REdNET (#REdGEM) update...
LIVERPOOL 2 (VVD , Mo) lesser mancs zero
before the game....
English Premier League
1 Liverpool 21 games 61points
2 mancity 23 - 48
3 leicester 21- 45
4 chelski 23 - 40
5 man u 22 - 34
6 wolves 23 - 34
catch up with our previous SUPPORTERS CLUB LOG...
next up is our "favourite enemy" ... (another win at spurs , thanks to "the Firm")
rivals???? this video may help the uninformed..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbj9U8HLAe4&t=1528s
and now they are somewhere in between, currently back in the "top six" ... but there is too much hype in the game.. and I agree with Jk.....
(as some Lfc fan nies s/ fsg clones start planning celebrations for the title)
.....just enjoy each game as it comes...! and SUPPORT!
and I really do WANT to enjoy the next one...
LIVERPOOL v manu
ANFIELD Jan 19, #20 16.30h uk .... 17.30h ce.t.
preview; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz2n1afvz7Y
Jk seems to want the team to "control" games (like Rafa did)
now, perhaps because of the heavry schedule in winter, but
I would like , having had a week to prepare, to see the REdS absolutely batter the mancs, sunday and do likewise when going to the blue mancs later in the season, after they stole 3 points which arguably cost our title last season.
take not from my 2018 SUPPORTERS club Log (ScLOg link)
the humility needs to be taken on board at TAW too :) some players got caught on the ball, and i think the momentum just faded a tad at spurs, but another week in preparation hopefully will result in a well overdue battering of the mancs next sunday...
JK pre match;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDKEjDMC624
too many games? Jk , NO one cares, the media dont care, theS ..who may want to follow (if they arerich enough) and read the comments below, ost of the fans dont care either, only about their team.. as usual there isnt any law, there is no justice anywhere (take Hillsborough when the idiots want us to "hush up" when WE KNOW who is guilty.... ) or the environment, until a "tsunami" wipes out YOUR home, u do nothing, u drive your cares, fly everywhere in polluting jets and dump your waste... and the fascisTORIES get voted in again by the sheeple..
mainSCREAMedia (sport-life..etc blah blah);
edited by C.R.S..almost resisting cutting ALL the c ra p out of this sh&te.but sure its a deby with the mancs and the REdS must be 200% ready..
SL> " often a bland cliché, that form goes out of the window on derby day, but if the 1-1 draw at mold Trafford is anything to go by then the North-West derby conforms to this more than most. Liverpool and man u are separated by 27 points in the Premier League table and yet it would be unwise to write off solskjaer’s side.
For starters, Liverpool may again play the rivalry and play the badge, rather than recognise the huge tactical and technical chasm between the two sides this season. But more significantly, JK will probably once again be fearful (?) of the sheer amount of pace man u have on both flanks. (!) man u are deeply flawed, and yet in many ways they are precisely the sort of team that can cause the league-leaders problems – and possibly even end their unbeaten record. (!!!!!) Throughout his time as permanent manager solskjaer has focused far too heavily on speed, failing to give detailed tactical instructions for when utd are faced with deep-lying opponents. It’s why they so often fall flat when forced to hog possession only to come alive when allowed to sit deep and counter-attack. man u have won 14 points from eight games against the Big Six (plus leicester city), a record that has suddenly worsened after defeats to arsenal and citehn the last fortnight.
Liverpool would be wise, then, to show caution, particularly given the importance of their full-backs bombing forward in Klopp’s 4-3-3. Throughout the campaign so far they have managed to avoid looking vulnerable despite Robboand Trent practically playing as wingers, leaving just two centre-backs and a defensive midfielder to shepherd an entire half of the pitch. devils a danger on the break?
Fabinho’s absence (?) this weekend puts their defensive strength in doubt, as does the form of rashford, martial, and greenwood, three players with a brilliant sense of how and when to pierce down the wings. The most significant tactical battle of this game is the result of its inevitable wider pattern; as Liverpool dominate the ball, probing for a gap in solskjaer’s sturdy defence, utd will wait for the chance to break at speed behind the hosts’ full-backs. The plan could easily work, especially if fred performs as well as he did in the 2-1 win at the etihad in December, a game that closely resembles how Sunday’s clash could turn out. blue mancs held 72% possession but were exposed on the counter thanks to superb displays from fred and mcTominay, who not only kept debruyne and silva quiet but sharply instigated break-aways with sharp forward passing" (and won with a debatable pen, and a soft goal and conceded a corner...hmmm)
" Players like fred are much better when utd’s shape is naturally more compressed – in other words, pinned in their own third – because an absence of detailed coaching from solskjaer can otherwise leave the central midfielders with too much ground to cover. Roles are simplified and minds are focused by Big Six clashes and United’s easily recognisable game-plan: soak up pressure and sprint down the wings.
