Although losing against ManU made us sad, seeing Suarez scored against ManU at Old Trafford made that lost a bit bearable. However, we should be realistic. Someting does not work and it seems like it will not work under Kenny unfortunately. Criticizing Dalglish constructively is better than not criticize him. Nevertheless, Liverpool will NEVER walk alone. One more thing, Evra is a shame.
"poor poor poor!! dalglish i don'tknow why u insisted on plauing downing he's just not good enough henderson could of taken a back seat to in my book. Why not start bellamy and sub him for your beloved downing? Dalglish u are upseting me no transfers bad selection i mean when is the last year maxi played? WHATEVER!!!!!"
"another defeat to manure. forget cl spot and back to the drawing board. i think downing's time is up at lfc. pathetic player and not worth wearing the red shirt."
"Kenny needs to identify a strong first eleven for man u kind of a game. Play your strongest team first half. Downing and herderson had no business. Adam and Bellamy should have started. Suarez is a disapointment, should keep his cool and play.
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"Absolutely shocking performance. Defending all first half... No drive to push forward. Man United deserved the win because they wanted the game, we didn't, AT ALL.
Oh, and Downing was ing dreadful."
"spearing had a bad game, manu played well, nothing else to say, hope you won't start moaning , saying that we're a bad team because we lost at old crapord. s*** happens, i never thought this game would help us get top 4. the next one will surely be more important, keep on working lads"
"Am actually disappointed in Suarez regardless his reasons for not shaking hands it was a chance to put the whole episode to bed. Fair result in my eyes. Carroll needs to be starting every game."
"Not a good game for us.. No coherence in the field. ed off with Luis though... Liverpool is much bigger than that I am sure. Nothing to feel ashamed of. We played but not good enough. YNWA."
"Am actually disappointed in Suarez regardless his reasons for not shaking hands it was a chance to put the whole episode to bed. Fair result in my eyes. Carroll needs to be starting every game."
"kennys signings are rubbish and his team selection and tactics even more rubbish, henderson and downing what can you say? wish i was a football player and getting paid for doing naff all, deadwood thats a fact!"
"is spearing color blind? this is the second consecutive game he has passed more to the opposition. don't get me started on downing,why start with him? don't pick him EVER,my gran would have a better game than him. and kenny, why wait until the 60th minute to change?next game no downing or spearing and tell henderson to WAKE UP!"
"Frustrating, why not just start with reina jhonson skrtel agger enrique bellamy gerrard adam downing suarez carrol...
kuyt is to slow henderson just runs around does nothing."
"Frustrating, why not just start with reina jhonson skrtel agger enrique bellamy gerrard adam downing suarez carrol...
kuyt is to slow henderson just runs around does nothing."
"If that is all the energy and passion you can nuster against the mancs then you'd better believe you are not need at LFC you were all a disgrace today. The midfield may as well not been on the pitch and at one point I had to count to make should they were. Utterly Disgusting display against one of our biggest rivals"
"another awful match, 0 creativity, 0 awareness, pace??...dont know what midfield was doing playing near the defenders and yet again when going forward CROSSES.... players in the box or not, striker not well position, you will see CROSSES as if we are trying to beat the EPL all time crossing stats..."
"Why Why Why do we choose to back off and let them have the ball..we choose to be defensive when the game is there for the taking....dissapointed but not unexpected"
"Really disappointed! We played bad and create too little for bringing home something from this game. Ahead by this step 4th spot will be only a dream! YNWA"
"Poor once again. Only god knows how we only lost by one goal. No urgency, no quality. Felt sorry for Suarez today, no support from anyone, we were to busy parking the bus. Why are we not committing players forward and getting them in the box, not once did we do that when the ball was in play. I see no improvement on last year. Winning the Mickey mouse cup does not reflect improvement."
"And we are officially a mediocre team !!!! I am glad we still have the likes of Suarez, Jose, Skertl and Bellamy that kind of give us hopes for the future !!!! As for the rest, i have no words to say....."
"As a Liverpool supporter I was always aware that Liverpool always put there best team on the pitch all the time . Today the best team was not choosen , the players to make the difference didnt start and Kenny Dalglish is to blame for that. It was painfull to watch.
