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Liverpool v Arsenal: Line up announced

Posted by AnfieldRed-Admin | Posted in AnfieldRed, Players, Premier League | Posted on 13-12-2009

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Rafa Benitez has named his side to face Arsenal at Anfield, with Fernando Torres returning to the starting line up.

The team in full is Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Agger, Aurelio, Kuyt, Mascherano, Lucas, Benayoun, Gerrard, Torres. Subs: Cavalieri, Aquilani, Insua, Ngog, Degen, Skrtel, Dossena.

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Comments (17)

PATHETIC,PATHETIC,PATHETIC! RAFA OUT RAFA OUT WTF! is this bloke playing at! im so so pissed off with that useless piece of crap! ive just decided he is our worst ever manager!

What fucking manager puts 4 defenders on the bench! and only one striker if u can call ngog a striker we are struggling big time to put the ball in the net and yet there was no pacheco on the bench why didnt rafa start with aquilani is he ever gonna start him!!!

I dont care who comes in but rafa has to go im so embarrased to be a liverpool fan right now we are goin backwards its as simple as that! HOWS YOUR THOUGHTS ON RAFA NOW ROUMAN? what fcuking manager says our season starts now this man is fcuking DELUDED he really is! the PL table is looking scary from our point of view we even have the likes of birmingham one point behind us! u must agree rouman that bastard blokes time is up now he is doing this on purpose i agree with JB on his theory i cant get my head around RB naming 4 defenders on the subs bench in a home game! IM LOST FOR WORDS I REALLY AM I THOUGHT THIS WAS OUR SEASON BUT AS USUAL WE HAVE BEEN FUCKED OVER BY RAFA WHO IS ONE OF THE WORST MANAGERS IN THE PL if the yanks want to do something right then they have to sack rafa first thing tomorrow morning its just getting WORSE BY EVERY GAME WE PLAY surley we cant get anymore people praising RB coz those people are also deluded RAFA OUT!RAFAOUT!RAFA OUT! bring back kenny d please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on guys we cant keep going on like this we all need to pull together and get a petition done to get RB out coz ENOUGH IS ENOUGH now its gone on to long we are liverpool football the biggest brand in world football and this is what its come to has it?

Rafa benitez making us in to a laughing stock around the world he has embarassed us in the CL,CC,PL and to add insult to injury the fcuking EL! how u feeling now rouman let it all out mate,he’s our worst manager ill stand by that some may disagree which is there opinion but this is now a laughing matter coz thats what rafa has done to us turned us into a laughing stock i cant see no light at the end of the tunnel can anyone?

He just doesnt have no fight in him what so ever nor do we he has taken us down to his sad deluded level and its starting to rub off on the top stars he has nothing all he does on in the technical area is wave his hands around like a kid what fcuking MOTIVATION is that to your team we dont deserve this crap manager managing us its time he was moved on we got birmingham,fulham,stoke & sunderland all a point behind us and that is frightening i cant remember us doing so bad 4 sometime and all we can go for this season is 4th and going on performaces over the past month we aint got a chance the way we are going birmingham,fulham,stoke & sunderland will finish above us they seem to be playing better football than us at the moment rafa must surley know his time is coming to and end RAFA OUT!

its been a long road, i have done all i can to stand by rafa. he has given me one of the greatest nights ever in istanbul, me and many others no kev he is not are worst manger that goes to souness, and houiller. but i think it time he went today i seen grown men with tears in there eyes, because even at 1/0 like them i knew we were not going to win. i shouted my head off with others i tried every think , the team in the second half were not the team i know. i did somethink i have never done before i left with 15mins to go. heartbroken we cannot go on like this his time has come to a end, he needs to move on but unlike souness, and houllier i don,t hate him because i can,t but its time we all moved on i just think what that twat souness said about meltdown, well i hope i never see that because the true value of rafa,s going is close to 25/30mil because all his backroom staff are on big contracts too. were in a mess all around i am on the piss now and i will have tomorrow off work its time rafa go with some dignty….

Kev J – they still keep coming. On 5 Live tonight – he needs more time, blame the Yanks etc, etc, etc, etc,.

After £230M and 70+ players coming and going we are on a par with Birmingham and have lost more games than Stoke !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All true Liverpool Fans – including this site – must now do what’s is right for the Club – get the useless bastard out.

He has no idea what goes on in the final third of the football field – you just knew when Aquilani finally appeared he would take Mascherano off and not Lucas – bollocks to injuries – you knew he would do it – he should be sectioned.

A LOSER and A CLOWN

Anfield Red – we want a petition to get this tosser out !

I am more than happy to draft the page for the web petition – it’s our duty.

Aldo, St John, Souness, Redknapp, Ron Yeats – they can’t all be wrong whatever your opinion of each individual.

