Scum vs Liverpool match thread

[danperkins]

Konchesky has been awful, can't see how he's an upgrade on Insua. Why was he stood behind Reina? His passing has been atrocious. Maxi is as bad a player as I have seen for Liverpool. He doesn't do anything.

No he hasn't, Konch and Poulsen have been decent.

[Chris]

and the majority of the 90mins under Rafa last season to be fair.

Wasnt the point of sacking him to improve?

[Exiled_red]

Konchesky is supposed to be on the post, if he stayed in his proper position, he'd probably have cleared that.

[Mostar]

We should have a defender marking Berbatov IMO, not Torres

Agreed but with so many mancs bodies in the box he had to pick up someone. I am not blaming El Nino just his marking was not good.

[fowlen]

Absolutely awful from us.
No imagination and square passing time after again.
Hodgson has to change it at half time, Poulson/Maxi off and Ngog and Babel on - at least we'll have some pace and be more direct, coz there ain't a hope in hell we're scoring a goal with the starting 11....

[SimonNo7]

every bit as painful as wvery other 45mins we have endured under Roy.

We are **** and he better have an istanbul-esque teamtalk at half time to sort this shower of **** out.

and the majority of the 90mins under Rafa last season to be fair.

[Galb]

Annoying to hear Torres getting slated by that cunt Alan Smith for "poor marking". He's a centre-forward, his marking is not the problem...it's the system.

Nah, man marking is the only way to play football in England. Havent you heard?

[Kenneth]

I don't think he had a bad half (made some errors but no body played well) but I am not sure why was he behind Pepe on that corner kick. If he had been positioned properly it would be an easy head clearance..

Me too. He was pretty much the only player to complete any tackles for us. Knives were out for him before he played for us and I expect him to be the scapegoat if we lose. We set out to contain them, and we have defended well in the box up to the goal. We'll see how the second half pans out, it's all about us scoring, or we'll get picked off as we push forward.

[Mostar]

Annoying to hear Torres getting slated by that cunt Alan Smith for "poor marking". He's a centre-forward, his marking is not the problem...it's the system.

In all honesty it was poor. He was trying to contain Berba without even looking for the ball.

[Exiled_red]

Annoying to hear Torres getting slated by that cunt Alan Smith for "poor marking". He's a centre-forward, his marking is not the problem...it's the system.

We should have a defender marking Berbatov IMO, not Torres

[SimonNo7]

Well I think it's clear who the scapegoat is going to be.

I think we can guess who you mean there. A player that most people on here didn't want at LFC but forgetting the point that there is another 10 players out there who do not seem to even know the basics of pass and move, move to make space, play as a team. It's not Konchelsky's fault we are 1 goal down, it's 11 players who do not seem to know how to play as a team and which has been going on for around a year now.

I know I'm going to get berated here but to me Torres does not look a happy chappy at all. I have know idea what is going through his head, I do not know anything about body language but he has definitely not got his happy face on. I accept that alot of this is going to be down to fitness at the moment but it is probably also down to the fact that his mates (I was going to say 'team'mates but it is so far away from what I'm seeing) don't seem to want to include him in this game.

Roy is going to have to give a very good talk now and lets hope the pattern of most of our games so far continues and we have a much much better second half.

[chadrtc]

I absolutely hate the way we play these days without the ball. We stand off and allow the opposition the ball, we allow pressure to build on us as soon as we lose it. No pressing, just drop deep and wait for them to lose it.

Horrific stuff that's so out of touch with the way a side of any quality gets results.

[Galb]

We need to swap Gerrard and Miereles around for 2nd half

Or drop Meireles in beside Gerrard and move Cole into the middle with someone/anyone new on the wings.

[Rudo]

konchesky was on the post, how did he end up behind reina ?

getting what we deserve so far. **** all

He moved away from the post, some players do that for whatever reason. Daft. It costs goals.

[danperkins]

Got dominated in that half, Maxi has to go off jesus the bloke does nothing. Cole is non existent on the left. Torres is having a shocker but nothing coming up to him. Gerrard has to be up behind Torres and maybe Merieles deeper (looks out of his depth at moment)

United are working harder and closing down the space much better, you cold see the goal coming, shocking marking by Torres, bollox about being Konch fault, simply bad marking by Torres and a nice cushioned header by Berbatov.

Poulsen IMO has done very well, solid and keeping posession well. Apart from that i'm struggling to find any positives. Konch few good tackles but looks bit nervy, same as Skrtel. We really need to step it up. It seems that we can only get to a certain point and then everything breaks down, so uncomfortable in posession too, lack of movement again.