"wonderful" "technician" comes to mind but i don't think the lad himself has found his best position he reminds me of a young joe cole.
Head to Head with Leicester. Season Date Home Score Away Competition 2014/2015 Tue 02 Dec Leicester City 1 - 3 Liverpool Premier League 2003/2004 Sun 28 Mar Leicester City 0 - 0 Liverpool Premiership Sat 20 Sep Liverpool 2 - 1 Leicester City Premiership 2001/2002 Wed 30 Jan Liverpool 1 - 0 Leicester City Premiership Sat 20 Oct Leicester City 1 - 4 Liverpool Premiership 2000/2001 Sat 03 Mar Leicester City 2 - 0 Liverpool Premiership Sat 21 Oct Liverpool 1 - 0 Leicester City Premiership 1999/2000 Wed 03 May Liverpool 0 - 2 Leicester City Premiership Sat 18 Sep Leicester City 2 - 2 Liverpool Premiership 1998/1999 Wed 21 Apr Liverpool 0 - 1 Leicester City Premiership Sat 31 Oct Leicester City 1 - 0 Liverpool Premiership 1997/1998 Sat 17 Jan Leicester City 0 - 0 Liverpool Premiership Wed 13 Aug Liverpool 1 - 2 Leicester City Premiership 1996/1997 Thu 26 Dec Liverpool 1 - 1 Leicester City Premiership Sun 15 Sep Leicester City 0 - 3 Liverpool Premiership 1994/1995 Mon 17 Apr Liverpool 2 - 0 Leicester City Premiership Mon 26 Dec Leicester City 1 - 2 Liverpool Premiership 1986/1987 Sat 14 Feb Liverpool 4 - 3 Leicester City First Division Wed 29 Oct Liverpool 4 - 1 Leicester City League Cup Wed 03 Sep Leicester City 2 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1985/1986 Wed 30 Apr Leicester City 0 - 2 Liverpool First Division Sat 02 Nov Liverpool 1 - 0 Leicester City First Division 1984/1985 Sat 06 Apr Leicester City 0 - 1 Liverpool First Division Wed 26 Dec Liverpool 1 - 2 Leicester City First Division 1983/1984 Wed 18 Apr Leicester City 3 - 3 Liverpool First Division Tue 27 Dec Liverpool 2 - 2 Leicester City First Division 1980/1981 Sat 31 Jan Liverpool 1 - 2 Leicester City First Division Sat 23 Aug Leicester City 2 - 0 Liverpool First Division 1977/1978 Sat 08 Apr Liverpool 3 - 2 Leicester City First Division Sat 26 Nov Leicester City 0 - 4 Liverpool First Division 1976/1977 Tue 09 Nov Liverpool 5 - 1 Leicester City First Division Wed 27 Oct Leicester City 0 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1975/1976 Tue 06 Apr Liverpool 1 - 0 Leicester City First Division Sat 30 Aug Leicester City 1 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1974/1975 Wed 19 Mar Leicester City 1 - 1 Liverpool First Division Sat 24 Aug Liverpool 2 - 1 Leicester City First Division 1973/1974 Tue 01 Jan Liverpool 1 - 1 Leicester City First Division Sat 01 Sep Leicester City 1 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1972/1973 Sat 28 Apr Liverpool 0 - 0 Leicester City First Division Wed 30 Aug Leicester City 3 - 2 Liverpool First Division 1971/1972 Sat 08 Jan Leicester City 1 - 0 Liverpool First Division Sat 28 Aug Liverpool 3 - 2 Leicester City First Division 1968/1969 Sat 12 Apr Leicester City 1 - 2 Liverpool First Division Sat 21 Sep Liverpool 4 - 0 Leicester City First Division 1967/1968 Sat 24 Feb Liverpool 3 - 1 Leicester City First Division Sat 07 Oct Leicester City 2 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1966/1967 Wed 18 Jan Leicester City 2 - 1 Liverpool First Division Sat 20 Aug Liverpool 3 - 2 Leicester City First Division 1965/1966 Sat 29 Jan Liverpool 1 - 0 Leicester City First Division Sat 21 Aug Leicester City 1 - 3 Liverpool First Division 1964/1965 Tue 13 Oct Liverpool 0 - 1 Leicester City First Division Wed 