Bring on your Manchester United....Sunday, 14 December 2014.

[an tha]

Made for Balotelli, this game.

[Paco]

Made for Balotelli, this game.

I ve missed watching him lying on the ground holding his head.

[an tha]

I ve missed watching him lying on the ground holding his head.

It will be his one big liverpool moment...ah fuck it who am I trying to kid...

[chris71]

I don't get the sudden love-in with DeGea, he is just a younger version of Mignolet, in that he is a good shot-stopper with no physical presence.

Plus he's developed some sort of spider sense and is pulling off game saving saves all over the place.

[stringvest]

This is game will allow me to reminisce... back to the days when I used to play Sunday leagues on the pitches down Lambeth Road opposite the BAT building. 2 pub teams battling it out on a Sunday.  Some of them trying to keep their ale down from the previous night.  Homer referee.  Each team with its fair share of cloggers.  Hapless defending.  No pace up front.  It's all coming back...

[bossy]

I have a sneaky feeling we'll win this and Rodgers will play with a progressive attacking line up. Don't know why, just one of those hunches which I have no doubt fucked up by articulating. Yer never know.

[Josef Svejk]

This is game will allow me to reminisce... back to the days when I used to play Sunday leagues on the pitches down Lambeth Road opposite the BAT building. 2 pub teams battling it out on a Sunday.  Some of them trying to keep their ale down from the previous night.  Homer referee.  Each team with its fair share of cloggers.  Hapless defending.  No pace up front.  It's all coming back...

 

 

One of pub teams has a few ringers up front, unfortunately.

[Josef Svejk]

Rodgers played the Real Madrid team away at West Ham and the West Ham at home against Real Madrid. So, God knows what we'll get...

[Jairzinho]

Rodgers played the Real Madrid team away at West Ham and the West Ham at home against Real Madrid. So, God knows what we'll get...

 

Bummed.

[Josef Svejk]

Bummed.

 

Without foreplay or lube.

[dennis tooth]

Lambert vs falcao rooney and van pervert

Gerrard vs di maria the ex chelshit ponderor and Januskwit

They have a bit more going forward a confident keeper and a moderately organised defence made up of shitter defenders than us but more than the sum of their parts.

I expect these factors to consign us to defeat. More match winners and more solid at the back. Basically.

[Rotpeter]

I'd go with that apart from taking Johnson out for Manquillo and Borini for Lambert. I'd play Sterling over Markovic and all. 

 

Knew there had to be a reason the ratings went. Looks like TKs day job got in the way.

[Grinch]

The horrible thing about this is they actually ain't any better than last season.  Rodgers has just fucked up so badly that we're now much worse than a side that wasn't even in the same league as us for one season, nice while it lasted.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I take hope from the fact that the last 5 they've won, they could've easily lost or drawn a high fraction of these games too.

 

Crystal Palace, 1-0. Palace missed a few easy chances. Mata scores with a fortuitous goal, largely down to poor keeping.

 

Hull. We'll give them that one.

 

Stoke. De Gea bailed them out, and I believe Stoke had a couple cleared off the line. Held on for a win.

 

Arsenal. By a mixture of good keeping and abject finishing, perennial bottlers Arsenal conspired to lose a game 0-2 in which they should've easily been 3 or 4 up by half time.

 

Southampton. United created next to nothing. They were proper keystone cops material trying to pass it out from the back. United were gifted the first goal, and the keeper should save the winner. A fortuitous win from a distinctly average performance.

 

Granted, it's all ifs and buts, but the underlying constant in these games is that they're playing poorly, gifting teams chances and having to rely on a keeper or poor opposition finishing to get anything.

 

We're playing poorly too, but I don't see this game as a write off at all. I'd like us to be positive, tactically, not just settling for a draw, as I think they'll give us a chance or five to punish them.

 

We just need to take them.

[ratcatcher]

We just need to stop pissing about on the edge of our own box. Half our problems come about because we insist in playing the 'after you claude. No, after you' game at the back.

 

I still cant get my head around many players in our team not shouting for the ball. How many times have we seen two players going for the same ball? Perhaps that in itself is a sign of anxiety in the team? Open yer fucking gobs for christ sake and shout!

 

Im hoping we can eek out a draw but am not too confident but its time the players got some backbone and started giving more than they are. Same goes for the manager and his staff.

[xerxes]

Im hoping we can eek out a draw

I fear it will be more eek than eke.

[Redder Lurtz]

Granted, it's all ifs and buts, but the underlying constant in these games is that they're playing poorly, gifting teams chances and having to rely on a keeper or poor opposition finishing to get anything.

 

Nobody is better at poor finishing than us as the moment.

 

2-0 to the twats.

[bouncebrigade]

I don't get the sudden love-in with DeGea, he is just a younger version of Mignolet, in that he is a good shot-stopper with no physical presence.

 

Wind yer neck in, lad.

 

Whatever he is, he is directly attributable for far more points for them this year than Minge is for us.

[bouncebrigade]

Let's do a poo on them.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Play a forward from one of the youth teams. Let's have some energy eh, some fucker bursting his lungs play an under fucking 8 if we have to. No more of this static slow lethargic shite. A player who will run into space drag defenders away have a bit of pace. Let's not persist with the same shitty non scoring adventure / ordeal we have witnessed time and time again. It's not working recognise it doesn't work for fucks sake recognise rodgers fucking recognise. Fuck off.

[Mook]

Play a forward from one of the youth teams. Let's have some energy eh, some fucker bursting his lungs play an under fucking 8 if we have to. No more of this static slow lethargic shite. A player who will run into space drag defenders away have a bit of pace. Let's not persist with the same shitty non scoring adventure / ordeal we have witnessed time and time again. It's not working recognise it doesn't work for fucks sake recognise rodgers fucking recognise. Fuck off.

Repped for the beautiful use of 'fuck off' at the end there.

[Jairzinho]

Play a forward from one of the youth teams. Let's have some energy eh, some fucker bursting his lungs play an under fucking 8 if we have to. No more of this static slow lethargic shite. A player who will run into space drag defenders away have a bit of pace. Let's not persist with the same shitty non scoring adventure / ordeal we have witnessed time and time again. It's not working recognise it doesn't work for fucks sake recognise rodgers fucking recognise. Fuck off.

 

 

"This shit, this shit I can do."

 

[Dr. J]

Apart from everything else, the way he has treated Borini has gone a long way towards making me think Rodgers has acted like a peevish fucking cunt. Unless there's some compelling explanation, that has managed to be kept secret, he put himself and his ego before that of the team.

 

Not even on the fucking bench in a must win CL time, but Lallana, who has 2 fractured ribs was?

Fuck off.

[El Rojo]

Apart from everything else, the way he has treated Borini has gone a long way towards making me think Rodgers has acted like a peevish fucking cunt. Unless there's some compelling explanation, that has managed to be kept secret, he put himself and his ego before that of the team.

 

Not even on the fucking bench in a must win CL time, but Lallana, who has 2 fractured ribs was?

Fuck off.

 

I assume it's some silliness about trying to freeze him out to pull in some cash in January for a new striker?

 

A Plan A that didn't exactly work last summer when Sunderland wanted him. I reckon he'll stay put out of spite.

[chrisbrand]

See Balotelli is back in training.

 

Maybe he can score two goals against the Mancs, do fuck all else for LFC and we can still be singing about it in 11 years time.