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Kaka11|LFC · 13-09-2008, 01:07 PM

grrr if Skrtel had stayed on his feet he would have had a great chance to block Tevez's shot, why isn't Agger there

DannyB · 13-09-2008, 01:08 PM

I though Agger was injured

Maybe Rafa prefers Skrtel...

Portland1 · 13-09-2008, 02:45 PM

agger is fit. but skrtel has been playing this year.

great game from liverpool. Keep that up. Riera looks to be a fantastic signing thus far.

hopefully now the utd fans will **** off.

now maybe they will realize that their team is useless without Cristiano Ronaldo. And we've shown that we can win without Torres and Gerrard.

MaschPotato · 13-09-2008, 02:48 PM

what game eh lads, no stevie and torres but we were more than match for them today will be funy to see fergusons we desrved to win speech

suggs · 13-09-2008, 02:50 PM

Ole Ole Ole Ole Ole Ole Get In There Lads

, Champions of europe.......MY lalala

AnfieldG8 · 13-09-2008, 02:52 PM

ooohhh this is so sweet, just as they thought they were knocking Liverpool off its perch then BAM, 0 points against Liverpool, thanx for playing, better luck next time chumps

ViVaRooney · 13-09-2008, 02:53 PM

well done you scums

You can thank Brown and Giggs

MaschPotato · 13-09-2008, 02:54 PM

no we can thank our team for battering you. how can you STILL be bitter

we were the better side get over it

ViVaRooney · 13-09-2008, 02:55 PM

sorry VDS not brown

MaschPotato · 13-09-2008, 02:55 PM

Riera looked great today lets hope he'#s consistent and he be brilliant for us this season

lvrpl4life · 13-09-2008, 02:55 PM

WHAT...A...GAME!!!

Let's assess our performance.

Reina - Didn't have to do much but when he did he stepped up
Arbeloa - Finally getting down the wings and showing us what he can do
Carragher - Rock. End of
Skrtel - Anothing outstanding perfomance
Aurelio - Like Arbeloa, using the wings to his full advantage

Benayoun - What can I say? Weaving runs, sharp passes. Solid performance
Alonso - HE'S BACK

Mascherano - Beast. Bossed the midfield. Just hope the injury isn't serious
Riera - What a debut. Skill, runs and passes. Perfect signing

Kuyt - Workhorse. Really showed why Rafa has faith in him
Keane - Gave for the cause. Just hope he builds his confidence while he isn't scoring

Gerrard - Did what he could in the time he had
Babel - Super sub once again!!!

When we conceded I thought ****...with Rooney, Tevez AND Berbatov I thought we were gonna have a tough game but after the first 10-15 mins we were outstanding. I was so proud watching our perfomance. Passion, grit, determination. Everything you need to play the big guns.

It's really hard to say who the best player for United was though, as they were all pretty shocking. (Especially Vidic/Brown) I would have to say Van Der Sar after his howler he made a couple of decent saves to keep the score down.

Oh and btw...WHO THE **** IS WAYNE ROONEY??? England's best talent my ****.

I challenge ANY United fan to contradict me here, and say how we cheated or how they SHOULD have won the game when to be perfectly honest...they shouldn't.

YNWA

SIM89 · 13-09-2008, 02:56 PM

Well played, you deserved to win......we played s***. Yeah your goals came from silly mistakes by us, but theres no denying that you were the better side so fair play. Im very dissapointed, hope we can get back on form soon.

kdot92 · 13-09-2008, 03:00 PM

Kind of like the Zenit game, they wanted it more, we just got outplayed second half today.

AnfieldG8 · 13-09-2008, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by SIM89

Well played, you deserved to win......we played s***. Yeah your goals came from silly mistakes by us, but theres no denying that you were the better side so fair play. Im very dissapointed, hope we can get back on form soon.

why cant all man u fans be like this guy.

lvrpl4life · 13-09-2008, 03:16 PM

Hats of to him ^^^

Scouser_Dave · 13-09-2008, 03:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SIM89

Well played, you deserved to win......we played s***. Yeah your goals came from silly mistakes by us, but theres no denying that you were the better side so fair play. Im very dissapointed, hope we can get back on form soon.

Top man SIM

SIM89 · 13-09-2008, 03:22 PM

lol strange thread for me to be getting praise in

. Im protective over my team but like i said, theres no point in lying about it. You deserved to win and it's as simple as that. When we scored in the 1st few mins I thought I was about to be in for a great game. Sadly, it all changed

.