09 Sep Leicester City 2 - 0 Liverpool First Division 1963/1964 Sat 28 Mar Leicester City 0 - 2 Liverpool First Division Sat 02 Nov Liverpool 0 - 1 Leicester City First Division 1962/1963 Sat 02 Mar Liverpool 0 - 2 Leicester City First Division Sat 13 Oct Leicester City 3 - 0 Liverpool First Division 1956/1957 Sat 09 Feb Leicester City 3 - 2 Liverpool Second Division Sat 29 Sep Liverpool 2 - 0 Leicester City Second Division 1955/1956 Sat 21 Jan Liverpool 3 - 1 Leicester City Second Division Sat 17 Sep Leicester City 3 - 1 Liverpool Second Division 1938/1939 Sat 04 Mar Liverpool 1 - 1 Leicester City First Division Sat 08 Oct Leicester City 2 - 2 Liverpool First Division 1937/1938 Sat 05 Mar Leicester City 2 - 2 Liverpool First Division Sat 23 Oct Liverpool 1 - 1 Leicester City First Division 1934/1935 Sat 30 Mar Leicester City 3 - 1 Liverpool First Division Sat 17 Nov Liverpool 5 - 1 Leicester City First Division 1933/1934 Thu 01 Feb Leicester City 1 - 0 Liverpool First Division Sat 16 Sep Liverpool 1 - 3 Leicester City First Division 1932/1933 Sat 18 Feb Liverpool 1 - 2 Leicester City First Division Sat 08 Oct Leicester City 1 - 2 Liverpool First Division 1931/1932 Wed 27 Jan Liverpool 3 - 3 Leicester City First Division Sat 12 Sep Leicester City 2 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1930/1931 Sat 21 Mar Leicester City 3 - 2 Liverpool First Division Sat 15 Nov Liverpool 3 - 1 Leicester City First Division 1929/1930 Sat 08 Feb Liverpool 1 - 1 Leicester City First Division Sat 05 Oct Leicester City 2 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1928/1929 Sat 19 Jan Leicester City 2 - 0 Liverpool First Division Sat 08 Sep Liverpool 6 - 3 Leicester City First Division 1927/1928 Wed 25 Apr Liverpool 1 - 1 Leicester City First Division Sat 08 Oct Leicester City 1 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1926/1927 Sat 12 Mar Leicester City 3 - 2 Liverpool First Division Sat 23 Oct Liverpool 1 - 0 Leicester City First Division 1925/1926 Sat 02 Jan Liverpool 0 - 3 Leicester City First Division Sat 29 Aug Leicester City 3 - 1 Liverpool First Division 1908/1909 Sat 13 Feb Liverpool 4 - 1 Leicester F First Division Sat 10 Oct Leicester F 3 - 2 Liverpool First Division 1904/1905 Sat 28 Jan Leicester F 0 - 3 Liverpool Second Division Sat 01 Oct Liverpool 4 - 0 Leicester F Second Division 1895/1896 Sat 30 Nov Leicester F 2 - 0 Liverpool Second Division
A home banker if there ever was one. Let's be honest and say if we do not beat the worst side in the league at home then we are in serious trouble. 2-0 or more to us.
Brendan Rodgers confirmed ahead of the New Year's Day contest that the talismanic No.8 will be restored from the start for the assignment against the Foxes. "Steven will come straight back in," said the Northern Irishman. "He's a wonderful player and servant to this football club, and he's been brilliant for me in my time here. "I've just got to manage his games. When I came here two-and-a-half years ago, everyone talked about whether he could play in my type of football. He was arguably the player of the year last year. "I'm just managing his game time and he understands my situation of picking the team and making it fresh as often as we possibly can. He missed out the other night but he'll play."
Rodgers confirmed Gerrard will start today... Have to feel a bit shut if you're one of the players that gets dropped for him after the last performance.
