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Liverpool’s chances to qualify for next season’s Champions League took another hit with a its first-ever loss to Wigan.
The loss left Liverpool in sixth place in the Premier League with 48 points, one behind Tottenham and Manchester City.
Hugo Rodallega was the hero for Wigan, scoring after a giveaway by Dirk Kuyt. The three points for Wigan moved them up to 14th place and four points clear of the relegation zone.
Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez, as expetced, was not happy after the game saying:
photo credit: Jonathan Gill
Things are look “up” in Red Country…
Rafa Benitez says that Liverpool can’t really take any more slip-ups if they want to finish in 4th place in the EPL and vault themselves into the Champion’s League next season. He makes a good point, but perhaps now I think he has realized the error of his ways and decided to make this as positive as possible.
He knows–I think–that all the griping earlier in the season just made things harder and Torres talking about needing more playmakers was completely worthless.
Arsenal have overtaken Chelsea in the ‘rich list’ of European clubs. Moving up to fifth place on the list.
The Deloitte Football Money League has Real Madrid and Barcelona in the top two spots but mainly due to the continuing decline of the pound against the euro. The Deloitte list is based on clubs’ revenue excluding transfer fees.
Arsenal moved ahead of Chelsea as the Gunners recorded a 7% rise in revenue to £224 million compared to Chelsea’s’ £20 6million – a 3% fall in revenue.
Dan Jones, partner in the sports business group at Deloitte, said:
The bull’s gonna get taken by the horns if Rafa has anything to do with it.
Rafa Benitez REALLY has a man-crush on Fernando Torres. First, he said he was walking if Liverpool sold him. Now he’s saying that he’s got a “special relationship” that will protect his man-crush during the World Cup. Huh?
You know how guys go off to war and they ask their buddy to look after their wife and kids? Or, a dude says, “You take good care of them for me!” Yeah, this is what that sounds like. It’s a little creepy.
Robert Mancini was brought in to manage Manchester City for one reason. To get them into the Champions League this season.
After a hot start under Mancini, Manchester City has reverted back to what they were under Mark Hughes. City is an above average team, but they are not a good team.
Man City are 1 point above Liverpool heading into this weekend’s huge clash, albeit with a game in hand. But City’s lead should be so much more.
Please think before you speak…
It appears that Harry Kewell’s agent is a little upset at the treatment his client received while a player at Anfield for (my favorite) Liverpool Reds. Yeah, as many times as I have trashed this team it seems that there is a never-ending supply of ammunition that they freely provide to those of us who would question them.
I’ve said their front office is inept, their coach has publicly admitted he can’t coach, now their coach might go to Italy, their superstar is soliciting new players through the press and on his own time, they have an injured captain, and now their medical staff is being called into question.
Liverpool fans need to be careful with their expectations…
Rarely do we see a team’s fortunes rise so quickly under the management of an unfit manager and with a superstar who is so disrespectful to his other teammates that he’d suggest the team pick up some of his Spanish countrymen because “he need help”.
I’ve already spoken my peace about this so I won’t go back there, but somehow the Reds have moved to within 10 points of Chelsea who sits in first and 1 point from Tottenham in 4th place.
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Do they really want to fly this banner with Rafa at the healm?
With general sentiment in Italy being that Juventus manager Ciro Ferrara is about to get the axe word has surfaced that the Italians may want to draw Rafa Benitez away from Anfield to come to Italy.
I’m not sure what the motivation behind wanting Benitez is. We know that Juve is disappointed with their performance in the Champion’s League and underperformance for even 5 seconds can get you fired as a manager in European Soccer.
Liverpool got their challenge for a Champions League place back on track with a deserved 2-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield.
With Fernando Torres injured, Dirk Kuyt took over the goal scoring duties for Liverpool, scoring in the sixth minute and then wrapping things up with a penalty in stoppage time.
The result moves Liverpool up to sixth, just a point behind Spurs, who remain fourth.
This was one of Liverpool’s better performances this season and the score could have been much higher as both Kuyt and Sotirios Kyrgiakos both missed great chances to finish off Spurs early in the game.
Fernando opened his mouth and inserted his foot…
Fernando Torres, who is out 6 weeks with an injury, is calling on the brass in Liverpool to sign either David Silva or David Villa. Now, from a purely emotional perspective I can understand this call for a signing. Who wouldn’t want to play with his countrymen who also play with you on your national club? I can understand the desire to get more familiar faces around, but why would Torres make this call public?
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