Bo Benn

Surreal

aw f***

Benayoun is f***ing lovely on the ball

Dire for 35-40 minutes, then suddenly we looked dangerous at every attack.

Decent save by their keeper to be fair

GET THE f*** IN!!!

f*** that was close! good stuff

I want a mad Agger effort for this one.

N'Gog has been given some crap balls to work with so far

Now time for my brilliant Benayoun in central mid plan to kick in

Gerrard!!!!????

Early sub?

Hate Källström so much. Glad to see him on the opponent side today.

sopcast. dutch.

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"They're very supportive of their team. They like good football and they like their team to win, but not necessarily in an ugly way - they want their team to win in style." Nah, I'll just have 3 points, please.

Fecking hell, the game is tonight!!! Had it down as a Wednesday game.

But in lack of other alternatives he does seem to have the intelligence and ability to keep and pass the ball better than Lucas.

Defensively I can't distinguish which one of our 3 CB is above the others. Overall they are pretty good, Carras positioning is better than Agger and Skrtel's but the two are on the other hand quicker and can therefore make up for their mistakes better than Carragher does sometimes. Agger I think is important because of his superior ball skills ahead of both Skrtel and even more so to Carra. His ability to quickly set up play from the defensive line to players further up field is crucial. Not to mention the more than decent left foot of his. Simply our attacking play benefits from having Agger in the XI. I feel our failure to keep pressure on the opposition (ie keep the ball in the attacking half for substantial amounts of time) is the most important reason why results have been against us so far this season. Better passing will relief some of load the back four has to carry.

A part of the problem might that our current attacking formation is very well adjusted for having Torres and Gerrard in it. When one or both of those to are out playing 2 strikers instead of 1 could be better. Neither Kuyt, Babel, Voronin or N'Gog seems very comfortable in that lone Torres role.

Had a mad thought, shouldn't Benayoun be able to play in CM role instead of Lucas (in the absence of Stevie and Fernando)? I'm neither Luke's biggest fan or his most fierce critic but I do think he has to take a lot of the blame concerning our poor passing and keeping the ball of late. I'm pretty sure Benny plays a more central role for Isreal does he not? Then let one of Babel, Riera or Dirk play in the Gerrard position.

Half time, no?

Our white/caucasion/whatever it's called player looks like they are bottomless with this kit looking at my half decent stream

the one on myp2p called Livesport works for me.

Agree, Babel looks likely to get something out of this game.