Fortress Anfield key to the rest of our season?

Since the 2-1 win over Bolton at Anfield on 1st January, LFC are unbeaten in four games at home, and looking at our six remaining home fixtures in the Premiership, these are the games we should be looking at to pick up maximum points and try and finish our season strongly.

Our last home game of the season is against Spurs on 15th May, which, if we keep our current good form up could help decide who gets the 4th Champion’s League spot, so hopefully by then Suarez and Carroll will have found their form and will have got us into a better position in the league than we are now.

Our remaining six games at home in the league are:

Wigan – 12th Feb
Man Utd – 6th March
Man City – 10th April
Birmingham – 23rd April
Newcastle – 30th April
Tottenham – 15th May

In an ideal world, we’d take 18 points from those games, and however there’s a chance we will draw a couple of them (Man City & Spurs IMO), so we’re potentially looking at 14 points from 6 games there, and taking points off Spurs and Man City in the process.

A win against Wigan *should* be a banker; the way we’re playing at the moment under Dalglish has been a complete turnaround to the football we saw under Roy Hodgson, we’ve tightened up at the back (4 clean sheets in a row) and are now attacking more; which in turn is exciting fans and getting people through the turnstyles again.

Tickets are still on sale for the Wigan game, once we’ve beaten them and Sparta Prague in the Europa League, the game against Man Utd will be a sellout – tickets will be like golddust, your best bet is to ask everyone you know for a spare, or failing that, try somewhere like TixDaq. The last time Utd game to Anfield, we won 2-0 thanks to goals from N’Gog and the now departed Torres, but as with derbies; the players are always fired up and I expect us to win that game.

After Utd we face Man City, who are going for the title themselves, but after turning us over at Eastlands 3-0 earlier in the season, when Roy listened to his sexist pal Andy Gray and played 4-4-2, along with Gerrard as a central midfielder, Liverpool will want revenge and will hopefully produce a performance similar to the one against Chelsea last weekend.

If we can get 7 points from those 3 games at home, the away games at West Ham, Sunderland and West Brom could also be games where we can build some momentum and go into our last games with confidence.

Birmingham and Newcastle will prove to be tough opponents, but by then we’ll have two decent strikers rather than one who sulks, and the 3-5-2 played in recent games could be common place in finishing teams off.

The other potential banana skin is Spurs at home, who will be trying to ensure they finish in the Champion’s League places again; but Kenny will want to go out with a bang at Anfield (IF he is not made permanent manager) and will want to give the fans a win, so I don’t expect us to sit back and let Bale and Lennon attack at us, I expect us to take the game to them.

There are 18 points up for grabs, and there’s no reason why we can’t take them all – we’re playing positive, attacking football, and we’ve got 2 strikers to come in and show us why we paid out for them in the January transfer window.

Let’s make Anfield a fortress again where teams come and get played off the park, and go home with no points gained.