Arsenal 2 – Liverpool 1 (all the tweets)

• Starting XI Cavalieri, Degen, Insua, Skrtel, Kyrgiakos, Plessis, Spearing, Babel, Kuyt, Voronin, Ngog.
• Subs: Reina, Aquilani, Benayoun, Darby, Dossena, Eccleston, Ayala.
• RT @cheedelt: Arsenal’s starters: Fabianski, Silvestre, Senderos, Gilbert, Gibbs, Eastmond, Nasri, Perez, Ramsey, Eduardo, Bendtner

• we are underway.
• Dirk Kuyt is Captain 0-0
• Degen wide, after a nice play by Ngog & Voronin. Degen should have scored 0-0
• Wide by Nasri 0-0
• We were lucky there
• 18″ Arsenal 0 – Liverpool 0
• Goal :-(
• Goal for Arsenal 1-0
• RT @aaron_j_kelly: @empireofthekop Voronin lost it, should have been taken off. He’s struggling badly.
• GOOOOAL Insua 1-1
• You beauty, Insua scores his first goal for Liverpool 1-1
• RT @irfaan0810: @empireofthekop That was Fowler-esque… glorious

• That was close
• The great Dane is not having a good night, we are lucky :-) 1-1

• Aquilani is warming up 1-1

• Good work by Degen there 1-1
• woooah we were very very lucky there, howler by Cavalieri but Skrtel clears 1-1
• into injury time

• HT Arsenal 1 (Merida) – Liverpool 1 (Insua)
• RT @PVally: @empireofthekop we should have bendnter and give them voronin cos they seem like they wanna do the best for the other side
• 2nd half under way 1-1

• ah Spearing shots wide there, good chance 1-1
• Goal :-( 2-1
• Bendtner scores for Arsenal 2-1
• Voronin is not playing well 1-1
• ugggh Voronin wide 1-1
• RT @JLamps: @empireofthekop it’s not 1-1 sorry 2-1
• ah good save by Fabianski to deny Ngog 2-1
• ahhh shot by Plessis, corner 2-1
• RT @DingyDangyDoo: @empireofthekop it was Babel, not Ngog
• Ngog off – Yossi on 2-1
• Aquilani on – Plessis off 2-1
• ouch another let off there 2-1

• can’t believe it Voronin slips 2-1

• 79 mins Arsenal 2 – Liverpool 1
• Ahhhh Babel misses a sitter there 2-1
• pheww Eduardo almost there 2-1
• Oh I forgot to mention but Aquilani had a shot on goal which was saved 2-1
• Nice play by Aquilani to Voronin who shoots straight at the keeper 2-1
• Eccleston on – Degen off 2-1

• Rafa tries a little Kwality himself there
• Into injury time 2-1
• That should have been a penalty there 2-1
• FT Arsenal 2 – Liverpool 1 :-(

James suggestion for change!

I am pretty happy with how the game has gone, even though we are down, we certainly do not look out. Yes mistakes have been made, but then what else would you expect from 2 teams trying hard to impress there respective boss.

Now then I would now take off Voronin and Plessis. Voronin has shown some good play tonight, but seems to disappear after the first 10mins of a half. Plessis however has been stable and not shown anything that could open up the Gooners. Therefore, take them two off, bring on Yossi and Aquilani. Put Babel up front with Ngog, and Yossi on the left, then simply replace Plessis with Aquilani.

Whatever happens, it looks like extra time to me. YNWA!

oh and up yours Scum, you lost to us again, winning against the the Kop must be like a old man trying to remember the war!

VIDEO FUNNY : Barnsley fans score against United

Thanks to @Jaclynkoster for submitting this, I love how Foster tries to save it

Arsenal provides a great chance for young players

Much has been made about our youth system during our time under Rafa Benitez. Steve Heighway left a few years ago, apparently due to not enough of our young stars making it into the Spaniards first-team. It has to be said, with Rafael in control we’ve seen more of the young talent on show in first-team games and Arsenal tonight is another chance for them to show their cards.

There’s no official news on the team yet, but many rumours have been thrown around that the side put out in London tonight will be a mixture of reserve and youth players. Personally I hope there’s a lot more of the later, I’d much rather see future prospects like Daniel Pacheco and David N’gog than less than impressive fringe players  like Ryan Babel and Andriy Voronin.

Martin Kelly proved against Lyon that it only takes one great game to get yourself in the news among Liverpool’s faithful and given the chance I’m sure many more of our youth players will give it all to make a name for themselves against the Gooners in the League Cup tonight. Personally I’d like to see a lot more of Daniel Pacheco, who’s had a number of great performances for the reserve team bagging enough goals to make him a serious contender to make it onto the bench for our first-team on a regular basis.

Whilst I don’t agree with playing the youngsters in make or break games in the League or in Europe the League Cup offers a great proving ground for young talent, especially considering the trophy isn’t top of our list for what we want to add to the cabinet at the end of the season. If we’re being honest the League Cup really isn’t important to most Reds, whilst we’d like to win it we really won’t be too bothered if we’re knocked out, we’ve got bigger fish to fry. So for that reason the young kids should be given a chance.

It’s time to prove that our young lads have the potential to make it big, we’ve won Youth Cup after Youth Cup in recent years and it’s time for the players who brought that silverware to the club to make the step up and try and bring some more to the first team.

M. Owen

michael@empireofthekop.com

FUNNY : Last word on the beach balls

Thanks to @UltimaCloud for submitting this

Wed 28th Oct 2009 Liverpool News, Rumours and Rants

The Liverpool Football Fancast made it’s debut yesterday  more...
(Great job to all involved in this project)

Wigan’s boss Roberto Martinez believes Fergie holds too much power in English football. more...
(Aha!  exactly what we have been saying all along, Gracias Roberto.)

Rafa wants Wembley glory more…
(Come on Reds)

Ian Rush backs David N’gog to become a star  more…
(YNWA the lad is only 19, he is a bright future ahead of him)

Drogba praises Carra more…
(After saying this Drogba fell down and rolled on the ground in agony)

Aquilani can’t wait for his debut more…
(It will happen tonight)

Both Lucas and Aurelio have been included in the Brazilian squad more…
(Congrats but no injuries please)

And Lucas claims that the fan criticism has made him stronger more…
(Now this ticks me off, after laying my life down to defend the kid he says this :-) If I knew this I would have encouraged them to criticise you )

More shi*e talk about Real wanting Stevie G. more…
(ROFL, They do not understand so here is a simple formula .  Stevie G += Liverpool FC)

Voronin holds talks with Rafa more…
(It all comes down to goals)

In the meantime his agent claims that he is staying at Anfield more
(This is becoming a long saga)

While Dossena’s agent claims that he wants to return to Italy more…
(But you have Aquilani now, you guys can hang out together. )

The Chelsea players are Swine Flu free more…
(I will keep my mouth shut here.)

But players are warned not to spit more…
(Oh brother)

Former Liverpool target Van der vaart is being linked with Chelsea more…
(hello, Transfer Ban. LOL!)

Matt Taylor is being linked with Liverpool  more…
(We probably need to sign more English players.)

And so is Luis Suarez more…
(A swap with Babel is being rumoured)

And Vladimir Koman from Sampdoria more…
(Is our future Hungarian? :-)  )

And United are after Villa & Silva  more…
(I thought they said that they would not miss Ronaldo)

And Tom Hicks denies that he is selling the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars  more…
(And then his nose grew and grew)

Robert Kraft still has a sweet spot for Liverpool and would be interested in purchasing the club if the Premier League had salary caps.  more…
(Kraft has done wonders with the New England Patriots team, the stadium is state-of-the-art.)