"PATHETIC - 5 man defense what a joke - played right into chelseas hand - we will get hammered. The only way to beat chelsea is to attack them.Even Torres will get his first goal against us today"
"Oh my god what hell is this coward formation and what hell are carra and widsom doing here 4-4-1-2 sterling & suarez upfront dont feel this formation no"
"Skrtel is ill so dont worry no injury thank god, dont blame the 5 man defence with the way chelsea have been playing ut we run the risk of inviting alot of pressure on us so we HAVE to score first"
"Wow all negative AGAIN fro LFC fan. I love this club and have faith in Rodgers. YNWA is what we say but this looks very devidid. Come on you reds. YNWA "
"Team looks weak and we are playing a formation we are not used to. Looks to be only one winner today and that team isnt us. I assume Skirtel is injured ,if not Rodgers is taking one massive gamble. I think LFC have got into a habit of not winning and its an absolute shame."
"for people complaining. its not a 5 man defense its a 3 man defense with 2 wing backs. this lets johnson get forward a lot more than he usually is able to. johnson is going to be key today."
"The 5 defenders is probably to allow Johnson and Enrique to get forward down the flanks freely, without having to worry about getting out of position. If that is the case then Sterling will be a bit more central too, proper partnership with Suarez, cant wait!!
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"Good line-up, but disappointed for the injury to Martin Skrtel and for Shelvey withdrawn from the bench. Jonjo could be a further weapon to our strikeforce... 3-5-2 looks anyway a good line-up! Best of luck for the game lads! Come on you mighty Reds! YNWA"
"Fed up of reading people's comments on here writing us off before it even starts because they don't have a clue.. Either get behind the team and BR or go and support someone else, I bet if we win the same people will comment saying how good the tactics were!! I for one will support the team no matter what YNWA come on the reds!!"
"C'mon guys, have a little faith. We're playing a team with quite a bit of attacking power and our best defender is out. We're looking to control the ball and hopefully get one on the break. You can't expect us to attack for 90 minutes against Chelsea"
"well thats a suprise! not sure bout Carra against a fast and tricky chelsea line of hazard mata and oscar hope he can keep up but I like the formation of 5-3-2 but where is Skrtel? Hope he isn't injured! keeping my fingers crossed, go out and do your best lads! YNWA "
"PEOPLE WHO ARE POSITIVE.. ARE YOU STUPID? WHAT ARE SUPPORTING?? WE ARE LIVERPOOL AND PLEASE DONT LET YOURSELF TO LIVE IB THE FAIRYTALE, WE GONNA KICKED DOWN"
"As much as you want to moan, remember last time we played this formation against chelsea, torres' debut? he was sh*t we won, think it through, although, where IS skrtel? "
"Its only a 5man defense when we are defending, it will become a 3man defense when we attack, can people stop complaining before a ball is even kicked! My only gripe is Cole on the bench, he offers nothing!"
"I Really hope that Liverpool beat Chelsea today and I think WE will by the way and SHUT ALL YOU NEGATIVE SUPPORTERS UP that are questioning BR's team selection? YNWA REDS"
"Strong lineup, it will be a game to watch. Good luck to the lads today, they are the underdogs so keep that in mind and enjoy watching them. If they come away with a point we can be very happy."
"didn't Kenny use the same formation away at Chelsea and get us 3 points..?
show some faith people, Enrique and Johnson could prove to be the key to 3 points today!!
YNWA"
"Ridiculous comments. A 5 man defence is great in this situation. Normally this would be very defensive, but we got two very pacey full backs with tons of stamina who'll act as wing backs. They'll add a lot to the attack. You guys are always crying about getting Cavani, his team plays the same way and get goals. They could even play wisdom on the right and have johnson stay forward if they want to."
"It's more of a 5 man midfield than defence, with us playing 3 centre backs. Having Johnson and Enrique gives us more men in the middle of the park, which we need to stop oscar, mata and hazard. If torres is isolated he isn't much threat. Hoping Suarez and Sterling embarrass Chelsea's defence today"
"sorry everyone but just not confident at all about the result today. does anyone really believe we will win ? be made up with a draw. sorry for being negative but also think im being reolistic"
"All you haters on here why dont you stop posting on here stop watching liverpool and go put your 'wonderfull' support to good use at purple noses mob. to true reds YNWA"
"Talk about glass half empty.. How about our formation is 3-5-2 when we attack and we're playing 2 up top? We played this under Kenny and beat them at the bridge last year. Complain then? Probably. Complain after? Didn't think so. Chin up and support."