But Liverpool remain favourites, of course, and certainly in front of the Kop would expect their constant pressure to eventually lead to goals. The mismatch in key battlegrounds would certainly suggest man utd fans should be more worried than their rivals.
williams has deputised well at left-back but the very selection of a young and inexperienced player in this role reflects solskjaer’s lack of options. His positional play, from a defensive standpoint, has caused some problems in recent weeks and Mo Salah will expect to find joy running directly at the 19-year-old. By contrast, bissaka is a brick wall and the league’s best tackler; (?) Sadio MANe will have to change up his game to get the better of the england international.(?) " (if MANe plays at anything close to his "usual" self he will rip them to shreds)
Hosts should dominate in midfield
To return to the midfield battle, Liverpool should have the telling advantage irrespective of fred’s talent. mcTominay is a huge miss, while in their 2-1 win at the etihad lingard performed admirably as a number ten who could sew the lines between a deep blockade and a counter-attacking front three. lingard missed the 4-0 win over Norwich through illness, and even if he is fully recovered by this weekend may not be in the right head space. Rumours of impending departure have only grown "
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" Consequently, GINI, Hendo, and OX should be able to swarm and unsettle man u enough to shut down those breaks at source. That Liverpool have conceded just one goal in their last 11 matches in all competitions is as much to do with the complexity and tenacity of Klopp’s midfield as it is VVD’s work at the back.And yet, and yet. solskjaer has only played Klopp twice as a manager, drawing both. This fixture has a habit of throwing up surprises, from the 1-1 back in October to the peculiar 0-0 draw in February of the 2018/19 season that dented Liverpool’s momentum and ultimately proved utd to be a title-denying result. (??? the fake win by citeh cost the league) ..The pace in the utd attack could be a serious problem should Liverpool over-stretch themselves in search of a winning goal. BUT..Liverpool have shown nerves of steel."
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JK needs to prepare this game better than previous derbies, a battering of the "lesser mancs" is well over due..lets Do them and shut up wan kers like the ones featured on this prog... (not you Kellly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vWDECGCs1c have a terrible weekend mancs// LIVERPOOL need to start strong have the whole stadium up for it, and demolish the mancs.. if Fab is FULLY fit then....
AB
Joe VVD
Trent Fab Robbo
Hendo Gini
"the Firm"
MANe
Mo ....
last game (inside video) spurs 0 LIVERPOOL 1 (Firm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHIPjsCJvpM
anal ysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEPoUfdTBYY
too much dependence on "stats" by modern "pundits" ..common mistake...
just watch the game , its simple... Maureen surely realised (and he is canny still) to open and "have a go" could have exposed his (currently) "weaker spurs" to a battering.. the REdS should have won it easily in the first half, which left spurs with a "chance" of getting a point when they started to attacjk a LIVERPOOL side that lost its own momentum late on.. this is not rocket science.. ..
another view from
https://talesofanfieldroad.com/2020/01/17/liverpool-vs-manchester-united-benny-hill-and-the-big-red-boa-constrictor/
funny but I think it was whelan who scored THAT oG!
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Letter to Brezhnev Margi Clarke Cast interview
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T5poyTgbAY
https://montv-chrislog.blogspot.com/2020/01/montv-20-20-vision-too-campaign-hots-up.html
ReplyDeleteLiverpool v Manchester United
ReplyDelete1630 GMT kick-off on Sky Sports Premier League
This is where it gets really interesting for Liverpool and what looks like a relentless march towards a first Premier League title - but wouldn't Man Utd just love to throw a spanner in the works, even if it only delays the inevitable.
There's a widening chasm between these two fierce old rivals with things heading towards a complete role reversal from the Sir Alex Ferguson days when United regularly conquered England and Europe and Liverpool’s best hope was to merely stop them from winning.
