Borussia M'bach vs Liverpool Match Thread

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And who paid £18,000,000,000 for him?

**** me. I really hope we didn't pay that much

[Hustler]

Johnson looked rather off the face, he was definetely missing his usual explosiveness. I'm very worried that we are going to enter the start of the season very sluggish. The first game will be very dull and I can't really see us scoring against a team of Arsenal's calibre. The first 11 or anything like it won't get to have a proper run out in an actual friendly before the game which is very worrying too. Not looking good.

It's ok, we only play arsenal in the opening game!

[Rudo]

Johnson could loose his place to Kelly if he doesn't get his ****e together soon, got turned around way to easlily and his positional sense is non existent

I know it sounds crazy as Kelly is still unproven but i prefer him as a player already..
At least he defends first and foremost, for a big lad he has a bit of pace and he isn't afraid to get forward either.
Like him alot.

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I know what I typed guys - I was being dramatic.

Mind you, might explain the debt a bit...

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Johnson's got a great left foot and he's played left back plenty in the past. We should play him at left-back and Kelly at right-back

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what ****e talked in studio !!!

carra's job this year to make stevie tea, as he was passed his best years ago

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shelvey's advisors not happy we brought in cole

[Baracus]

shelvey's advisors not happy we brought in cole

What? Where? When? Who? Why? Wroy?

[Rudo]

shelvey's advisors not happy we brought in cole

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What? Where? When? Who? Why? Wroy?

sorry guys, was just saying that the bloke in the studio after game was talking **** and thats what he said.

Basically he was saying shelvey's favoured position is number 10 and obviously thats cole position now he has a lot of advisors round him and they were not happy at us buying cole. no doubt absolute boulderdash.

[Shaggy]

The slagging of Insua is ridiculous, it's his very first game of football since May and he's being hung, drawn and quartered already

He had a poor first 20 minutes and got better.

Shelvey does look a player - you can just tell - but his passing was pretty slack at times.

Felt sorry for LDV - he got no service whatsoever.

Eccleston won't make it.

Don't mind very young centre backs ****ing up - every single young defender who ever existed made howlers in their teens. Ayala ****ed up no doubt, but Cav should never have given him the ball. I won't be writing Ayala off just yet - he's a good reader of the game and does the routine stuff very well, a lot of which tends to go unnoticed.

Spearing is totally ****.

Great to see Sterling getting a run out. Suso's token 60 seconds was a bit of a piss take, he got the ball once, tried to shift it inside the lad, lost it and that was his game over.

[Shaggy]

This is the arango who we where linked with some years back. Ex Majorca

Yep it was him.

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Roy Hodgson admitted there were plenty of positives to take from the performance of his Liverpool players, despite a 1-0 defeat to Borussia Moenchengladbach in Germany.

The Reds slipped to a narrow loss at Borussia Park after Karim Matmour made the most of some poor defending to give the Bundesliga side victory as they celebrated their 110th anniversary.

However, Hodgson was able to field summer signing Joe Cole as well as England colleagues Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher and Glen Johnson for the first time under his stewardship and insisted there was much to be encouraged by.

The boss told Liverpoolfc.tv: "We gave it to them again. It's disappointing. If it had stayed 0-0 I would have been delighted with the performance. I am still quite pleased and I think we got everything we asked from the players.

"We had three or four World Cup players playing their first 45 or 60 minutes and, of course, at the end of the game we had players who are only 15 and 16 on the field. I thought they stood up to the challenge very well.

"As in Kaiserslautern, we came close to a really good result. It was an even game but, as I said, unfortunately after 10 minutes with no pressure on us at all, we gave away that very bad goal."

Daniel Ayala was guilty of conceding possession cheaply inside his own area for the Moenchengladbach goal after eight minutes - but Hodgson had words of comfort for the young centre-back.

He said: "Ayala was our best player after the mistake and I think that shows what kind of character he is.

"To make a mistake like that after eight minutes, most players would crumble but not only did he get himself going again, I thought he was a pillar in our defence and I take my hat off to him.

"Mistakes are mistakes - they happen and you learn from it. I am pleased with him."

The clash in Germany represented Liverpool's final pre-season friendly of the summer - and Hodgson admits it has been difficult to prepare for the new campaign due to the extended breaks many of his senior stars were afford following the World Cup.

"I am seeing improvements in some individual players but we haven't really had the chance to work together as a team as yet," he said. "I don't even think we're going to be together as a team as I would like us to be on August 15 as we are still weintegrating players.

"Joe and Steven played their first 60 minutes today, Jamie Carragher played 45 and Johnson 55 - we're just weintegrating players all the time. It's going to take a bit of time.

"But today was an exercise and certainly not negative in anyway other than the fact our young players must realise at this very, very high level you are judged on mistakes and if you make glaring ones, you're going to be judged very harshly."

Despite fielding Gerrard, Cole, Carragher and Johnson, Hodgson is unsure whether they will be considered for Thursday's Europa League third qualifying round tie with FK Rabotnicki at Anfield.

He admitted: "I haven't decided yet. We've left a lot a players back at home - Kelly, Agger, Soto and Skrtel - so there's a whole back four and the chances are that's the back four that will play. We will see if they will get any minutes and I will speak to them.

"There's also the question of what is going to be best to get them fit for the game on August 15. We will have to sit down and talk about it."

Meanwhile, Hodgson explained why he opted to give youngsters Raheem Sterling and Jesus 'Suso' Fernandez some playing time towards the end of the clash.

"We were short of players but as it happened, Aurelio signed at the last minute and Insua decided that he is still undecided about his future and was therefore able to be selected," he said.

"Suddenly we had 20 players instead of 18. I was concerned in the beginning we wouldn't have 18 players so Waheem Sterling and Suso were called up and having done so I wanted to give them a few minutes on the pitch."

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/roy-s-borussia-verdict

[andrewces38]

Johnson looked rather off the face, he was definetely missing his usual explosiveness. I'm very worried that we are going to enter the start of the season very sluggish. The first game will be very dull and I can't really see us scoring against a team of Arsenal's calibre. The first 11 or anything like it won't get to have a proper run out in an actual friendly before the game which is very worrying too. Not looking good.

edit: I forgot to add, we didn't look very good in the back without Mascherano or Lucas screening, far too much space.

No wonder he was **** , the cunt has been snorting before the game

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Johnson looked rather off the face, he was definetely missing his usual explosiveness. I'm very worried that we are going to enter the start of the season very sluggish. The first game will be very dull and I can't really see us scoring against a team of Arsenal's calibre. The first 11 or anything like it won't get to have a proper run out in an actual friendly before the game which is very worrying too. Not looking good.

edit: I forgot to add, we didn't look very good in the back without Mascherano or Lucas screening, far too much space.

think it will be the same for all the top teams, might work in our favour actually as was always going to be difficult for us with new manager and i expect all the top teams will struggle in first month