The scoreline flattered us, Spurs should have beaten us by far more than 4-2. Our performance was devoid of any decent passes, movement, defending, and our strikers were left isolated throughout.

I can't help but feel sorry for the fans who actually paid money to go and watch the match, they must feel robbed. Click to continue reading...

Keane scored an excellent brace, and the confidence in his play was evident immediately after the first goal. This should relieve much of the pressure he has been feeling lately and result in more goals from him.

Of course, most of us would have loved for Keane to get his hat trick. Perhaps Gerrard wanted the same for him. Click to continue reading...

Atletico can whinge all they like about Gerrards dubious penalty claim, but the fact remains we were robbed of a legitimate penalty claim (deliberate handball maybe?) earlier in the half. Some people might point out that Carra also handled the ball in the penalty area but he had little or no control over that. Click to continue reading...

I feared Spurs might take some momentum from their 4-4 draw with Arsenal and that would impact our result. We've been lucky with some of our results this season but were unlucky not to win this one. Karma sucks sometimes.

Bringing Babel on for Keane seemed like an idea to keep Spurs at bay but in reality Babel had one of his off days and couldn't hold the ball up as well as Keane did. Click to continue reading...

Agger might have been a little rusty and it certainly showed at the start of the game against Wigan, but his cock up turned out to be a blessing in disguise. How he reacted to it speaks volumes about his attitude, he didn't hide, he went out and tried to make amends.

Agger truly adds a whole new dimension to our attacking play, no one brings the ball out of defence better than he does. Click to continue reading...

While the first half belonged to Manchester City who were deservedly beating us. The second half exemplified the belief and character present in our team to come back and win 3-2.

Comebacks are becoming a recurring theme for us this season. At times we didn't deserve them. But recently we've started playing attractive attacking football. Click to continue reading...

Too many unsettling rumours have been doing the rounds over the last week concerning Aggers future, with Real Madrid his main suitors. It's one thing for a player to say he's happy at a club and wants to stay but it's another thing for the manager to reinforce that.

Agger himself has said that he's not happy with his lack of playing time but he also fully accepts that he has to fight for us place. Click to continue reading...

How nice of Torres to return the favour he was gifted at Goodison Park, and set up Robbie Keane for his first ever goal for Liverpool. It was a pretty cool goal as well, under pressure (both on and off the pitch) yet he placed it beautifully into the bottom corner.

He can't be faulted for his workrate which was impressive up and down the pitch. Click to continue reading...

It's shocking just how easy a game this was for us. You wouldn't think this was supposed to be the Champions League at all considering the gulf in class. In fact it was so easy for the Reds that it was almost boring to watch.

At least there was a couple of standout moments, the obvious ones being Keane scoring his first (link), and Gerrard scoring his 100th. Click to continue reading...

I think I'll contradict my post yesterday where I stated that it doesn't really matter who scores, only that we win (link). The essence of it is still very much true, in that we just want the team to win, any way we can.

But there's serious positive effects for a player when he scores (not including OG's). Click to continue reading...

Apart from when we beat United, our form this season has been terrible, thankfully the results have been pretty good. The thing with derby days though, is that form generally goes out the window. The possibility of beautiful football is non-existant, and we expect physical battles.

Even though Torres & Keane have both been off form this season, it's Keane that bears the brunt of the criticism by the media. Click to continue reading...

This could be a double edged sword for Keane, if he scores, it should give him the confidence to relax and perform in subsequent games. On the other hand if he doesn't score against a team of Crewes calibre, that's bound to shatter his confidence even more than it already is.

This isn't the first and no doubt the last time that he has experienced goal scoring droughts. Click to continue reading...

Gerrard scored his 100th goal, only for the referee to disallow it for some unknown reason. It's one thing for the crowd to be labelled the 12th man, but when the referee is the 12th man, it's a bit of a sucker punch. Can't really blame the referee for 2 points lost though.

The harsh reality is we lacked the creativity required to carve open a stubborn Stoke City who were determined to defend for 90 minutes. Click to continue reading...