Liverpool vs. West Ham United

Leaked team:

Mignolet – Emre Can, Škrtel, Sakho – Marković, Henderson, Lucas, Moreno – Lallana, Coutinho – Sterling

Sturridge will be on the bench.

Red Alert wrote:Leaked team:

Mignolet – Emre Can, Škrtel, Sakho – Marković, Henderson, Lucas, Moreno – Lallana, Coutinho – Sterling

Sturridge will be on the bench.

Predictable really

Sturridge, Ibe coming off the bench

Expected team, Just be wary of set pieces.

Lallana for CAM instead of Gerrard should give us fluidity in attack. I'm sure we'll cause them enough problems to score a couple of goals as long as we finish the way we should. Hopefully we'll be up by two goals or more at the 60 minute mark, so could sub Henderson and Coutinho off and give them a bit of a rest. Feeling confident - and there's time for a couple of drinks before kick-off, so should be feeling even more confident by then.

and there's time for a couple of drinks before kick-off, so should be feeling even more confident by then

Liverpool XI vs West Ham: Mignolet; Can, Skrtel, Sakho; Henderson, Lucas, Moreno, Markovic; Lallana, Coutinho, Sterling. #LFC

Liverpool subs v @whufc_official: Ward, Johnson, Lambert, Sturridge, Allen, Borini, Ibe

Borini, Lambert, Sturridge and Ibe, what a well balanced bench we have x)

iftikhar wrote:

and there's time for a couple of drinks before kick-off, so should be feeling even more confident by then

Adrian, O'Brien, Collins, Reid, Cresswell, Song, Amalfitano, Nolan, Downing, Carroll, Valencia.

That's a great XI from our point of view. O'Brien isn't a proper full-back and there's no way Nolan should be starting Premier League away games any more. We should have 60%+ possession easily and really make them camp in their own half.

Art Morte wrote: Hopefully we'll be up by two goals or more at the 60 minute mark, so could sub Henderson and Coutinho off and give them a bit of a rest. Feeling confident - and there's time for a couple of drinks before kick-off, so should be feeling even more confident by then.

are you serious, I am looking forward to 3-4-3 giving us 3 points in a 6 pointer or not !!

I'm thinking you misunderstood something.

No you were hoping that we will be 2-0 up by 60 minutes so that Cou and Hendo could be resed...I am a little pessimist so I said, I am just hoping for 3-4-3 to at least work somehow to get us 3 points (like 1-0 or something if not a bog score)

YNWA vs Forever blowing bubbles

Who will prevail?

HEIL MEIN REDS wrote:No you were hoping that we will be 2-0 up by 60 minutes so that Cou  and Hendo could be resed...I am a little pessimist so I said, I am just hoping for 3-4-3 to at least work somehow to get us 3 points (like 1-0 or something if not a bog score)

Okay, right. Well, I think if we are wearing our finishing boots, we could be comfily up after 60 minutes. That West Ham team have nothing going for them except for long balls and counter attacks. We'll have all the possession.

BusterLfc wrote:YNWA vs Forever blowing bubbles

Who will prevail?

Both great songs, but YNWA's the best!

Let's go!

So close so far. They can't handle our counters at all.

MARKOVIC JESUS HOW DID YOU MISS THAT

Markovic Lallana

Not a bad first half, but not good, either. I think the problem of playing Sterling as striker is showing in this came. He's having to play with his back to goal at the edge of the box far too much and he's not that kind of a player. We don't have enough going on in front of their goal. West Ham are defending smartly so far.

STURRIDGE

GTFI LADS WE ARE IN FOR A HELL OF RIDE IN THE SECOND HALF of the season

Clean-sheetPool

if it wasn't for that second half collapse vs. Leicester, we'd be on a 6 game winning run in the league now ....4 clean sheets in last 6 games as well

Sturridge is back, Hopefully he stays fit. Upto 7th now, I guess its time to bring that "Next 6 games thread". Make or break month.

Man of the match would be Sakho. Henderson was spectacular and Lucas was rigid and gritty. Mignolet was great too.

Markovic isnt helping my opinion at all.

Huge 3 points. YNWA

Sturridge!!!!

Hank don't you dare bring up the 6 game threads again.

Markovic isnt helping my opinion at all.

