Torres out tonight

[beejay]

Ill says echo

[psl]

Bugger.

[johngibo YPC]

I'd like to see us play the same formation with Crouch up top

[psl]

Crouch or Kuyt up top with Babel/Kuyt/Benayoun in the two positions behind I imagine.

[psl]

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liv...-name_page.html

 

Fernando Torres a doubt for West Ham after being hit by bugMar 5 2008

 

 

 

 

EXCLUSIVE by Tony Barrett, Liverpool Echo

 

 

 

 

FERNANDO TORRES is a major doubt for Liverpool's meeting with West Ham at Anfield tonight, having picked up a bug.

 

The Reds' top scorer was absent from training yesterday and unless he makes a dramatic recovery is unlikely to be involved against the Hammers.

 

If, as expected, Torres is unavailable, manager Rafa Benitez is likely to offer a first team recall to Peter Crouch, who has had to settle for a place on the bench in recent weeks.

 

Should Liverpool win tonight they will go above Everton into fourth place in the Premier League and Benitez today called on his players to take advantage of their game in hand on their Merseyside rivals.

Edited March 5, 2008 by psl

[Alonso]

At least it's just a bug and should be ok for the weekend and Inter. I think we all know the answer tho and that is Nemeth!!

[psl]

He doesn't appear to have been ruled out so I guess he could still be on the bench tonight.

[Guest Prongsy]

I think that this underlines why we have failed to challenge for the league again, at least one of the reasons anyway.

 

Torres being out harms us, massively. Torres having a bad game harms us massively and the same goes for Gerrard. We need other players performing when players like Torres and Gerrard don't perform or are not fit to play.

 

Time for Crouch and Kuyt to start scoring more regularly.

[Hobbsie]

I think that this underlines why we have failed to challenge for the league again, at least one of the reasons anyway.

 

Torres being out harms us, massively.

 

..and we shouldn't be so heavily reliant on a player in his debut season.

[fred milne]

The cynic in me wonders whether this is a case of disguised rotation.

[Bailo]

The cynic in me wonders whether this is a case of disguised rotation.

Exactly what I was thinking. No worries when he "recovers" from this about relapses or tearing the same muscle etc.

[matty]

He didn't score on Sunday so f*ck him. Get Crouchy in.

[Marvin]

Dodgy lasagne? It is West Ham after all

[sned]

The cynic in me wonders whether this is a case of disguised rotation.

why tonight though? Why not on Saturday for a game which should (in theory) be far easier?

[Guest Anders Honoré]

Time for Crouch to make his mark.

 

Would be interesting to see nemeth on the bench. Not that I think it's gonna happen.

[johngibo YPC]

Time for Crouch to make his mark.

 

Would be interesting to see nemeth on the bench. Not that I think it's gonna happen.

 

very unlikely after he played last night

[psl]

Time for the number 10 to step up.

[Ben 23]

Time for the number 10 to step up.

 

Garcia?

[psl]

Garcia?

 

If only it were so.

[Tyler]

gerrard supporting/running off crouch should work

 

need to win tonight

 

have a feeling inter game next tuesday will be a distraction at the weekend

[Guest sniffer]

Gerrard, Mascher and Alonso should ALL play after getting the news about Torres.

[johngibo YPC]

The last thing Alonso needs is resting

[Kahnee]

Time for the number 10 to step up.

Despite his fecked ankle?

[sutty]

The last thing Alonso needs is resting

 

I think he'd rather be rested that kicked in the b******s. Or have his b******s cut off. Or sleep with Anny Road

[Ben 23]

Despite his fecked ankle?

 

Commitment is what we're looking for...