Match Preview: Liverpool v Sevilla

The Reds will return to Champions League action on Wednesday when they face Sevilla at Anfield.

Liverpool held by Sevilla in Champions League opener

Liverpool began their Champions League group stage campaign with a 2-2 draw with Sevilla at Anfield on Wednesday.

Match Day: Liverpool 1-1 Burnley

Liverpool endured a frustrating afternoon at Anfield as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Burnley on Saturday.

Goal Highlights: Liverpool 1-1 Burnley

Liverpool is keen to make up for the frustration of Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Burnley.

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Fixing in progress!

What a bad day! Uploaded a new template and it cleaned out all my existing widgets/columns. To rub salt into wound, my backup templates won't work as something has corrupted it. Arrrgggghhhh....

Okay, need to rebuilt them one by one now... sorry for the inconvenience... those whom I supposed to give a backlinks, please be patience as your URL aren't saved too, so need some time to google it.


P.S. : If possible drop your URL into my comment box. Thanks.


YNWA,
Red's Fury™

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Rotating into chaos

Rafa BenitezIt's been a very frustrating month for all the Reds' fans. We've enjoyed the brilliant start to the league season only to slumped to some dismal performances since Liverpool thumped Derby County 6-nil. The press has blasted Rafa's rotation policy once again and as usual Rafa won't be bother with the sarcastic claims from the press to mess with his game plan. I never fully obliged to the rotations made by Rafa. Last season, I has stressed that Liverpool need to start with the best eleven and until today we haven't seen our beloved team play as a same unit for a succession of games.

I knew Rafa done brilliantly at Valencia with this tactic, I never doubted it but at Liverpool it was a different story. It's still too early to rest players, not until after Christmas I think. There are nothing wrong with rotating the squad but why change half of the squad when one or two necessary changes should be suffice? Why can't he just change one or two players instead of four to five players for the next games? The match against Marseille in Champions League saw Rafa started with Sebastion Leto, Momo Sissoko, Peter Crouch and Yossi Benayoun, clearly back-fires as Riise, Mascherano and Kuyt was rested. Losing 1-nil at home at a European cup night rarely happens but the confidence of the supporters has evaporates from The Kop that night with the lacklustre performance from The Reds.

We started well in the league, six points behind the leader and still unbeaten. I hope Rafa knows what he's doing, as it's clear that people at Liverpool or even the supporters around the globe are starting to get abit nervous. Rafa has a large squad this time around should be starting his strongest selection and let the others on the bench to fight for their places when a chance arose.

The next 10 days will be crucial for Rafa and his men in reds. This weekend some of the players are away on international duty and next Saturday comes the Merseyside's derby at Goodison Park. I hope Rafa can keep the same side and let them gel for a few games running to gain back their confidence. It was a bad motivation to the players as when you're playing well, the next game you'll be on the bench. Stop this treatment now or else we'll end up losing the star players by the next transfer window. Buck up or ship out!


YNWA,
Red's Fury™

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Carling Cup

Carling Cup 3rd Round
Reading 2-4 Liverpool
Reading:Convey 28, Halls 64
Liverpool:Benayoun 23, Torres 50, 72, 86









YNWA,
Red's Fury™

Friday, August 31, 2007

Reds in Group A

The draw for UEFA Champions League 2007/08 has been finalised. Liverpool was drawn into Group A together with Porto (Portugal), Marseille (France) and Besiktas (Turkey).



Group A
LIVERPOOL (England)
Porto (Portugal)
Marseille (France)
Besiktas (Turkey)

Group B
CHELSEA (England)
Valencia (Spain)
Schalke (Germany)
Rosenborg (Norway)

Group C
REAL MADRID (Spain)
Werder Bremen (Germany)
Lazio (Italy)
Olympiacos (Greece)

Group D
AC MILAN* (Italy)
Benfica (Portugal)
Celtic (Scotland)
Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine)

Group E
BARCELONA (Spain)
Lyon (France)
Stuttgart (Germany)
Rangers (Scotland)

Group F
MANCHESTER UNITED (England)
AS Roma (Italy)
Sporting Lisbon (Portugal)
Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine)

Group G
INTER MILAN (Italy)
PSV Eindhoven (Holland)
CSKA Moscow (Russia)
Fenerbache (Turkey)

Group H
ARSENAL (England)
Sevilla/AEK Athens** (Spain/Greece)
Steaua Bucharest (Romania)
Slavia Prague (Czech)
CAPS - seeded teams
* defending champions
** TBC

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Goal highlights : Liverpool v Toulouse

Watch how Liverpool demolished Toulouse in Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round second leg at Anfield. Liverpool won by 4 goals to nil and qualified for the group stage of UEFA Champions League 2007/08. The draw for the group stages will be scheduled today at 12am midnight (Malaysian time) and was held in Monaco, France.