Hopefully we can do what we did last year though and come back from a dissapointing start!!

Anima Flux · 13-09-2008, 03:37 PM

Riera looks really promising, may be lucky we didn't get Gareth Barry, because if we did we probably wouldn't have signed Riera.

Good solid performance, great debut for the guy. Hopefully he can keep it up.

After the performance of the whole team today, I think we can see signs of a title contending team, strong in every area, hopefully this will draw a close to the "you can't win without Torres & Gerrard" comments. Alonso looks like he's back on form, Mascherano is just a midfield road block, Kuyt, does this guy ever stop running?

Hopefully we can keep this tempo up. Didn't start well at the beginning of the season but managed to pick up the points we need, but today we shown signs of the team we can be, and the pace we can have. Only way is up from here.

FreshGeeza · 13-09-2008, 03:46 PM

Reira was fantastic against United, a huge danger! I think he'll be a big help for Liverpool this year

Cracking game of football and i agree that Liverpool did deserve to win the game, United went onto play poorly again

I know that ole Alex will rip them into shreds and get them into gear for Chelski although we are Vidic-less

Scouser_Dave · 13-09-2008, 04:27 PM

RAFA: I AM SO PROUD OF MY TEAM
Joe Curran 13 September 2008

Rafael Benitez today declared Liverpool's momentous victory over Manchester United as something the whole team can be proud of.

The Reds went down to a Carlos Tevez goal early on in the match but rallied to produce their best performance of the season and record a first league win over Alex Ferguson's side in over four years.

Benitez paid tribute to his players after the match and was happy with the amount of character his charges showed to come from behind and take the points.

"I think today is a game we can be really satisfied with because we were losing against a very good team," said Benitez. "But we showed character and played very well in the second half, so this was very positive.

"The team showed a lot of character after conceding an early goal. I was really disappointed when they scored so early because I wanted a high tempo from the start. They were passing the ball and keeping possession, so we needed to change a lot of things. I think it was really important to have chances and to improve a lot in the second half."

There were many stand-out performances during the match, but the Liverpool manager focused on the whole team and said: "Today you could see a lot of players working really hard, especially the strikers Dirk Kuyt and Robbie Keane, who were doing amazing work up front, and also Albert Riera in his first game played well – he is a lucky man.

"Physically he was not ready but we needed to use his ability. And after we used Steven Gerrard, he did well too. I can talk about a lot of players - Ryan Babel was really good too, but I think the overall play of the team was good."

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson admitted that his team couldn't cope with Liverpool's tackling and harassing in midfield.

Benitez agreed, saying: "In the last two years, I can remember that they were happy waiting and just playing on the counter-attaclalalalail we make mistakes," added Benitez. "And today was more or less the same situation. When you have players with the quality of Berbatov, Tevez or Rooney in front, sometimes they just need to wait and if we make a mistake they will kill us off.

"We didn't make many mistakes today. We can always improve and do things better, but the team played well.

"One thing that we needed to improve was our results against the top sides so now we have three points and we are in a better position than last season. We now have more wins against the top four so hopefully it will be the same against Chelsea and Arsenal. Everton is also another difficult game for us."

Scouser_Dave · 13-09-2008, 04:34 PM

kdot92 · 13-09-2008, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Scouser_Dave

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Lol, Carragher surprises all with a mystery pair of new arms

Galatasaray · 13-09-2008, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by kdot92

Lol, Carragher surprises all with a mystery pair of new arms

who's that behind him?

kdot92 · 13-09-2008, 04:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Galatasaray

who's that behind him?

Have no idea but what a time to take a picture, whoever took it couldnt of meant to take that.

Dan · 13-09-2008, 05:55 PM

Why didn't Riera knock the ball in from Brown's og?.. He could've got a debut goal..

I was really surprised at how poor the Manc's were though, after they scored they just didn't seem to play.. Great result, shows what we always knew, we get a bit of width and we can play fantastically.. Hats off to the whole team, can't fault any of them..

