Tottenham Hotspur

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (A)
Result: Wait and see!
Score: Wait and see!
Attendance: TBA
Liverpool Scorers: Wait and see!
Opposition Scorers: Let’s hope no-one

Liverpool Line-Up:
TBA

Opposition Line-up:
TBA

Match Report:

I’ll write it when they’ve played it

Manchester City

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (H)
Result: Wait and see!
Score: Wait and see!
Attendance: TBA
Liverpool Scorers: Wait and see!
Opposition Scorers: Let’s hope no-one

Liverpool Line-Up:
TBA

Opposition Line-up:
TBA

Match Report:

I’ll write it when they’ve played it

Birmingham City

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (A)
Result: Drew
Score: 2-2
Attendance: 29,252
Liverpool Scorers: Crouch (63), Benayoun (75)
Opposition Scorers: Forssell (33), Larsson (57)

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Riise, Hyypia (c), Skrtel, Finnan, Benayoun, Plessis, Leiva, Pennant, Crouch, Voronin, Gerrard (sub), Kuyt (sub), Insua (sub), Carragher (sub), Itandje (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Taylor, Murphy, Jaidi, Ridgewell (c), Kelly, Kapo, Nafti, Muamba, Larsson, Forssell, McFadden. Doyle (sub), Queudrue (sub), Zarate (sub), McSheffrey (sub), Jerome (sub)

Match Report:

I watched the highlights of this on MOTD.

It looked like we played quite well.  Rafa made 9 changes to the Champs League side from Tuesday night.  Only Skrtel and Reina from that team played against Birmingham today.

Birmingham took the lead in the first half when Forssell scored.  McFadden ran down teh right wing against Riise, doing step-overs, and Riise didn’t tackle him.  McFadden crossed it to Forssell who let it bounce and smacked it past Reina who was charging out of his goal doing a WWE Smackdown dive!  Crouch did have a shot in the first half, but Taylor saved it.

In the second half, Skrtel founled McFadden and Birmingham got the free-kick, which Larsson curled into the top left hand corner.  2-0!

But we came right back into it.  Pennant made a run and passed the ball to Benayoun.  Benayoun passed it back to Pennant who slipped the ball to Voronin, who was in the box.  Voronin knocked the ball to Crouch who smashed it past Taylor.  2-1!

Then Pennant made another run.  He gave the ball to Lucas, who ran down the wing and crossed the ball with his right foot.  Benayoun headed it towards goal and it hit Jaidi’s back and went in.  2-2!  Me and my Dad don’t think it was an own goal, we are going to give it to Yossi.

2-2. Great result for us – we should be safe in 4th now

Fulham

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (A)
Result: Won
Score: 2-0
Attendance: 25,311
Liverpool Scorers: Pennant (17), Crouch (70)
Opposition Scorers: No-one

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Finnan, Hyypia (c), Skrtel, Riise, Benayoun, Pennant, Mascherano, Lucas, Voronin, Crouch, Itandje (sub), Torres (sub), Aurelio (sub), Alonso (sub), Carragher (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Keller, Konchesky, Hughes, Hangeland, Staltieri, Dempsey, Bullard, Murphy, Davies, McBride, Healy, Bocanegra (sub), Nevland (sub), Warner (sub), Andreasen (sub), Kamara (sub)

Match Report:

I watched the highlights of this game on MOTD.

It looked like we played fantastically.  Fulham couldn’t really tackle us and our passing was great.  Rafa made lots of changes to the team, and some people would say it wasn’t a very good team, but they played really well, and they never looked like losing.  Fulham had a couple of chances but Reina made some good saves.

Pennants goal was good, but he made it look quite easy.  Voronin passed to Lucas, who played a through ball to Pennant who ran into the box past a defender.  He controlled the ball and smacked it past Keller into the roof of the net.

Our second goal was scored by Crouch.  Pennant played a through ball to Crouch who knocked the ball past the defended and hit his shot, which went underneath Keller and rolled into the net.

This was a really good result.

Blackburn Rovers

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (H)
Result: Win
Score: 3-1
Attendance: 43,283
Liverpool Scorers: Gerrard (60), Torres (82), Voronin (90)
Opposition Scorers: Santa Cruz (90)

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Aurelio, Carragher, Skrtel, Arbeloa, Babel, Alonso, Leiva, Kuyt, Gerrard (c), Torres, Hyypia (sub), Riise (sub), Benayoun (sub), Voronin (sub), Itandje (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Friedel, Warnock, Nelsen (c), Samba, Emerton, Pedersen, Reid, Vogel, Bentley, Roberts, Santa Cruz, Brown (sub), McCarthy (sub), Dunn (sub), Ooijer (sub), Mokoena (sub)

Match Report:

We watched this match on Sky, just me and my Dad.

