versus

Saturday ... 20th Sept 2008

10pm ...

Live CH-27

Venue : Anfield

Meeting between an English Giant and a minnow .

Should be an easy home win .

Base on our current form ..... where got problem ?

3-0 easily

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7614036.stm

Mr Mark Lawrenson's prediction .

I hope Robbie Keane nets his first goal for Liverpool.

I think the lack of goals is affecting his confidence at the moment.

Here are all the pre-match stats and facts ahead of Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with Stoke City at Anfield. <!-- END SYNOPSIS --><!-- START BODY -->

• Head to Head: (League only)
   
  
• At Anfield: Liverpool 41 wins, 9 draws, Stoke 3 wins.
   
  
• Overall: Liverpool 53 wins, 27 draws, Stoke 26 wins.
   
  
• The sides last met in the league in 1984-85. Liverpool won 1-0 at the Victoria Ground thanks to a late Ronnie Whelan goal.
   
  
• In the return at Anfield the Reds ran out 2-0 winners with Steve Nicol and Kenny Dalglish scoring.
   
  
• The clubs are meeting today for the first time since November 2000 when Liverpool won 8-0 at the Britannia Stadium in a League Cup tie with Robbie Fowler scoring a hat-trick. Only two players, Sami Hyypia (who scored) and Jamie Carragher, who played that night are still with the Reds.
   
  
• Liverpool have won the last 12 league meetings in a row at Anfield. Since losing 4-3 to Stoke here in March 1959 the Reds have won 23 and drawn one of the 24.
   
  
• The Reds biggest home win against today's opponents came in January 1902 when they won 7-0.
   
  
• In the top flight Liverpool have won 37 and drawn eight of the 45 games played against Stoke at Anfield.
   
  
• Home and away Liverpool have lost only one of the last 16. That defeat came in April 1984 when they went down 2-0 at the Victoria Ground with former Red Colin Russell scoring one of the goals.
   
  
• There have been two league hat-tricks scored by Liverpool players against Stoke. The first was from Andy McGuigan who became the first to score five goals in a game for the club as the Reds won 7-0 in 1902. The last came from Roger Hunt who netted four in a 6-1 victory on Boxing Day 1963. Both feats were achieved at Anfield.
   
  
• In all competitions Liverpool have won 46, drawn 10 and lost three at home to Stoke in 59 meetings.
   
  
• The last time the sides met on this ground Liverpool won 2-1 in a League Cup tie in October 1994 with Ian Rush scoring twice.
   
  
• Stoke will become Liverpool's 40th different opponent in the Premier League.
   
  
• Last Saturday Ryan Babel scored his eighth goal for Liverpool while appearing as a substitute. Only David Fairclough, with 18, has come off the bench to score more for the Reds.
   
  
• Steven Gerrard's next goal will be his 100th for Liverpool. He will be the 16th player to achieve the feat and the first since Michael Owen in December 2001. Kevin Keegan is immediately above Gerrard on the list with exactly 100 goals.
   
  
• Liverpool are three goals short of recording 1,000 in Premier League history.
   
  
• A win today will give Liverpool their best ever start to a Premiership season after five games beating the 12 points out of a possible 15 they amassed in 1993-94.
   
  
• Three points in this game will also give the Reds an 11th straight home league win - a feat last achieved in November 1985 when they won 13 in succession. Aston Villa were the last team back in January to leave Anfield with a point. <!-- END BODY -->

Ya man , i really hope our Keano break his duck .... confidence will built up like Crouch , i remember , against Wigan .

Originally posted by Poolman:

Ya man , i really hope our Keano break his duck .... confidence will built up like Crouch , i remember , against Wigan .

Yeah I rem tt game when crouch scored with a shot that was deflected so high over the keeper. But he scored a second in the game and the goals started to flow

Hope Keane does the same.

YNWA!

Dunno if Torres will be back ... not likely Benitez risked him for lowly team like Stoke City .

Hope Torres given a late run-in .

I think Ah Ben will field his second team to warm them up for the EPL.

Torres still need some time to recover his form.

As for Keane, he will earn a penalty or induce a yellow or red card.

