EPL Saturday : Bolton vs Liverpool
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no. its that you said something sensible finallyOriginally posted by ghimpheng:finally you agree with me.........rare occasion that we agreed with each other -
bad game. bolton was a little rough and i think liverpool looked jaded after that mid week game. defensive errors again. bolton defended very well. liverpool cant score... no creativity to attack
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The rest of the team is alright , except the defense , seemed jaded this season , the mistakes we made , we never made last season .Originally posted by anhydrouscoppersulphate:bad game. bolton was a little rough and i think liverpool looked jaded after that mid week game. defensive errors again. bolton defended very well. liverpool cant score... no creativity to attack
The left and right defense might cut down the crosses from opposition . if we allowed them to cross , we're looking for trouble .
Somehow funny , without Traore , we seemed to be in trouble in the defense . -
The whole team have again showed the EPL how to lose a game.
Only Jamie bothered about the defeat.
The rest of the players seemed to accept the fact that they can played well in CL and played lousy in EPL.
Ah Ben have again waved his magic wand wrongly.
Not even willing to admit his mistake during the post match interview. -
Very disappointed. It's like Rafa's first season all over again. The team just can't seem to perform at away matches.
For the time being, I'll refrain from watching away matches. Wasting my time when I can do more something more constructive.
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Benitez discovers fine line between success and failure
A third defeat in their first four away games has left Liverpool's title ambitions looking sicker than Sam Allardyce in a Sky TV studio. Losing at Chelsea and Everton is one thing, being outplayed by Bolton quite another.
Rafael Benitez had a moment of controversy to moan about when a wretched decision by linesman Andy Halliday handed Bolton their opening goal, but Liverpool had an hour in which to come back and they failed dismally.
There was nothing wrong with Bolton's second and the game was neither over-physical nor as bad-tempered as last season's game. Benitez might have to stop being patronising about the way other teams play and look at the faults in his own side.
Perhaps he could start by not changing it every week. Peter Crouch was benched after his Champions League heroics on Wednesday, Craig Bellamy came in and was again ineffective, although neither he nor Steven Gerrard is a left winger, yet he replaced his team captain in that position as Benitez belatedly switched to match Bolton's 4-5-1 formation.
Gerrard faded after a good first half, a strangely truculent Dirk Kuyt was withdrawn shortly after the interval and long before the end Xabi Alonso was reduced to hopeful shots from 30 yards. Bolton, by contrast, were full of ideas and honest endeavour, with Gary Speed and Ivan Campo bringing all their experience to bear in midfield, Nicky Hunt and Abdoulaye Faye defending superbly throughout the second half and Kevin Davies turning in a highly impressive performance on the right wing.
Davies was more impressive than Jermaine Pennant, the winger England head coach Steve McClaren had turned up to watch. Only the two former Liverpool players at the Reebok, Nicolas Anelka and El Hadji Diouf, were anonymous and if they start playing to their potential soon, Bolton might climb even higher in the table.
Anelka looked lethargic after only four minutes, when Sami Hyypia's slip gave him a sight of goal, but he reacted so slowly the defender got back to dispossess him. Kuyt brought the first of several saves from Jussi Jaaskelainen, shortly before Alonso struck a post and although Bolton's goalkeeper again came to their rescue from Gerrard's powerful drive shortly before the interval, the Liverpool player had hit it straight at him.
By then Bolton were in front, courtesy of the first half's major talking point. Referee Phil Dowd brought play back from the other end on the insistence of one of his assistants, who claimed Jose Reina had carried the ball out of his area in making a clearance. Television replays established Halliday was wrong, a furious Benitez knew from his touchline monitor that the call was bad and watching Reina dive the wrong way as Speed scored through the wall did little to improve his mood.
'We were controlling the first half, but this incident changed the game,' the Liverpool manager said. 'That and conceding so soon in the second half.' Allardyce, who had posted Benitez's comments about Bolton's physical approach on the dressing-room wall to gee up his players, confirmed that taking the lead had changed everything.
'The plan switched at half time to defending that lead because I didn't think we would get too many more chances,' he said. He was wrong. Davies sent over a cross six minutes into the second half and Campo met it perfectly, although that was merely a bonus.
Statistics showing that Liverpool had 70 per cent of possession confirmed that Bolton spent most of the game defending. More revealing was the shot count. Liverpool had 13 on target, Bolton just the two.
'We took our chances and that which was crucial,' Allardyce said with a satisfied smile. 'We don't have Liverpool's money, so we maximise our talent withinthe laws of the game.' -
he rolated his players too much n they seem to lack of chemistry wif one another.Originally posted by Medicated Oil:The whole team have again showed the EPL how to lose a game.
Only Jamie bothered about the defeat.
The rest of the players seemed to accept the fact that they can played well in CL and played lousy in EPL.
Ah Ben have again waved his magic wand wrongly.
Not even willing to admit his mistake during the post match interview.
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Benitez has his point in that controversy first goal ......... his point is , it changed the face of the game .
That's it .
Maybe without the first goal , we would have hold on , less attack, less attack means more defense , more defense means they wouldn't have that second goal .
This is what he meant .
he obviously planning for a point .
Anyway , i always say ....... draw and lost makes no diff to me . It's a win that matters . -
Ah Ben have a knack for making mistake and not changing it.
Starting on his insistence to play Liverpool in a 4-5-1 formation.
Leaking goal through his zonal marking system.
Sticking his neck for goal-less Crouch for many matches.
Now, his insistence to play stevie out of position and player rotation system are causing harm to the EPL points. -
lol i did not agree with you is you who agree with me 1st anywayOriginally posted by anhydrouscoppersulphate:no. its that you said something sensible finally
And does not mean that we 2 agree that means that it is right or sensible
Lol so All your opinions are "Right" and mine is mostly wrong ?
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Rafa's rotation is the cause of the defeat...
And the linesman's blunder should be punished... -
put crouch really trust me For once
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like i said, bolton is a dread club to beat, all they do is defend tightly.
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Originally posted by ghimpheng:put crouch really trust me For once
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i agreed with you because you said something sensible.Originally posted by ghimpheng:lol i did not agree with you is you who agree with me 1st anyway
And does not mean that we 2 agree that means that it is right or sensible
Lol so All your opinions are "Right" and mine is mostly wrong ?
sensible doesn't equal to right -
anyway if im not wrong,
the recent past 3 visits to Reebok under Rafa,
recorded 2 losses n 1 drew (included sat game),
furthermore Pool played badly on Sat.,
seems to be normal to me,
cause they usually after European night,
their immediate league game usually cant play well,
mayb its fatigue,
but that cant be a gd xcuse,
cause c how ManU n Gunners performed,
haiz,
Pool's form is always up n down,
y cant they learn to b like Gunners,ManU / CFC to be more consistence
both in League n European games,
btw im a Pool fan too.