Since the Premier League began, we’ve won there just once. In fact in our entire history we’ve won just 15 times in 81 attempts on the red half of Merseyside. Not good.
The annoying thing is I already have a suspicion of how the game will pan out today, a suspicion born out of years of going to Anfield and under-performing under various different managers and with various different teams. Whatever it is, it just seems as though there is something that will always get in the way of us giving a good performance at Anfield and that must change today if we are to get anything out of the game.
This Liverpool team are far removed from the all-conquering sides of the past. They simply aren’t as good as they once where and should be there for the taking. There is no reason why we can’t get a result there today, but I just feel that we won’t. Call it pessimism if you like…
My match preview is online and can be viewed by clicking here should you wish to have a gander at it. It features injury news for both sides, a brief history of meetings between the two sides and some stats and facts for your delectation.
The game itself is being beamed all around the world and is being showed live on Sky here in the UK. I don’t envisage there being an issue with finding a stream should you need to, but if any of you guys happen to find an especially good one then please feel free to leave a link to it in the ‘comments’ section below. As ever team news will be added in full at the bottom of this article as and when it becomes available.
Which just about wraps it up. Lose and we’ll stay where we are. Draw and we’ll stay where we are although we’ll move level on points with West Brom above us. Win however and we’ll jump to sixth in the table, and with games coming up against West Ham, Swansea and Wigan at St James’ Park with trips to Southampton and Stoke sandwiched between, a positive result could be a massive springboard for us.
Howay the lads!
Liverpool: Brad Jones, Andre Wisdom, Martin Skrtel, Daniel Agger, Jose Enrique, Joe Allen, Steven Gerrard, Nuri Sahin, Suso, Raheem Sterling, Luis Suarez
Subs: Peter Gulacsi, Jamie Carragher, Sebastian Coates, Jonjo Shelvey, Jordan Henderson, Oussama Assaidi, Stewart Downing
Newcastle: Tim Krul, Vurnon Anita, Steven Taylor, Fabricio Coloccini, Davide Santon, Hatem Ben Arfa, Yohan Cabaye, James Perch, Jonas Gutierrez, Papiss Cisse, Demba Ba
Subs: Steve Harper, Mike Williamson, Shane Ferguson, Danny Simpson, Gabriel Obertan, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi
Hmmm…. Anita in ahead of Fergie. At least i fricking hope he’s in at RB and not in centre mid
M(Quote)
Anita at RB. Could have a hard time against Sterling.
Howay the Lads.
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Pleased Ba and Cisse are in but not gonna lie, I’m disappointed with the midfield selections again, not enough creativity in there for me. No offence to Jonas but I’d have sooner seen Fergie or Sammy out on the left.
Fingers crossed …. HWTL
Sharpy17(Quote)
COME ON LETS FKIN AV UM
hitman(Quote)
hopefully Fergy will get on at sometime
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Jonas is the undropable man 😕
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
M he is in as FB as Simmo is not in the team and they have it as 4 4 2
Big Dave(Quote)
the sky lineup has both of the teams going 433, wonder if we will stick to that
Simon(Quote)
We need Cabaye and HBA to find their scoring boots.
Cant rely purely on Ba n Cisse
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
So, two full backs and two wingers on their opposite feet. Plenty of width in our side 😆
Newkie(Quote)
Sharpy maybe Jonas is there to help out in defence because he is the hardest worker in the team, but even though im a massive Jonas fan I think we need to see if Fergie offers more offensively because after all thats what a LW is about 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
We just never do well here! Why?
Sterling, Gerrard (who always seems to have a good game against us) and Suarez are their danger men.
Fancy HBA to have a good game against Enrique. Also fancy Cisse first goal.
Stuart79(Quote)
Simon the clubs official twitter has it as >
#NUFC (4-4-2) v #lfc: Krul; Anita, S.Taylor, Coloccini (c), Santon; Ben Arfa, Perch, Cabaye, Gutierrez; Ba, Cisse. #newcastle #epl
Big Dave(Quote)
Big Dave, I’ll go with that the, much more likely. Shame as 433 would have been good, we just have to hope
Simon(Quote)
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ste(Quote)
My sources on Twitter yesterday were correct with their team. Simpson not in the squad (don’t know why) and Saylor restored.
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
Need to keep Suarez quiet today , him and Sterling.
Johno Toon(Quote)
And we need to attack their right back Wisdom , he was awful against Everton last week
Johno Toon(Quote)
Simmo replaces Bigi on the bench
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
TLR yeah thats right you did say that did you hear owt about Simmo ?
Big Dave(Quote)
Agree about attacking wisdom, which is why I think we should have Fergy on the park.
Beardsleys Boots(Quote)
Yeah BB I see that 😕
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave
All I heard was he was not at the team hotel. Could be for a million and one reasons. Family might be unwell or anything.
Toby le Rhone(Quote)
Good point BB , fergie would have a lot of joy against him. He is certainly the weak point in their defense
Johno Toon(Quote)
Dave – no problem with that, I agree with Jonas being a good grafter. I wanted him in the middle with Cab and one of the young uns wide mate.
4-3-3 sounds interesting with Santon and Anita at full back tho. I’d have Perch stick to Suarez as well, get under his skin and wind him up a bit.
Sharpy17(Quote)
I don’t really like having to switch defenders around, but full back seems to be Anita’s best position atm so here’s hoping he can have a good game.
Newkie(Quote)
Fully expecting to get beat with the usual **** Anfield perfomance.