13-09-2008, 01:07 PM	#5476 (permalink)
Kaka11\|LFC Elite Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 9,072	grrr if Skrtel had stayed on his feet he would have had a great chance to block Tevez's shot, why isn't Agger there __________________ MODERN WARFARE 2

13-09-2008, 01:08 PM	#5477 (permalink)
DannyB EA Veteran Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Burscough Age: 15 Gender: Male Posts: 23,286 Blog Entries: 9	I though Agger was injured Maybe Rafa prefers Skrtel... __________________

13-09-2008, 02:50 PM	#5480 (permalink)
suggs Elite Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 5,451	Ole Ole Ole Ole Ole Ole Get In There Lads, Champions of europe.......MY lalala __________________ "If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later." Bob Paisley

13-09-2008, 02:52 PM	#5481 (permalink)
AnfieldG8 Forum Junkie Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Brisbane, Australia Age: 18 Gender: Male Posts: 4,724 Blog Entries: 2	ooohhh this is so sweet, just as they thought they were knocking Liverpool off its perch then BAM, 0 points against Liverpool, thanx for playing, better luck next time chumps __________________ Please Support Australia's World Cup Bid and Sign Up: http://www.australia2018-2022.com.au/ En Rafa Confiamos!

13-09-2008, 02:53 PM	#5482 (permalink)
ViVaRooney EA Veteran Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: doing assignment Gender: Male Posts: 11,461	well done you scums You can thank Brown and Giggs __________________ Last League Match (A) - 0-1 /ref

13-09-2008, 02:45 PM	#5478 (permalink)
Portland1 Forum Regular Join Date: May 2008 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 526	agger is fit. but skrtel has been playing this year. great game from liverpool. Keep that up. Riera looks to be a fantastic signing thus far. hopefully now the utd fans will **** off. now maybe they will realize that their team is useless without Cristiano Ronaldo. And we've shown that we can win without Torres and Gerrard.

13-09-2008, 02:48 PM	#5479 (permalink)
MaschPotato EA Veteran Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 19 Gender: Male Posts: 15,457	what game eh lads, no stevie and torres but we were more than match for them today will be funy to see fergusons we desrved to win speech

13-09-2008, 02:54 PM	#5483 (permalink)
MaschPotato EA Veteran Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 19 Gender: Male Posts: 15,457	no we can thank our team for battering you. how can you STILL be bitter we were the better side get over it

13-09-2008, 02:55 PM	#5484 (permalink)
ViVaRooney EA Veteran Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: doing assignment Gender: Male Posts: 11,461	sorry VDS not brown __________________ Last League Match (A) - 0-1 /ref

13-09-2008, 02:55 PM	#5485 (permalink)
MaschPotato EA Veteran Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 19 Gender: Male Posts: 15,457	Riera looked great today lets hope he'#s consistent and he be brilliant for us this season

13-09-2008, 02:55 PM	#5486 (permalink)
lvrpl4life Forum Guru Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England Age: 21 Posts: 1,846	WHAT...A...GAME!!! Let's assess our performance. Reina - Didn't have to do much but when he did he stepped up Arbeloa - Finally getting down the wings and showing us what he can do Carragher - Rock. End of Skrtel - Anothing outstanding perfomance Aurelio - Like Arbeloa, using the wings to his full advantage Benayoun - What can I say? Weaving runs, sharp passes. Solid performance Alonso - HE'S BACK Mascherano - Beast. Bossed the midfield. Just hope the injury isn't serious Riera - What a debut. Skill, runs and passes. Perfect signing Kuyt - Workhorse. Really showed why Rafa has faith in him Keane - Gave for the cause. Just hope he builds his confidence while he isn't scoring Gerrard - Did what he could in the time he had Babel - Super sub once again!!! When we conceded I thought **...with Rooney, Tevez AND Berbatov I thought we were gonna have a tough game but after the first 10-15 mins we were outstanding. I was so proud watching our perfomance. Passion, grit, determination. Everything you need to play the big guns. It's really hard to say who the best player for United was though, as they were all pretty shocking. (Especially Vidic/Brown) I would have to say Van Der Sar after his howler he made a couple of decent saves to keep the score down. Oh and btw...WHO THE IS WAYNE ROONEY??? England's best talent my **. I challenge ANY United fan to contradict me here, and say how we cheated or how they SHOULD have won the game when to be perfectly honest...they shouldn't. YNWA __________________

13-09-2008, 02:56 PM	#5487 (permalink)
SIM89 Forum Junkie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK, England Gender: Male Posts: 2,726	Well played, you deserved to win......we played s***. Yeah your goals came from silly mistakes by us, but theres no denying that you were the better side so fair play. Im very dissapointed, hope we can get back on form soon. __________________

13-09-2008, 03:00 PM	#5488 (permalink)
kdot92 Banned Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: My house...where else would i be? Gender: Male Posts: 3,054	Kind of like the Zenit game, they wanted it more, we just got outplayed second half today.

