Liverpool vs Arsenal Sat 8th Feb 12.45 BTSport aka Bloodzeed

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Why are we scared of Liverpool and Utd? We are better than them in every department, excluding Suarez. We've shut him down before and can do it again. We have the best defenders in the country. We should go into both these games expecting to take 3 points. The table tells us this is a different season and a different mentality to previous years. The real challenges come against the chavs and the gypos, those will be tests. These next two games, what's the big deal? We've been beating teams like this all season. The earlier results against Utd was an epic fluke. A flu-ridden team against a fully fit opposition who play like they have flu, it evened things up. And they still needed our ex-player to shoulder one in, they had nothing of their own making on the pitch that was worth a mention.

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NQ full of positive spirit, what a man! :coffee:

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Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn

Why are we scared of Liverpool and Utd? We are better than them in every department, excluding Suarez. We've shut him down before and can do it again. We have the best defenders in the country. We should go into both these games expecting to take 3 points. The table tells us this is a different season and a different mentality to previous years. The real challenges come against the chavs and the gypos, those will be tests. These next two games, what's the big deal? We've been beating teams like this all season. The earlier results against Utd was an epic fluke. A flu-ridden team against a fully fit opposition who play like they have flu, it evened things up. And they still needed our ex-player to shoulder one in, they had nothing of their own making on the pitch that was worth a mention.

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We won't win either game despite being the better than them.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

We won't win either game despite being the better than them.

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Keep this up and I won't let you give the pre-match team talk.

As a Liverpool fan, I'm crapping it.

If Stevie has an off game in the deep midfield role he's been given this season, you guys could run rings around him.
Skrtel is a worry at times, and Kolo (after starting so well for us) looks like a school boy at times, just running around.
Cissokho is pretty solid defensively, but has no attacking threat (there you go Sagna). Was so bad vs Villa that they didn't even close him down when in possession and used that extra man to mark all his options.

Having said that, if we play like we did vs Everton we can win. If we play like we did vs WBA and Villa, you'll rip us apart.

If you had to chose, would you guys rather win this game or the FA Cup match?

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Originally Posted by Krishen

As a Liverpool fan, I'm crapping it.

If Stevie has an off game in the deep midfield role he's been given this season, you guys could run rings around him.
Skrtel is a worry at times, and Kolo (after starting so well for us) looks like a school boy at times, just running around.
Cissokho is pretty solid defensively, but has no attacking threat (there you go Sagna). Was so bad vs Villa that they didn't even close him down when in possession and used that extra man to mark all his options.

Having said that, if we play like we did vs Everton we can win. If we play like we did vs WBA and Villa, you'll rip us apart.

If you had to chose, would you guys rather win this game or the FA Cup match?

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PL anytime for me.

Has to be a win in this one if I were to choose, we likely won't be first if we don't win this one and we can't keep expecting to give that up and regain it. :lol:

I'm hoping Rosicky starts based on Gerrard playing deep because he is probably our most energetic midfielder (Ramsey would be the second if he weren't dead) and that's going to be a bit of a problem for Gerrard from now on on in his career. However the same could be said about Arteta when he has struggled to combat runners, though he did do it brilliantly against you at the Emirates.

Walcott could probably do a job containing him tbf.

Theo. :(

Rosicky is very difficult to live with when he is tapping it about in midfield, turning at speed and varying the play. I would play him at the expense of Wilshere....

I would consider letting Ozil play from deep. Liverpool's midfield will be hard working, but little else, unless Coutinho spends enough time there, so I would be happy for Ozil to play there.


---------------Sneezy---------------

Sagna----Merkyl-------KOS-----Gibbs

-------Arteta---------NEMO---------

OXO----------Rosicky--------Cazorla

-----------Olivier Giroud-------------

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Originally Posted by Krishen

Afternoon boys and girls!

Richard has kindly allowed me (a Liverpool fan!!) to join the forum.

I write for a website called The Tomkins Times, and each game we do a preview with stats, analysis, tactical analysis even gifs of past goals.
Part of the preview is asking the opposition fans their opinion of the up coming game and how much they think they will lose to us by :music:

Hopefully you guys will be able to help out!

Cheers

Krish

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Thanks for the preview. This is the preview from the above site of tomorrow's game which Krish has said we can post here.

http://www.goonersweb.co.uk/forum/pd...ArsPreview.pdf


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