Babel will score again.

this is precisely the reason why liverpool has not won the league for past 18 years.

3 points gained from man utd and they give it away to stoke city.

worse, while chelsea is playing man utd, it is the best opportunity to stretch the lead.

it would have been a sucker punch if not for reina.

29 shots.. not a single farking goal.

what second string ?

Ah Ben fielded almost the full squad , except Mascherano and Babel ...

Fielded a Gerrard-less and Torres-less , and beaten Man utd , full team cannot beat Stoke ?

the win against man utd is because of man utd off form, not we soooo good. that's why i always say, with or without gerrard, liverpool have no big differences. what we need is still a world class winger. see the game against stoke today, still the same thing, BORING ~

i still dunno why our 3rd minute goal disallowed for ?

Dossena ...urghhhh , i dun like him .

same old story ... hangover , at the win in France .

Haiz.

Is Liverpool starting to disappoint us again?

When we doubt them,they win.

When we expect them to win,they either draw or lose.

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Originally posted by Poolman:

i still dunno why our 3rd minute goal disallowed for ?

that goal is because of the rubbish kuyt, he was offsided and the lineman thought he touched the ball before it entered the goal. therefore, goal invaild.

Originally posted by Poolman:

Dossena ...urghhhh , i dun like him .

 

Dossena not bad leh to me. he is one of the better left back i ever seen in recent liverpool years. although true enough, riise is really good in his long shots and crossing, but he's slow in cutting into defenders, and don really know how to attack as a wing back. but this dossena different, he does know how to cut, and attack well, just abit of problem with his getting back and the way he play when he attack. torres seem to be suffering from 2nd season blues huh? lol

Originally posted by www:

this is precisely the reason why liverpool has not won the league for past 18 years.

3 points gained from man utd and they give it away to stoke city.

worse, while chelsea is playing man utd, it is the best opportunity to stretch the lead.

it would have been a sucker punch if not for reina.

 

29 shots.. not a single farking goal.

i totally agree with you. so stupid of liverpool to do that. fight so hard for that 3points against man utd, and when they got, they lost it easily to teams like stoke -.-

i desperately hope liverpool can have a world class winger. really. riera not bad, but his pace still need improvement. we need someone of quaresma playing style, can cut into defenders and is very pacy.

stoke played the right tactic. negative approach, but right tactic.

only team like arsenal could deal when visitor try to park a bus in front of their goal post. a few one-two is the only way to lure the defenders outta their hole.

with 11 defenders inside the penalty box, u try to attack with crosses and long balls? who have more heads near the goal posts?

Originally posted by www:

stoke played the right tactic. negative approach, but right tactic.

only team like arsenal could deal when visitor try to park a bus in front of their goal post. a few one-two is the only way to lure the defenders outta their hole.

with 11 defenders inside the penalty box, u try to attack with crosses and long balls? who have more heads near the goal posts?

 

but when you call yourself 1 of the top 4 of the best league in the world, you should be able to break this kind of tactic employed by this kind of teams. im sure chelsea aresenal or man utd wont have problems dealing with this stoke team we faced.

still ok la 0-0 .... we have a long way to go .... next May is still a long way . We still unbeaten in the league .

With a goal difference of 5-2 after 5 games, how can this statistic belongs to a team that stands atop of EPL? Even the bottom teams perform better - entertainment wise.

This ought to be the laughing stock of English football, oh man!

Liverpool? I don't know where they belong! But not in football arena, perhaps they should go back to shipyard building or churning out 3-chords hits.

Man o Man...

liverpool played like champions against man united but not against stoke. they need to get their act tgt and win regularly instead of wasting precious points on draws like previous seasons. pool actually lost v little matches if u look at the table, but the draws take up a large chunk. if they can draw fewer matches this season, then they will be serious contenders for the title.

When your top striker, your second striker and your third choice striker have become boo boo, you need to have patience.

The one person that can score a goal is stevie.

The rest of the strikers are lost when the ball is passed to them.

Hope they dun boo boo tomorrow morning against crewe.

Crewe may park 5 defenders in front of goal and play a lone striker.

Liverpool may rest the key players for this match as the star players are tired.