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Live: Liverpool 3 - 0 Reading

What a way to mark your Liverpool debut with a goal in front of the Kop for Gabriel Paletta - again - Jermaine Pennant the provider, setting up the goal with a cool corner.

Deadly stuff this from Liverpool.

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Live: Liverpool 2 - 0 Reading

Liverpool are now 2-0 to the good thanks to John Arne Riise. Pennant again has stepped up to the plate, creating the golden chance for Riise who struck against Graham Stack first before piledriving the rebound into the back of the net just as half time is about to fall. Excellent stuff from Liverpool just before the break.

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Live: Liverpool 1 - 0 Reading

ROBBIE!!!

God is back, he’s wearing the armband, he picked up a great ball from Jermaine Pennant, took it on his left foot to chip Graham Stack to set Liverpool a goal to the good with 2 minutes to the break.

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Youth And Experience - Fowler Skippers Reds

Robbie Fowler is back and he’s back wearing the captain’s armband - the first time at Liverpool since 2001. Great to see Robbie back on the pitch yet again who spearheads the attack with Peter Crouch.

Its a mixture of youth and experience though on the field, Fowler leading the way as Agger and Paletta (making his debut) and Lee Peltier (also making his senior debut) anchoring down the defence while youngsters David Martin, Danny Guthrie and James Smith take spaces on the bench.

No sign of Paul Anderson (who I thought might well be included tonight) or Morocco’s Nabil El-Zhar.

Looking forward to tonight’s clash. Eight changes in total, strong enough side, should be an entertaining clash.

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Live: Liverpool vs Reading (Team)

Carling Cup time once again and here’s the team for tonight.

Pepe Reina, Lee Peltier, Gabriel Paletta, Danny Agger, Steven Warnock, Jermaine Pennant, Momo Sissoko, Bolo Zenden, John Arne Riise, Robbie Fowler, Peter Crouch.

Not a bad first time at all in fairness.

On the bench we’ve got Martin, Kuyt, Carragher, Guthrie and Smith.

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Reds Now 100/1 For Title

Reading Dominic Fifield’s article on the Guardian this morning its interesting to see that Liverpool - yes, us might Reds - are now 100/1 to win the league title (though checking with Paddy Power after reading they’re offering odds of 50/1 to win the title, still putting Liverpool in fourth place at the finish). Thats a series cry from where we were at the start of the season. Yet languishing in the bottom half of the table (ok, just inside the bottom half but we’re there nonetheless) and a princely sum of 11 points off the lead while level on games with everyone else, is it a wonder we’re being priced out at 100/1?

If that doesn’t convince you, note that we’re still failing to score away from home. Do the club realise that HALF our league games are played away from home? We’re solid enough at home, we’ve scored eight and conceded two. But we’re lousy away - scoring one and conceding nine.

So maybe its right that Benitez questions the commitment of the Liverpool squad. The changes were rang in force this summer and the start of preseasons (around the time LiverpoolAccess.com launched) looked promising. Two decent friendly wins on English soil (Wrexham and Crewe) before taking off to Europe for a few games. That much, of course, ended in disaster but we made amends for it by beating Chelsea in the Community Shield.

But the performances have been sporadic - nothing what you would expect from a team who should be challenging for the league title at this stage. 17 years is a long wait but we’ll keep on waiting as its what we’re used to. But the players themselves shouldn’t decide to keep on waiting. Go out there and play every game like its your last game, because, as the January transfer window approaches you might just find that it could be your last game.

The lads need something of a confidence boost, something that should have happened at Old Trafford on Sunday. Sure, Benitez rues that fact that Bellamy was ruled out in the final training session prior to the game, but Kuyt and Crouch were there. So were nine other guys on the pitch at the start but they couldn’t muster the finishing to secure a win - finishing which is something we’ve been lacking so far this season.

We know that we can win the league cup. We know that we can win the FA cup (and did so last year). We know that we can win the Champions League (viva Istanbul). But why is there such a difference in the league?

