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Gianfranco Zola's West Ham side will hope his side can find the net against a strong Liverpool defence.
West Ham, who have now failed to score in their last two Premier League matches, will host Liverpool looking for their first victory since opening day against Wolverhampton.Zola will feel a bit unlucky to have lost against Wigan (1-0) in a very even match, but will know his side's struggles in front of goal are largely to blame for their run of hard luck.Zavon Hines replaced Luis Jimenez in attack for West Ham against Wigan in an attempt to shake things up, however, the striker was unable to leave his impression on the match and could find his way to the bench again ahead of the match with Liverpool.Matthew Upton has been a rock in defence for both club and country in recent weeks. He will undoubtedly be called upon, yet again, to put in a big performance against Liverpool.Equally important for West Ham, will be the effectiveness of Carlton Cole, who has the strength to trouble the Liverpool back line, but will need to start producing goals if West Ham are to turn things around.West Ham remained dangerously close to the relegation zone after the defeat to Wigan and they have to show a massive improvement if they want to stop Liverpool from taking all the points from Upton Park.



Liverpool enter Saturday's match with West Ham after a mediocre 1-0 victory over Debrecen in the Champions League on Wednesday.Dirk Kuyt made it two goals in his last two games as he scored the only goal of the match on the stroke of half-time.Liverpool dominated the match from start to stop, although wasteful finishing nearly gave a poor Debrecen side a way back late in the game.Yossi Benayoun was Rafa Benitez's best player, again, after scoring a hat-trick against Burnley on Saturday. The Israeli midfielder has been playing inspirational football and providing a real element of creativity to Liverpool's attack in recent weeks.Fabio Aurelio returned to the bench for Benitez following a knee injury and came on in the dying moments of the game. Aurelio could be considered to start against West Ham, although Emiliano Insua, who has been good in the Brazilian's absence, may be given the confidence again.Javier Macherano was rested for most of the match and is likely to return to face his former club, while Fernando Torres will be hoping to re-discover his finishing touch.

we will have to on our toes for this one. we can win.

YNWA!

Go you Reds! Put them to the sword! I hope we'll take at least a quarter of the chances created.

liverpool we 4erver not walk alone.i am a die hard liverpool fan searching for true anfield faithfuls especially chicks.

fck Pool
although u guys should win by a slim margin tho

fck Benitez

Well, torres is my FPL captain and i need him to score a hattrick! What more can i say?

HItv's showing this one.

@Borat
Torres won't score today 'cos of you.

Liverpool is shyte.

Selling Alonso was the greatest mistake you guys made.
Another trophyless season like 'em gaynners awaits.

FERNANDO TORRRRREEEESS!!! See how hard that goal was!! Brilliant!

0-1 Lifapull

Penalty for Westham. Carragher is an agbaya. he should know better than that

1-1. Damanti slips, falls and still scores.

GERRARDKUYT!! 1-2

Wey all these liverpool guys sef?

haha. Cole rises from between 2 defenders to head it in for West ham.

2-2 45th minute. Interesting game. 4 goals in the 1st half. . .

It's 2 -2 .
Not sure the Reds will be able to hold West ham,

Their defence is crap!

rafa needs to stop these zonal marking on set pieces. . . the man like experimenting too much 1 why can't we just place people at the posts & man mark the rest?
2:2

BlueDiva:

Liverpool is shyte.

Selling Alonso was the greatest mistake you guys made.
Another trophyless season like 'em gaynners awaits.

it is obvious u know nothing about what u saying, so i suggest u shut up .

I can't wait to see a rejuvenated west ham side in the next 45mins.Apart from chelsea ,the other ''big four'' are just write offs.

what is really zonal marking . Cole scores from a corner and u have started screaming zonal marking. do u really understand zonal marking? W hat if zonal marking really works best?



our central defence has been bad so far, they need to sharpen up. johnson has to improve defensively.

and great goal from El nino  and he needs to score may be 3 more.

Carragher has looked rather sloppy IMO.

bgees:

what is really zonal marking . Cole scores from a corner and u have started screaming zonal marking. do u really understand zonal marking? W hat if zonal marking really works best?

