KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum ANZHI VS LIVERPOOL: CONFIRMED TEAM & MATCH THREAD

There's just no pleasing some people. When we win cups, we should be focusing on the league, and when we put more focus on the league and rest players for the cup games, then the same people say we should be fielding strong teams in the cups. It's times like this that show certain people up for what they are - whiners.

I would of been happy an other season yes, the thing I was not happy with was that an 8th place finish and a Carling Cup did not represent a good return for 130 million quid wasted by an incompetent manager. I honestly think the best we could ever hope for as a football club now or any season is a top 6 finish, one of the domestic cups or a Europa League, this is being brutaly honest and living in the real world, this is why I cant understand a manager of our club giving Cup success up so easily without so much as a fight, these afterall are legitimate targets we can actualy compete for.

I am sure we could have finished 6th last season with one trophy. However, finishing 6th was no longer important after we won the league cup as we had already qualified for the league cup, thus a lot of players were no longer motivated. The target last year was top 4. But that is history, i can only hope that we can acheive something similar this year though highly unlikely, but you never know, BR might work out miracles once his system is understood.

I wasn't expecting a result here so no surprise we lost at Russia.

Spot on Bar. This was a side full of kids, geezers and, Kenny's reject buys. Personally, for what they were, I thought they played pretty well. It was a big Russian team full of quality players at Russia, and we narrowly lost 1-0 because of one mistake. That said, I actually thought that Cole, Downing, and Carra played pretty well today. Hendo and Shelvy were a bit blah, but Pacheco, Coady, and Suso were great. Pacheco had fight in him, chasing everything. Morgan wasn't bad either. His movement is good.

I saw the game as possibly the worst performance I've seen in 40-odd years, and granted it was a team filled by players who for the most part will not start for the first team this season, the fact remains it was [oops].

Once again BR makes it abundantly clear that he doesn't see Liverpool FC as a 'cup' side, which goes against everything we have breathed since the days of Shanks, and unless we have a miraculous league run we will see our trophy cabinet empty out this season.

I'll remain supportive, of course, but on a personal note, I really love the various cup comps, and lament his decision...

don' t agree about pacheco , he was never ( in the game) but not his fault

plus points:
coady
morgan
suso
flanagan

and for 44 minutes liverpool appeared to control game

negative:
henderson
downing
cole

His movement or his movements, either way the end result was sh1t

Morgan to me doesn't have it from what i have seen

His ball control is not the best and is way behind Owen and flower of that age

This comment gets on my t*ts. I don't understand why people say this sort of thing. Owen and Fowler were exceptions, not the rule. You're blessed if you have a striker coming through the ranks at 17 or 18 who bangs it in the net from left, right and centre. If a player doesn't do that from that young age, it doesn't automatically mean he's crap and isn't going to make it.