Here's are the clubs that going into the draw :

Pot 1
AC Milan
Barcelona
Liverpool
Inter Milan
Arsenal
Real Madrid
Chelsea
Manchester United

Pot 2
Valencia
Lyon
Porto
Sevilla/AEK Athens
PSV Eindhoven
AS Roma
Benfica
Werder Bremen

Pot 3
Celtic
Schalke
Stuttgart
Steaua Bucharest
CSKA Moscow
Sporting Lisbon
Lazio
Marseille

Pot 4
Rangers
Shakhtar Donetsk
Besiktas
Olympiakos
Dynamo Kiev
Fenerbache
Slavia Prague
Rosenborg



YNWA,
Red's Fury™

Too hot to handle!



Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round (2nd leg)
Liverpool 4-0 Toulouse
Crouch 19, Hyypia 49, Kuyt 87, 91
(Aggregate 5-0)


Liverpool through to the group stage with a 5-nil victory on aggregate over French club Toulouse. Goal from Peter Crouch on the 19th minute put the Reds on the front seat before Hyypia and Kuyt wrapped up the match in the second half. The French outfit clearly no match for a revamped Liverpool lineups with Gerrard, Carragher, Finnan, Voronin, Torres and Alonso all were omitted from the starting eleven. Sebastian Leto was given his first start to his Liverpool career and played on the left side of the midfield. Rafa also gave Lucas Leiva a debut as a second half substitute for Momo Sissoko on the 68th minute.

Peter CrouchPeter Crouch, left out of the last two matches, returned to score after just 19 minutes and captain for the night Sami Hyypia made light of a broken nose to head home the second just after the break. Crouch and Yossi Benayoun also both returned to the starting line-up to good effect. Benayoun's enthusiasm, pace and skill was at the centre of most of Liverpool's attacks and the opening goal came after when Benayoun worked to get Kuyt into space on the right and his far-post cross was turned in by Crouch's outstretched right leg.

Crouch should have scored again two minutes later when Benayoun popped up on the left and lifted in a cross that the tall striker rose to meet from six yards but planted his header over the crossbar. Crouch continued his wasteful ways when Arbeloa swung over another cross, again heading over, while Kuyt was next to miss with a header from another Benayoun cross.

Within three minutes of the restart it was 2-nil, a Yossi Benayoun corner being nodded in by Hyypia. Liverpool were sailing through the tie and Kuyt provided still more attacking menace yet missed the target when set up by Crouch. The Dutchman was also denied by the crossbar after his shot had taken a touch off Mauro Cetto but he finally got his reward three minutes from time after a fine one-two with substitute Ryan Babel. Deep into stoppage time, Benayoun played him in for his second.



Liverpool: 25 Reina, 17 Arbeloa, 4 Hyypia, 5 Agger (3 Finnan, 81), 6 Riise, 11 Benayoun, 22 Sissoko (21 Lucas, 68), 20 Mascherano, 33 Leto (19 Babel, 75), 15 Crouch, 18 Kuyt
Unused subs: 30 Itandje, 9 Torres, 14 Alonso, 16 Pennant
Bookings: None

Toulouse: 16 Douchez, 28 Cetto, 24 Ilunga, 15 Paulo Cesar, 5 Mathieu (22 Sissoko, 81), 25 Dieuze, 2 Fofana, 14 Sirieix, 9 Elmander, 20 Emana (17 Fabinho, 76), 21 Gignac (10 Bergougnoux, 54)
Unused subs: 1 Riou, 6 Jonsson, 7 Mansare, 8 Batlles
Bookings: None

Attendance: 43,118

Referee
Wolfgang Stark (GER)

Assistant referee
Jan-Hendrik Salver (GER)
Volker Wezel (GER)

Fourth official
Markus Schmidt (GER)

UEFA Referee observer
Günter Benkö (AUT)


YNWA,
Red's Fury™

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

New Anfield Stadium

Reds new fortress will be ready by 2010, a re-designed and stunning stadium in Stanley Park just across the existing Anfield stadium.
















YNWA,
Red's Fury™

Saturday, August 25, 2007

Stevie G's special

Late as usual. The Barclays Premier League 2007/08 (English Premier League) has had kicked off for the past 2 weeks now. Finally, we headed to a winning start to the season away at Villa Park. An own goal from Villa's Martin Laursen and a superb free-kick from Steven Gerrard sealed the match for us.

I missed this match on live telecast and managed to watch the highlight program few days later. The line-ups pretty much the same and our new boy Fernando Torres make his debut but the most significant changes made was the formation, 4-4-2 opted by Rafa instead of 4-5-1 which being used mostly for away matches last season. Rafa did do his homework!

Liverpool lead at half-time, thanks to an own goal from Villa's defender Laursen on the 36th minute. Gareth Barry converted a penalty after Carragher handled in the box on the 85th minute. While Villa fans still celebrating the equaliser, Liverpool had a free-kick just outside Villa's penalty box. Gerrard step up to took the free-kick himself and for the first time in many games, the skipper curl the ball superbly past Taylor's top left hand corner for the winning goal.

Watch the YouTube video of Steven Gerrard superb free-kick, plus goals from Voronin v Toulouse and Torres v Chelsea.


YNWA,
Red's Fury™

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