madristar Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 iverpool vs Wolves Player RatingsWolverhampton Wanderers clocked their first away win this season as they beat Liverpool 1-0 at Anfield.LiverpoolPepe Reina - 6Had a quiet game and it seems like confidence is severely lacking in the Liverpool camp.Glen Johnson - 6Nothing new, impressive going forward but his defensive abilities remain questionable.Sotirios Kyrgiakos - 5.5He put his fellow defenders under unnecessary pressure.Martin Skrtel - 6.5A "pillar" at the back, considering the performance of the other three Liverpool defenders.Paul Konchesky (Off 74') - 6Another mediocre performance from Konchesky - he was caught napping too many times.Dirk Kuyt - 6.5A hardworking performance but it didn't get Liverpool past the line.Steven Gerrard - 6The skipper was back - Liverpool's best ever player according to his teammates - but he couldn't inspire them to a win this time.Lucas - 7He coped intelligently in what was a very crowded midfield.Raul Meireles (Off 73') - 6He had a golden opportunity to open his Liverpool account against Wolves but found their keeper in too good a form.Fernando Torres - 5Liverpool is too dependent on him - the man who has yet to find an answer for his poor form since the World Cup. His body language once again tells the story.David Ngog (Off 62') - 5Dropped too deep, leaving Torres outnumbered and isloated at times.SubsRyan Babel (On 62') - 6Came on and showed some urgency and desire to get points from the game.Joe Cole (On 73') - 6He won't win over any Liverpool fans with that type of display.Fabio Aurelio (On 74')N/AWolvesWayne Hennessey - 6.5Did his talking on the pitch - proved to his manager that he is the team's number one.Ronald Zubar - 6.5Tireless display from Zubar - the right back seemed to be everywhere.Richard Stearman - 7Showed great awareness to danger as Torres fired another blank.Christoph Berra - 7Forged a great partnership with Stearman and gave Liverpool'sforward very little space to work with.George Elokobi - 6.5A strong no nonsense shift from the left back.Kevin Foley - 6.5Tracked the midfield runners impressively.Stephen Ward (Off 78') - 7He was the one making runs forward to support Wolves' lone striker - he got his reward with the goal from a tidy finish.Nenad Milijas - 6.5The Serbian complimented Foley well in the middle of the park making things very uncomfortable for the Liverpool's stuttering midfield.Stephen Hunt - 6.5Hunt whipped in mouth watering crosses from the right flank, but unfortunate there wasn't enough Wolves bodies in the box to take advantage off.Matt Jarvis (Off 89') - 7The man with two goals and two assists for Wolves this season put in another decent performance.Sylvan Ebanks-Blake - 8Hardworker through and through, a role model for youngsters.SubsSteven Fletcher (On 78')A tricky customer to mark.David Edwards (On 89')Came on to kill time for Mick McCarthy to get the win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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madristar Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 Blackburn 3-1 LiverpoolLiverpool slumped to yet another shocking loss at Blackburn and one that is likely to hasten Roy Hodgson's exit.Even before Saturday's injury-time winner against Bolton the suggestion was club owners New England Sports Ventures were actively looking for a replacement.On this performance they will probably have to speed up that search as two goals from Benjani Mwaruwari, who had not started since November 6 and scored once in 12 previous appearances, and one from Martin Olsson condemned the Reds to a ninth Barclays Premier League defeat of the season, despite Steven Gerrard's late consolation.The now almost-obligatory chants for club legend Kenny Dalglish surfaced in the second half and at one point it seemed all four sides of Ewood Park were singing "You're getting sacked in the morning" to Hodgson.Liverpool had lost just one of their previous 24 league meetings against Blackburn but even that was not enough encouragement for the travelling fans.They voted with their feet, as they had done against Bolton on Saturday when Anfield was about 8,000 below capacity, and for the first time failed to fill the Darwen End at Ewood Park.Pity the poor souls who made the short journey east as they had to endure a result more demoralising than the 1-0 defeat at home to Wolves last week.Despite coming up against one of the most lightweight midfields in the Premier League - Olsson, David Dunn, Morten Gamst Pedersen and Junior Hoilett - Liverpool failed to impose themselves on the game.Fernando Torres, who was on the end of some tough tackling but nothing over the top, flashed an early header wide but spent most of the game complaining to referee Andre Marriner.Rovers looked far more threatening and after Dunn had volleyed over from the edge of the penalty area and Mame Biram Diouf had bundled an eight-yard shot straight at Jose Reina they found their shooting boots.Defender Ryan Nelsen was given plenty of time in the centre circle to play the ball out to Diouf on the left and when he knocked it on Olsson raced past the static Glen Johnson to fire past Reina in the 32nd minute.Five minutes later it was Sotirios Kyrgiakos' turn to be slow to react as Benjani controlled Pedersen's cross on his chest and turned to lash a ferocious volley past Reina.By contrast the most work Rovers' inexperienced goalkeeper Mark Bunn, deputising for the injured Paul Robinson, had to do was fingertip Joe Cole's angled shot wide of the far post.The Liverpool manager's misery was complete when in the 57th minute Hoilett went around Martin Skrtel and Johnson as if they were not there and from the byline crossed for Benjani to sidefoot home his second of the night.In almost an exact replay of Benjani's second goal Diouf ran into the left of the area and crossed into the six-yard box but Hoilett could not get his outstretched foot on the ball.Gerrard, on his 550th Liverpool appearance, fired in an 80th-minute consolation when Torres' shot was blocked but that barely raised a cheer from the travelling support.When the captain ballooned over a penalty five minutes later, after being fouled by Salgado, any hopes of an Istanbul-style fightback were dashed.But even an occurrence such as that would have done nothing to mask the malaise the club are currently in.Hodgson, as both Fulham and Liverpool manager, has now won just two away league games since the start of the 2009/10 season.That has contributed significantly to his problems but a failure to win over fans and impose a suitably offensive style of play have also been a factor.This result and the embarrassing sound of Rovers fans singing "Can we play you every week" and "Are you Burnley in disguise" will not have gone unnoticed in the Boston headquarters of NESV.The next move is surely theirs and it is one Hodgson will be dreading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MadridGirl Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Jaja Lovely pics sweetspice, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Twinkle Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 Have they released a pic of baby Leo yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamen_fan Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 4 hq pix of fernando with olalla & the kids leaving stamford bridge last sunday:http://donadabola.wordpress.com/2011/03/22...an-city-rendeu/it's possible to see nora's face on 1 of the pix!she takes after her mom, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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@lice Posted May 15, 2011 Share Posted May 15, 2011 can't wait for hqLeo looks just like Fern used to look when he was a baby and Nora looks like Olalla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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