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"Firstly, I LOVE SUAREZ. Forget the fact he didn't shake his hand, I don't blame him. Secondly, why don't Liverpool players play with the amount of urgency they showed at the end all the way through matches? And thirdly. DOWNING! "
"poor performance,hope better next time,also that was RED card for ferdi i think,
the good point is our hard away games are over , chelsea and arsenal in home ,i hope we get top4 and bring some class players,else we can not,gerrard is alone in midfield. we need play maker this summer, maybe Aqua"
"a very poor performance+no fighting spirit.both goals conceded r caused by johnson for not marking rooney.after scoring 1 back,they have 10 mins to equalize but they chose not to put up a fight till 90 min n its too late by then. this shows kenny has no tactics and no fighting spirit "
"Suarez don't be sad, u have done no wrong! We need this type of atude in this team, that's make u so special! I could see the senior players are helping u, we will come back stronger! "
"Too bad ... let's keep our heads high and look towards the next game. Perhaps a bit of practice in order to get those crosses past the first defender. "
"TIGHT MATCH TODAY BUT ANOTHER DISAPPOINTING DISPALY PARTICULARILY FROM HENDERSON...WHAT ON EARTH??
EVRA NEEDS A BAN FOR ENCITEMENT AND WELL SAID KING KENNY AFTER MATCH REMARKS!! THE PRESS HAVE ALOT TO ANSWER FOR!!YNWA"
"Liverpool played well enough, but in football mistakes who lead for goals makes all the difference. Liverpool players mistaked twice in two minutes. Souarez took advantage on United defender mistake and scored. Johnson could score another and pity he didn't. "
"Kennys shi.te midfield...we can not win always by defending, can we Kenny ? Dwoning is total crap and being manager I would not want to see him. We were total shi.te..."
"The media is just the media and they trying to play into Evra's hand. Whether I wanbt to shake hands or not is up to the players. They are ashamed and instead of focusing on the game result. LFC "YNWA", no matter what."
"Carrol the worst signing ever in football history!!
But if we now are going to keep playing him the next 4 years i think that our wingers and fullbacks must improve their feets i havent seen many balls that have reach Andys head, if i should defend him a little bit! but for that money the club spend on him, a unproven player, its just crasy!"
"Cannot believe that a team can go to a match with such a defensive mindset. Pool didnt go there to play all. They deserve to lose and King Kenny should take the flak for poor tactics!"
"I see no improvement on last year, if anything we are weaker. One positive is we should be playing europe league next season, by winning the Mickey Mouse Cup. Because we certainly won't qualify through our league standing."
"About right, when you leave Bellamy on the bench and start Spearing and Downing, what do you expect? Spearing a waste of space yet again. Kenny got it all wrong, seriuosly worried"
"I am dying to hear the wisdom of Rushjob and Reasy after this debacle. Maybe the rest of us don't understand football and what we are watching is a master plan to lower expectations so that we can get used to mediocrity. What a shambles."
"The midfield took a half day thats why we are where we are at the end of the game gave up after conceding refusing to fight after getting one back i now agree Downing and Hendo are a waste of money and dont deserve 4th place or well get spanked in Europe"
"Where was the heart, where was the drive???? Give Eccleston, Sterling, Coady, Morgan, Ngoo, Silva, Suso a chance, why not, they can't do any worse than this crap"
"Just watched the mis-match and voted for my man of the match. So far in the voting Downing has received 2% of the votes????????? I went to my first match in 1954 and I can't remember seeing a less effective player than him with the possible two exceptions of Bruno Cherou and Jordon Henderson. Please get a grip Kenny."
"our midfielder lack of creating chances to our striker...pls king....really vry sad... :(..im crying er...wers our glory.....wether change te player or the manager....plssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss"
"we let lfc and suarez down. we lost the game at the start when daglish play downing and hendo. they don't have a clue how to play real football. Hope downing watch giggs play. don't blame spaering. it was the 2 above who killed lfc today. wht are they doing on the pitch. how does LFC staff train them."
"tired of so called fans. we win, everyone is like the best team in the world. we lose the answer is kk is a bad coach..just ask yourselves you mourners, how often do we beat united away? you rarely see that happening..we still have lots of games to go and we are playing well so keep it positive an stop acting like you know better than kk coz you dont..lfc will never walk alone."
"Maxi and Bella should have started rather than Downing and Henderson(both played poorly) . Two goals loss both are by mistake. But forward didn't do harm to Man U. Thanks good the score is not too ugly.
And Suarez's no shake hand wasn't good, but Evra celebrated near Suarez wasn't near good neither."
"Maxi and Bella should have started rather than Downing and Henderson(both played poorly) . Two goals loss both are by mistake. But forward didn't do harm to Man U. Thanks good the score is not too ugly.
And Suarez's no shake hand wasn't good, but Evra celebrated near Suarez wasn't near good neither."
"Maxi and Bella should have started rather than Downing and Henderson(both played poorly) . Two goals loss both are by mistake. But forward didn't do harm to Man U. Thanks good the score is not too ugly.
