Liverpool 1:0 Man Utd, In game and post match euphoria.

What a great performance from the lads. I  thought first half our possession game was brilliant, but we seemed to go back into defensive mode second half similar to the Villa game.

Great win against the old enemy and this will really give the players a massive boost in belief that they can improve on last year's campaign.
Special mention to Skrtel, Hendo and my MOTM Johnson, who made 2 goal saving blocks and put in a strong defensive display (almost out of character).
I hope Sturridge doesnt go play for England and gets some rest in time for the Swans.

Top of the league!!!

Just 30 more points until we're safe from relegation....

I kid

31... we all know its 40 points we aim for

Made up with that, The Kop was bouncing, could hardly hear myself think at times. We were never in any real danger of giving them a goal, heading into the international break with us top of the league, get in!

Well played yesterday boss, he had the 'football genius' Moyes well sussed out.

Stick that up your ass Gollum, see some knives are out already, heard United fans saying that if he thought that was playing well then he's got a lot to learn. We need to keep the ball better and stop panicking when the ball comes into the box.

Rvp is a dirty little cheating c**t and Cleverley should have seen red .

They both should have walked, RVP is going to be a bigger liability for the fuckers than their manager. Hahaha.
They won't keep Gollum on Like they did bacon face, it's overnight success or nothing now at the old toilet.

They should of had a penalty.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA Moyes s deluded.

And I love it.

Has to be one of the longest 90mins ever for me sitting there yesterday.GET IN!!

F***ing fantastic!.

What a result. We needed to send a message out to the League and we did just that. Thought the lads fought hard and stood toe to toe with the Scum in all areas of the pitch.

Man of the Match for me had to be Skrtel. Considering he had been out in the wilderness for some time i thought he was F***ing outstanding. He was like a wild animal yesterday and anyone who can put Vidic and van Persie off their game will do for me.

Been to a union meeting this morning and not one Scummer was wearing their shirt, what a F***ing surprise. They only sing when they're winning, mute cu*ts!.

 

F***ing delighted.

This season is just constantly getting better and better. Maximum points been taken from what's available, three clean sheets, three fantastic goals from Danny Sturridge. Just great.

Can't stop smiling.

Can't stop smiling.

Me neither mate. The lad 2 doors down from me is a Manc. No sign of the c**t today, probably still under his rock.

Me neither mate. The lad 2 doors down from me is a Manc. No sign of the c**t today, probably still under his rock.

All my United Everton fan mates are keeping quiet as well mate. The silence is deafening.

All my United Everton fan mates are keeping quiet as well mate. The silence is deafening.

Very quiet in work today are the resident mancs and bitters!! I just laugh as i walk past and start singing our songs!! Fu*king seething they are!!

Very quiet in work today are the resident mancs and bitters!! I just laugh as i walk past and start singing our songs!! Fu*king seething they are!!

Haha the mancs are the biggest tossers on planet earth, any excuse to make up for yesterday. Some of them still contesting the goal saying it was offside when it was clearly on. 

Absolute blinding headache from all the singing and drinking and celebrating in my local yesterday, but worth every single pulse of pain.

All the glory hunting manc loving tw*ts left as soon as the final whistle blew leaving myself and three LFC loving mates to celebrate in style with some Gerry and the pacemakers/Beatles/Jonny Cash getting belted out the jukebox.

I feckin love Daniel Sturridge.

Did they join in the minutes applause?

Did they join in the minutes applause?

The United players were clapping, even that tosser Evra. Highly doubt that their dickhead fans did though.

What an incredible day.

Atmosphere was electric throughout. Game itself was its usual high-tempo but lacking-in-quality self. That's to be expected when we play Man Utd, players seem to rush things they would otherwise do with consummate ease. Just delighted we came out on top.

Johnson my man of the match, was imperious and miles better than he was against Notts County. Excellent tackle before his injury too (hope he's not out long based on that display). Skrtel also brilliant yesterday, we know that when we set out to play fairly deep he's a really good defender. We don't tend to adopt that tactic under Rodgers but after taking a 1-0 lead so early we reverted to it and it suited Martin down to the ground. Henderson his usual energetic self, player like him is priceless, particularly in games like that. Every squad needs a Henderson type player, even the top ones. He's to us what I think Milner is to Man City; versatile, hardworking, tireless, gets on with his job without complaining and chips in with the odd goal. Gerrard and Lucas did a good job in the middle, although Man Utd's pair weren't exactly that good.

Aspas was a bit too passionate, if that's possible for such a game. Just seemed to be determined to make himself a nuisance to the extent I was worried he may get sent off. Wasn't great with the ball, he really needs to work on his strength to succeed in this league. I will commend him however for his defensive duties; he didn't give Carrick a second to breathe on the ball. Everyone else played okay; Mignolet did what was asked of him, as of course did our regular matchwinner Sturridge (can't ask for more from somone 70% fit, what a birthday for the lad!). Coutinho below par after a good first half-hour but he occupied two players almost every time he had the ball which shows the panic he causes to other teams.

