EPL : Liverpool vs Man City
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Date : 25th November 2005 , Saturday .
Kick-off : 11pm Singapore time
Live on Ch-23 ESPN
Exclusive from Anfield .
Liverpool (10th) last 5 games : L-W-W-L-D
Man City (12th)last 5 games : L-W-L-D-W -
Originally posted by Poolman:
lol like e same
Liverpool (10th) last 5 games : L-W-W-L-D
Man City (12th)last 5 games : L-W-L-D-W -
i expect pool to win 3-0.
i dun think their "expect" form will show up today.
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Peter Crouch and Dirk Kuyt will lead the line for Liverpool against Manchester City today with Craig Bellamy and Robbie Fowler both on the substitute's bench.
Sami Hyypia is recalled to the heart of defence with Daniel Agger expected to start at left back and John Arne Riise on the left side of midfield.
Liverpool team:
Reina
Finnan
Hyypia
Carragher
Agger
Garcia
Gerrard
Zenden
Riise
Crouch
Kuyt
Subs:
Dudek
Fowler
Bellamy
Pennant
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liverpool home. should be able to win
with so many peeps injured paul anderson should get a chance
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Pool to win by e odd goal
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Liverpool 0 - 1 Man City
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lol wrong scoreOriginally posted by JansenX:Liverpool 0 - 1 Man City -
Liverpool 1 - 0 man city
score by gerrard -
GERRARD WINS IT FOR REDS
Sporting Life 25 November 2006
Steven Gerrard almost single-handedly broke the defiance of a battling Manchester City in Liverpool's narrow Anfield victory today.
The men from Eastlands gave Liverpool plenty of trouble during a close, competitive Barclays Premiership match. But it was Gerrard, with a blistering long-range drive, who produced the breakthrough and extended the Reds' unbeaten home league record to 23 matches - stretching back to October 2005.
City hardly looked like a side who have lost 16 of their last 19 away league games and are still without a victory on their Premiership travels this term.
If it had not been for Gerrard's driving inspiration from midfield - despite Joey Barton's desire to take him on at every turn - City may well have got something from the match.
But Gerrard's value to Liverpool is immense.
He scored a tremendous goal in midweek to help secure top spot in their Champions League group - and was on hand to settle this contest when frustration was beginning to envelop Anfield.
Rafael Benitez deployed three centre-backs, Steve Finnan and John Arne Riise wide on the flanks - allowing Sami Hyypia to return in defence.
Craig Bellamy, who had spent the last two days in a Cardiff courtroom answering an assault charge, returned to Merseyside overnight to take up a position on the bench - alongside Jermaine Pennant, who had recovered sufficiently from a midweek hamstring strain to figure in the squad.
Manchester City brought in Nedum Onuoha for his first senior start of the season, with Georgios Samaras dropping to the bench alongside former Liverpool star Dietmar Hamann.
England boss Steve McClaren was in the directors' box - interested, no doubt, in Micah Richards playing on the left of midfield.
City defended with organisation and resilience and restricted Liverpool to only a few genuine chances.
Peter Crouch wasted one opening after taking too much time and too many touches before lifting a shot over Nicky Weaver's bar, having been set up by Dirk Kuyt.
Then Bolo Zenden saw a 20-yarder drift wide, before Gerrard went much closer from a similar range.
City were neat and quick on the break and responded when Claudio Reyna sent a long ball for Hatem Trabelsi down the right - but as he reached the area, he rushed his effort and put the ball into the Kop.
The visitors went closer when Barton put Richards in on the right, his pass inside finding Bernardo Corradi who shot wide across goal after a clever drag-back gave him the space for a shot on the edge of the box.
Liverpool should have taken the lead when Hyypia's 60-yard cross-field pass dropped into the box for Luis Garcia, who did the hard part by producing perfect control from a difficult angle but then managed to hit the side-netting from six yards.
Benitez opted to replaced Luis Garcia with Pennant on 59 minutes.
The hosts reverted to a 4-4-2 system, with Jamie Carragher at left back, but almost immediately City wasted a good chance when Darius Vassell surged at the heart of Liverpool's defence. The ball was only partially cleared to Corradi, who fired a low drive just wide.
Liverpool then sent on Robbie Fowler for Crouch on 65 minutes.
But two minutes later Kuyt robbed Distin, and Gerrard surged on to the ball and blasted it past Weaver from 20 yards.
That goal was hard on City, so much effort having gone into their defensive defiance. But they now had to put more into attack, and Samaras was sent on after 74 minutes in place of Unuoha.
Barton was leading the fightback, taking on Gerrard and driving City forward. Samaras forced Jose Reina into a save at his near post, and Reyna brought the Spanish goalkeeper to his knees from 25 yards.
City sent on Stephen Ireland for Trabelsi on 85 minutes, Liverpool replacing Kuyt with Bellamy three minutes later - and the Anfield side managed to see out the final seconds. -
Lucky win, I said.
Too many of their final passes are too high and easily cut out by Distin/Dunne. They shall employ more passes on the ground.
If not for Dirk Kuyt's tenacity to win the ball for Gerrard, this match is a boring draw.
Oh yeah, %#!%!#%#!% Garcia. -
A win is a win . No matter what is said , three points in the bag .
The talking point is not about the scoreline , the talking point is , how we won ? The main caused is that Stevie Gerrard is deploy in his favourite position , and that is where he excel , and that's how we won the game . -
garcia can be a real liability at times
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Haiz.Originally posted by used:garcia can be a real liability at times
Gotta agree with you on this.
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garcia can only play in european matches lah......
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garcia is barcelona's style of attacking. cause liverpool squad no quality
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Come on.. Lets be fair...Originally posted by used:garcia can be a real liability at times
I too had a fustrating time watching Garcia playing on Sat..
But he did come up with impt goals at big matches..
Rem the goals he scored during our run to CL glory?
or the goal vs Chelski in the FA Cup semi?
Lets not condemn him when he had a poor game and prasie him when he play like a match winner... Even our reliable Stevie G have bad days as well.. -
Talking 'bout this chap Luis Garcia , i thought u people is used to his usual style of losing possession ?
I'm use to it now .... but funny enough ..... this chap u just give him half a chance , and ...... he is more likely to score out of the blue , sometimes .
he can be one dumb-s in the middle of the pitch , but when he position himself just behind the two front-men , he can be lethal , very lethal in his movement .
Make it this way , this chap has too much of a footballing brain , too fast , not too useful in the EPL though .