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Great half, just what was expected.

Atkinson clearly feels bad now

One each for Cisse, Ben Arfa and Shola will do nicely. Two will do though, I guess.

This is just fucking awesome.

Lovely passing, great hit

Kind of feel bad for Stoke but not really.

Love Atkinson

When are our players without the ball allowed to go inside the penalty area?

Can't say it wasn't coming

Never understood commentators obsession with players acting hard and wearing short sleeves/no gloves when it's cold. Shut up ffs

Pretty sure everyone knew Cabaye was going to drop deep for that pass after his interview last weekend.

Happy Christmas from the east coast of America, chaps.

I thought about it, but he was the national team's best player during that spell, weirdly. Looked completely different with us.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if he does anything of note there. Been out of form for basically six months now.

I don't really think it's fair to blame the supporting cast for his 11 goal season, he was still getting/creating chances then, his finishing was just nowhere near what it is now. Either way, Liverpool have already showed they can play without him this season, as long as they have Sturridge and Coutinho fit I don't see a major collapse.

Not only should Hazard not be there, he destroys that formation.

Could replace dozy loltidore lol

You should post more

I hope it's the alcohol

The Premier League gets talked up far too much tbh. You're probably looking at half the league that some folk would describe as not good enough for it. Like this in pretty much every other league though, it's just the nature of it.

Which was why I expected him to score throughout the game.

No they don't, they have a few expensive signings mixed in with some pretty average players. Their squad is nowhere near ours in terms of quality. He didn't compare their squad to ours. And they do have more quality than half the league. I think my post says Newcastle somewhere if you change some of the letters around

Southampton are doing with important injuries and coming through a very tough run of games. It's not surprising they don't look as good as the opening few months, they still have more quality than more than half the league.