can we talk about this fuckery? please

[anais-molko.livejournal.com]

Roy's Everton verdict



Roy Hodgson revealed his frustrations after Liverpool slipped to a 2-0 defeat in the Merseyside derby clash with Everton on Sunday afternoon.



Goals in each half from Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta secured local bragging rights for the Blues on a disappointing afternoon at Goodison Park.

Afterwards, Hodgson told reporters: "This was always going to be a difficult game to win.

"We suffered at the hands of an early onslaught, which you invariably do here at Goodison. They put us under pressure and made it difficult for us to get the ball, but towards the end of the first half we started to do better - we were starting to more than even the game out

"I thought the shape of the team was good and I thought the quality of our passing and moving was good today."

He continued: "We had plenty of the ball in the second half and we were camped out in their half of the field in the final third for large periods.

"I thought we caused them plenty of problems, but you're never going to get the really clear one-on-one chances when teams are defending a two-goal lead."

The timing of Arteta's goal in particular came as a blow to Liverpool in the early stages of the second period, and Hodgson admitted his team are culpable of conceding too many goals at the moment.

He said: "We are conceding too many goals and yet today I think we were a little bit unlucky to do so. Even in the good spell of pressure Everton had at the beginning, we weren't shipping goal chances.

"But it is a problem that we're letting in goals. We need to score goals to take pressure off the fact we could let them in, especially when you're playing with the sort of line-up we were at the end of the game.

"Good teams score goals and don't let many in and that's what we have got to be trying to do as well. We need to get better in both areas.

"In particular today, one could argue with all the possession we had in the second half and the time we had in the final third, we should have scored because the possibility was there."

The boss added: "We're not trying to disguise the fact this is a predicament or whatever word you want to use. For any team to take six points from eight games at the start of the season and go through that type of bad spell is a predicament. We don't in anyway try to deny that."

Though disappointed with the performance, Hodgson refuted suggestions from journalists his players are suffering from a lack of confidence.

He said: "I didn't see it (a lack of confidence) with Maxi Rodriguez, Gerrard, Meireles or any of the back players. I thought all of those showed plenty of confidence in themselves.

"Fernando (Torres) is going through a bad time, he needs a goal and his confidence is low.

"I wouldn't say it is a question of too many (players) lacking confidence, but people are playing under pressure. That's the bottom line.

"We've taken six points from eight games and every game we don't win, the pressure builds up even more. That will affect people's confidence in the long run."

Reporters quizzed the boss on whether he would be forced to reassess his target of a top-four finish following Liverpool's disappointing start to the campaign.

He replied: "There are 30 games to go and 90 points to play for. I don't know if I would write that off at the moment.

"It would take a really good run of four to five wins on the spin, but I thought there were signs in the game today and who knows, maybe we can get those four or five wins on the spin. That's what it is going to take."

Away from the pitch, New England Sports Ventures' Principal Owner John W Henry and Chairman Thomas Werner took in their first game as Liverpool owners from the directors' box.

Reporters asked Hodgson if he felt as though today's defeat could be classed as a missed opportunity to build on the surge of optimism following the sale to NESV on Friday.

He replied: "Yes, of course I feel that. This would have been the ideal opportunity to turn things around on the back of the entry of the new owners and the way that has been received by everyone. To get a result here and win the game would have been utopia.

"But I can only analyse the performance and there is no point in attempting to analyse dreams. The dream was we would come here on the back of new owners and win, but we had to play a game of football."

On NESV's involvement in the January transfer window, Hodgson added: "They're going to be very interested in doing that I think. It's still two and half months off and there is a lot of football to be played, so there is no point in us trying to put all our eggs into that basket.

"The first thing we have to do is start playing and winning matches. Hopefully we can do that and get ourselves in a better position, then if the owners can find a way to back us and improve the team in the transfer window we will obviously do so.

"Of course the January transfer window is something that interests us. We'll have to do our scouting work for future transfers like any other club, but it's not something that interests us in the coming weeks. What interests me is preparing for Napoli and Blackburn - a game we need to win."



