Liverpool v West Ham 13:30 12th August 2018 Match Thread

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  • HammerwombatHammerwombat
    Well that went well. I didn’t feel the need to concentrate after 20 minutes, so I got all my ironing done. Wilshire and Nobes both felt our pain ;nonono ;weep
    I hope we can settle over the next few weeks, we have some real talent in the squad, (Italian theatrics not needed). I hope the bloke who did the first weekends fixtures gets a really deep paper cut and then peels an orange.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Yeoldhammer said:

    I just get the horrible feeling we will be bottom of the table going into the second game week :(

    ;hmm

    There’ll be champagne being popped open in Colin’s household this evening as his side sits above ours
  • whupathmanwhupathman
    Arsenal city next, I have a feeling we may not be bottom :)
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    edited August 2018
    Well I guess it will be of consolation if we sit above Man City after that game is done
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Whose idea was it for Snodgrass to defend the near post at corners. What a flick on! but someone tell him to save it for the other end. ;angry
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    OCS @ 1.50 & Preston at 2.23.

    Nothing to be concerned about we still have until the transfer window closes to rectify the problem. Hang a minute we can't, not until January, & the bloke we got at the eleventh hour is supposed to be slow so won't add any dynamism to our midfield. Can't say we won't warned.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Although I maintain we don’t have a single DM good enough for the top half of the Prem, I don’t think Liverpool away is a fair game on which to judge this. Let’s see how good we are defensively against the likes of Bournemouth, etc
  • WhitehorsehammerWhitehorsehammer
    I for one are still confident of seeing a much improved side this season, disappointing result but against a very good side. I thought we tried to move the ball about quicker, i thought that Anderson worked hard and tracked back well. I got the feeling that against anyone other than a very top team we will do well. Too early for gloom and despondency.
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    Could it be that Pelle had written this game off as a dead cert defeat, and in light of a not very informative pre-season, decided to see what worked and what didn't, both in set-up and players.
    He's definitely got a lot to ponder on that performance.

    And as I write that, Unai Emery has just suffered his first goal against. ;biggrin
  • horshamhammerhorshamhammer
    Sanchez is going to have to be one hell of a player to fix our midfield.
  • adecokeradecoker
    The millions spent by Liverpool certainly seem to have led to an improvement in their defence from last season. They didn't concede a goal at home against West Ham. The attack though needs looking at - still only managed four.
  • OutcastLondonerOutcastLondoner
    Hard to take that much from that game, given the best attacking three have now been improved even more with Keita supplying them.

    But I said before that I'm worried about the slowness of a Noble, Wilshere, Rice midfield and I think we saw they can't really stand up to fast movement.
  • BubblesNeverDiesBubblesNeverDies
    slowness of a Noble ;ok
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    horshamhammer said:

    Sanchez is going to have to be one hell of a player to fix our midfield.

    The real concern is from what has been said he isn't! ;weep
  • MarkNobleLocalHeroMarkNobleLocalHero
    edited August 2018
    slowness of a Noble
    ;nonono
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    edited August 2018
    On the plus side we didn't lose at home...unlike Arsenal

    The only player who came out with any credit was Fabianski who was left exposed by the hopeless defending of the players in front of him.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I'd add Anderson to Fabianski as players who cane out with credit.
  • McHammerMcHammer
    I thought Yarms looked decent
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    I agree, I thought Anderson impressed.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    I've calmed down a bit and will concede that it's going to a little while for the team to play as we all want them to. My one real gripe and a few on here will agree, is our centre midfield is a glaring problem that is going to cost us quite few games unless we can fix it somehow.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    If noble and rice are our first choice in the centre of the park, I would say that is going to be a problem for us in quite a few games. Our talented forward line could be starved of the ball
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    For me Wilshere deeper makes more sense, but I fear that isn’t where he wants to play.
  • claretandblueskyclaretandbluesky
    I think that the disappointment is not so much we took nothing from the game but more that we failed to display too many positives.

    Next week will be far more revealing with regard what can be expected going forward,the defence will be under no where near as much pressure as today which will hopefully allow us to attack more ourselves and show what we have going forward rather than just trying to limit the immense power of the opposition as we were today.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Yeoldhammer said:

    I dont think we will keep out Liverpool but i want to see some attacking intent and actually get into the Liverpool half and give it a go.

    If we literally play football camped in our own half i will be disappointed

    ^ disappointed. We didn't do any attacking Allisson probably had the easiest debut for any keeper.

    .
  • EXETERHAMMEREXETERHAMMER
    It is easy to see why Bilic and Moyes went to five at the back. Will Pellegrini go the same way in the end?
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    No, he'll have the courage to drop Nobes.
  • PrestonHammerPrestonHammer
    I wouldn't be so sure Ironherb. If he thought Nobes was the problem he would have dropped him instead of Rice. Imo.
  • ianbishoplegendianbishoplegend
    I thought he would have put Zabaletta in instead of Rice.
  • OldCastleSwiftOldCastleSwift
    It was a strange performance really. Especially when you read Noble's comments in the week. 'We need to take the game to them, otherwise we'll lose'.

    We were very much 4-5-1 and carried very little threat. Antonio looked miles out of his depth and Anderson did more work in his own half than he did in theirs. Midfield looked slow and the whole team looked panicked every time we had the ball. I expected us to lose, but I thought we'd at least cause them some problems.

    That said, my biggest frustration is with whoever did the fixture list. Liverpool away, along with City, was the hardest start we could have got. The defeat immediately puts pressure on our first home game and already we're on the back foot. Bournemouth have been something of a bogey team of late and I'm actually quite nervous about it; it has Newcastle last season written all over it.
  • secrethammersfansecrethammersfan
    My twopence worth (all opinions my own, and probably all wrong, so don't argue):
    Fabiański looked good, and lent a lot of confidence to the defence.
    Ogbonna will be good when he starts playing.
    For me, Noble looked like he didn't belong in that team.
    I like watching Anderson when he has the ball.
    Watching West Ham in September will be a lot more fun than watching them in August!
    Sadio Mane is incomparable, but his hairstyle upsets me.
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