Thailand 1-1 Liverpool post match thoughts

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Full time 1-1.

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FFS Draw

Full time.

Bunch of arse.

Full Time A draw. Again.

Oh well, better performance no doubt about it. Still scrappy but those conditions were horrendous.

FT.

1-1.

I think some one has a crush.

Well he is rather gorgeous..... 

All over.

sh*t second half up until Torres and Riera came on, I agree with everyone who says our back up strikers aren't up to scratch. Babel had a decent first half, but nothing exceptional, N'Gog did nothing. Pacheco and Nemeth weren't bad either, but aren't quite there yet.

Torres looks very sharp, really hope he can stay fit next season, he's deadly. His acceleration is scary, and he was linking up well with everyone around him. Johnson looked promising again on the left, I wonder what he could do if he was on the right?

All in all, we started well but I was disappointed with the result. A bit sloppy at the back in the second half.

Bit worrying that none of the less established squad members are making a big impression.  Good to see the Spanish lads(barring Alonso) and Masch back though.  Torres especially looked sharp and thought Babel did very well.  Roll on Singapore.

Think we're just saving the wins for when the season starts.

Another sh*te result

Another sh*te result

Thanks, Shakespeare.

I know it's preseason and all but it's a little worrying that we have won games that we are expected to win.

Can't believe Voronin missed that good chance. I think Babel, Torres and Riera played well.

Big problems.

1. Skrtel, El Zhar injuries
2. Mascherano, Alonso and Arbeloa and their cosying up to Spanish clubs is a disgrace. Rafa needs to come out to say they're going nowhere. Whether they like it or not.
3. Gerrard court case
4. Owners have spent £0 this summer (Johnson fee more than paid for by Keane and Leto sale).  Those pair of pricks need to put their hands in their own pockets and buy us someone like Silva and a backup striker for Torres.

All in all - that was a woeful performance for the last 60 minutes.

De-F***ing-pressed.

Good to see the first pre-season at last for me.

It wasn't based on tactics but more of getting the players to be fit, that was the main concern. However we were sloppy in certain areas and didn't showed the motivation to win the game. Plessis didn't stamp his authority in the game, back four looking solid in the first half which is a a plus. We didn't really seem interested to play, but I thought the main concern was to get the players fit and develop understanding in each other.

I thought that Johnson did well, displayed good fighting skills. San Jose is a classy defender, great positioning and as always calm and composed on the ball good for his future. Didn't think that Jay Spearing played particularly well as well, but Masch was awesome in breaking play up.

Riera and Torres provided that extra spark but it was a little too late to make that impact. Still a good game, a little disappointed with the draw as I want Liverpool to win all the games. But the players clearly played in high humidity, made them sweat so much that it would probably open their eyes as to what kind of fitness levels they need to display more in the EPL.

Also glad for the games that after so long they are able to catch Liverpool in Asia! My turn from tomorrow

Oh well, better performance no doubt about it. Still scrappy but those conditions were horrendous.

Very true mate. Sums it up for me from what I seen.

Good to see the Spanish lads back. Especially Torres. Johnson impressed me again without having to do too much. Thought he'd bagged the winner right at the end.

Those conditions were tough though. Should have notched their fitness up a bit. Hopefully we can improve further after that.

The options up front are a concern though.

Sorry, two things a little off topic.

Firstly, they are playing youll never walk alone whilst doing carras interview around the stadium, which I thought was cool.

Secondly if you watched it on veetle has any one seen the advert with the two american sports guys are watching football then all the fit birds run in?mega.

Cant wait to see nando ripping through the premier league next year, looks so sharp!

The good thing is that we at last managed to score. Voronin didn't look great. He had a couple of great chances, but missed. The young defenders aren't ready to play in the 1st team yet. If Nando would have played more, I'm sure that we would have won.

Like any match there was positives & negatives to take from the game, admittedly it was only a friendly but I believe going into a new season the positives far out numbered the negatives and now the Spanish lads and Masch are back we may see results start to go our way.

Pre season going well then....

It was disappointing not to win that game today, lots of experimenting again by Rafa, I suppose the one consolation today was how sharp Torres looked, a huge positive for the season ahead.

I guess we weren't firing on all cylinders, and the humidity out there today won't have helped us one little bit.

Let's just try and look on the positive side and when we get our full team out, that's when we'll see how we can really play, the worrying thing is, what happens if we lose a first team player? Are our reserve team members up to scratch to step in? On today's performance and on the performances of the past two games, I would say not, which is a worry.

Let's hope the majority of our first teamers can stay mostly injury free this season, cos if not, in a word were stuffed 

Oh goody another fantastic result!

Torres especially looked sharp and thought Babel did very well.

Torres may have looked sharp coming on late in the second half just cause everyone else looked dull.
He did pump everyone up though.

We have 4 more games to go in pre season? I think someone who plays up front needs to realise they could push ahead of the pack if they pull their finger out.