13-09-2008, 03:16 PM	#5490 (permalink)
lvrpl4life Forum Guru Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: England Age: 21 Posts: 1,846	Hats of to him ^^^ __________________

13-09-2008, 03:22 PM	#5492 (permalink)
SIM89 Forum Junkie Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: UK, England Gender: Male Posts: 2,726	lol strange thread for me to be getting praise in . Im protective over my team but like i said, theres no point in lying about it. You deserved to win and it's as simple as that. When we scored in the 1st few mins I thought I was about to be in for a great game. Sadly, it all changed . Hopefully we can do what we did last year though and come back from a dissapointing start!! __________________

13-09-2008, 03:37 PM	#5493 (permalink)
Anima Flux Elite Join Date: May 2008 Location: Wales Age: 22 Gender: Male Posts: 5,938	Riera looks really promising, may be lucky we didn't get Gareth Barry, because if we did we probably wouldn't have signed Riera. Good solid performance, great debut for the guy. Hopefully he can keep it up. After the performance of the whole team today, I think we can see signs of a title contending team, strong in every area, hopefully this will draw a close to the "you can't win without Torres & Gerrard" comments. Alonso looks like he's back on form, Mascherano is just a midfield road block, Kuyt, does this guy ever stop running? Hopefully we can keep this tempo up. Didn't start well at the beginning of the season but managed to pick up the points we need, but today we shown signs of the team we can be, and the pace we can have. Only way is up from here. __________________

13-09-2008, 03:46 PM	#5494 (permalink)
FreshGeeza EA Veteran Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Greater Manchester Age: 26 Gender: Male Posts: 11,994 Blog Entries: 2	Reira was fantastic against United, a huge danger! I think he'll be a big help for Liverpool this year Cracking game of football and i agree that Liverpool did deserve to win the game, United went onto play poorly again I know that ole Alex will rip them into shreds and get them into gear for Chelski although we are Vidic-less __________________

13-09-2008, 04:27 PM	#5495 (permalink)
Scouser_Dave EA Veteran Join Date: Jan 2008 Age: 25 Posts: 13,930	RAFA: I AM SO PROUD OF MY TEAM Joe Curran 13 September 2008 Rafael Benitez today declared Liverpool's momentous victory over Manchester United as something the whole team can be proud of. The Reds went down to a Carlos Tevez goal early on in the match but rallied to produce their best performance of the season and record a first league win over Alex Ferguson's side in over four years. Benitez paid tribute to his players after the match and was happy with the amount of character his charges showed to come from behind and take the points. "I think today is a game we can be really satisfied with because we were losing against a very good team," said Benitez. "But we showed character and played very well in the second half, so this was very positive. "The team showed a lot of character after conceding an early goal. I was really disappointed when they scored so early because I wanted a high tempo from the start. They were passing the ball and keeping possession, so we needed to change a lot of things. I think it was really important to have chances and to improve a lot in the second half." There were many stand-out performances during the match, but the Liverpool manager focused on the whole team and said: "Today you could see a lot of players working really hard, especially the strikers Dirk Kuyt and Robbie Keane, who were doing amazing work up front, and also Albert Riera in his first game played well – he is a lucky man. "Physically he was not ready but we needed to use his ability. And after we used Steven Gerrard, he did well too. I can talk about a lot of players - Ryan Babel was really good too, but I think the overall play of the team was good." Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson admitted that his team couldn't cope with Liverpool's tackling and harassing in midfield. Benitez agreed, saying: "In the last two years, I can remember that they were happy waiting and just playing on the counter-attaclalalalail we make mistakes," added Benitez. "And today was more or less the same situation. When you have players with the quality of Berbatov, Tevez or Rooney in front, sometimes they just need to wait and if we make a mistake they will kill us off. "We didn't make many mistakes today. We can always improve and do things better, but the team played well. "One thing that we needed to improve was our results against the top sides so now we have three points and we are in a better position than last season. We now have more wins against the top four so hopefully it will be the same against Chelsea and Arsenal. Everton is also another difficult game for us."

13-09-2008, 04:34 PM	#5496 (permalink)
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13-09-2008, 05:55 PM	#5500 (permalink)
Dan EA Veteran Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: England... Martin Skrtel does not sleep, he waits.. Age: 17 Gender: Male Posts: 12,640 Blog Entries: 2	Why didn't Riera knock the ball in from Brown's og?.. He could've got a debut goal.. I was really surprised at how poor the Manc's were though, after they scored they just didn't seem to play.. Great result, shows what we always knew, we get a bit of width and we can play fantastically.. Hats off to the whole team, can't fault any of them.. __________________