Brighton post match

[Craig_H]

Craig Bellamy @39CraigBellamy
Yes Luis! Great play lads! Carroll perfect pass!

[Buzzo]

I kind of imagine you like the hunchback of Notre-Dame with this massive growth of Carroll protruding from your spine

Welcome back mate

[nebbers]

SSN headline - Liverpool and Stoke avoid being knocked out of FA cup.

Almost feel sorry we disappointed them...

[Mostar]

fair enough. not saying they didn't play well, just that you'd usually see enrique and especially adam more involved when we're dominating teams.

henderson tends to drift in and out of game no matter who or how we're playing so not entirely surprised by his performance.

adam in particular was quiet today. i do think he's a big asset when he's on his game though.

I don't think he deserves to start atm and when he does he should never play on the right as he offers very little if anything in that position.

His crossing is extremely poor and his zonal marking defensively is not good at all.

[Muddled]

win is a win :P

And calling Downing a tosser is unnecessary.

Anyhoo.

A potential banana-skin avoided; comfortable throughout, a (more-or-less) redundant defence and a line-up that showed that we can play at Anfield without a holding a midfielder. Was initially concerned about an Adam, Gerrard axis, but because Brighton came to play football, we were afforded space to punish them - Suarez's excellent movement helped.

Downing had a good game and I'm glad he was allowed to put his Old Trafford nightmare quickly to bed; the way Carroll celebrated with him for the assist, you could see that they are human too and feel pressure and drops in confidence.

Quite the team selection dilemma for Kenny come next Sunday.

[Gibbo]

From the official ESPN facebook page.

[Lee]

I will have one small grumble about today.

Actually I'll have two.

The ref was ****ing shocking. All game. And then at the end after four goals, six subs, an injury and a streaker he blows up on two minutes?

I don't like seeing Gerrard play that deep. He causes more damage when further up the pitch.

Good performance though and it puts us in a good place for next week. Suarez and Carroll have to start.

[Muddled]

Oh, and it's great to see such camaraderie in the team - Carroll meant that header back across for Suarez's goal.

I like Henderson - I don't think he's best suited out on the right - but his place in the LG Cup final is at risk.

[Lee]

From the official ESPN facebook page.

What the ****?

[Darkon]

From the official ESPN facebook page.

And what did Kenny do exactly

And **** off writing stuff like that when you are a media.

[Lee]

Oh, and it's great to see such camaraderie in the team - Carroll meant that header back across for Suarez's goal.

I like Henderson - I don't think he's best suited out on the right - but his place in the LG Cup final is at risk.

I also like Henderson but he was very poor today.

[Craig_H]

From the official ESPN facebook page.

Been deleted now and this posted:

"ESPN is aware of the comment that was mistakenly posted, and apologise for its inappropriate and unacceptable nature. The comment was received from a fan via an internal feed and posted by mistake. We are fully reviewing the incident."

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From the official ESPN facebook page.

That is just unacceptable even if it was a "fan".

Oh, and it's great to see such camaraderie in the team - Carroll meant that header back across for Suarez's goal.

Henderson - I don't think he's best suited out on the right - but his place in the LG Cup final is at risk.

I think we'll have to play with Jay as better team than Brighton would have taken advantage of us not having a DM today.

[Muddled]

I will have one small grumble about today.

Actually I'll have two.

The ref was ****ing shocking. All game. And then at the end after four goals, six subs, an injury and a streaker he blows up on two minutes?

Yup, I made the same point in the match thread - odd.

I don't like seeing Gerrard play that deep. He causes more damage when further up the pitch.

I agree, when you see the quality in his final ball, his vision and his ability to see a pass, he *needs* to be higher up the pitch.

[Mostar]

@JimmyRiceWriter
Agger and Bellamy picked up injuries over the last few days, should be okay for the League Cup final next weekend #LFC