And Suarez's no shake hand wasn't good, but Evra celebrated near Suarez wasn't near good neither."
"Kenny should take a long hard look at his strategies for the team. That looked like a leaf off Roy Hodgson's book. No more blaming players. Management should admit when they've made mistakes. "
"Suarez made a disguisting start to the pre match handshake,he should have put that matter to bed..
United were top class no one can take that away from the way they played today..
Dalglish needs to sort his priorites now"
"Suarez made a disguisting start to the pre match handshake,he should have put that matter to bed..
United were top class no one can take that away from the way they played today..
Dalglish needs to sort his priorites now"
"I have supported LFC for nearly 50 years and this ranks as one of the most disappointing performances. Too many players just aren't good enough and Downing is the worst. Our midfield had no creativity or movement. Class always tells, we haven't enough of it."
"Stop Critisizing Henderson He Didn't Do Anything Wrong. I Understand Downing Though He Put No Effort In What So Ever. I Don't Know Weither He Was Just Told To Double Up On Valencia And Not Push Forward, Who Knows"
"Also Bellamy looked really narked at being sub. have noticed hat he is not the same player unless he starts. KD is going to demoralise one of our best players and Gerrard. "
"Maxi and Bella should have started rather than Downing and Henderson(both played poorly) . Two goals loss both are by mistake. But forward didn't do harm to Man U. Thanks good the score is not too ugly.
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"Was disappointed in Suarez today should of been more proffesional.our lack of quality in midfield is getting painful now!no width no pace now an average team! "
"It's UNBELIEVABLE to Kenny continues to play with ONLY ONE striker and let Bellamy on the bench. What a slow moving team it was, there was absolutely no tactics, every LFC players were playing just like those school boys.
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"Evra is officially the most hated player for me ...Little piece of te ..DIS FOR ME WAS THE WORST PERFORMANCE BY US....WORSE THAN BOLTONS....NO ATTACK NO ATTEMPT NO DESIRE...WITH REGRET HAVE TO SAY UNITED DESERVED THERE WIN....HENDO AND DOWNING...ON BENCH TILL SEASON ENDS....KENNY CHANGE YOU TACTIS..1 STRIKER UPFRONT IS DEFEAT.."
"Downing, Henderson, Kuyt, and Adam non of them can cross the ball! And if they cant do that then we dont need carrol! Buy good players not players that shine 2 months in a club for so much money!"
"It's time to move on and look at what life is like in the Championship as we face a Man Utd-less FA Cup fifth round against Brighton and back at Wembley against Cardiff. =D"
"Suarez was wrong not to shake hands. This isn't what LFC is supposed to be about. Shameful. Frankly I didn't really care if we lost after that incident, and I've never said that before in 57 years. "
"Downing must get sacked.. YNWA controversy got the better of us, if we concentrated properly we would of got something out of the game.. keep your head up get 3 points next game YNWA"
"Downing must get sacked.. YNWA controversy got the better of us, if we concentrated properly we would of got something out of the game.. keep your head up get 3 points next game YNWA"
"Downing must get sacked.. YNWA controversy got the better of us, if we concentrated properly we would of got something out of the game.. keep your head up get 3 points next game YNWA"
"Not a great performance today but Old Trafford is not an easy place to go & get a result. After the Bolton game the lads reacted really positively & I think Kenny will demand the same again. YNWA"
"Spearing was awful today, or jus how he norm is, just not good enough, an Gerard is not a CM , he is costing us, play him support striker behind suarez( what a champ), sterling is prob 3x as good as "England international" Downing (POOR)"
"i don't the liverpool 's shirt in white. With the white shirts on, we used to lose 5_0 to Man U many years ago. when the game started, i had a bad feeling about this.
Blame the shirts hahaha...."
"Glad to see KK got it right when he said we didn't need to sign a decent striker in the transfer window. It showed today, we were so fantastic up front, lol.
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"If today isnt a wake up call for us to sign quality forwards then idk what is. horrible showing. management should just own up to their mistakes of bying poor quality and over paying. sell them and move on "
"Poor performance. Should start carroll on the 1st half. And let maxi play instead of downing. Too many long ball during 1st half but no carroll. THus, KK please, do somthing."
"seein evra do that to suarez was poor!!, MAN U, I hate them< alright the team selection might have been poor, but we still played a great game, these games are always tough, even when we play our best team, its really who wants the win the most that decides these matches "
"At least there are no more premiership games of interest this month! Next 2 games will give us a chance to regroup, gain some confidence and attack the rest of the season. Europa league next season will give the youngsters a chance to blossom while the seniors step up in the league. At least the passion was there to be seen near the end. Miss lucas..."