Yeah, him and Lallana have gone off the boil recently. Hope it's just temporary.

Anyone else thinks we should groom Ibe to become a striker ?

Physically, he's very close to Sturridge and I think he should be groomed to become a Sturridge-esuqe player as opposed to Sterling-esque.

Natalie Portman wrote:Anyone else thinks we should groom Ibe to become a striker ?

Physically, he's very close to Sturridge and I think he should be groomed to become a Sturridge-esuqe player as opposed to Sterling-esque.

I said that a long time ago, that we should make Ibe the next Sturridge

Talking about the man, Deadly Dan showed straight away what we've been missing. A half-chance turned into a good goal.

I'm so happy I'll actually do player ratings for this one...

Mignolet 9/10
Dealt with everything, wasn't tested to the limit.

Can 8/10
A moment or two of uncertainty, but overall good.

Skrtel 8/10
Pretty much a flawless display without being tested too much.

Sakho 10/10
Won a lot aerial duels and was beasting it throughout the game, my MOTM.

Markovic 7/10
A bad miss and didn't have that much influence considering we had over 60% possession and that's when you'd expect your wing-backs to do all sorts of stuff.

Moreno 5/10
Had an off game, numerous misplaced passes, lack of sharpness and got beaten once or twice pretty bad on his flank when defending.

Lucas 7/10
Gave away another one of Lucas trademark dangerous free-kicks when tackling clumsily (his tackle on Valencia at the edge of the box) and didn't contribute much. I can't help thinking we should have someone better playing CM.

Henderson 8/10
Showed glimpses of his distribution in this game. People are talking about replacing Gerrard, but I'll tell you what, Henderson does everything that a 30+ years-old Gerrard does and more. And a 25-year-old Gerrard cannot be replaced like-for-like.

Lallana 6/10
Did his job, but was a bit underwhelming (especially when you consider he was our marquee signing in the summer).

Coutinho 9/10
What a player he is, assisted both of our goals and is just so good on the ball and with his football intelligence.

Sterling 8/10
Took his goal really well and maybe I should give him a nine, but I thought it showed today that he's not a natural center-forward. Before we went a goal up West Ham looked too comfortable defending against us and it was partly to do with Sterling not causing the kind of problems a center-forward should.

Sturridge

Art Morte wrote:

Natalie Portman wrote:Anyone else thinks we should groom Ibe to become a striker ?

Physically, he's very close to Sturridge and I think he should be groomed to become a Sturridge-esuqe player as opposed to Sterling-esque.

I said that a long time ago, that we should make Ibe the next Sturridge

Talking about the man, Deadly Dan showed straight away what we've been missing. A half-chance turned into a good goal.

I'm so happy I'll actually do player ratings for this one...

Mignolet 9/10
Dealt with everything, wasn't tested to the limit.

Can 8/10
A moment or two of uncertainty, but overall good.

Skrtel 8/10
Pretty much a flawless display without being tested too much.

Sakho 10/10
Won a lot aerial duels and was beasting it throughout the game, my MOTM.

Markovic 7/10
A bad miss and didn't have that much influence considering we had over 60% possession and that's when you'd expect your wing-backs to do all sorts of stuff.

Moreno 5/10
Had an off game, numerous misplaced passes, lack of sharpness and got beaten once or twice pretty bad on his flank when defending.

Lucas 7/10
Gave away another one of Lucas trademark dangerous free-kicks when tackling clumsily (his tackle on Valencia at the edge of the box) and didn't contribute much. I can't help thinking we should have someone better playing CM.

Henderson 8/10
Showed glimpses of his distribution in this game. People are talking about replacing Gerrard, but I'll tell you what, Henderson does everything that a 30+ years-old Gerrard does and more. And a 25-year-old Gerrard cannot be replaced like-for-like.

Lallana 6/10
Did his job, but was a bit underwhelming (especially when you consider he was our marquee signing in the summer).

Coutinho 9/10
What a player he is, assisted both of our goals and is just so good on the ball and with his football intelligence.

Sterling 8/10
Took his goal really well and maybe I should give him a nine, but I thought it showed today that he's not a natural center-forward. Before we went a goal up West Ham looked too comfortable defending against us and it was partly to do with Sterling not causing the kind of problems a center-forward should.

Sturridge

deadly is what deadly does.