Tuesday, January 9, 2007

Aww man, the Gunners again!

Well, damn those gunners !! Two games in a row, both at Anfield, and Liverpool gets thrashed! Hard to believe it, but it really seems like the new year has brought more luck to the Gunners than to us.

For those who havent been keeping score, Arsenal first beat Liverpool on Sunday in the FA Cup third round game - 3-1 at Anfield. Then today, they went ahead and beat us again at Anfield, this time its the Carling Cup quarter final and its 6-3 !! Nasty!! Julio "Beast" Baptista scored 4 goals!! He had only scored once before this season, and this was his 14th appearance. According to the match reports though, Jeremie Aliadere, the French kid was the real star for Arsenal, scoring one and creating 3.

Whats really shocking though is that the Liverpool defence has now given away 9 goals in 2 games, both to Arsenal!! From the match reports again, looks like Jerzy Dudek may just have played his last game for Pool. Also, Gabriel Palleta had a nightmare game. Plus both the wasteful Luis Garcia, and Mark Gonzalez had to be stretchered off the ground, so thats worrying news for Rafa.

Its not just a matter of losing two games though. This now means that the only silverware we can win this season is the Champs League. And I am not betting the house on that yet, there's Barca waiting round the corner. On the flip side, now we have two less competitions to worry about, maybe Rafa can reduce the tinkering which caused so many problems early in the season. Concentrating mainly on the Premiership, perhaps just perhaps... we can catch up with Chelski and ManUre. Here's hoping!

We will have a much simpler fixture list now compared to Chelski, Manure and Arsenal. Can that help push us to a higher level in the league? I feel we have probably slipped too much already this season to make any sort of attack on the title, but have we slipped too far off beating Chelski to the runner-up spot?? I dont know, its just 8 points, and theres 16 games to play. By the time we travel to Barca on the 21st of Feb, we will have played 5 league games... if we can have collected all 15 points by then, I'd say we might just be breathing down Chelsea necks then. Chelsea would have played 7 games in that period, Manyoo 6 games and Arsenal a whopping 9 games! Could that be to Liverpool's advantage?

Oh by the way, to get the 15 points before the CL second round away game against Barca, we need to win three away games - Watford, West Ham and Newcastle - and two home games - Chelsea and Everton. I see all of those games as potential defeats for Liverpool, especially if Rafa does not tighten his team up and get them focussed again. But at the same time, I do think we can beat them all too. Chelsea and Everton will be the toughest obviously, even though they are home games. But WH and Watford are both in the relegation zone, Newcastle are on the rise (sort of), so all the games are hard.

But we can do it! I believe in Rafa and Stevie G, and the whole Pool team. Go Liverpool!!! Keep following this blog for updates from Anfield!

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