"We were all over the place , No fluidity,No team work for the first time for ages. Best form of defense is attack we have the players, just too defensive today ."
"Who wrote this article cause it blows. Liverpool played to a stalemate in the first half, then where horrendous on the second.
Dear Pepe,
I'm sorry.
Signed,
Jay, Stuart, Jordan, and most of all for such a poor team selection, Kenny.
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"Dalglish lacks ideas.I just dont understand him.Henderson was not performing in the middle, instead of subbing him, he rather subbed Kuyt.Dalglish is not performing well, the truth is the truth, it cant be hidden.Dalglish must sit up.Liverpool was playing a retreating game instead of attacking.Agger was my man of the match.Evra.Evra showed maturity, shame on Suarez.
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"Dalglish lacks ideas.I just dont understand him.Henderson was not performing in the middle, instead of subbing him, he rather subbed Kuyt.Dalglish is not performing well, the truth is the truth, it cant be hidden.Dalglish must sit up.Liverpool was playing a retreating game instead of attacking.Agger was my man of the match.Evra.Evra showed maturity, shame on Suarez.
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"great 1st 10 minutes..great final 10 minutes..other 70..pure grabage. no attack at all. Hendo needs to play in the reserves to learn some offense...how do you spell totally useless? DOWNING..please KK..no more downing..he is gutless"
"I'm sorry, Suarez got it totally wrong today. Regardless of whether or not he is innocent, he made a serious error in judgement in saying what he did to Evra. His refusal to apologise and shake hands today is only ensuring this whole sorry affair continues to drag down our beloved club. What makes this worse is the amount of people who support his actions thereby feeding his continued pettiness"
"Suarez need to act more proffesional in which he did at the end when that evra s celebrated infront of him! But anyway glad he got a goal, theres a few player didnt deserve to wear the shirt, my patience is nearly gone for them and you know who they are and spearing is godly awful... Shelvey is way on top of him!"
"It's high time that Kenny steps down and bringing along Henderson, Johnson, Downing and Carroll with him. KK has shown his limits as a coach, he is just like Rafa, always saying that the team is progressing but no good results in the end. For the sake of LFC and true LFC fans KK must go."
"oNE More thing kenny better save the season than saving BELLAMAY...I AM NO manager but by seeing some of the best in the world..i think they would have done this...1)jHONSON THE BEST WINGER WE HAVE ON THE RIGHT WING 2) KELLY ON RB..HE DESERVES IT..3)BELLAMY,SUAREZ,ADAM ,JHONSON AND GERRARD BEHIND CARROLL..START THIS LINE REGULARLY,,,,LIKE HARRY DOES..SUB BELLAMY IN SECOND HALF(TO SAVE HIM).."
"Why just give Downing the sack need to give Henderson and Spearing the sack to and maybe need to think about a new manger as Dalgish has no new idea's "
"New signins at the start of the season ,you always look to see who will be great and who will fail miserably . I give you Cheyrou , Biscan , Diao,Poulson , all ,we were told great talent. Not so im afraid, this season read Downing , Henderson , Spearing. D.Camolli hand your head in shame! With the aception of Spearing hes are own fault."
"lets get real here if we win the carling cup, + its a big if, it is just papering over the cracks. lfc, supposedly one of the biggest clubs in the world, in last 3 seasons 7th 6th + 7th in the league. simply unacceptable 4 our club. theres no progress being made. sad but true !"
"Couldn't watch the first 60 min. But when I saw the lineup changed from the previous matches, and that too with Henderson in Bellamy out, it was clear to me we were not winning this match. Came back home after 60 min, and I wasn't surprised. Henderson is not ready to play for LFC, yet. Why he gets a start in these big matches ahead of Adam and Bellamy is beyond me!!!"
"Thought Suarez was a disgrace today.It's not what Liverpool fc is about, we have more class than that sort of behavior.The same players are not producIng, you all know who they are.We're still in transitIon though and Kenny must add four or more quality players over the next two seasons, then we will be able to challenge. Look at spurs, they took time to develop the squad they have now.Y.N.W.A"
"How dare that bulbous-nosed, alcohol-drenched, thick-headed Cee-yew-en-tee say Suarez should never play for Liverpool again just coz he didn't wanna shake hands!!!!"
"Spearing was responsible for the defeat. Otherwise 1-1 was a fair result. Please stop criticizing Suarez for not shaking hand with Evra. This is something personal between these two players and nobody should poke his nose in this. Evra cheated and lied then he wants to shake hands, pathetic!"