Got to say I admire our spirit at the moment. Mentality seems to be there. We're digging in deep when we need to and pulling results off. It may not have been pretty for the second half at Villa Park or most of yesterday but at this stage of the season it is absolutely vital you win, even if not playing too well. In the last five minutes of each league game we've given opposition one key chance- Stoke missed their penalty, Benteke was denied by a fantastic Mignolet save against Aston Villa and van Persie uncharacteristically missed what was a terrific chance for a player of his quality, for Man United. Last season I betcha at least a couple of those chances had ended up in the back of our net. Ideally we won't be in a position whereby teams can equalise with late goals but like I say, in August and September when you have new players bedding in the only thing that matters is grinding out wins. 1-0 is turning in to quite the satisfying scoreline!

Top of the league for minimum two weeks, you can't ask for more than that going in to an international break.

From a journo who never writes anything bad about us.
Worth a read.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10274970/Liverpool-1-Manchester-United-0-match-report.html

 Anfield celebrated Monday’s centenary of Bill Shankly’s birthday with a performance that embodied the late, great manager’s ethos of everyone at Liverpool bonded by a common purpose, of a “holy trinity of players, manager and supporters” giving everything in their different ways for victory. With a nod to the past, Liverpool look positively towards the future.

Even after their best start since 1994, predictions of Liverpool joining the title race may be too premature but Anfield is undeniably awash with optimism.

The most important element of the holy trinity, the players, excelled here, particularly Martin Skrtel, Daniel Agger, Steven Gerrard, Jordan Henderson, Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge. Against lacklustre champions sorely missing Wayne Rooney’s spark, Skrtel and company concentrated ceaselessly and closed down tirelessly. They kept the shape and discipline and ­deservedly prevailed.

Skrtel’s immense display at centre-half brought to mind one of Shankly’s famous quotes about Ron Yeats that “with him in defence, we could play Arthur Askey in goal’’.

Liverpool have the highly capable shot-stopper Simon Mignolet but he was well ­protected by Skrtel. In constantly frustrating Robin van Persie through anticipation or physical strength, ­Skrtel highlighted why so many clubs would like to sign him, why Kolo Touré’s recruitment was slightly strange, beyond deepening the squad.

Liverpool have added other ­defenders, Mamadou Sakho and Tiago llori, but that Skrtel-Agger axis will take some breaking.

Liverpool’s supreme work-rate also underpinned the movement of Sturridge, who harried Manchester United’s defenders relentlessly and took his early goal superbly on his 24th birthday. Shankly memorably advised Ian St  John to put the ball in the net first “and then we’ll discuss the options afterwards”, an approach that defined Sturridge’s instinctive header.

The second element of the holy trinity, Brendan Rodgers, got his tactics right, using a 4-2-3-1 system with Gerrard and Lucas commanding central midfield. Rodgers’s tweaking of Gerrard’s position is paying off. At 33, Gerrard is slightly deeper than in his barnstorming pomp but remains a huge influence. Tom Cleverley resembled an apprentice in comparison to the master.

Rodgers’s pressing game unsettled United while he has clearly been drilling the defence successfully. The one negative was Iago Aspas, the No 9 who looked overwhelmed by the manic nature of the most important fixture in the English calendar.

Rodgers is making Liverpool feared again, making the “This is Anfield” sign put up by Shankly even more of a statement of intent. “This is to remind our lads who they’re playing for and to remind the opposition who they’re playing against,’’ Shankly had said of the sign above the steps en route from the dressing-room to the pitch.

When Rodgers’s players emerged on to the field, they were greeted rapturously. The most numerous section of the holy trinity, the fans, certainly played their part, forming a mosaic of Shankly on the Kop, exhorting Liverpool throughout and finishing with a deafening You’ll Never Walk Alone as old foe were defeated.

United’s August was always going to be arduous. "The Chosen One" never has any joy here and this was the former Everton manager’s 13th visit without a win.

Moyes spoke afterwards of his pleasure in his team’s display, but this was surely the old Sir Alex Ferguson trick of shielding the players from gusts of criticism. It is hoped that Moyes is more candid with his players in private. Too many individual mistakes scarred their performance.

These are early days in Moyes’s tenure, far too soon for any ­judgments, but he needs to inject some life into the flanks again, where Ashley Young was unconvincing, and particularly spend quickly and heavily to install urgency, authority and creativity into central midfield. Marouane Fellaini cannot arrive from Goodison Park soon enough. Shinji Kagawa must wonder what he must to do to convince Moyes that he can bring some vibrancy to the final third.

