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Do you watch the game between Spurs and Liverpool?!..I am really disappointed with the way Liverpool played in the first 45 minutes. Lucas & Masch are the same type of midfielder alright. Aquilani are out till October. So better Gerrard drop to midfield and Babel/Voronin/Pacheco/Kuyt as the behind Torres.

See the stats below last season.

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August

15 Tottenham (A)

19 Stoke (H)

22 Aston Villa (H)

29 Bolton (A)

September

12 Burnley (H)

19 West Ham (A)

26 Hull (H)

October

3 Chelsea (A)

17 Sunderland (A)

24 Man Utd (H)

31 Fulham (A)

November

7 Birmingham (H)

21 Man City (H)

28 Everton (A)

December

5 Blackburn (A)

12 Arsenal (H)

16 Wigan (H)

19 Portsmouth (A)

26 Wolverhampton (H)

28 Aston Villa (A)

January

9 Tottenham (H)

16 Stoke (A)

26 Wolverhampton (A)

30 Bolton (H)

February

6 Everton (H)

9 Arsenal (A)

20 Man City (A)

27 Blackburn (H)

March

6 Wigan (A)

13 Portsmouth (H)

20 Man Utd (A)

27 Sunderland (H)

April

3 Birmingham (A)

10 Fulham (H)

17 West Ham (H)

24 Burnley (A)

May

1 Chelsea (H)

9 Hull (A)

The Reds amassed their highest points total ever in the Premier League (86) beating the 82 set in 2005-06. It is our highest in the league since 1987-88.

The total of 86 points is more than we needed to clinch 12 of our 18 league titles (all seasons based on three points for a win).

We won 14 points against the other members of the ‘Big Four’. It was as many points as we had won against Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United in the previous three seasons put together.

Liverpool scored 77 league goals this season – our best since 1990-91 when we also scored 77, and finished second in the title race to Arsenal.

16 players scored in the league this season – one fewer than the club record set in 1911-12.

We finished the campaign with a goal difference of +50 – our best for 21 years when we amassed +63 in 1987-88.

The Reds went through a league campaign at Anfield undefeated for the 10th time in their history and for the first time since 1987-88.

We extended our unbeaten run of league games at home to 30 – the best run for 28 years and equalled the fourth best sequence in our history.

We amassed seven more points than when we last won the title in 1989-90 (then it was 79).

We equalled the club record set in 1904-05 by winning 13 away league games.

Liverpool amassed 43 away points this season – the most in our history.

We finished the season averaging 2.26 points per game – the second best ever average in our 94 seasons in the top-flight. The best is 2.33 points in 1978-79 (98 points from 42 games based on 3 pts for a win).

We scored at least three goals in five successive league games for the first time since 1987.

And we netted at least three goals in six successive games in all competitions for the first time in the club’s history.

We only lost two league games this season – our best record since 1987-88 when we also lost twice. That season we drew 12 games but still won the title by nine points from Manchester United.

We became the first team ever to lose only two games in a season and not go on to win the league. Chelsea in 2007-08, 2006-07 and Nottingham Forest 1978-79 were all runners-up having lost three games.

Liverpool ended Chelsea’s 86-match unbeaten home record with a 1-0 victory at Stamford Bridge.

We recorded the club’s first league ‘double’ over Chelsea for 19 years.

A Yossi Benayoun goal ensured we became only the second English team to win in the Bernabeu.

And at Anfield we inflicted upon Real Madrid their biggest ever Champions League defeat as we went goal crazy with a 4-0 win.

Overall we sent Madrid crashing to their heaviest two-legged European defeat in the knockout stages for 20 years.

We recorded our biggest win at Old Trafford for 72 years. It was also the first time four Liverpool players had scored at United in the same game.

Rafael Benitez broke Bill Shankly’s record of 65 European matches as Liverpool manager.

The boss also broke Bob Paisley’s record of 40 European wins.

Rafa recorded his 100th league win as manager in his 181st game. It was the 3rd quickest ever by a Liverpool manager and 50 games faster than Alex Ferguson.

Liverpool have lost only six league games in total in the last two seasons. Manchester United have lost nine. Arsenal have also lost nine and Chelsea eight.

Liverpool finished the season as leading scorers in the Premier League. They scored 77 compared to Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal, who all scored 68.

The Reds boast the highest goals per game average of any team in all four divisions in England (1.93 goals per game) and will finish the season as such unless one of the following happens – Manchester United score nine in the Champions League Final or Chelsea score six in the F.A. Cup Final.

What a night at Theatre of Dreams….Spanking the home team was an unexpected event as Liverpool bounce back from Ronaldo’s the diver penalty. Thanks to Vidic who is the home team culprit let the ball bounce. Torres rob the ball from him and beat Van der Sar.