"You don't need to worry about carra, this is the type of game he craves and there is nobody who will know Torres better, just watch Jamie put him body between Torres and the goal, and for all the negativity before kick off get a grip YNWA JFT96
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"SouthAfricanScouser, of course Carra ahead of Coates! did you see his last game? slow and clumsy, misjudging headers and tackles...Carra is still a better defender and needed more in the big games when we are missing either Skrtel or Agger."
"Everyone is saying that this is a negative formation, but with Enrique and Johnson being the overlapping wingbacks, I think its the complete opposite. Come on you reds! Get behind the team "
"might be 5 at the back on paper but since when has glen stayed at the back pretty happy with the set up come on you redmen only down for me is would have liked assaidi from the start but in br i trust"
"Ha, we haven't even kicked a ball for the game yet & the -ve elements are already out. We have some WORLD CLASS players, but are NOT a WORLD CLASS team; Chelsea unfortunately are. This is supposed to be a LFC 'supporters' site, that means the management, the players & the club are supported, simples."
"For heaven's sake play Johnson on the right wing in a 4 man midfield ,please !Put Wisdom behind him or he will be run over like the last match against Swansea."
"... All you haters.. Get behind the team for once. I've been waiting for rodgers to play 5-3-2 or 3-5-2 whatever you Call it. Remember how Well the team played in that formation when KK deployed it in hos first few games back in charge? This is excactly how chelsea should be played!"
"The more I read negative comments of people like Milan1960 and his cohorts the more I think there should be an age or intelligence criteria to hinder such negativity. Chelsea play 5 in the middle with one spear head. 3 times we've played them with a back 3 and 2 wingbacks and won. Today is no different. We either play 3 at the back with a midfield 5 of Johnno plays as a wide man"
"i have got a bad feeling about today but thats the best line we have got ..so lets get behind the team whatever happens then let it happen..YNWA..bring it chelsea"
"To all these clowns slating LFC and Brendan Rodgers- 'if' we do happen to win, make sure you're on these boards after the game ging and moaning. Not even kicked off yet- unbelievable....."
"ChampionsOfEurope - We have 2 world class players the rest are average including Allen. Being a supporter is not all about accepting everything that is presented to us. Our team has gone backwards from last year & that was a c**p year. "
"If we think the manager is wrong we should be allowed to say so & as true supporters we will continue to say so because we dont want to watch this mediocre performances week in week out!"
"Milan1960, there is constructive criticism and then blind ignorance on footballing tactics. Now that the game has started and everyone can see that we are matching Chelsea's line up with 3 at the back and 5 in midfield, what would you have done differently with the players available to BR? Anyone who knows anything about the game will tell you we have a better chance of winning playing this way"
"TLCsKOP hope you're right about the result but I've been watching the reds for 40 years now & this is one of the worst squads we've had and I have NO faith in BR - lets see what the result is at the end shall we?"
"why do sum people on here think if sum fans are slightly negative with ther comments they are not true fans ? wot a load of crap !!! are we happy being 13th in the table with 2 wins from 11 games ? sum fans are negative with reason to be so or shall we just say nice things and pretend wer top of the league with a world class team ? get real !!!!!!!!!!!"
"Milan1960, you have defined exactly what I said in my comment. You're clearly only a supporter when we're at the peak of world football, but offer no support when we're not. You're lack of footballing knowledge is breathtaking! PS If you actually care to read my earlier comment, I said we have SOME WORLD CLASS players (2 is SOME). Go follow someone else please!"
"5-4-1 formation.Excellent choice by BR.We need to be flexible with our plays.We shouldn't just be sticking to the 4-3-3 which seriously does not work for us.Keep it up BR...this is what i call progress"
"ChampionsOfEurope - I think your the one with a total lack of Football knowledge.
A supporter will criticise the team & manager when they are playing poorly - I support LFC & have done for 40 years I dont support individual players & managers. I suppose you think after 28 mins we're the better team??"
"these are desperate times. we are relegation candidates !!! we have gone from bad last season to even worse this season. dont give me this crap about BR rebuilding the team is virtually the same as last year. so why are we even worse ??"
"malloy1991 because BR thinks he's the next Messi.
He wont drop him because that will be admitting that hes wasted £15 mill when he already had a better player Suso not bought by himself, but then ChampionsOfEurope would disagree with us and say we know nothing!"