Give the article a read, its worth it with a cup of tea this morning. As for me, I’m off to find somewhere offering 100/1 on the league, stick a tenner on it, then laugh all the way back to the bank at the end of the season.

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Result: Man United 2 - 0 Liverpool

It all went wrong for Liverpool today (and me as I’ve been sick and trying to catch up on posts!) as the Reds went down 2-0 at Old Trafford courtesy of goals in either half from Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand. Blegh.

Defensive mistakes created Paul Scholes goal while not much could be done to stop Rio Ferdinand’s second as Liverpool yet again failed to score away form home, our only goal now coming through Robbie Fowler’s penalty against Sheffield United on the opening day of the season.

Speaking to Sky Sports after the match, Benitez said

In the first half we didn’t have a lot of problems and then we conceded a goal. Against a good team like United that is always a big problem. When you see the players working as hard as they work, you cannot blame them, if you make a mistake, you make a mistake.

The loss now leaves us a grand total of 11 points behind United in the league.

Scholes was making his 500th appearance for United today, the former England man taking two attempts to poke Ryan Gigg’s ball into the back of the net about 5 minutes before half time. Whatever was sloppy about Scholes’ goal was made up for through Ferdinand who blasted into the top corner after skipping past Jamie Carragher’s poor clearance inside the box.

Liverpool were OK at best, not really troubling United in any aspect of the pitch but when we had the chances (through Riise, Alonso, Kuyt and Gonzalez) we simply couldn’t take advantage of them and paid the price. Overall I think Liverpool showed United too much respect and didn’t play with the heart and tenacity you would expect from a Reds vs Reds clash.

United top Chelsea on goal difference while Liverpool now sit unhappily in 11th spot in the table with a nice sum of 11 points out of 9 games. Nice sum - yeah right.

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Crouch - “I Can Keep Scoring”

Peter Crouch has come out firing ahead of Sunday’s big game at Old Trafford and by the sounds of things, he’s more sure than ever that he can find the back of the net for Liverpool.

I’m enjoying it in front of goal and hopefully I can keep that going and keep scoring. I think if I’m given a run of games, then I’m sure I can keep scoring

Crouch hasn’t started too many games so far this season with Benitez preferring to opt for Kuyt and Bellamy up front, but when the big man has been on the field he has managed to score - including the game-winner against Bordeaux during the week.

Robbie Fowler seems to have been relegated to fourth striker but I’m still hopeful that we’ll see him against United at the weekend. Interesting remark though by Crouch who was quoted in the Mirror as saying

Hopefully there’s more to come from me and my partnership with Craig Bellamy, his pace is always an asset.

What about forming a partnership with Dirk Kuyt? Or can we expect that Bellamy is a given starter for the rest of the season and the other three strikers are working around him?

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Result: Bordeaux 0 - 1 Liverpool

All three points for Liverpool who moved another step closer to qualification for the last sixteen with a 1-0 win over Bordeaux this evening. Liverpool’s only goal, the club’s 150th goal away from home in Europe was bagged by Peter Crouch, getting his head on the end of Craig Bellamy’s corner just before the hour mark.

Chances were plentiful for Liverpool who really should have done better in the first half and make the game move to their advantage but it was the second half that brought life to the side to go out and win the game before facing United at the weekend.

The second half also saw the introduction of Momo Sissoko and Dirk Kuyt who both got almost 30 minutes each on the field when neither were really expected to play earlier in the week.

In the other game in the group tonight, former Liverpool defender Jan Kromkamp helped helped PSV recover from a first half Galatasaray goal to win their game 2-1.

The win for Liverpool comes at a good time as we’ve a tricky enough test on Sunday going up against United. Nice to recover for a recent run of bad form, good to see both Kuyt and Momo on the field in the second half, good to have Stevie back for the weekend and hopefully we can get to Old Trafford and secure three of what are becoming very vital points at this stage of the season.

Final score from France - Liverpool 1, Bordeaux 0.

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Live: Bordeaux 0 - 1 Liverpool

Liverpool take the lead with a fine header from Peter Crouch getting up underneath the corner just before the hour mark, good cross from Bellamy to set up the goal.

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