Magic Lamps

best player in bundesliga this season -no doubt. Head and shoulders above the rest.

Bayern are getting destroyed by Wolfsburg in the first half. Complete dominance. It is normal even great teams lose but the manner how. Only one (weak) shot on target and not a single clear chance. Might be due to lack of sharpness but they look found out. KDB absolutely humilates their players when they want to press him. Great to see.

Ivory coast are leading cameroon 1-0 in the final minutes. Funny thing is, if cameroon equalize all 4 teams in the group will have finsihed every single game between them 1-1 with the exact number of points and goals for every team. btw the way bony and yaya are playing neither would be much of an improvement for City. It is highly improbable that one of them will turn up for City so i wonder how they will lineup, i guess it will be ----------hart--------- Zaba--Kompany-Demichelis-Clichy ------Fernando-Fernandinho----- Milner--------Silva-------Nasri -------------Agüero---------------

uff that was harder than necessary. the fact that liverpool end this with 11 men and only 1 concededis a miracle

oh rami

Stevie G worst player on the pitch in a big game btw. What a surprise. ^^

finally the break through. should have been 5 mins earlier. shame it does ocunt for nothing, as all liverpool need is still only one goal.

oh no please no extra time. i bet this BS away goal rule was introduced the moment hazard scored at anfield. later that day this oliver ref cunt was given instructions he conducted today.

thank god it was only gerrard to take the freekick

we conceded from the exact same position vs manu

why iva just why

2 players off injured. surely fatigue is showing.

brace yourself mad mario has come on. really have to make more of our chances

second epic hand ball by henderson. chose the wrong sport by the rules of the game this is a red

liverpool are so unbelievably lucky today

if we can't score against a liverpool XI with ONE centreback, we are truly fucked

most of our players underperforming today but at least they try really hard.

what a frustrating match.we are slow on the counter and unprecise in attack

the ref is such a disgrace. misses handball and foul by liverpool but blows for a touch on sterlings shoulder

maaan zouma ivanovic willian trio infernalis today.

sakho looks like a guy with wooden plates in the ear and a splitted tongue you'd expect in a documentary about the tropical rainforest

that was the clearest penalty i have ever seen not given.

pace is not the problem with our defence, Sterling is Liverpool's only really pacy player anyway (apart from Sturridge who is not yet match fit). Cahill, Azpi, Iva. Luis, Zouma all have decent pace. Cahill was not skipped past by Sterling, he even kept up with him running backwards. The problem which was exposed by liverpool, Newcastle and Tottenham is a combination of individual deficiencies (Iva positional play, Cahill tackling), tactics (low block) and a lack of balance in the team. First things first, Fabregas is great, he is everyhwere, in defense, midfield block, right wing left wing, works so hard and even his defensive play is excellent for a DLP. But when the ball gets shifted quickly away from him and the opposition attacks with pace, he has not time to revert into the center which leaves a hole next to matic just in front of the defence. (different in the liverpool game where mikel, matic and cahill all failed to tackle sterling and got their positioning wrong -> hole ) This happens to every team playing with a DP from time to time. Usually you would expect a proactive CB to step up and fill that hole. The fullback (in case the winger has tracked back) or the goalkeeper has to cover thespace the CB has left behind. Unfortunately we don't play with a proactive CB which is why this dysbalance in the team will get exposed increasingly. IMO that deficiency is even more detrimental to our title bids than the right wing problem or the lack of squad depth. Certainly Mourinho has spotted that himself so I am surprised that so little has been done to remedy. I'd really like to discuss this tactical issue and how to solve it further, but this is not the right thread. On a different note, I can't tell you guys how pumped I am for the game today. This is the game where the team will show what it is made of. Pressure is on, everyone wants us to lose. Now it is stand or fall. No excuses.

On his day he is a prime essien but so inconsistent. For a decent fee worth the gamble. But if we sign him it will be cos mikel and rami are out of form and not a right wing solution. Our starting formation s ok. He would add something of a physical presence replacing either of cesc or os when rotated in

He is aso stronger and more combative. Reminds me of Alexis, just with more pace and worse finish.