
skrtel
carra

mash
alonso

kyut
babel
yossi

gerard
torres

sort of an all out 3-5-2 formation with gerard up top with torres, babel and kyut giving width and yossi roving midfield. 3 at the back to combat the 3 pronged attack newcatle will have with martins, viduka and owen.

I'd be very suprised if Newcastle came to Anfield and played 3 up front

[Tee]

If we cannot beat them at home we do not deserve to win the league.

That said I think we will open them up and win comfortably. Benni will have a field day against that defence.

[lickedlollipop]

i think riera and insua should play

[Kenneth]

Did we get to see the revised predictions table as promised?

[Neil Young]

-------------storm tropper-------

egon spengler----Panthro-------Michelangleo

---------Han Solo-----Peter Venkman

-------------Princess leia---------

--------------Hoth Stormtrooper----------

--------Winston---Lion-O------Luke Skywalker

--------Darth Vader-----cheetera

---------------Batman--------

No Insua?

[Fierce]

would love to see

reina

agger
skrtel
carra

mash
alonso

kyut
babel
yossi

gerard
torres

sort of an all out 3-5-2 formation with gerard up top with torres, babel and kyut giving width and yossi roving midfield. 3 at the back to combat the 3 pronged attack newcatle will have with martins, viduka and owen.

It'll never happen, but I'd like to see if for ****s and giggles too, although I'd stick Dossena or Aurelio there in place of Babel for their defensive abilities with Kuyt playing the wingback roles

[the rev leeroy brown]

Swap those two and I'm with you 100%

second thoughts, ur right. babel up top with torres and gerard from deep.

I'd be very suprised if Newcastle came to Anfield and played 3 up front

they pretty much have to. they tried against pompey and even though it's at anfield, they have to go for the win. running out of games and a draw does them no good. i hope they do go 3 up top cause more space for us to play in could lead to another 4-5- goal haul.

It'll never happen, but I'd like to see if for ****s and giggles too, although I'd stick Dossena or Aurelio there in place of Babel for their defensive abilities with Kuyt playing the wingback roles

if i had to drop babel for defensive qualities i'd give dossena the place ahead of aurelio for as you said "****s andf giggles"