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Comments

[anais-molko.livejournal.com]

jesus fucking christ i am the definition of TL;DR

[alana2x1.livejournal.com]

And brilliant because of it! :D

[verses.livejournal.com]

In all seriousness, maybe somebody should hook him up to a mic 24/7 so his insane comments will get him fired faster

[fiveto-midnight.livejournal.com]

loool omg i would like to see someone install a hidden mic in his suit and record all the bullshit he's saying and broadcast it to henry

[hey-larry.livejournal.com]

oh woy oh woyyy

[miselemeas.livejournal.com]

What infuriates me more than sitting here being baffled as to how Roy thinks the team are playing hunky dory is that so far this season it's been the fault of:

Gillett and Hicks for having no money and Rafa spending all of it - somehow

A hugely overstaffed and assembled squad - when we all knew we were missing players in certain positions and Roy goes off to strip the reserves and youth team of those potential up and coming players. Along with Insua and Aquilani.

Zonal-marking and 4-2-3-1.

Players confidence.

Agger for being the "wrong side of 30" whatever that means

"The B-team" for not playing the way he wanted them to (though they did - it was awful to watch)

Torres - he's diabolical apparently.

Rafa Benitez because he's only gone to Inter to ruin José's team and left a terrible squad that could only finish in 7th for Roy to manage - disgraceful

SOS and the people in the protest marches

The Internet Terrorists

Rafa - Harry Redknapp says so

The players are letting him down, it's not their confidence at all.

Liverpool supporters because we're stupid according to Patrick Barclay for speaking of our concerns about Roy's ability to manage a big club.



But there's nothing about Roy, his tactics or his absurd press meetings. I'm sick of every excuse I've seen so far, it takes me back to the opening game when Sky altered all the banners and professed "the beginning of the new Red Revolution" to give Roy his platform. Sigh.

Now I know Roy said judge him after 10 games (assuming he meant 10 EPL games)but it's been enough for me. 8 played with 1 win, 19th place only because of goal difference or else we'd be rock bottom. And what's awful is that we did not even deserve that win against West Brom, sure maybe against Arsenal if Pepe didn't make that mistake but Arsenal on the day still played far better than we did.

[anais-molko.livejournal.com]

ugh exactly

[furyyy.livejournal.com]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1321491/Liverpool-players-Roy-Hodgson-despite-Everton-misery-insists-Joe-Cole.html

[myte-8.livejournal.com]

Can't imagine how manager can talk like that.
There is no chance of Roys inspiring team talk.
Hope they searching replacement.

[verses.livejournal.com]

Roy using the pillars as bowling pins doesn't help

[russell-crowe.livejournal.com]

"I thought the shape of the team was good and I thought the quality of our passing and moving was good today."

The choice of words here... it reminds me of someone talking about a geriatrics patient with a crippling disease. Well, today was a good day! He limped around the room a bit and didn't cry.

God, Liverpool. I'm not even a fan and I hope things pick up for you.

[imyourheroine.livejournal.com]

Well, today was a good day! He limped around the room a bit and didn't cry.
Omg hahahaha. Comparison of win!

[sianisit.livejournal.com]

'Are you from Denmark?' Hodgson asked (he considers the Danish press too negative). 'No, Norway,' replied the visitor. 'Ah, two countries I never want to work in again,' he said.

Nice man, my fucking arse.

Go away.

[shadow-sea.livejournal.com]

[miselemeas.livejournal.com]

ROTFL!

[snuzzie.livejournal.com]

The first thing we have to do is start playing and winning matches.

How resoundingly astute of you, Roy.

[youth-depraved.livejournal.com]

"Fernando (Torres) is going through a bad time, he needs a goal and his confidence is low.


HMMMMMMMMMM MAYBE IF YOU PUT ANOTHER STRIKER IN WITH HIM EACH GAME, MAYBE HE'D GET A GOAL YOU DUMB FUCK. If you WAIT to put another one in until the 73RD MINUTE, YOU'RE NOT GETTING A RESULT. UGH.


CAN I JUST BE MANAGER OF LIVERPOOL, PLEASE?!

[anais-molko.livejournal.com]

he just needs a partner up, not even just another striker really

a 4-3-3 formation would be a brilliant to try and use one day to see how torres fits in

[sianisit.livejournal.com]

He's probably trying to distance himself from the club because he knows he's going to get sacked. Either that or he's lost his marbles completely.