Now it’s Liverpool, the European and world champions, who sit on a massive 14-point lead with one hand seemingly on the title, who can really stick the boot into the Red Devils by opening up a 30-point gap between the two with a victory at Anfield.
The gap has never been bigger, and neither has United’s price for victory on Merseyside with them a whopping 7/1 to inflict a first league defeat of the season on Jurgen Klopp’s troops.
They’re already the first, and so far only, team to take league points off them this season, which in itself is a ridiculous statement halfway through January, and if there is a recipe for success against the Reds then Ole Gunnar Solskjaer certainly has some of the ingredients.
He’s got two draws now against Liverpool and can claim to have a blueprint for again frustrating the league leaders – but he may have shot himself in the foot by playing a labouring Marcus Rashford against Wolves.
Rashford is so key to all that United hope to achieve in this game that he could be the difference between heading back along the M62 with points or not. And, in fact, it’s worth waiting until the team-sheets drop on Sunday before making some of the decisions on this game.
Rashford’s got more opening goals this season than anyone else in the league, and only Mohamed Salah has scored more winners this season. His recent scoring record is top class but without him United may struggle to register.
Liverpool haven’t conceded in six league games, and since Joe Gomez renewed his partnership with Virgil van Dijk in December they’ve looked increasingly sturdy at the back so without Rashford and with possession set to be limited another clean sheet could well be on the cards.
A lot depends on just how United will play, you know what you get from Liverpool these days and in all likelihood they’ll dominate possession and look to prod and probe and get Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson in down the flanks.
A fascinating aspect of the game will therefore come out wide against Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Brandon Williams – two of United’s better performers. Gary Neville's a big fan of left-back Williams and his feisty attitude, but with four bookings in five starts it's clear that the youngster may struggle to keep a lid on his emotions in such a hostile environment.
Going up against Alexander-Arnold and Salah is a tough afternoon in anyone's book so when you can get a stand-out price of 5/2 for him to get a card, that's one avenue to explore along with the results-based markets.
In these, Rashford may make a difference but he looked like he wouldn't be 100 per cent in any case,
Prediction: Liverpool 2-0 Man United (Sky Bet odds: 6/1)
DeleteBest bet: Liverpool to win to nil at 6/4
Key stats
Since completing a league double over Man Utd in 2013-14, Liverpool have won just one of their 11 Premier League games against the Red Devils (D5 L5).
Manchester United are winless in their last four away matches against Liverpool in all competitions (D2 L2) since a 1-0 win in January 2016 in the Premier League.
Liverpool have lost 28 Premier League matches against Manchester United, eight more than against any other club.
Liverpool will face Manchester United at Anfield for a league game starting the day top of the table for the first time since September 1990, winning 4-0 under Kenny Dalglish.
Among the 31 teams Jürgen Klopp has faced 10 or more times during his managerial career, his worst win ratio is against Manchester United (20% - P10 W2 D6 L2).
Manchester United have lost their last two away Premier League games on Merseyside against Liverpool and Everton; they haven’t lost three in a row in the top-flight since April 1979.
Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 38 Premier League games (W33 D5), the third longest such run in the competition’s history. The two longer runs (Arsenal 49, Chelsea 40) were both ended by Manchester United, but in games that took place at Old Trafford.
Liverpool have scored in all 21 of their Premier League games so far this season – the last side to score in each of their first 22 games of a season in the competition were Arsenal in 2001-02, who scored in all 38 games in a title-winning term.
Coming into this weekend’s matches, no player has scored the opening goal in more different Premier League games this season than Man Utd’s Marcus Rashford (6). Rashford has also scored what proved to be the winning goal five times this term, with only Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah netting more winners (6).
Manchester United’s Mason Greenwood has scored four Premier League goals this season – the last teenager to net more in a single campaign in the competition was Marcus Rashford in 2016-17 (5). https://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/reds-to-keep-run-going/176284 ..................
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ReplyDeleteLiverpool v Man Utd - initial thoughts...
With this run Liverpool have been on, you look at how and when there could be a banana skin. I look at this game, and the reason you look at it again is because of how Manchester United turned up against Manchester City at the Etihad.
People had it as a home banker, but it was probably the best 45 minutes I have seen under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. They literally, dare I say it, blew Man City away for the early part, and then managed to hold on.
This is my worry. If they do turn up and take the shackles off, it could be a worry. They will defend deep as they did at Old Trafford, and as they did at the Etihad, and hit on the counter. Liverpool have to be wary of that.