"still think with the right players in january we can get results but allen needs to be dropped cant wait for lucas's return as allen's confidencehas dipped badly get him off bring assaidi on and re shuffle come on you reds fight back"
"Milan1960, given our current team-sheet, which wasn't BR's fault, I think we're playing & doing pretty damn well. I would also like to see us fighting for the le, but unfortunately I'm quite realistic & just hope we can finish mid-table until the new team & philosophy kick-in. Why don't we just sack every manager after 4 months & see how that goes. Sheesh!"
"Had enough to be honest, there not intersted in attacking, Gerrard was in a good place to attack but instead when backwards, no ambition this team, Rodgers philoshopy stinks, wake up fsg and sort it out, do you not care were a laughing stock? pathetic owners."
"redrob2005 - wish I could be as optimistic as you. Unfortunately with BR incharge the RIGHT players wont come - they want to be playing champs league, Looking at BR's purchases so far I dont think he'll go for the RIGHT players.
And BR will absolutely not DROP Allen"
"ChampionsOfEurope - I've seen nothing to make me believe that under BR we will move forward. Not when he refuses to drop Allen despite the number of poor games that he has had - players like Suso come in play better but are still overlooked by him in favour of Allen"
"mo, as it has already been said on this thread a number of times, skrtel is ill, and of course i expected hundreds of pessimsts on here moaning as usual. the squad is poor, but its what we've got at the mo, no-one on bench or in reserves is better than whats out there. get over it, as long as we get at least 13th this year then we can build for next year."
"We seem to pass the ball very well but no cutting edge. Allen could do better if he decides to turn around when ever he has the ball as he seems to pass backward all the time and has lost the ball trice and all proving dangerous. Come on boys claim one point or three here!"
"These owners have a lot to answer for im telling ya, every season they let us down with a pathetic manager and giving them money to buy rubbish, cant stand these yanks be glad when they sell up and off, they'll destroy this club you watch and see, its already taking its place ;)"
"ChampionsOfEurope - dont quiet understand by what you mean when you say "given our current team-sheet, which wasn't BR's fault" Just who picked the team his WIFE?? He chose Allen over Suso NO ONE ELSE!"
"ChampionsOfEurope - dont quiet understand by what you mean when you say "given our current team-sheet, which wasn't BR's fault" Just who picked the team his WIFE?? He chose Allen over Suso NO ONE ELSE!"
"Milan1960, surprised at your 'nothing to believe' comment. Would Sterling, Suso, Wisdom, Shelvey, etc. been playing if not for BR. We all know what mess we're in as a club, BR's trying to do something about it, it takes time, wont be achieved overnight & IMHO is in a better direction than last season."
"suso and assaidi on for 2nd half allen should defo come off and maybe sahin come on buck get them going and lets see more runs into the box come on you reds"
"Yes Allen is playing poor but we don't have another defensive midfielder, Suso is good but he is not a defensive midfielder. We need Lucas back so Allen can be pushed into the creative position and Gerrard can be pushed forward. And we need a forward in Jan really bad."
"Milan1960, if BR chooses Suso over Allen, are we then world beaters, championship contenders, feared throughout the game?? Be realistic & show an ounce of patience, you must have done so in your 40 years of support as some time."
"Im all for sacking him for not getting results, just like the owners did with Dalglish, do the club a favour and get rid of Rodgers and tell him to take his boring football with him, were on your back and we will all season cos your a pathetic manager."
"At this rate nobody will want to join in Jan. To be compeive this club needs about 200 mil invested and our poor owners will never do it, fact is this is our club now so terrible. Even the expansion on Anfield will be too small, sure 80,000 90,000 LFC fans would show up weekly. At least we would now maybe not in 5years when were in the championship"
"dont you just love the doom and gloom comments on here we all knew that its gonna take time to implement the style of play and also get the right players in so sorry i couldn't get to the game at least i wouldn't be reading the doom comments on here !!!"
"Dalglish had a year and a half in charge and spent over 100million. Rodgers has had 4 months and spent less than a quater of that. If Rodgers does go, what manager would we have then?"
"ChampionsOfEurope - you're enled to your opinion & for the sake of LFC I hope that you're right - unfortunately I and many others dont see a bright future with BR in charge."
"redrob2005 - finally, a Liverpool fan comments. So much deluded negativity on here. It appears if we're not winning every game LFC are not worth supporting, but deserve slating."
"Milan1960, I too don't see a bright future at this particular point, but its only been a very short time, with some very poor transfer activity; I'm at least willing to give BR a chance (at least 2 seasons)."