Oh for **** sake. Grow some bollocks Brendan, this is getting absurd. Such a little pussy when it comes to Gerrard and Johnson, it's incredibly frustrating. Here comes another 90 minutes of Gerrard doing absolutely nothing productive and giving away lots of simple passes. Yay.
Putting the word "arguably" doesn't make a correct statement as there is no argument on who our best player last year was
Like I told you in a previous thread. Not a scapegoat, he is just yet to be useful in any way. Hope he proves me wrong today, but we all know he won't. If the team is exactly the same line up as VS Swansea, minus Manquillo I imagine to make space for Gerrard, then we won't have the mobility and intensity in midfield, or the strength in defence and attack down the right that we had in that game. But yeah, of course it's scapegoating, he couldn't possibly not actually be any good anymore. Move on
And like I said to you in said thread, he's not been good enough but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be appreciated (or just not heavily criticised) when he doesn't do anything wrong either. Beating him with a stick no matter if we win, lose or draw whether he plays well, average or poor is scapegoating and that's exactly what happens on these boards. Same for Johnson although I can't remember the last time he played well
Fair play. He's just a disruption to the team at the moment, and it infuriates me to see him waltz straight back in. I can't even be mad at him really (although his obvious lack of effort is annoying), it's more frustration with Rodgers. He thinks he's putting on a man management masterclass by 'resting' SG and then going to the effort of coming out with that spiel that Flappy posted, when really all he is doing is being a scared little weasel and pandering to his landlord. Like I said, I really do hope he turns this around and goes back to being the SG that played with heart and passion, but I just can't see it happening.
Frustration at Brod for it I understand since its the managers decision. Just irritates me when I see players getting unfair abuse. Brod shouldn't be playing him every game but if Stevie does play then judge the player on his performance, not the team's since that is Brod's department. Yes, players are part of that team but its up to the manager to put the best possible team on the field so if he regularly puts a player (Gerrard) in that team its only him to blame.
I just hope someone comes in for him with big money this window and Gerrard fancies the change. It's the best for both sides now. The last two matches have shown that the way forward for this team is using the younger players and letting them settle into a certain way of playing. Add Sturridge or another decent mobile striker to that plus one or two more signings that we all know we need and we can challenge for the title. Not this season, top 4 could be on this year if we stick with what was bringing positives, but next. We could let Gerrard stay and have him as the Giggs/Lampard style player of the team making cameos and saving his energy for certain points, but I honestly don't think we're set up to be able to do that with him.
Mate, Gerrard has had a poor season so far, he's been mediocre to terrible in most games with a couple of high points, the CL free kick for example. I think you're being a bit blinkered tbh and can't get past seeing him as a club legend. I don't think the abuse he's getting above is unfair at all, he's gone missing at times and when he does look interested influences the side to play in a counter-productive way to what fits their abilities. I take your point about it being the managers responsibility ultimately for picking him though.
I think the only reason people are frustrated is because of how we performed against Swansea without him. Arguably the best we've played this season in terms of movement, pressure, keeping the ball and you'd hope that we'd stick with that team that did so well and let them show us it wasn't a 1 off.
Exactly, this season change has been our biggest opponent/enemy. Just keep that same team from the Swans game, they played the best I've seen all season and deserve the chance to do it again. If it goes tits up fair enough you can say maybe it was a flukey game or whatever and you look at the options but if we hammered the foxes 4-0, bearing in mind they're bottom of the table and Swans are where they are, you still have to say it's your best side.
Off the top of your head, which games (or rather how many) has Steven played well in? I don't mean blended in to an overall team performances where you didn't notice he was playing, I mean which ones can you look back at and say, "oh yeah, Stevie had a great game and influenced/controlled the midfield". Gerrard will get the same backing he always does, the fans will cheer his name as always, but most on here simply aren't afraid to predict another poor performance from him - and predicting a poor performance isn't the same as not supporting either. I don't think Rodgers gets enough criticism (from sources outside of this board, obviously) for his poor management of him. I think the criticism Gerrard gets on his performances is warranted - but again, not enough from sources outside of this board. What do you think our team will be like with our captain reinstated?
