Stoke (h) Match Thread

[Guido]

Is it this then?:

 

--------------Reina

-----Skrtel--Kyrgiakos--Agger

Kelly------------------------Johnson

--------------Lucas

------Gerrard-------Aurelio

-------------Meireles

--------------Kuyt

 

If so, i don't get it.

[Horus]

Kenny has got his "how many defenders can I get into a first 11?" fetish back.

[redmachine23]

I hope we do these mongs. Hate them. It's all a bit random at the moment.

[MLB]

We are never going to break them down like this. It is totally the wrong formation for this kind of opposition.

[Fugitive]

Kuyt is playing well tonight.

[Hugo Sanjeev]

They are sitting so deep, no space at all.

 

This is something that needs to be addressed in the summer, where we need to buy 2-3 players that can create space with their pace and trickery and interrupt the shape of the opposition.

[Evil_Ways]

Fucking alehouse team, Stoke.

But like kenny said, we've got to deal with it.

[diamondjoe]

Kenny has form for playing 6 or 7 defenders in the same team. Didn't work then and it's not working now. Add Kuyt in that mix. Huff and puff football.

[christhered]

Cmon Liverpool, get into these cavemen cunts

[Torvald Utne]

Is that us singing 'marching in'? Ugh.

[Code]

I have to say I`m sitting here waiting for the game to start and by that I mean when we stop playing this ridiculous formation and get some attacking players on the pitch instead.

 

If the thinking goes along the lines of 1-0 is enough and we will have some players fresh at the weekend I can have some sympathy for it, but not much.

[J-V]

This is shite

[redsfan]

No matter what team we played tonight, Stoke always park the bus. But you get one goal against them they start opening up. Was at the match couple seasons ago were we scored 4 against them.

[MLB]

How the fuck are we actually going to score in this game? Set piece or Gerrard special looks like the only possibility.

[Son of L8]

Its obvious Kenny's thinking about how we're going to play when the new signings are bedded in. This is a work in progress, nothing more.

 

Still, we need the three points so I hope we settle down a bit. We don't know what to do with it in the final third yet.

[J-V]

:lol: skrtel

[Red-Ed]

Line up looks like

 

Skrtel-Soto-Agger

Kelly-Lucas-Aurelio-Johnson

----Gerrard-Meireles

----Kuyt

 

Not a good game. Soto is almost man marking Carew.

[James Dean]

Bit scrappy atm.

[JaminKibbler]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Evil_Ways]

The tempo and movement is shite.

We need to up it, pass the ball much quicker, Stoke are sitting so deep we wont create piss if we dont speed things up.

 

Glad that cunt Delap is on the bench though, one of the most annoying things i've seen is when that cunt starts to wipe the ball off every fuckin time there's a throw in.

[Guido]

7 defenders then. Smashing.

[J-V]

good move that

[ZonkoVille77]

how many attacks has kuyt broke down now?

[Son of L8]

Its obvious Kenny's thinking about how we're going to play when the new signings are bedded in. This is a work in progress, nothing more.

 

Still, we need the three points so I hope we settle down a bit. We don't know what to do with it in the final third yet.

 

For that matter, we dont know what to do with it in the middle third either...

 

Decent effort from Gerrard that though. A little one-touch stuff, could do with more of that.

[Evil_Ways]

Second time Gerrard is blatantly blocked inside the area.

How much money are you willing to bet if that was outside the area it would have been a free kick ?