He hasn’t got it – the players know he hasn’t got it – the Premier League know he hasn’t go it – the time has come – pull together and get him out.

Otleyred that talk has to be coming from the deluded fans that think rafa cant do no wrong he is a loser and needs booting out, what i cant understand is otley that pacheco had a good 15 mins in CL he must of been on cloud 9 and thought to himself he deserved a place on the bench on sunday for all his work has come to nothing and his confidence has been SHOT TO PIECES AGAIN BY THAT USELESS TOSER WHO HASNT GOT A CLUE WHAT HE’S DOING WHY THE FCUK DID HE PUT 4 DEFENDERS ON THE SUBS BENCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! he is a total loser i agree with u otleyred and so will JB we have to stick together and get that useless piece of crap out of our beloved club us fans deserve much better than what that toser is giving us which is excuse after excuse and labelled us into a laughing stock any team that comes up against us will fancy there chances of beating us after our dire performances this season we are like a league 2 side just pumping the ball forward and no end product we are just crap!

Well done rouman you stuck to your guns hence why ya on the piss lol! maybe rafa isnt our worst manager i said that in the heat of the moment but houllier won more trophys than rafa has tho so we all agree that rafa has to go because this isnt getting any better for us its getting worse as each game we play the only thing i wanna know is how long will poulson or the owners leave it until they say enough is enough we gotta give him his marching orders when will that be do you think guys xmas? end of season? we are a sinking ship and going down fast we need a new manager to breath some new life in to us i wouldn’t say NO to mourinho or hiddink but if i had a choice id love to see kenny come back any ideas???

i have written to ask this site for a poll, on rafa. to see how many on herewant him out, i asked a while back but it was never done. now is the time as we all write on this site, ithink its time we were given one. kev mate houiller won fa cup coke a cola cup and ueffa cup not one worth the C/L. AND WE NEVER MADE THE GROUP STAGES WITH HOUILLER. allways got knocked out, as for souness he was the one who desroyed liverpool, the one who started the decline. selling are best players, beardsley, houghton, mcmahon, saunders, stauton, and the rest for dicks, paul stewart, kosma, and the rest of the shite he bought.a great player souness but a shite manager..

i have written to ask this site for a poll, on rafa. to see how many on herewant him out, i asked a while back but it was never done. now is the time as we all write on this site, ithink its time we were given one. kev mate houiller won fa cup coke a cola cup and ueffa cup not one worth the C/L. AND WE NEVER MADE THE GROUP STAGES WITH HOUILLER. allways got knocked out, as for souness he was the one who desroyed liverpool, the one who started the decline. selling are best players, beardsley, houghton, mcmahon, saunders, stauton, and the rest for dicks, paul stewart, kosma, and the rest of the shite he bought.a great player souness but a shite manager..

Well Well 4 all those who have seen light welcome to the struggle. At 13 points from the bottom and 13 points from the top the season is getting negatively interesting!!. With the Insulting RB i can surely say we are slowly walking down to the championship. i saw it come and forget about the top 4 and pray hard that we finish in the top 17!

May be RB is broke and wants the yanks 2 suck him and he gets the cash. Apart from RB i don’t see any reason why Lfc shouldn’t be wining.

How can a manager worth his name loose over 5 games in which he is leading 1-0 at half time!! Its really a joke. I looked at the players in the 2 half surely, like us are also waiting to hear one thing “RB has been sucked”. I swear RB looks doing it on purpose. His mistakes look so intentional. Why 4 defenders on the bench at home. his face makes me feel sick

I would love to hear what he tells the players at half time coz they come very demotivated in the 2nd half.
Yes and for the petition it should be drafted. Rafa has no f”king clue of what to do as a manager. He should have been sucked 15 min 2 the end of the Game and even chased away from the touch line!!. He has disgraced the reputation of Anfield!!

Hey rouman hows ya head this morning man,its good to have you on side rouman you know just as much as some others on here we just cant keep going on like this it has to come to an end and now the wigan game on weds has become more important than ever thats how far we have fallen from the top of the tree,and yet according to rafa the players are suffering from a crisis of confidence and who’s bloody fault is that he seems to be blaming everyone else but himself the fcuking loser! how we could of done with alonso on pitch yesterday and not in the crowd,and yet again it was all rafa’s doing getting rid of alonso im just SICK TO THE BACK TEETH OF THAT BLOKE EVEN THE SITE OF HIM MAKES ME SICK! and his pathetic excuse after excuse is wearing thin he’s had the money and fcuking blew it on buying 3rd rate players that aint good enough 4 the ressies let alone the first team what must gerrard be thinking playing with such crap like lucas,kuyt,degen,dossena,babel,ngog & voronin every week if i was stevie g id say something to rafa coz how else is he gonna get it into his thick,thick head that those above isnt good enough END OF… the owners HAVE to do something we simply CANNOT go on like this our situation is making me INSANE!

