West Ham vs Liverpool Match Thread

[MrMichael]

Get off your high MOD horse mate. GJ is rubbish and the lad is entitled to his opinion.

He's entitled to express his opinion appropriately, consistent abuse of our own players is not something we support on this site, not least because it tends to turn threads into flame wars. Personally I'm no big fan of GJ myself, but calling him a "c*nt" repeatedly is not exactly the Liverpool way is it?

[Baracus]

Well, I am not surprised by the scoreline. I thought the hammers would win 2-0. I thought they would get us through pace. We look lacklustre, players seem to be carrying injuries and they have carried their awful performance form (not the results) through from the last 2-3 weeks.

[chadrtc]

I think I'd be hooking Gerrard and Wilson straight off, both have been really poor.

[Mattshark]

Gerrard at fault for first, let hitzl have all the space in world on edge of box to play Parker in. Great finish though. Skrtel being skrtel for second. Not good enough.

They won't be able to keep up this tempo for 90 mins, and we are still in with a chance here if we fet an early goal. Hopefully the formation change will help a bit second half.

The second wasn't Skrtel, he had his man, in Piquionne, he can't mark 2 people, that was Wilson's man as Carra had to cover for him.

[SimonNo7]

And so we find find ourselves once again struggling against a team that is at/near the bottom of the league. It's games like these that shows our squad is nowhere near good enough. There's been posts before about when we get Gerrard, Suarez and Carroll back... well 2 out 3 shouldn't be bad but...

[JohnDoe]

All 3 central midfielders have been poor - not just Lucas.

Which is why I kind of mentioned Meireles.

Gerrard is obviously not fit. He can't run, he's Joe Colying all over the pitch.

[Mostar]

He's entitled to express his opinion appropriately, consistent abuse of our own players is not something we support on this site, not least because it tends to turn threads into flame wars. Personally I'm no big fan of GJ myself, but calling him a "c*nt" repeatedly is not exactly the Liverpool way is it?

[wiw]

Tactics have bieen **** imo. 3 at the back has just invited them to play right onto us and counter-attack. Go to 4 at the back and push the wingers up. Pack the middle and be hard to break down. We're wide-open atm

[danperkins]

The second wasn't Skrtel, he had his man, in Piquionne, he can't mark 2 people, that was Wilson's man as Carra had to cover for him.

[Lecter]

Gutless performance, Gerrard a complete non event, barely even running. Worst performance i've seen this season from Lucas. Suarez so isolated its incredible. They want it more, outfought throughtout the whole half.

One of, if not the poooest display from LFC this season.

This is definitely not the worst performance

You forgot Stoke away, Northampton home, Blackburn away eetc...

The passing is off no doubt but at least we are trying to pass instead of aimless punts under Roy

Biggest problem today is a lack of pressure on the ball midfield has done zero closing down

Worst 45 minutes under Kenny no doubt about that but far from our worst performance under Roy

[calvoboy]

The second wasn't Skrtel, he had his man, in Piquionne, he can't mark 2 people, that was Wilson's man as Carra had to cover for him.

Will watch again then At first viewing it looked to me like he was in no mans land

[danperkins]

Tactics have bieen **** imo. 3 at the back has just invited them to play right onto us and counter-attack. Go to 4 at the back and push the wingers up. Pack the middle and be hard to break down. We're wide-open atm

they have destroyed us on the counter

[Robbie-9-Fowler]

Too many times have we lost the ball and players have not got up and tried to win it back.. Is Suarez isolated? yes.. But even still, he needs to hold the ball up better and try to stay on his feet.

Gerrard basically non-existant, strolling around the pitch.. Maybe he's back too early?

[Exiled_red]

This is definitely not the worst performance

You forgot Stoke away, Northampton home, Blackburn away eetc...

The passing is off no doubt but at least we are trying to pass instead of aimless punts under Roy

Biggest problem today is a lack of pressure on the ball midfield has done zero closing down

Worst 45 minutes under Kenny no doubt about that but far from our worst performance under Roy

[The Birdman]

He was and you cannot blame him for the second. Wilson lost the challenge in the air and that cost as a goal.

Ba will not score any like that for as long as he plays.

Absolute bollocks. How many 1st challenges are lost in the game? Happens all the time.
Yes in an ideal world Wilson wins the header but Carra is too slow to leave his comfort zone of the width of the 6 yard box and let's the cross come in.

Put it this way, if Wilson let the cross come in and Ba scores Carra would have been running towards him, bawling at him and blaming him for not stopping the cross