This weekend Martin O'Neill and Kenny Dalglish are facing one another at the Stadium of Light since they both came back to management. Martin O'Neill ended the unbeaten run of league leaders at the stadium of Light.The Irsih man likes winning he won league cup with Leicester City, many titles with Celtic and some cups. The canning Irish manager knows about football management. How he is going to approach this game is known to him ONLY.Missing his captain Lee Cattermole and Stephane Sessegnon is not going to be of much help , but Sunderland still have players that can cause Liverpool problems. Sunderland have to attack Liverpool. As for Kenny Dalglish, he cannot believe that Liverpool lost to Arsenal last Saturday. With one eyes on Merseyside derby on Tuesday he will have to select his players for Sunderland carefully.Like Martin O'Neill, Dalglish likes to win things too, he already won the league cup this season.The way Liverpool are going to play may depend on the way Sunderland approaches the game.Steve Gerard and Glen Johnson are likely to play if fully fit.
Sess being out is my biggest worry - we can manage without Catts better (although he's come on in leaps and bounds since O'Neill took over). Suarez is the player everyone in red and white is scared of obviously. Since O'Neill took over we tend to play on the break as we have a few fast lads (but this is where we miss Sess the most too) so I'm expecting to see quite a defensive first quarter of the game to encourage Liverpool to open up ripe for a counter-attack. Of course if I know this then Dalglish knows it so it could be a case of who blinks first. I'm not sure about Carroll's role in this... he's obviously from the region and playing against his boyhood rivals I might expect him to be wound a bit too tightly but it seems to me that some of the fire has gone out of his belly which could actually be a good thing for Liverpool in this case; otherwise I see him a prime candidate for a red card.
I was wondering when somebody would open a joint thread! I see more problems for Sunderland in this match. Our away form has been good. Our goalscoring problems haven't been as bad away from home and I see no reason why they should start now.
We have had a problem scoring against Sunderland for a long time, add the problem scoring this season and this could be a very hard game for us. Cattermole and Sessegnon being missing is good news but that could work in Sunderland's favour too if we under-estimate them. The main benefit I see is that we are away from home, we seem toscore more away from Anfield. Just need to keep Larsson quiet.
only stat that matters is mon played a reserve team in moscow when villa fans paid 1000 pound ot go support them in europa... in contrast kenny won the carling cup and knows the value of winning things. no one game can define who's a better manager, their records at winning stuff is all that matters.
I've always had a soft spot for Sunderland, I don't know why. BUT I absolutely detest MON and that feeling was only confirmed for me by his behaviour and statements over the Barry affair.
MON has never really been a lover of LFC going back to his Forest days under Cloughie,expect a few fireworks on the touchline if there's any contentious decisions.
MON is twice the manager Dalglish is, with the current crop of Liverpool players I think that if O'Neill was in charge they would be in a strong position for the Champions league next year. But thankfully not.
Fcuk off you deluded **** Joke! it was a joke! calm down it's not I REPEAT NOT some part of witch hunt led by the media to hate you lot! Nah you seem nice (though we still won't get along, though luckily for both of us we won't spend a lot of time on each others boards... Not that anyone spends any time on the Everton board ) Despite my bias though I do rate MON very highly and don't think Dalglish is as worldly as Liverpool fans make out. Though I did think the fat Spanish waiter was a good manager (Most of the time)
Just that when it closed a few of the blue boys said they'd join this site,thought maybe you were one of the old school is all.
