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Well those tactics worked yesterday, Hodgson got it spot on. Let Chelsea have the ball in defence and smother them in the middle. Some nice passing too. Meireles wasn't confined to the wing anyway so I don't see it as a problem.

It's true about Chelsea though, they are not as formidable as people like to make out. Their away record this season against decent teams:

Ajax (friendly) - Lost 3-1
Hamburg (friendly) - Lost 1-0
United (at Wembley) - Lost 3-1
City - Lost 1-0
Villa - Drew 0-0
Liverpool - Lost 2-0
 
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DagsJT said:
It was a superb assist by Kuyt to setup Torres.
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Yes, it was an excelente assist. But he has to play in the wings. Gerrard behind Torres, and Meireles partnering Lucas in the midfield.
With the formation Hodgson is actually playing, I think we are going to struggle against lower teams.
 
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so you think we should play an open 4-4-2 against the bigger teams, but play a cautious 4-5-1 agains the smaller teams?

based on what logic?
 
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Yeah it is an impressive stat. He kept it simple and held your shape together really well yesterday too.

I was looking at the chalkboards before, Tiote at Newcastle has only misplaced 20 all season!! That's out of nearly 350. Scholes has misplaced 36 out of 512 in the league. Astonishing all round.
 
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UJSupanova said:
so you think we should play an open 4-4-2 against the bigger teams, but play a cautious 4-5-1 agains the smaller teams?

based on what logic?
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Yesterday Kuyt played a sort of playmaker / attacking midfielder. He wasnt exactly a striker.
I think that with these players we should play a 4-5-1. It doesnt mean you are going to be more defensive, if Gerrard is going to play an advanced role, the wings are going to be offensive, Meireles is going to arrive from behind and Johnson is going to participate in the attacking then you got a pretty ofensive team.
 
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lucas isnt afraid to pass forward either, so are midfile spiltting passes.

good to see the lad actually getting some decent recognition now i feel he was an easy scapegoat before
 
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We really need to build on this win ...

Our next 14 matches are not too difficult on paper..
barring one away trip to Spurs....home to Everton...before we face Chelsea
at the Bridge...in February.

So I am hoping we get a lot of wins, going for it....not
being negative away from home...

If we can win 10 of those 14.....it will be great..
Let's see if we have really turned the corner.
 
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Wigan v Liverpool....

Hodgson has named an unchanged starting XI...

good to see Kelly keep his spot....good job Roy !

Come on...let's keep winning and going back up the table.
 
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Not sure if it will turn out to be true, however eveyrthing about Pepe points to him being an honest and decent guy so would expect it to be true. Take note Stevie and Fernando;

Liverpool goalkeeper Jose Reina insists he is fully committed to his long-term contract at the club and has not told manager Roy Hodgson he wishes to leave.

A report on Friday had suggested the Spain international, who signed a new six-year contract towards the end of last season, had expressed his desire to quit Anfield.

However, the 28-year-old has said this was untrue. "I have not told the manager that I wish to leave in January or at any time," he told liverpoolfc.tv. "It is important our fans know this. I have a long-term contract at the club and am fully committed to the club." Reina added: "I have seen a newspaper has made this suggestion. It is completely untrue."

Reina was happy to commit himself to the club after being impressed by owner John Henry's vision of the future.
However, New England Sports Ventures are going to have to back up some of their pledges with firm action in the coming months if they are to avoid to further speculation about their players being unhappy.

There were murmurings Reina was not entirely happy with some issues surrounding a change to his style of goalkeeping but his decision to publicly commit himself suggests those are not insurmountable. And after NESV's £300million takeover last month he is now satisfied the club is moving in the right direction after years of off-field uncertainty under the leadership of formers owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

"Our new owner met me and some of the other players last week and I was very happy with what he told me," said the Spain international. "The entire squad and staff are working very hard to get us back competing at the top of the table. We will not be distracted by inaccurate media speculation."

Speculation about his future increased in the week when comments appeared from the goalkeeper in which he claimed he would consider his position at the end of the season, which began poorly but has picked up in recent weeks.

When asked about it on Tuesday Hodgson shrugged it off, saying the player was entitled to assess his position.
"That's fair enough, what's wrong with that," he said. "He is an excellent goalkeeper and I hope he plays for Liverpool for years to come."
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Tbh I would rather give Kelly more time and have Johnson on the RW instead of Meireles. Depending on the opposition/formation you could swap between Lucas, Meireles and Kuyt, with Gerrard either playing CM or AM.
 
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As I said the last results were due to the positive things that generate a change of owners in the short term. Now, back to Roy ´s mediocrity.
Im going to see Juventus-Rome and realise how things could be drastically different if this guy wasnt our manager.
 
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I watched the first half...terrible....we were pinned back, had no attack.... Hodgson should be blamed
for the lack of attacking tactics...

Pellegrini has gone....Rijkaard is availabe I hear.
We need a revolution....from top to bottom..
 
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You just dont get it do you Roy ? Rafa was right, every press conference is even worst than the previous one. And you got to give credit to the lad for that, because his conferences are so harmful that you wonder, "is it possible to make even a worst one", and then the guy goes and does it again.
 
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I've just seen the statistics for Hodgson's away games in England (Blackburn, Fulham, Liverpool) and it's worse than i originally though.

P 105
W 13
D 35
L 57

That is a woeful record, for someone who is "up there with Alex Ferguson".
 
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"Fans make their frustrations felt every time we lose, but unfortunately they may have to do that a few more times, because I can't see us going through a season winning every game." - Roy Hodgson
 
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Misfit said:
"Fans make their frustrations felt every time we lose, but unfortunately they may have to do that a few more times, because I can't see us going through a season winning every game." - Roy Hodgson
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Come NESV, we are all waiting for you to do what should be done. This guy can not be part of our history any more. Everything has a limit. He has already shamed us enough.
 
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Hodgson's remarkable reasoning for why we conceded the first goal vs Stoke: "Their first goal was a bit unfortunate. If we had been less creative Pepe would have kicked the ball as far down field as he possibly could, not thrown it to Paul Konchesky."

Utter joke of a manager, he's complaining because we're not Stoke/Fulham and hoofing the ball at every chance.

Get the fuck out!
 
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DagsJT said:
Utter joke of a manager, he's complaining because we're not Stoke/Fulham and hoofing the ball at every chance.
Get the fuck out!
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Don't tell me that Liverpool played the most cultured football in the world under both Benitez and Houllier. Name me one cultured defender like for example Ashley Cole (and i really don't like him) that has played for Liverpool and was a regular.

You mention Stoke and Fulham as two teams playing similar football. Well, Stoke is typical kick and rush, but surely Fulham is not. I think they are trying to play very good passing football for years now, even when they were relegation battlers. Knowing you, i think you will see this as a provocation (which it isn't meant to be), but IMO Fulham have been playing better football than Liverpool since years. Of course Liverpool is the most successfull club of the the two and in the end that is what counts. "Good football'" is very subjective...
But don't say that Stoke and Fulham are similar teams...there is a world of difference between those two.
 
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