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[quote author=Kenny_G link=topic=325403.msg4583561#msg4583561 date=1253526423]hi all
gr8 result on sat only downside is the scum winning thx to ref again!
Personally i dont think the problem is zonal marking or man-man, afterall we scored from a set-piece agaisnt w/ham who opted to go man for man, the problem is whatever system u deploy if the players dont do their jobs u will leak goals; and over time we have seen that when properly deployed liverpool have conceded less goals so lets hope we get it right soon.
I think supporters ought to cut Lucas some slack, he is a young man but one i really like especially for his mentality. The guy GETS slated by his fans and at his age one would have forgiven him for hidding, instead the lad stepped up didnt allow the criticism to affect him and is always asking/demanding for the ball, that to me is a mark of a great player,

While we miss Alonso's mastery on the ball, i think overall we will do better without him because he hardly scored goals, and b4 i get slated for blasphemy; just imagine what would have happended if we got barry last year, for the stats, barry has scored at least 9 goals every season in the last 3 years, alonso's record is 3-3-2 i.e. less that what barry scores in a season,[/quote]well said , but I dont agree with the Alonso part. also I saw nothing wrong in going for Barry at that time. Alonso was injury prone and his best season for liverpool was his last.

Manchester is only big enough for one team at the moment.
Go City!

I'm expecting a Mayweather vs Pacman fight in the near future.

Tocdee, exactly my thoughts on Zonal marking. Our problems from set pieces only started last season.

Jakumo:
We're not here to count bridges.
You know that's a fact

Here comes a fat cat
posing in his Mercedes Benz

I'll lock and load my gat
And we'll see where this all ends

Pull over my friend, or woe betide
'Cause I'm in no mood for joking

You sit there in your cool ride
While I stand in the sun smoking

Is that cash in your trunk ?
Well you know what that means, don't you

I'm taking a fat cut, and don't give me no bunk
The last guy who said no, dropped dead with a thunk

To the winner go the spoils
And your money is mine with no toils

Play it smart and cool, and you just might get home
Play it dumb and hard, and they'll never find your bones

Sgt. Dongoyaro Abubakar Mumuuuni

yes.

although I thought she wan not the year she won. but she looks HOT right now.

Jairzinho:
bgees,don't join these unnecessarily aggressve Goners & MANURE,I expressed my opinion on zonal marking & u were just all over the place. we conceeded goals against Aston Villa cos of this as well. Its very simple,Sauron has explained how teams defend set-pieces,i needn't say more.

Nice win guys,but enough of zonal markin experiment. . . remember how another experiment-'Rotation' cost us 2 seasons of serious EPL challenge?

Stop saying it as if it is a bad thing. Zonal marking has its advantages.


And I knew it was going to be tough. Insua surely wants to keep his place now that Aurelio is back, he had a good match. but we still have not gotten there. we need improvement.

That Hines guy was great , but thank God he got tired.

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.

OK. i take my insultive words back. sorry.

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

@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.

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.


[quote author=~Sauron~ link=topic=325403.msg4575864#msg4575864 date=1253381609]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.

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

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.

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 .

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

YNWA!

Yobo's football age is 29. Add 5 to it to get his real age. So 34 could be true.

I'm so envious right now.

both are overrated.

it is cheaper to keep her .

Tastee Fried Vulture(TFV)

@user above me,

u crazy pass me.

Sure it was difficult. Debrecen don't look like pushovers afterall. But I still think it is as result of playing Gerrard deep in the midfield. Perhaps, if Masch had started and Gerrard had resumed his forward partnershp with Torres ,it would have been different.

I hope we win this tournament, its been so long since the Miracle of Istanbul.

Y. N. W. A!

Eduardo should better dive when he sees a certain Axel Witsel . this guy made the most wicked tackles i ever seen.

Babel should play today.

jigga! i'd like to be jay z. the money, the cars and Beyonce!

his jokes are too childish.

Burnley are nothing really, so we still need to beat stronger teams to prove a point.


the end of the Carlsberg era, maybe the new sponsors will bring us on-field success.

where are those Lucas' haterz? I swear if anyone disses the guy again. i will e-shoot that person. i get e-gun and it works.

on a serious note, Lucas did well on saturday, hopefully he can continue like that and we can keep beating the 'small teams easily like we did Stoke and now  Burnley. if we continue like this, then i say we have improved.