Bolton 1 - 3 LFC

Started off poorly and Bolton had some half chances to score until Jussi gave us the opener. The shot by SG was never on target and i guess Jussi was just trying to catch hold of the ball instead of letting it go for a goal kick. Quite a funny sight to see the ball hitting Jussi and spinning back into goal.

Babel scored the second after Kuyt hit the post from a brilliant Carragher cross and Auerlio scored the most beautiful goal of all.

So another win and the Reds keep matching on…

LFC 4 - 0 West Ham

What can i say about Torres? He is THE best striker in the EPL at the moment. He is really on fire. He scored a hat-trick and SG scored a thunderbolt to hammer West Ham.

My thoughts

I think Rafa has finally have the players and the formation to accomodate and bring out the best in all the players. He has settled on a 4-2-3-1 formation which frees up the 3 and the 1 to attack while the 2 DM will pick up whatever loose balls and start another attack again. It is dynamic enough to fall back to 4-5-1 when there is a need to defend and 4-2-4 when we go to attack.

The other difference is the purchase of Skrtel. His tackling, speed and doesn’t mind having the ball at his feet gives me great confidence that we can pass out from the back and build from the back rather than just pumping it forward.. We are able to compress the defence and midfield and make the entire team more compact and thus allowing the players to have more options to pass. His run from defence to the opponent’s penalty box was exciting but too bad, he didn’t try to shoot. If he did and it went in, i think the entire stadium would have rocked !

Anyway, well done to the Reds and hopefully, we give Newcastle a footballing lesson and thrashing on Sat !