It doesn't. . . . . . .The defending team is better off marking the posts rather than marking players or marking the zone.
9 out of 10 times, headers scored from set-pieces are always close to the posts so if you put a man on each post, they will just clear the ball.
Rafa Benitez is an idiot for sticking to the zonal marking schitzo. . . . . .This is the reason why he will not win the EPL title.

our central defence has been bad so far, they need to sharpen up. johnson has to improve defensively.

Carragher should retire. Hines has raped him times without number today.

and great goal from El nino  and he needs to score may be 3 more.

Brilliant effort from El Nino.

bgees:

it is obvious u know nothing about what u saying, so i suggest u shut up .

being a fan should not equal being delusional.
Selling Alonso and buying Aquilani has made liverpool a weaker team. It is obvious that Lucas is not as good as Alonso, and Aquilani is yet to play his first game.

biina:

being a fan should not equal being delusional.
Selling Alonso and buying Aquilani has made liverpool a weaker team. It is obvious that Lucas is not as good as Alonso, and Aquilani is yet to play his first game.

we tried as much as we could to keep Alonso. he wanted to leave. so we had no choice. so selling him was not what we wanted. so we made no mistakes. Aquilani will be fit soon,I'm sure he will make u shut the Bleep up.

~Sauron~:

It doesn't. . . . . . .The defending team is better off marking the posts rather than marking players or marking the zone.
9 out of 10 times, headers scored from set-pieces are always close to the posts so if you put a man on each post, they will just clear the ball.
Rafa Benitez is an idiot for sticking to the zonal marking schitzo. . . . . .This is the reason why he will not win the EPL title.

.

we dont do zonal marking everytime we playe. knee jerkers blame zonal marking everythime we let in a goal from a corner.

Westham is leading in every department of the game .

bgees:

we tried as much as we could to keep Alonso. he wanted to leave. so we had no choice. so selling him was not what we wanted. so we made no mistakes. Aquilani will be fit soon,I'm sure he will make u shut the Bleep up.

Rafa tried to sell him the previous summer and for two summer pursued Barry. The die has been cast since then. Alonso was going to leave at the first quality offer that came.
Even when fit, Aquilanni is not of the same quality of Alonso. He is a 25yr old that still showing potential and is yet to deliver on his promise.

we dont do zonal marking everytime we playe. knee jerkers blame zonal marking everythime we let in a goal from a corner.

Rafa is a strong proponent of zonal marking (even from his days as a youth coach in Madrid), and Liverpool plays Zonal defence on all wide set pieces and corner kicks.

bgees:

we dont do zonal marking everytime we playe. knee jerkers blame zonal marking everythime we let in a goal from a corner.

Liverpool have been doing zonal marking everytime they are defending a set-piece.
They form a bank of two when defending instead of marking opponents and putting a man on each post.
Liverpool concede more goals from set-pieces than any of the teams in the TOP FOUR.

It is obvious u know nothing about what u saying, so i suggest u shut up

I woulda being surprised if your retarded brain said something different.
Even Benitez admits that Alonso will be greatly missed.
Next time keep your bleeping comments to yourself.

being a fan should not equal being delusional.
Selling Alonso and buying Aquilani has made liverpool a weaker team. It is obvious that Lucas is not as good as Alonso, and Aquilani is yet to play his first game

Intelligent man.

TORRRESSSS!!!  Good Header. Nice work from Babel.

2-3 Liverpool!

@Bluediva,

yes, we are missing alonso. he wanted to leave, not like we just sold me out. so there was no mistake made selling him. thats where u got it wrong, thats where u expressed the cow in u.

GOAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and no more mistakes.

we need to get more goals, westham can hit us back.

bgees:

we need to get more goals, westham can hit us back.

The Hammers are tired.
Half of the team are battling with cramps and Scott Parker is a donkey!!!

~Sauron~:

The Hammers are tired.

Yeah. . . was just goin to say that. they`re running on fumes right now. Used up too much energy fighting back 2ce

yes, we are missing alonso. he wanted to leave, not like we just sold me out. so there was no mistake made selling him. thats where u got it wrong, thats where u expressed the cow in u.

Fine, i respect your opinion.

But telling me to shut up and i don't know what i'm saying?
Highly disrespectful, I won't take that.

BlueDiva:

Fine, i respect your opinion.

But telling me to shut up and i don't know what i'm saying?
Highly disrespectful, I won't take that.

Listen, woman!! You will do as you are told!!

abeg i dey play o!! make u shoot me