The Capital One Cup thread 2014/15

[peteypirahna]

But wasn't Mingolet great last season and helped Liverpool to a 2nd place finish in the league?

Why have Liverpool fans suddenly started to throw him under a bus? Is it because of the Victor Valdes rumours and need to shit on him enough to justify getting a guy in who has just had a very serious injury? If you want a scapegoat for poor performances this/last season it's Kolo Toure.

[Baddar]

I haven't seen too much of Liverpool this season but Mignolet was fantastic against Southampton.

[Rich]

But wasn't Mingolet great last season and helped Liverpool to a 2nd place finish in the league?

Why have Liverpool fans suddenly started to throw him under a bus? Is it because of the Victor Valdes rumours and need to shit on him enough to justify getting a guy in who has just had a very serious injury? If you want a scapegoat for poor performances this/last season it's Kolo Toure.

Games Kolo Toure has played this season 1, games Liverpool have lots with him in team, 0 Games Kolo Toure has not played in this season 6, games Liverpool have lost with out Kolo Toure 3.

Liverpool are in the bottom half of the table without Kolo this season, finished second last season where he played in more than half the games, the statistics bare out that Kolo Toure is a very important member of the Liverpool squad.

[Hobo]

But wasn't Mingolet great last season and helped Liverpool to a 2nd place finish in the league?

Why have Liverpool fans suddenly started to throw him under a bus? Is it because of the Victor Valdes rumours and need to shit on him enough to justify getting a guy in who has just had a very serious injury? If you want a scapegoat for poor performances this/last season it's Kolo Toure.

He wasn't that fantastic. He started well but trailed off around the middle of the year. His December-January wasn't great at all. Then in the second half of the season he kinda plateaued.

His shot stopping is his best asset. His distribution is generally fairly poor. Lately he seems to be trying to come off his line more and more but he isn't very good at it (see the Ludogorets goal and the first goal last night).

What Liverpool need, if anything, are goalkeeping options. Right now we have Mingolet and Brad Jones. The only reason Jones is still around is he's on fairly big wages.

[Lineker]

Yup, we definitely could have done better.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Really don't fancy us against Forest tonight. I wish we were playing pretty much anyone else really. Stuart Pearce in the changing room and the anniversary celebration of Brian Clough. Add to that the chance to beat a Premier League team in the cup. Those players and the fans are going to be ridiculously pumped. I wouldn't be surprised if we went 1-0 down early on and really had to fight after that.

[Lineker]

No Assombalonga in the Forest squad tonight. Thank fuck for that. We have made 11 changes, and they've made 9.

[stokeriño]

Chelsea also make 9 changes... Cech is captain, Remy, Zouma, Luis and Ake all start.

[Ant]

More interested in the Chelsea game to be honest. Zouma has an aura of invincibility about him and he hasn't played yet.

[Colly]

Bloody hell, Forest deserved to score there, amazing run.

[Jimmy]

Same old Spurs at the moment. Can't break teams down who come to defend, and we can't defend counter attacks. Hopefully we start playing with a bit more pace soon, it still feels too laboured, like on Sunday.

[stokeriño]

More interested in the Chelsea game to be honest. Zouma has an aura of invincibility about him and he hasn't played yet.

And now he's scored!

[Cheeky Hughes]

Nothing much in the City/Wednesday game so far, aside from Madine missing a good chance and Mangala volleying against the post.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Fazio looks good. That's the best thing so far.

Oh, Townsend shot wide again.

[Jimmy]

I really hoped Townsend would stop being horribly frustrating

[Rafael]

Rivière with his first!

[Jimmy]

I really don't understand Soldado sometimes. I really like him, especially his link up play, but he never seems to make runs behind the defence. We're crying out for a striker who runs behind the defence, and I thought he was the kind of player who was capable of that. I'd like to see him link up with Lamela and Eriksen more often this season.

[Cheeky Hughes]

Super Frank actually celebrated this goal!

[Cheeky Hughes]

And Dzeko makes it two!

Navas with the third straight after, almost too easy.

BBC live text seems to think we play at the Emirates :/

Edited September 24, 2014 by Hughes

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Oh dear Tottenham. We need Lamela and/or Eriksen on ASAP.