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Once there is a turnover in possession, Liverpool have to be cautious of the pace that Anthony Martial, Daniel James and Marcus Rashford possess. It is a similar thing to when they went to the Etihad. Everybody’s money was on City. It looks as though Solskjaer is getting a tune out of his side; it has been the bigger games where they have turned up this season.
If Liverpool win, it is expected. The pressure is on Liverpool to deliver, while Man Utd have nothing to lose and then can play with more freedom. For Liverpool, they seem to just keep on going. It seems as though Jurgen Klopp and his staff have the players focused, although they rode their luck in the last ten minutes against Tottenham. For 70 minutes, Liverpool could have been 3-0 up.
It is still classed as one of the biggest games in the world, and rightly so. No matter where the sides are in the Premier League, it has always had huge interest all over the world. Some of the games at Anfield have not obviously lived up to it, but it will be interesting to see how the two teams shape up in the first 10-15 minutes, and then we will know how the game will pan out.
Liverpool's approach…
Liverpool are getting quite close with the opposition playing three at the back and packing the midfield. You can see how coaches have worked on their shape in the week and counter when there is a turnover against Liverpool. This is where Liverpool have to be patient and wide-awake if this does happen.
It could take 80 minutes of Liverpool possession before they break them down. Liverpool must have found some solutions in these games, as it has been such a long unbeaten streak. My thing is if Liverpool do have more possession, then they must be patient.
If they do this, they will win the game. Liverpool have found a way to win games over the last 18 months and I see no reason to think differently this weekend.
Prediction: Liverpool 2-0 Manchester United (Sky Bet odds: 6/1)
Matt Le Tissier
ReplyDeleteLiverpool v Man Utd - initial thoughts...
Manchester United are the only ones who have taken points off Liverpool this season, so they will believe they can do it again. A lot of teams are beaten before they even turn up at Anfield. It will be more difficult for them with it being at Anfield, and if they have a bad day, it could become a bit embarrassing.
I am sure the failings of the Manchester City match, among others this season, will still linger in their minds, but they must be at it from the off and at 100 per cent - otherwise, they could be 3-0 down by half time in the blink of an eye once more.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer must come up with a plan to nullify the threats that Liverpool possess, but they come from all over the pitch. He did it once with a 0-0 at Old Trafford, so let’s see if he can do it again.
Do you think Manchester United will shape up similar to Old Trafford?
I think this is a strong possibility. If it works once, there is no reason why it will not work again. He could switch it up and come up with something that they are not expecting and wrong-foot them almost. I just think regardless of how Man Utd set up, Liverpool have such good quality that I am not sure however way you set up makes them any less dangerous.
How should Liverpool approach it differently to that match at Old Trafford?
I think it will be different at home. Liverpool will have even more pressure on the United goal at home. They will be reduced to the counter-attack, in which case they have some good players to play like that. Liverpool’s record at Anfield is phenomenal at the moment and I think they will create enough chances to take all three points from the match.
Prediction: Liverpool 2-0 Manchester United (Sky Bet odds: 6/1)
Charlie Nicholas
ReplyDeleteEven as an Arsenal fan, it is a huge game. Many may think it has lost its gloss. This was always the game for someone that loves the Premier League. Sir Alex Ferguson always identified Liverpool away on the list, even when the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea were better. It was always the toughest and he wanted to walk away with something. If they had lost, they would hate it but he wouldn’t care how they played as long as they came away with something.
Manchester United are going there scared. For the first time in many years, you could see Liverpool giving them a proper hiding. What does that mean for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer? What does that mean for the young players? Marcus Rashford is carrying them.
Defensively, you do not know where the next mistake is coming from, but there will be one. David De Gea has been good and ‘just’ good, he is a great goalkeeper but he has not been great for a while.
It will be fiery; I would be amazed if there is not a red card. Man Utd will not want to be embarrassed, but if Liverpool score quickly and get their two full backs bombing, it could spell trouble. If Man Utd are looking towards Rashford and Anthony Martial for the counter-attack, but there is nobody to support them, then they are in trouble too.
I am not saying this is easy to do, but Liverpool have something within them right now that is saying they are not giving up the belief that they can go unbeaten. Liverpool have kept six successive clean sheets and that is telling us they have tightened up there. Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane will be fired up, alongside Trent Alexander-Arnold and Andy Robertson. The two full backs will become wingers and it is like a front five once more.