Then I won’t be disappointed…………….. 😈
TonyGreenSupreme(Quote)
Keep young Sterling and the Racist shackeled and we might just snatch as point. 😉
KIMTOON(Quote)
TGS – Indeed. As sure as night follows day we’ll lose at Liverpool away 😥
toonsy(Quote)
TGS fk that its aboot time we got a win here like
hitman(Quote)
Play Mr Peperoni as a DF only and give Cabaye licence to get forward to support the Demba’s.
TonyGreenSupreme(Quote)
Toonsy/HITMAN,
What is most annoying is that we never appear to turn up at Anfield, we just seem to roll over, 👿
TonyGreenSupreme(Quote)
TGS and Toonsy thats why I hate this game 😥
Big Dave(Quote)
aye thats a pisser like,but i reckon we will go at them the day like
hitman(Quote)
Here we go SKY showing the 4 – 3 defeats,
TonyGreenSupreme(Quote)
Fuk sky really do love a liverpool love in 👿
Big Dave(Quote)
TGS – Exactly. That’s what I’m trying to get across to those who kneejerk if and probably when we lose today. Better teams and better managers than we have currently have suffered the same fate. It’s like a curse 😆
I have no idea what it is but Liverpool just always find an extra gear or three against us and players that play ***** seem to hit 150% of their game against us, like Gerrard for example 👿
toonsy(Quote)
Sky banging on about our lousy record at Anfield 🙄
KIMTOON(Quote)
we need to hit them with an early goal 6th place is up for grabs
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave – Have you seen the trailer for that Liverpool sitcom/documentary on one of the US channels? Think it’s called “Being Liverpool” or something like that. Cringeworthy. They even have the big movie voiceover guy doing the advert with real shitty bits like “Brendan doesn’t know what biscuits to dunk in his drink, what will he do? Tune in at blah blah blah”:lol:
toonsy(Quote)
I’m pretty sure Gerrard will score. Hoping Cisse cancels it out.
Wellington(Quote)
Simpson is on the bench now in place of Bigirimana. I’ll change it now.
toonsy(Quote)
I have the belief in this newcastle team to make history. do rmb this newcastle team create quite a few history at different grounds since last season.
Time to end anfield losing jinx. 😈
AngelOfDeath(Quote)
Feel the butterflies in my stomach , I think we are going to do them! Stuck in work til 5 but will get in to catch second half. 2-0 to us today , Ba and Ben arfa
Johno Toon(Quote)
Toonsy I haven’t seen it but I have heard a few Liverpool supporters that have said its so embarrassing 😀 and makes them look stupid, I seen a tiny clip of Buck shouting at some kid about talking 😳
Big Dave(Quote)
Dave – I’ve not watched it but watching the advert was cringy enough 😆
By the way you’ll have to wait for the match report. It won;t be up until tomorrow. I’m doing an overnight trip to Belgium this evening and start when the game finishes. Sorry 😉
toonsy(Quote)
Yeah, Being Liverpool FC. It’s fucking hilarious, great watch 😆
Newkie(Quote)
Newkie – You’ve seen it then I take it?
With no disrespect at all, because there are some footy mad Americans out there, I think it’s aimed as it is because football is still a pretty emerging sport over there so everything is broken down a bit more.
toonsy(Quote)
C’mon then lads ,you can do it.
KIMTOON(Quote)
God I fucking hate Liverpool 😆
toonsy(Quote)
Wheres Richie the link man 😀
http://www.footballstreaming.info/streams/todays-links/index.html
Big Dave(Quote)
Ref blow the whistle to get this ***** song off 😆
toonsy(Quote)
Anyone got any links?
Newkie(Quote)
Enrique looks like the guy off American History X.
Must be all that time spent with Suarez.
toonsy(Quote)
How long as Enrique been looking like a thug 😆
KIMTOON(Quote)
Ah well. Only 87 minutes to go 😥
toonsy(Quote)
Toonsy-Yeah seen a couple of episodes. Don’t know about the adverts, but I know they have Clive Owen narrating it, to give it some sort of epic feel. Hilarious really, given how gash they’ve been. Some really awkward moments about with him and Enrique in the early episodes too
Newkie(Quote)
That Sterling is already causing us probs ,Thank god for Collo
KIMTOON(Quote)
To be fair to Liverpool they’ve come flying out the blocks
toonsy(Quote)
Suarez you total **** 👿
KIMTOON(Quote)
a few hefty tackles going in so far
Big Dave(Quote)
They obviously want that 6th spot Toonsy 😉
KIMTOON(Quote)
Early exchanges not looking good.
TonyGreenSupreme(Quote)
Suarez is such a c@nt
Big Dave(Quote)
Krul is looking a bit flappy today :S
toonsy(Quote)
If we can keep them at bay for the first 20 25 mins the crowd might quieten down a bit .
KIMTOON(Quote)
Dave/Toonsy – if you get the chance, watch one of those Being Liverpool. It’s as cringeworthy as The Office, only David Brent was an invented character – Brendan Rodgers is serious as hell. There’s one where he shares a lift with Enrique – don’t say a word to each other.
It’s that ***** it’s brilliant!.
Sharpy17(Quote)
it would be great to hit them with a sucker punch
Big Dave(Quote)
We chasing our tails again ,hopeless in possesion 👿
KIMTOON(Quote)
Get over this opening without conceding and then hopefully we can get a foothold in the game.
toonsy(Quote)
Feckin Pards and his dumb promise. Why the hell is Cisse playing wide left?! He’s absolutely useless there
AndrewT(Quote)
with this many questions being asked of our defence,itis just a matter of time. Ba should drop imto mid and then we should just play possession football until we take the wind out of Liverpools sails
Michael12(Quote)
We could do with the ball at some stage.
Stuart79(Quote)
Good little bit of play there.
toonsy(Quote)
What links are people using? Can’t get anything stable….may have to head to the pub after all
Newkie(Quote)