Torres again set up Gerrard but the skipper brought down by Evra in the penalty box and referee points to the spot. The Red Devil are behind for the first half..The second half prove Liverpool giving a hard time for the EPL leader. Pressure is mounting, Red Devil put Scholes,Giggs and Berbatov on. It doesnt matter as Vidic again bring down Gerrard just about 4 metres from penalty box who was about to make a thunderbolt from the ball. Vidic red carded..Seems Gerrard to take the free kick but Aurelio swing the ball pass the wall and goal keeper..1-3 it is!!!..Liverpool is in wonderland!!..

Finally Reina’s goal kick found Dossena and he lob the ball over Van der Sar and makes it 4-1!!..Liverpool in the driving seat!!!.. Liverpool won one of the most important battle in a war..

Liverpool may have won the FA Youth Cup in 2006 and 2007, but Benitez’s transfer dealings don’t suggest the next Steven Gerrard is going to be unearthed any time soon.

The Liverpool youth set-up, which became the Anfield Academy in 1999, used to be a production line of top class players. Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Robbie Fowler, Michael Owen and Steve McManaman all learned their trade in Liverpool’s youth teams.

They were nurtured by former Reds winger Steve Heighway and learned exactly what it means to be a Liverpool player.

‘The Liverpool Way’ – a ‘holistic’, ‘player-centred approach’ – is still, apparently, the way of life on Merseyside, but where is the next generation of home-grown talent?

Since Liverpool won the 1996 FA Youth Cup with a team including Carragher, David Thompson and Michael Owen, which young Scousers have graduated to become Anfield legends? None.

What went wrong?

Heighway retired from his role as academy director in May 2007 after 19 years of coaching at the club.

The man who won four league titles, two European Cups, two UEFA Cups and an FA Cup during an 11-year playing career at Anfield walked away with some parting verbal shots at Rafa Benitez, particularly with regard to the manager’s attitude towards the youth set-up.

Reserve football was ‘meaningless’; managers are under too much pressure to try young players at first-team level and Heighway, the self-confessed ‘best coach of 17- and 18-year-old players in this club’, should be left to do his job.

But the rot had set in long before Heighway’s departure. Fowler and McManaman were followed by the golden generation of Owen, Carragher and Gerrard, as well as players such as Thompson, Joey Barton, and Dominic Matteo. But after that, well, what did happen to Anfield’s great hopes? Sportsmail looks at the shining lights who couldn’t cut it at Liverpool.

The Sheffield-born striker and son of former Manchester City player Ian Mellor progressed through the ranks at Liverpool, scoring goals aplenty for the Under 19 and reserve sides before getting his chance in the first team.

In August 2003 Gerard Houllier sent the promising centre forward to West Ham for a year-long loan, but injuries undermined Mellor’s spell in London. He returned to Anfield, where Champions League football and a long-range winner against Arsenal in front of the Kop followed. A knee operation to cure tendonitis saw the striker spend most of 2005 on the sidelines.

A loan spell at Wigan Athletic followed, before Mellor moved to Preston North End in 2006. Injuries have restricted the appearances of the centre forward, now 28, at Preston and he has been most effective as a substitute.

Liverpool picked up Guthrie when he was 16, after the player had been released by Manchester United. He made just three first team appearances for Liverpool, all as a substitute, and was sent on loan to Southampton in March 2007.

A season’s loan at Bolton Wanderers followed and Guthrie showed he was a Premier League player by making 27 appearances for Bolton in the top flight. He then joined Newcastle United in July 2008, apparently at the bequest of Kevin Keegan (unusual in Newcastle’s transfer dealings), and has established himself as a first-team regular at St James’ Park.

Guthrie’s rash challenge on Hull City’s Craig Fagan in September, which broke the player’s leg, was a low point, but the midfielder has proved to be a useful signing for Newcastle.

The Ormskirk-born defender was a promising graduate of the Liverpool Academy and was called up to train with the first team squad in 2001.

Loan spells at Bradford City and Coventry City, where he picked the supporters’ player of the season award in 2004, followed, and Warnock was rewarded with a first-team debut in Liverpool’s Champions League qualifier against Sturm Graz in August 2004.

Warnock then became a useful member of Benitez’s squad, making 20 Premier League appearances in 2005-06, for example, but joined Blackburn Rovers in January 2007.

The defender has become a first team regular at Ewood Park and won his first England cap against Trinidad & Tobago in June 2008.

Those are three of many who “failed” to be Liverpool regular. Well..Hope that if Rafa extend his contract, he will give the youngster a chance to prove themselves.

source: www.dailymail.co.uk

Well-well…My favorite team, Liverpool FC beat Real Madrid 1-0 at Bernabéu. Benayoun was the hero heading Aurelio’s free kick from the left side of Real Madrid goal. Furthermore my UEFA Champion League fantasy team score 79 points. The point was mostly from Ribery who score two goal in Bayern winning match against helpless Lisbon.

I didn’t watch the full match because my housemate who are Old Lady die hard fan want to watch his club play and beaten by Chelsea 1-0. I really hope that Torres will score but he seems to be struggling in the game because he is sustaining ankle injury.

Hope that Liverpool FC will win UEFA Champion League and EPL back to Anfield!!!.

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