Van Persie laboured without any service of note. Moyes was unlucky that Rooney, the man who can provide touch and vision, was absent, having had his forehead accidentally sliced open in training by Phil Jones.

Roy Hodgson looked slightly forlorn at times at Anfield on Sunday, learning that Rooney was out of the World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine, and then seeing Jones and Glen Johnson limp off and out of his squad. Shoehorned into the scouts’ section, Hodgson was not sitting comfortably, partly because a clerical error by Liverpool meant he was denied access to the directors’ box and the boardroom.

It will have crossed Hodgson’s mind that this could have been some form of revenge by someone at the club for his unsuccessful stint here as manager. Hodgson briefly considered leaving at half-time but eventually stayed for 85 minutes. Liverpool, whose American owners are big on etiquette, apologised “profusely” to Hodgson and were clearly embarrassed by the oversight.

One Liverpool fan mused on whether Hodgson “should apologise to us for Poulsen and Konchesky” but this was a time for Liverpool to honour a past manager in Shankly and salute the current one in Rodgers.

His team started strongly, scoring after four minutes. Gerrard curled a corner across, Rio Ferdinand was too sluggish and Agger angled a header towards the far-post. Sturridge intervened, meeting the ball, heading it past Cleverley on the line. Cleverley, anticipating the direction of Agger’s header, failed to react to Sturridge’s interception, almost ducking out of the way.

Liverpool largely controlled the first half, particularly when the ball was enjoying the company of the elegant Coutinho. The Brazilian glided around Cleverley but shot wide. Gerrard went close with a shot and a free-kick. For United, Danny Welbeck momentarily worried Mignolet.

The fixture’s usual hand-bagging broke out. Van Persie and Agger had a staring match. Van Persie and Giggs took it in turns to bring down Coutinho. Cleverley clattered Coutinho. Van Persie nailed Agger with a late challenge in front of an enraged Kop. The sour atmosphere continued with Michael Carrick catching Aspas and the half ending with Van Persie accusing Skrtel of an elbow and Liverpool claiming a punch thrown.

The second half was an advertisement for United’s shortage of ideas and Liverpool’s abundance of defensive excellence. Van Persie and Young had shots blocked and Mignolet made a good save from Nani. Down the other end, Raheem Sterling was denied by David De Gea and, shortly afterwards, the final whistle confirmed Liverpool’s victory and brought an unbelievable roar from the Kop.

Shankly would have approved.

He certainly would have.

Thank you Henry Winter.

Great day for the Reds. Great day for Shankly.

They both should have walked, RVP is going to be a bigger liability for the fuckers than their manager. Hahaha.
They won't keep Gollum on Like they did bacon face, it's overnight success or nothing now at the old toilet.

Yep that's the way I see it too , the 80's were different times and no social media keeping a watchful eye .

I gotta say , the atmosphere was great ! Sitting at home I still felt apart of it !

From a journo who never writes anything bad about us.
Worth a read.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/10274970/Liverpool-1-Manchester-United-0-match-report.html

 Anfield celebrated Monday’s centenary of Bill Shankly’s birthday with a performance that embodied the late, great manager’s ethos of everyone at Liverpool bonded by a common purpose, of a “holy trinity of players, manager and supporters” giving everything in their different ways for victory. With a nod to the past, Liverpool look positively towards the future.

Even after their best start since 1994, predictions of Liverpool joining the title race may be too premature but Anfield is undeniably awash with optimism.

The most important element of the holy trinity, the players, excelled here, particularly Martin Skrtel, Daniel Agger, Steven Gerrard, Jordan Henderson, Philippe Coutinho and Daniel Sturridge. Against lacklustre champions sorely missing Wayne Rooney’s spark, Skrtel and company concentrated ceaselessly and closed down tirelessly. They kept the shape and discipline and ­deservedly prevailed.

Skrtel’s immense display at centre-half brought to mind one of Shankly’s famous quotes about Ron Yeats that “with him in defence, we could play Arthur Askey in goal’’.

Liverpool have the highly capable shot-stopper Simon Mignolet but he was well ­protected by Skrtel. In constantly frustrating Robin van Persie through anticipation or physical strength, ­Skrtel highlighted why so many clubs would like to sign him, why Kolo Touré’s recruitment was slightly strange, beyond deepening the squad.

Liverpool have added other ­defenders, Mamadou Sakho and Tiago llori, but that Skrtel-Agger axis will take some breaking.

Liverpool’s supreme work-rate also underpinned the movement of Sturridge, who harried Manchester United’s defenders relentlessly and took his early goal superbly on his 24th birthday. Shankly memorably advised Ian St  John to put the ball in the net first “and then we’ll discuss the options afterwards”, an approach that defined Sturridge’s instinctive header.