"its a crap performance, they deserve all this negativty and more, they give us fans no faith week in week out, its like we dont care about winning, already looking forward to Rafa coming back wont last long Rodgers."
"Milan1960, I'd be willing to take your argument wholeheartedly if you could tell me which manager of a club has transformed an average team into premiership contenders in less than 6 months?"
"ChampionsOfEurope - It will take more than picking Suso over Allen to be world beaters - But we WOULD be more attacking & would be more of a threat or do you disagree? seeing Allen loose the ball again! "
"champions of europe been reading ur dialogue with milan 1960. you say its not BR fault with the players he has avaliable to him but in my opinion he has made us even worse than last season. the statistics show that !! sure we play nice neat football but we did under KD. there is no end product to our build up play. im not saying sack BR but results have got to improve + fast. "
"ChampionsOfEurope - cant afford to give BR 2 seasons unless you want to be playing in the championship & see Suarez leave to join the Mancs or Chelski"
"Milan1960, Redknapp had a much more talented team than we have to challenge for the league. I agree Suso would give a better attacking option, but who would sit infront of the back 4 (or 3 in this game)? Also, agree Allen is having a mare, but don't all players go through that."
"brucealmighty, totally agree "have got to improve + fast", but how do you propose that with the current squad? The players available to BR: Downing, Henderson, Cole, thankfully he's not putting them on a starting line-up (he never bought them)."
"ChampionsOfEurope - I think you're the one showing a lack of knowledge - Spurs were bottom - Redknapp took the squad and played to their strengths a brought in a couple of EXPERIENCED players - complete opposite of what BR has done & is doing OR AM I WRONG????"
"Milan1960, what's your point? Redknapp took a good squad & played to their strengths. BR did not take over a good squad & was not given money to buy experienced players."
"Milan1960 are you watching mate? Carra is useless, the selection is negative and all what nots. Belief and true YNWA GRIT. Despite all the complaints this team has played for the badge. 1-1 game on!"
"Champions of europe my point is I answered your question & I quote "if you could tell me which manager of a club has transformed an average team into premiership contenders in less than 6 months?" When Redknapp took over Spurs were an average team & he got them challenging for europe - BR will NOT do the same"
"Milan1960, you're now making less sense than before. Redknapp's squad was GOOD when he took over, BR's was not & is still not, but I still offer them support. I have no inclination to discuss this with you further. I can accept the position we are in, but will still support my team when we're struggling (even when we're 1-1 with the Champion League winners!!)."
"TLCsKOP - of course Im watching - Carra wasnt picked for his attacking abilities was he? Where was he for the chelsea goal? Suso comes on and immeadiately gives us a more attacking opption unfortunately BR is not man enough to take off Allen who has been rubbish all day! OR AM I WRONG?"
"ChampionsOfEurope - the spurs squad were that good that they were bottom of the prem - that makes complete sense I can see why you have total faith in BR"
"Well that was a Brilliant result despite BR's total lack of courage to drop Allen & to pick a more attacking line up to go for the win from the start. Next week Wigan WILL BR go for the win or will we loose to another bottom of the table team????"
"Jose Enrique definately Man of the match. Well played Redmen, you proved all the prophets of doom who had predicted that we would be beaten wrong. Shame on the doubters. In THE LFC DREAM WE BELIEVE"
"What an awful manager we have, 1-1 with a threadbare team against the Champion League winners in their own back yard...could I have said it more sarcastically. Well done BR & team, you're doing great with what you have."
"Luis Enrique well done! That's the best I've seen you play in ages. Stevie you played great as well. Luis Suarez great. All the boys played much better in the second half. Well done lads. "
"Allen is a tidy little sideways passer but keeps getting caught in possession and not strong enough to hold off a challenge.A draw is a decent result away against Chelsea. Enrique was excellent today. "
"Milan1960 not dissimilar to you I have been watching the Reds play for perhaps slightly longer than you have. Allen had to play there was no other option as he was the only player in our thin squad who could play the Lucas role. Suso is not defensive in nature. It certainly wasn't the comments of fans on this site that made BR bring Suso on. Give the man some credit PLEASE!!"
"Milan1960, hammered? Give credit to LFC for the way they dug in hard and earned the point! Carra put in a first class performance in shutting out Torres, Laying on the goal for Suarez, Enrique too for a brilliant, hard shift! YNWA"
"Poetic supporters talking e again. When will u ever be true red fans?well done BR and team. Just look at the depth of cfc to ours and admit that was a fantastic result."
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