There was a long silence at the start to remember Hillsborough, where 96 people died.  It’s 19 years ago on Tuesday that it happened.  It’s amazing when so many people are all quiet at the same time.

We started the match pretty well.  We had a lot of the ball, but everyone in a red shirt seemed to have a bad first touch, so we weren’t getting very far.  Babel was doing a bit down the left, and Kuyt was doing a bit from the right, but it wasn’t very good quality.

Blackburn had a goal disallowed for off-side.  Roberts was just offside!  Gerrard could have been given a penalty when he fell over Friedel, but it wasn’t given.  Then Samba pushed Gerrard over ust outside the box, and it should have been kick right on the line, but Alan Wiley gave nothing!

Torres missed a chance, Kuyt headed wide and Babel shot it into the upper tier of the Anny Road!

We had most of the possession and we really should have scored.  The second half needs to be much better if we are going to win!

I missed some of the second half, because I was helping my sister on Football Manager.  I saw the goals though!

Gerrard’s goal was fantastic.  Benayoun (who came on for Babel) passed through to Gerrard, then Gerrard did a one-two with Lucas and pushed the ball through Sambas legs to go one-on-one with Friedel.  As cool as you like, he hit along the floor and into the goal.  1-0!  Before the goal he should have had a penalty, too!

The second goal was excellent.  Gerrard crossed the ball with a high ball from the right.  Torres jumped and flicked it with his head past Friedel.  2-0!  And Torres gets his 30th goal of the season!!

Then Voronin came on for Torres and Riise came on for Alonso.

The third goal was pass from Benayoun that the defender got, but it came to Riise who passed the ball across the six yard area and Voronin slid across the ground and prodded it in.  3-0!!

They pulled a goal back at the end with a Santa Cruz volley and some bad defending, but it was too late by then.

We played well and never looked like losing.  Well done lads!

Arsenal

Competition: Premiership

Venue: (A)
Result: Draw
Score: 1-1
Attendance: 60,111
Liverpool Scorers: Crouch (42)
Opposition Scorers: Bendtner (54)

Liverpool Line-Up:
Reina, Arbeloa, Carragher (c), Skrtel, Finnan, Riise, Pennant, Plessis, Lucas, Benayoun, Crouch, Hyypia (sub), Gerrard (sub), Torres (sub), Itandje (sub), Voronin (sub)

Opposition Line-up:
Almunia, Traore, Toure, Gallas, Hoyte, Flamini, Gilberto, Fabregas, Eboue, Bendtner, Walcott, Clichy (sub), Adebayour (sub), Song (sub), Hleb (sub), Lehmann (sub)

Match Report:

I watched this on TV with my Dad and Grandad.  It was good game.  We played pretty well.  Kolo Toure said Liverpool would be scared to come to the Emirates – we proved him wrong!  Ha!

Rafa made loads of changes from Wednesday night.  Crouch started up front, Benayoun and Pennant played, Finnan and Arbeloa were back in, and Plessis got his debut.  Even though there were lots of changes to the team, we played really well.  The man of the match was Crouch.  I don’t agree with that – Crouch played well, but I thought Plessis should have got man of the match, because he is a Reserves player and he did well.

In the first half we had twice as many shots and twice as many corners as Arsenal.  We played really well and we really looked like we’d score.  Crouch did a great shot from outside the box that Almunia only just got to )but I think it might have hit the woodwork if he hadn’t.  Even Plessis had a long shot (but it went over).  Arsenal didn’t look anywhere near as good, and at the end of the first half, just as Arsenal were starting to play better, Pepe hit the ball up to Crouch, who chested it to Benayoun, who played it back to Crouch, who tricked the defender with a neat bit of skill and then shot it low into the corner.  Goal!!  1-0 right before half time.

In the second half Arsenal looked a bit better.  Pennant made a silly foul and gave Arsenal a free kick.  They crossed it into the penalty area and Bendtner headed it in.  Reina didn’t even move!  Why can’t Reina save headers?  We are useless at defending free-kicks and corners!  It makes me very cross and my Dad always think we are rubbish at saving set-pieces and the other team will score every time!.  1-1.  Booooo!

We kept playing well after that and could have scored again.  Voronin came on and was useless, and Gerrard and Torres came on and looked good.  Arsenal looked really tired, which might be good news for Tuesday night.  In the end we held on for 1-1.  Lucas could have given away a penalty at the end when he pulled Fabregas back, but the ball had already gone so Phil Dowd (the ref) didn’t give it.  Phew!