Daniel Agger frustrated by Roy Hodgson’s style of play at Liverpool

[SimonNo7]

Just baffles me how and why Agger hasn't been starting.

Skrtel so far this season has been an accident waiting to happen.

I couldn't agree more. We need a CB who can play football, someone who can start an attack form defence just like we want attackers who harass defenders and thus defending from the front.

If these comments are true, and we really don't know if some comments have been taken out of context which does occasionally happen with journalists - I know , then it looks like we are going to have to put up with a CB pairing of Carra and Skrtel which is not that appealing. Also it does seem a bit strange following his 'everybody's happy' comment the other week. It also doesn't look good that Roy seems to think Agger is a LB.

[Neil Young]

Equally worrying is he thinks Konchesky is too.

[red g]

If that's the reason Agger isn't playing, I really don't think I can handle the future consequences of having Roy as our manager.

[Imy]

sad times

It's in the Echo?

[Fredo]

Equally worrying is he thinks Konchesky is too.

On the whole Konchesky had an appalling game yesterday but I thought he steadied himself up a bit from the 15th minutes onwards until half time. He came back second and he was being run ragged by Nani, culminating in him being substituted.

Just looking at him, his body language and his looks, he doesn't smack as a Liverpool player at all. Worrying times.

[red g]

It's in the Echo?

that raised a smile this morning!!

[Kenneth]

Agger not playing because he refuses to hoof the ball at every opportunity. It does have bullocks written all over it.

[PTP]

if its true its really ****ing worrying.

[RedReet]

It's obvious, by how much we seem to surrender possession of the ball these days, that the emphasis isn't on keeping it.

Agger not playing because he refuses to hoof the ball at every opportunity. It does have bullocks written all over it.

To be fair, we tried to keep the ball on the deck at all times against United and only really hoofed when under pressure. It didn't necessarily work as more often than not we ended just up passing it backwards until we had to hoof, but I think the game plan was to try primarily to keep it on the deck and keep possession, which is why possession was roughly 50/50 even though we were away from home to a superior side.

[Fierce]

To be fair, we tried to keep the ball on the deck at all times against United and only really hoofed when under pressure. It didn't necessarily work as more often than not we ended just up passing it backwards until we had to hoof, but I think the game plan was to try primarily to keep it on the deck and keep possession, which is why possession was roughly 50/50 even though we were away from home to a superior side.

Aside from Carra, who doesn't need to be under pressure to **** the ball as hard as he can up the field. Totally unnecessary in the main

[Exiled_red]

If true this is very worrying, we're seen that hoofing the ball forward doesn't work for us, if that's the reason Agger isn't playing then I'd be very very worried.

Hopefully this is nonsense and what he has said has been taken completely out of context.

[RedReet]

Aside from Carra, who doesn't need to be under pressure to **** the ball as hard as he can up the field. Totally unnecessary in the main

I agree, but sadly we passed the ball about with no purpose for long periods of the game, inevitably getting nowhere until a United player eventually got close enough to put our last man under pressure or it just went back to Pepe.

If I recall correctly we did actually pass the ball and got as far as the United box at one stage, only to turn back and keep passing back as far as Pepe.

[vlahka]

Agger is one of our best players. Easily our best defender. Seeing Konchesky and Skrtel ahead of him each game makes me want to break things. Very cheap things so I can replace them without much trouble, but break them none the less.

[Bender]

Skrtel is a disaster waiting to happen

[Fredo]

Skrtel is a disaster waiting to happen

Whilst he's not the greatest ball playing centre back, I don't think the did that wrong yesterday though. I think he's having trouble getting used to the new system employed by Hodgson.

Skrtel is not a bad player and he's a long way from being a disaster, as has been pictured in here.