Comments on: Liverpool Focus On CL… Title Is Between United and Chelsea

By: suhayl

suhayl — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:18:11 +0000

Ballack is spot on……..chelsea have proved that they can compete with injury ravaged teams and squads and fight on 3 or 4 fronts come the spring. And ofcourse WE utd have done that for 2 decades fighting on 4 fronts or 3 fronts right till the end. Dealing with injuries..and playing the squad game. As for the dippers facts are they can only concentarte on 1 cup at a time. Hence why they’re always out of 3 by xmas. Hence concentrate on 1 egg.

They havent got the squad and pedigree to compete and 3 fronts. and 1 injury to gerrard and torres..and that really it. And as denton daveuy said…that 2 month lucky spell you had…with last ditch wins, flukey scabs, v 10 men, dodgy deflections, jammy smash and grabs and daylight robberies surely cannot carry on.

Ballack for the first time was spot on

By: Skittles

Skittles — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:35:23 +0000

Messi is and has been one of the most over-rated players i’ve seen in the past few years. Playing on a declining Barca team who are struggling to keep up with Madrid, its no wonder people think he look good because of the crap players and manager he’s playing with! What has he won…. Absolutely Nothing! He scores a few good goals here an everyone things he’s God, Ronaldo scored genius goals week in and week out last season and our rivals are just too bitter to say that he’s the best so they try to push someone else to say they’re better than Ronaldo but i’m sorry Ronaldo has been by far and away the best player of the last year!!!

By: OTRed

OTRed — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:03:36 +0000

@Malice: its always their year for the past 18years, which is why they have 35titles by now, oh wait…

By: phillyb

phillyb — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:42:43 +0000

Yep, liverpool seem to have more players on their books then any of the other three big four. But yet their squad seems paper thin.

And if its not kuyt, gerrard or torres on the score sheet u lose. I honestly cant think of another consistent goal scorer that they have.

Please dont say robbie keane, hes a bottler of forlan proportions.

By: dickson

dickson — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:18:10 +0000

Any team would suffer if they’re missing their main players. Having said that, the back up quality for liverpool are much much worse off when compared to us and Chelski- that’s just the fact,

By: malice_mizer

malice_mizer — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:54:58 +0000

its their year.( roll eyes )..

By: Haakon

Haakon — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:39:26 +0000

Fat-Rafa will concentrate both on Champions League and the Premiership, no doubt about that. However, if you want to win them both you gotta rotate your squad. Funny thing is that Benitez have recived so much critism for his rotation policy, so when he rest Torres or Gerrard, and their nobodies mess up (El-Zhar, Xiki, Wiki, Robbie Keane or whoever), fans will be all over him again for his rotation policy. Even though it’s required to compete for both titles.

They wont be able to handle the amount of matches, because they lack in-depth quality squad players (yes, like Fletcher, Park, Evans, Anderson, Tevez). And I’ve even taken out of the equation that Keane, Kuyt and Arbeloa not exactly fits my definition of Champions quality.

Nor won’t the Scouse bastards handle the pressure during squeky-bum-time (even though I doubt they’ll be up there come April) because they haven’t been up there since they won in 90-91 – not even close (they were ~10 points off the winner the only time in the history of the Premiership that they finished 2nd).

Ballack is just stating the obvious.

By: gingerprince

gingerprince — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:01:30 +0000

redman why don’t you go and fuck off on the liverpool boards …people might believe you there

By: denton davey

denton davey — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:50:44 +0000

Jockewe: what goes around, comes around. Usually these lucky, last minute victories/draws turn out to be compensated for when luck turns.

That said, this year’s version of LiverPoo is much better than expected – the addition of Keane, Riera, and the growing maturation of Babel seems to have given them much more offensive capacity. Their defence is very well organized and very, very well protected by Alonso and Mascherano – their problems emerge when these first-choice guys miss games.

It’s a long season – sometimes a team gets buried under an avalanche of injuries, sometimes not. You just can’t predict these things but based on past performance it would seem that Liverpoo’s fast start will come a-cropper in the cold, blustery days of the new year. At least that’s the view of a UTD-optimist – how else can I take solace from the crappy start to this season ?

By: jockewe

jockewe — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:20:40 +0000

would this man united side drop points att home to fulham? i don’t think so. liverpool can’t be lucky all season long, winning in the last minutes against mediocre opposition(City, Middlesbrough, Standard Liege, Wigan, Portsmouth, Man Utd(playing their worst football for some time).

i can’t see liverpool winning the league, they just don’t have the quality in their team.