all right kev, head is not too bad the ideal situation would be for the yanks, and rafa to go. because we need a cleen sweep, dalglish for me or if the yanks went hiddick. i dont want klinsman, as for mourino how long would he last with the yanks? 2weeks? whatever happens kuyt, voronin lucas, deggan, dossena, should be sold. my mate the bluenose said rafa won,t be going nowere till summer, his lad plays for liverpool school boys. it kills him that he does, as you said wigan next and if this game is lost it will be the end for rafa, because even he will know that will be the last straw. i have left my mates rafa club because i cannot back him anymore nor will i back the yanks, who were stopped from getting in to anfield on sunday. by sos i know a few members. were in a mess but the players need to up there game they too should take some of the blame, sg looks a yard slow the defence need to play as a unit, not as indaviduals. they all need to up there game if he wants to play kuyt play him at fullback , or instead of lucas, but i would,t play him at all. yes i will be there on wens i will go and see if are team and manager can save themselves god i sound like a everton fan, me mates still think rafa will get it right without 50mil he never will. but thats there choice its not mine anymore. yes i still go to the game with them but my view haS CHANGED and thoe he still has a masive backing, at the end of the season it might be all eaten away. unless he pulls a rabbit out of the hat.

Benitez deserves the sack a manager caperbilities are judged on results alone, how many more excuses are we the supporters prepared to put up with ?
Why oh why do we need 2 defensive holding midfielders in a home game ? in the 1st half we should have been qwinning by 3, Arsenal then had 2 attacks scopred from both and then after that Liverpool were clueless. Just like bungling Beni, GIVE kING kENNY THE JOB TILL THE END OF THE SEASON AND TRY AND SALVAGE A TOP 4 SPOT.

Hey rouman mate rafa would need to pull out quite a few rabbits out of a hat to get us out of this shit he has put us in the thing that annoys me is that rafa plays 2 holding MF’S at home and then puts 4 defenders on the bench! im sure rafing thinks he’s playing football manager on the PSP or something! another thing about the game we didnt have one shot on target in 2nd half nor off target im gutted 4 pacheco not making the bench after a very good 15 mins last week who did more than kuyt did in the whole game why cant sammy or peligrino say something to him surely they aint that stupid aswell? its all obvious to see to thousands of fans yet one man cant see the problems we do its just MIND BOGGLING! id love 4 rafa 2 be gone b4 the wigan game rouman coz we all know this is our worst season under him and its gonna get worse there is no confidence in the side at all when do you say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH???? AND RAFA OUT!!!!

Managers get respect when they provide solutions when every body has failed. when they instill confidence in a team that has lost all the confidence and when they squeeze results out of an average squad.

Its us the fans to get all the excuses like blaming refs, the beach Balls and even blaming the voronins. We pay to watch the game so we have a right to blame any one for the loss.

On the contrary Rafa as a manager is paid to provide solutions not to start blaming!!. The only support he has been enjoying is because he did all the above in Istanbul and got the CL when every body had given up. Now he is almost making us believe it was a miracle. If he can do the unthinkable of wining the EPL this season then may be we would say again in Rafa we trust. But for now the earlier his show the exit the better 4 us and himself.

It looks like Rafa got it right players have lost confidence but not in themselves but in their manager and his tactics. Its good that the yanks were blocked because i have always wished them the worst period.

If everone is in agreement – where is the petition Anfield Red ?
This prick is making the Club a laughing stock – the papers today are painful.
I can’t make Wednesday and no one, absolutely no one wants my season ticket – how bad is this going to get ?
Enough is enough can we have a petition please ?

i have asked anfield red for a petition, this morning iam still waiting. after all we are the fans, we deserve a vote…

hi guys yet again we lose can i just say something here ?
for 1;moriano ppfff who wants him after wot happened & another thing; kenny would he really want 2 take over the big mess rb has got us in?it makes me feel very sick 2 my tummy knowing wot old fergie is saying abt us i bet ALL the prem managers r laughing at us now calling us useless i agree we need 2 get him out & fast then laural & hardy & all the other useless pieces of crap 2 follow we r supporters of a well loved world class team IT IS abt time WE HAVE OUR SAY
GET THE USELESS PIECES OF SHYTE OUT NOW GET THIS PETITION UP & I’LL SIGN THE BLOODY THING
i also noticed that arsenal were trying 2 injure our main players again rafa doesnt know how 2 play attack all he knows is defence,defence,defence we always go 1-0 up then fuck up at the back WE NEED HELP & FAST….