Even with Man Utd’s decent players, I cannot see them trying to control this game. They proved me wrong at the Etihad and they may do so again, this is Man Utd. If Liverpool score, United have to open up - Solskjaer does not like playing defensively, and I do not blame him, but he does not have the personnel to play like that. He is using the only players he has left, and for that reason, I can only see a very comfortable Liverpool win.
Man Utd have to play a back five, as they got a point at old Trafford. That is what leads me into the breakdown. When you play that at home, you have 70,000 of your own supporters, who had to accept it as long as they did not get embarrassed on the day. The fans were celebrating that and that tells you where they are.
They got a good win against Norwich but the fans are angry. They realise the reality of what this team has, it is limited. Any of them Man Utd fans would snatch your hand off for a draw right now, as they know it could be sufferance for them. I do not think Solskjaer has any choice.
He does not have enough to open up and attack. He may have enough but where does he go? Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial do not really do the defensive work, while Daniel James does his fair share. Jesse Lingard will be in behind but then you have Nemanja Matic and Fred, will they have enough to match in defence with the back four or five? No. I do think they will play a back five.
Brandon Williams and Aaron Wan-Bissaka must confront the full backs and they have to pick the back five to see if they can keep them at bay. Man Utd will not mind the wing backs getting crosses in from deep. They can match that with the height they have. If they have time to deliver with pace and get around the full backs it is a completely different presence.
They have to get this right. Tottenham tried that but they could not get out. This is Anfield, the crowd will want blood and for Liverpool to give them more; it is one of these days where Liverpool will flex their muscles, say they will be champions, and that is what I think will materialise.
Prediction: Liverpool 3-0 Manchester United (Sky Bet odds: 9/1)
DeleteWill records ruin the Reds?
Are Liverpool unstoppable?
Are Liverpool unstoppable?
Robert O’Connor looks at how Liverpool need to avoid letting their long unbeaten run get in the way of their primary objective of winning the Premier League. https://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/pundit-predictions-liverpool-v-man-utd/176300
and more blah blah... https://www.sportinglife.com/football/news/will-records-ruin-the-reds/176213
Robert O’Connor looks at how Liverpool need to avoid letting their long unbeaten run get in the way of their primary objective of winning the Premier League.
DeleteDefeat is coming for Liverpool
38 games. 377 days. And counting. One calendar year and one full season’s worth of games in the world’s most competitive division, playing every week against athletes who command the highest transfer fees, rake in the best wages and who boast the most refined technique and relentless stamina. And still, Liverpool have not lost. Not once. But still, it's coming.
Since Jurgen Klopp’s team were last beaten in a league game – a 2-1 reverse against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium on (checks notes) 3 January 2019 – 12 top-flight managers have been sacked in England. Two of those clubs – Watford and Huddersfield – are on their third boss in that time. Sheffield United, sixth in the Premier League and against whom the Reds secured the calendar-year record at the start of January, were sixth in the Championship the last time Liverpool walked away from a league game empty handed.
VAR has been introduced and become universally loathed, a new Premier League broadcaster has arrived, and the league’s record winning-margin has been equalled. There is a new record overseas scorer, and Man City have become the first English team to win a domestic treble. More than 15 million spectators have passed through the turnstiles of Premier League grounds since the beginning of 2019. And Liverpool have not lost.
The ethereal unbeaten season, briefly made flesh in 2004 when Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal did what everyone outside of Highbury said was un-doable, is at heart little other than a statistic, a pure kind of achievement, a garnish. Arsenal won the title by 11 points in 2003/04. Of the 12 games the team drew, they could have lost 10 and still been champions by a clear point. The 'unbeaten' part of the unbeaten season was a flourish, sumptuous to the eye but thinner than air, as valuable in the final reckoning as the Panenka or the Rabona. It was so ostentatious as to be almost contemptuous. Sir Alex Ferguson even found cause to jibe, possibly tongue in cheek, that Arsenal's record suggested an overly cautious style of play........
Records win nothing
DeleteThe unbeaten record won nothing, yet it’s the first thing that history remembers; before Thierry Henry’s goals, ahead of Patrick Vieira’s balletic stride, in front of Robert Pires’s genius and Gilberto Silva’s transcendental, Buddhist-like discipline.