The second element of the holy trinity, Brendan Rodgers, got his tactics right, using a 4-2-3-1 system with Gerrard and Lucas commanding central midfield. Rodgers’s tweaking of Gerrard’s position is paying off. At 33, Gerrard is slightly deeper than in his barnstorming pomp but remains a huge influence. Tom Cleverley resembled an apprentice in comparison to the master.

Rodgers’s pressing game unsettled United while he has clearly been drilling the defence successfully. The one negative was Iago Aspas, the No 9 who looked overwhelmed by the manic nature of the most important fixture in the English calendar.

Rodgers is making Liverpool feared again, making the “This is Anfield” sign put up by Shankly even more of a statement of intent. “This is to remind our lads who they’re playing for and to remind the opposition who they’re playing against,’’ Shankly had said of the sign above the steps en route from the dressing-room to the pitch.

When Rodgers’s players emerged on to the field, they were greeted rapturously. The most numerous section of the holy trinity, the fans, certainly played their part, forming a mosaic of Shankly on the Kop, exhorting Liverpool throughout and finishing with a deafening You’ll Never Walk Alone as old foe were defeated.

United’s August was always going to be arduous. "The Chosen One" never has any joy here and this was the former Everton manager’s 13th visit without a win.

Moyes spoke afterwards of his pleasure in his team’s display, but this was surely the old Sir Alex Ferguson trick of shielding the players from gusts of criticism. It is hoped that Moyes is more candid with his players in private. Too many individual mistakes scarred their performance.

These are early days in Moyes’s tenure, far too soon for any ­judgments, but he needs to inject some life into the flanks again, where Ashley Young was unconvincing, and particularly spend quickly and heavily to install urgency, authority and creativity into central midfield. Marouane Fellaini cannot arrive from Goodison Park soon enough. Shinji Kagawa must wonder what he must to do to convince Moyes that he can bring some vibrancy to the final third.

Van Persie laboured without any service of note. Moyes was unlucky that Rooney, the man who can provide touch and vision, was absent, having had his forehead accidentally sliced open in training by Phil Jones.

Roy Hodgson looked slightly forlorn at times at Anfield on Sunday, learning that Rooney was out of the World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Ukraine, and then seeing Jones and Glen Johnson limp off and out of his squad. Shoehorned into the scouts’ section, Hodgson was not sitting comfortably, partly because a clerical error by Liverpool meant he was denied access to the directors’ box and the boardroom.

It will have crossed Hodgson’s mind that this could have been some form of revenge by someone at the club for his unsuccessful stint here as manager. Hodgson briefly considered leaving at half-time but eventually stayed for 85 minutes. Liverpool, whose American owners are big on etiquette, apologised “profusely” to Hodgson and were clearly embarrassed by the oversight.

One Liverpool fan mused on whether Hodgson “should apologise to us for Poulsen and Konchesky” but this was a time for Liverpool to honour a past manager in Shankly and salute the current one in Rodgers.

His team started strongly, scoring after four minutes. Gerrard curled a corner across, Rio Ferdinand was too sluggish and Agger angled a header towards the far-post. Sturridge intervened, meeting the ball, heading it past Cleverley on the line. Cleverley, anticipating the direction of Agger’s header, failed to react to Sturridge’s interception, almost ducking out of the way.

Liverpool largely controlled the first half, particularly when the ball was enjoying the company of the elegant Coutinho. The Brazilian glided around Cleverley but shot wide. Gerrard went close with a shot and a free-kick. For United, Danny Welbeck momentarily worried Mignolet.

The fixture’s usual hand-bagging broke out. Van Persie and Agger had a staring match. Van Persie and Giggs took it in turns to bring down Coutinho. Cleverley clattered Coutinho. Van Persie nailed Agger with a late challenge in front of an enraged Kop. The sour atmosphere continued with Michael Carrick catching Aspas and the half ending with Van Persie accusing Skrtel of an elbow and Liverpool claiming a punch thrown.

The second half was an advertisement for United’s shortage of ideas and Liverpool’s abundance of defensive excellence. Van Persie and Young had shots blocked and Mignolet made a good save from Nani. Down the other end, Raheem Sterling was denied by David De Gea and, shortly afterwards, the final whistle confirmed Liverpool’s victory and brought an unbelievable roar from the Kop.

Shankly would have approved.

He certainly would have.

Thank you Henry Winter.

Great day for the Reds. Great day for Shankly.

I think he did Kenny's first autobiography (ghosted).

I think he did Kenny's first autobiography (ghosted).

I think he ghosted Kenny's second biography? Or maybe not?

Definitely did Gerrard's autobiography.

Voted Hendo for MOTM so that people can't say I have something against him