"We does not played well. Lost the midfield. Lack of support to lonely suarez. A few players shouldn't have start. Sad to lose the game. Man u celebration is so un professional. YNWA. Better luck and player selection next time."
"I really do not mind losing to a team of Man United's calibre playing away from home. The issue is the manner the team set out to play and the tactics in place. There was no passion, no fight and hardly a string of more than five passes without giving the ball away. Surely our manager must stop praising and using players who seem to be afraid of the opposition. "
"Again the criticising of Dalglish appears from the "armchair" supporters who are singing his praises one week and then the next week saying that he should be out of the job. It's simple you stick with your team (the players and the manager) win or lose. YNWA"
"Let's face it, we were completely outclassed in the second half. Compare Valencia with Downing, or Scholes (at 37) with Henderson. Stevie G is stil not right, though he shouldn't have to play so deep.
We need Lucas back, a creative midfielder and a winger with pace who can cross. Then maybe Big Andy can show why we bought him."
"Total rubbish i must say, i knew we were not going to get anything out of the match and i dont know what downing is doing,. again why didn't suarez shake the hand of evra and just play football, where is the discipline ...shame to the whole player"
"Scoreline flattered us, didn't even try and win. About the Suarez issue - I don't see why everyone's getting involved, he's our player, we will deal with him. Kenny was right to back him, but should have a word with him in private. No need for the public to get involved, Evra was as bad. Chin up, step it up lads"
"I love Luis's football but his decision not to shake hands was bad for his personal image and that of our club. It plays into the hands of Evra and the anti-LFC press coverage.
After a controlled first half, the red mist after the half time nonesense meant we lost it."
"PS Downing is a joke. May as well be a man down, cannot get involved and just loses the ball when he touches it. Preferred Vorinin, where's Maxi? Summer splash needed; pace + crossing ability REQUIRED"
"DHolla15, I think we should not be a yoyo team and thus why most people question the manger's ability to lead us back to where we belong. One week we play brilliantly with good tactics and the next game we throw all that away and that is really really frustrating matey."
"10 wins from 25 league games is not Liverpool fc! these players are simply not good enough to wear red shirt : kuyt, adam, henderson, spearing, shelvey.downing. we are no longer top 4 contenders. we are leveling out at 6th or 7th every season now. something needs to be done quickly"
"Before the game started I posted that hendo & downing should show their worth, and they did. They are both WORTHLESS.
Better team won on the day.
YNWA"
"Deep in the season and Kenny still doesn't know what his best 11 is. Poor game manager: too slow to take off players who aren't contributing. Downing's worst performance yet. Henderson also very poor. What does Kenny have against Jonjo?"
"I just don't know why we continue playing Stewart Downing. Oh My, he was poor, and so was Henderson and Jay Spearing. We lost this game in the centre of the park. Our midfield was so, so poor. It's unbelievable. "
"When Cantona kung fu kick a crystal palace fan wasn't he a disgrace then?
Well shut your pie hole Fergie.All my lfc brothers and sisters do not get upset about the outcome of the match, we made a mistake and we conceded the second goal,we kick them out of the F.A cup just remember that.We need to work on scoring from corners and defending it."
"last week KK said that "goals will come", he was just fooling all of us by saying this, he was just giving us bad hopes and we all believed in him but goals will never come because he can't expect that Suarez will score lots of goals by playing absolutely alone ahead."
"Dalglish wake up and smell the coffee - Downing is RUBBISH how many more abject games are you going to let him play before you realise this?? Its time to blood some of the youngsters just like you did last year! Where is Maxi a proven goal scorer???"
"We were absolutely poor today and deservedly lost. Midfield needs some serious sorting out. Anyways, whatever happened has happened, we now need to stand by Suarez as I see a hordes of critics & media piling it on our man. YNWA!"
"You my friend are short sighted and stupidly biased . In the whole big scheme of things we need this ugly problem to go away.We want the football to do the talking. .If you want this to drag on that's your business, but's it's detrimental to the club and our reputation around the world."
"We lost but 2-1 not a bad result. KK make 2 big mistake. 1st. Johnson as dfender. Kelly do well againts MU in F.A Cup> why not use him once again. 2nd. Use Spearing to fight tallers MU players, carrick n scoles. Adam is right options. Mu goal mistake by spearing n Johnson..KK out..we need intelegent manager.."
"Kelly do very well vs MU in F.a cup..why not use him once again. 2 goal mistake by johnson n spearing..KK out..please..KK just a legend for us but not a great manager"
"Poor tactics once again. Even the man supporters I watched the game with were surprised by our line up. Sometimes it's better to swallow your pride and accept a situation for what it is, that goes for Kenny and Luiz. "
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