Instead, the annals remember simply The Invincibles, an achievement defined as much by what the opposition failed at as the performances of those in Arsenal red; Ruud van Nistelrooy’s stoppage-time missed penalty at Old Trafford (game number six of the record-breaking 49), Aiyegbeni Yakubu’s fluffed lines in the final minutes for Portsmouth at Fratton Park in April when the new champions were clinging to their record for dear life, Clinton Morrison’s air-shot for Birmingham from six-yards out at Highbury a week before. All had their finger on the trigger, before letting the Gunners scurry away with their immortality in tact.
Like any great sporting achievement, it comes in stages. At first, it seems like a fantasy, titillation for the pundits and speculation amongst the diehard and the terminally optimistic. Then, a certain checkpoint is passed, and something in the air changes.
For Arsenal’s class of ’04, it came at match number 30, the point at which the record for number of games without defeat at the start of season fell. The game was a 1-1 draw against Manchester United at Highbury – Van Nistelrooy again blew the chance to wreck the Gunners’ record with a late header planted into the arms of Jens Lehmann from close range. It was the moment when dreams hardened into plans.
Similarly, when Leicester City won the title in 2016, a kind of point of no return was reached when the team won 3-1 away at Manchester City in February. The challenge became crystalised, distilled down from the ludicrous - ‘win the title’ - to the tantalizingly obtainable - ‘win eight more games and you’ll win the title’. The equation becomes simplified, a sense of destiny moves in where before there had been wishful thinking and nagging doubt....................
....Can Man Utd ruin Reds’ record run?
ReplyDeleteLiverpool face Manchester United on Sunday, the same team that shattered Arsenal's hopes of going 50 games unbeaten in 2004 (that fans mourned the team's failure to reach the half-century re-emphasized football's peculiar obsession with arbitrary landmarks). Now, for the second time, United find themselves with the chance to shatter the dreams of their most arch rivals.
United, of course, are the only team to have taken points off Klopp's team this season, otherwise we might have been talking about an even more absurd ambition, the first 100% winning season. But then the uncomfortable paradox about monumental sporting streaks is that they tend to generate their own unique form of distraction. The points build up, but so too does a fixation, an overpowering obsession with keeping the run alive, with invincibility. Once it's gone, it leaves a sucking vacuum where once there was indomitable belief.
If Liverpool keep the run going, they will go into April's return visit against City at the Etihad knowing they must avoid defeat to equal Arsenal's record. It's far from inconceivable that victory will hand them the title right there on the champions' patch, with six games still to spare. Win every game between now and then, and they will almost certainly arrive in Manchester already champions. All mind-bending possibilities. And yet seemingly somehow peripheral detail to the central aim of ending a 30-year wait for the league crown.
Sky Sports' Martin Tyler said in the preamble to that famous mud-bath at Old Trafford in October 2004, when Arsenal blew their chance at a half-century in a foul, bad-tempered game: "you get nothing extra for 50 games unbeaten." Perfectly true. Indeed, when Wayne Rooney slotted home United's second goal to seal a 2-0 win, Wenger's team all of a sudden looked strangely artificial, like an ageing body kept alive beyond its proper time by meddlesome scientists for the purpose of experimentation, a kind of fatal curiosity to see how far a living thing could bare the Sisyphean punishment of living on and on, and on, unable to expire. Arsenal were horribly weakened by the pain of that defeat, falling fast and hard out of the title race. They haven't won the Premier League since.
Competitive sport is designed in such a way as to make defeat sooner or later inevitable. Dodge it for too long, and the athlete's mind forgets how to bare up in the face of it, the collective chemistry altered, the DNA weakened and unravelled.
So believe it - defeat is coming for Liverpool. The only question is what kind of animal they will be after it bites them..... (ChRiS; what a load of blah blah blah , i have never seen so much written or said.. about this game... LIVERPOOL need to start strong and a battering of the "lesser mancs" is well overdue.. ! do them! and get another 3 points,,,PLEASE!
Ayre allowed the sharks in and failed to support the SoS/ShareLfc bid nor Dix , sold out to USAcorp and no surprise he is in the United States now.. .. betrayed the supporters,,, priced the core working class kopites out of the Kop, u can keep him and tak fen way & the boardroom sharks with you... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXqpGSkEImQ
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