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Liverpool vs. Bolton Wanderers; FA Cup
Topic Started: Jan 21 2015, 10:50 PM (516 Views)
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Liverpool F.C. vs. Bolton Wanderers F.C.
FA Cup Fourth Round - 24 Jan. 2015, 17:30 GMT (12:30pm US EST) at Anfield

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Liverpool resume their FA Cup campaign with a fourth-round tie against Bolton Wanderers at Anfield on Saturday evening. Having overturned AFC Wimbledon, the Reds will take on the Championship outfit looking to take a step closer towards lifting the trophy they last won in 2006. The teams last met in the FA Cup in January 1993 when after a 2-2 draw at Bolton, the Trotters recorded a shock 2-0 win in the Anfield replay.
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Spearing to have the game of life against us to3 and Heskey to3 two ex players
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Liked to see this team play........

Mignolet
Can Lovren Sakho
Manquillo Henderson Lucas Enrique
Lallana Sterling
Borini

Ward; Skrtel; Markovic, Rossiter, Coutinho; Lambert, Balotelli
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Jan 22 2015, 02:40 PM
Spearing to have the game of life against us to3 and Heskey to3 two ex players
That should make for an interesting pre-match convo... laugh1

...as an aside, I've got a family reunion to attend Saturday afternoon down in Greensboro so I'm likely not going to be able to do match commentary for this particular match, unfortunately...hopefully, I can snag hold of a laptop at the relatives' and check in on the match, but that will be likely be all I can do for this match... sad1 b23 sad1 sad1
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'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.' - Bill Shankly, Liverpool F.C.
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I have a ticket for the game so ill hardly be posting myself swe1 the signal inside the stadium is poor when trying to get on here via mobile cry2
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Jan 23 2015, 01:03 AM
I have a ticket for the game so ill hardly be posting myself swe1 the signal inside the stadium is poor when trying to get on here via mobile cry2
In other words, we're both a tad bit SOL here... cry2 swe1
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'Some people believe football is a matter of life and death, I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.' - Bill Shankly, Liverpool F.C.
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....in a day of FA Cup upsets, Liverpool can consider themselves lucky to only have to replay Bolton::

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--This was not the second act Liverpool would have hoped for after their excellent performance against Chelsea earlier in the week, nor was in the table-setter they would have preferred for this coming Tuesday's second leg. Good but not great for most of the match, they struggled to find a breakthough against a solid, organized Bolton defense, and as a result they've not only failed to build on any momentum created against the league-leaders, but they're now tasked with another match on an already crowded fixture list to progress to the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Given events earlier in the day it could have been much, much worse; Chelsea, Manchester City, and Spurs were all beaten at home, with the former pair dropping to lower-league opposition. And there were some nerves that Liverpool could follow suit, especially early in the match, but they were short-lived in a match that saw Brendan Rodgers' squad provide everything but the finish. Bolton had the better of proceedings for the first ten minutes or so, and managed a decent spell in the middle part of the second half, but the rest was all Liverpool.

That made their inability to find a winner all the more frustrating, as chances arrived--and in some cases, were denied by the excellent Adam Bogdan in the Bolton goal--with regularity. So often, though, we saw one of Raheem Sterling, Philippe Coutinho, or Adam Lallana take a touch too many or put a little too much weight on the pass, and when others got involved, it was more of the same.

The forward trio were largely solid in the buildup, but in or around the Bolton penalty area they were varying degrees of poor, with Lallana looking relatively rusty and Coutinho failing to match the heights he's been hitting with such regularity in the past few months. And for all of Sterling's promise and brilliance, he does not yet have the presence to lead Liverpool's line with consistency, and while he did his best to fill the void again, he needed a reference point of his own to play off for most of the match.

At the other end of the pitch it was far better and far more encouraging, with Emre Can sliding over to a sweeper role in the back three with little noticeable fuss and Mamadou Sakho again excellent. Jose Enrique was equal parts effective and maddening before coming off at the break, while on the right side Glen Johnson and Javier Manquillo had mixed evenings as well. Manquillo was good but offered little impetus going forward, while Johnson didn't cause any significant problems but added little at either end.

Adding Lazar Markovic at the half gave more pace from the left wingback role and should have resulted in the sending off of Matthew Mills were it not for the incompetence of head referree Kevin Friend. The young Serbian made a further few runs forward as the match wore on, but as with Sterling, Coutinho, and Lallana, it all disappeared once he entered the final third. Fabio Borini and Lucas came on with just over twenty minutes to play, with the latter replacing Joe Allen, who had been off the pace for most of the night but managed a few good moments, and the former forcing Bogdan into another excellent save with a curling shot.

That's mostly what today felt like--a collection of a few good moments, none of them quite good enough to win the match. It's to be expected in a side that hasn't found a consistent match-winner in the absence of Daniel Sturridge. Others have stepped up at times, of course, but Liverpool's cutting edge went missing again on Saturday at Anfield. Hopefully they'll rediscover it before Tuesday night.
Edited by Webster, Jan 25 2015, 05:55 AM.
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Could of won that one :-/ slowly getting back to being a good team and now we add a replay going to be tough at Bolton
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Bolton goalkeeper played really well, could of won but with no decent strikers available right now the draw was fair. Tough replay at Bolton and now Chelsea away in the other cup to3
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Live draw for the next round nearly under way, just hope we don't get Arsenal
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Jan 26 2015, 06:47 PM
Live draw for the next round nearly under way, just hope we don't get Arsenal
...good news, bad news, Macca....good news: we don't have to worry about Arsenal in the FA Cup Rd. of 16....the bad news: if we advance, we get a return visit to London's resident House of Horrors...a/k/a Selhurst Park:

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(NBC ProSoccerTalk) Some intriguing matches were set up as the fifth-round draw for the FA Cup took place on Monday. Holders Arsenal will be at home against Middlesbrough, the team who shocked Manchester City away from home at the weekend, while Bradford City’s reward for knocking out Chelsea is a home game against either Sunderland or Fulham.

Two all-Premier League ties have been set up as Aston Villa host Leicester City in a Midlands derby, while West Bromwich Albion welcome West Ham United to the Hawthorns. There’s an all-Championship tie as Derby County host Reading and second-tier side Blackburn Rovers will take on either Rochdale or Stoke City at Ewood Park.

If Manchester United get past League Two Cambridge United in their fourth round replay, easier said than done after a 0-0 draw last Friday, the Red Devils face another tricky away trip to either Preston North End of Sheffield United in the last 16.

Below is the full draw for the fifth round of of the FA Cup, as the games will be played on the weekend of February 14 and 15.


FA Cup, fifth-round fixtures
Crystal Palace vs. Liverpool/Bolton Wanderers
Arsenal vs. Middlesbrough
Aston Villa vs. Leicester City
West Bromwich Albion vs. West Ham United
Bradford City vs. Sunderland/Fulham
Blackburn Rovers vs. Rochdale/Stoke City
Derby County vs. Reading
Preston North End/Sheffield United vs. Cambridge United/Manchester United
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some good games but ours suck :-(
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