RANT

[imyourheroine.livejournal.com]

He keeps giving the excuse that it's always a difficult game to win. We have played against these clubs before, God knows, we have played against Everton enough to know that the game being "difficult" to win never really stopped us from winning it. Or at the very least, drawing. OR AT THE VERY VERY LEAST, not playing as badly as we did. I know I shouldn't completely blame him. He cannot control every second of the game or every movement of the player. But if he is even a tiny bit of a good manager, the simplest things that we are suffering from now will have been resolved. E.g. playing players in the right position so they would be able to play in their optimal ability. Or giving support where needed. Maybe up front? Inspiring players. Labeling a game as tough is not a bloody excuse. If it's difficult, then arrange your tactics in a way that will, idk, make it less difficult? It's easy to say, but hard to do, I guess. And like, obv there are other factors, too, contributing to our losses. But isn't he paid to make it better. My goodness, with every interview I read from him, I feel he keeps giving the same excuses.

I thought the quality of our passing and moving was good today.
UHM. We cannot even connect more than 5 passes. If that is good for you, I don't want to see it get worse.

At least the lineup is good yesterday. On paper. The players weren't playing well, though. At least for the most part of the game.

The positive thing is that this is happening in the beginning of the season. We have a bit more time to bounce back from here. But we cannot afford any more losses.

Re: RANT

[bluewind-bri.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I totally agree, I can't stand his excuses. When he says it was "always going to be a difficult game to win", that makes it sound like he had written it off from the start and didn't expect anything from it, which is so the wrong attitude to have.

There's also been instances where we've drawn with a team and he's said stuff like "the other team would have felt hard done by if we had won" or whatever...what is with that?! That's not the way the manager of one of the biggest clubs in Europe should approach the results of games...it should be "we should have won, anything less is unacceptable" and who gives a damn how the other team would have felt! Pisses me off...

[adorerdollylux.livejournal.com]

this is just all so surreal. how is this happening? i never personally felt great about roy, but i of course gave him the benefit of the doubt. there is something clearly wrong, with the players and with the tactics and with that combination, it comes down to the manager. if he doesn't make a change, the club needs to.

[i-am-a-dinasaur.livejournal.com]

ugh roy would you like to borrow my glasses because you are clearly blind >:(

[poshing.livejournal.com]

I can't stand him :(

[ipomoea.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much more of him I can deal with. The entire team needs a huge attitude overhaul, starting from the top down and if Roy's out there with such a defeatist attitude before games and then saying we played well when we clearly didn't, I expect nothing to improve on the pitch because he's not demanding it of the players.

[luxlovesit.livejournal.com]

He's a small time manager who can't cope. He needs to fuck off & fast. He's probably taking advice from Alex Ferguson!!

[ipomoea.livejournal.com]

lol Fergie's probably telling him he's doing just fine.

[feregio-vere94.livejournal.com]

just everytime I wanna read his post match interview I start.. read. facepalm and go do smth better.. he just really pisses me off!!

[http://users.livejournal.com/--imagine----/]

he says all the wrong things, and he does all the wrong things. he doesn't know how to organize anything.. he has no idea how to manage to team on and off the pitch. i don't know how he thinks what he said was correct (which is so sad that it's most likely true), and even if he didn't believe in what he said why he thought it was acceptable to say. he needs to change how he approaches managing liverpool and how he approaches each match. but he won't.

i really just want him out asap.

[homunculus-10.livejournal.com]

I can't even rant. I'm too tired of everything.

[slashxwhoreorly.livejournal.com]

Can we just sack this delusional douche already?

[kalasoma.livejournal.com]

I wonder why his results in Europa League games are better than in the Premier League? Why is David Ngog our top scorer over all competitions and then, miraculously, crap in the Premier League? I am at a loss. I don't have any real answers because our players were barely able to get it together last season (although never saw us second from bottom). Maybe Kenny Dalglish is an interim solution until another permanent solution can be found, but I'm not one for sacking managers left right and centre. We're not Chelsea or Man City.

[akumar1393.livejournal.com]

roy.