Liverpool vs Aston Villa Match Thread

[SimonNo7]

Voronin ,Babel,lucas not fit to wear a red shirt.

Voronin and Babel

As much as Lucas had a mare I just can't make my mind up.

We are going to have to have as good a season against the Arse, the Chavs and the Cnuts as we did last season and then hopefully these two defeats can be forgotten.

My worry is that Hughes has bought players with plenty of Premiership experience and not a load of big names from abroad.

[JohnDoe]

Yep without a doubt ....

I hate to say it .. but **** has to change .. Gerrad needs to dtop back and fill Alonso's boots ... Benny needs to take stevies shoes .. at least till yer man gets better

Gerrard was ****ing **** today, and he was even more **** playing CM. Seems like he's also lost his defensive awareness playing there. I want him nowhere near it.

[Venton]

Regardless of what you all say on here, we created enough chances to have won two games tonight, never mind one. But you can't spurn gilt edged chances and expect to challenge for the title. They have to be put away.

What is a problem is that we are a very small side when we line up for set pieces and as such will concede goals no matter what system we use to mark players, and it is also why we tend to not score that many from set pieces. I think we lack a Terry/Vidic type player who attacks the ball and wins it. We have brave defenders in Skrtel and Carra but they've never been that great in the air at set pieces.

We defended poorly here and that cost us the game. Most of the team played badly and Villa still needed us to **** up three times to score. They defended well and Friedel made some decent saves when we did get through. Slim margins. Everyone was cock-a-hoop last week. Have we suddenly changed from being fantastic to utter ****e?
No-one likes a ****e performance and we've a right to point it out but to say we have lost everything after three games is crazy.

[Rafael Benítez Maudes]

robber007 you thanked me earlier

and now i get abuse.

[DannyMan2006]

If Rafa blames the ref again it will be cringeworthy.

The fact you said that suggests to me you think he may have a reason to blame the ref...........

[Reece]

Everyone bar Reina and Johnson were poor tonight for me. I actually thought Lucas had started the game well and was getting more confident with his passing, but then the OG appeared to knock him for six.
That was a terrible tackle from Gerrard who had lost his head for a moment there.
Gutted.

Oh and zonal marking wasn't to blame for the second goal - it was the players (Carra and Torres IIRC) standing there ball watching.

[Rafael Benítez Maudes]

Mr hicks and mr gillette
you cunts

time to open the cheque book

sign steven defour

you cunts

[Robster007]

robber007 you thanked me earlier

and now i get abuse.

It's your fault I had to sit through that.

[Rafael Benítez Maudes]

It's your fault I had to sit through that.

thankfully i never watched much of it.

[tiktu]

Ah **** it, we had dozen chances to finish the game but Friedel had quite a game and seemed to frustrate Torres and Gerrard. Some sloppy defending especially with the second goal with quite much luck with the first, sometimes you just cannot win.

And the referee was piss, cannot believe how much kicking and hitting Torres got in the first half.

[Roboklopp]

I knew this was going to be a bad day, i ran over a black cat on my way for dinner today, then got sat at table 13 and now this ****

At least it can't get much worse unless i die in my sleep

Oh dear.

[Kenneth]

The fact you said that suggests to me you think he may have a reason to blame the ref...........

He had no case after the spurs match, I don't think he has a case after this match. Some blinkered fans will think we should have had pens etc, but there were no incorrect major decisions in that match. I just hope Rafa doesn't go down that route as it looks desperate and somewhat pathetic after we've played so poorly.

[Robster007]

thankfully i never watched much of it.

Go on, rub salt in.

Bugger.

Woeful it was. Very depressing.

[SimonNo7]

The problems in the past have been we've drawn too many games, but last season we would have drawn this game...

We need to sort ourselves out and play more attacking games, we still don't look comfortable playing at home when we have to control the game and attack, we seem more suited to playing away from home where we can play on the break

I take it you mean we would have drawn a game like this ie being 2 behind near the end of the game, in which case I would have to agree.

However we only need to go on an unbeaten run for the rest of the season and win a couple of those games we drew last season like we did last week against Stoke. Put this defeat down as the defeat against the ****ty Boro last season!! (Simon goes away with everything possible crossed for some kind of rest of season luck)

[Roberto Bobbolino]

The really frustrating thing was how predicatable we were when chasing the game. There was absolutely no passion or imagination, it was very strictly by the book, even when the gameplan had gone way out of the window. Riera should have been on and we should have been bombarding their box with crosses, as it's obvious we lacked the flair and craft to break through.