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Date: 09/12/12

Venue: Upton Park

Kick-Off: 16:00

LIVERPOOL FC travel to West Ham on Sunday without a recognised striker as Luis Suarez serves his one match suspension for accumulating five yellow cards.

The Reds may also be without Nuri Sahin, who broke his nose during Thursday’s 1-0 over Udinese, but Steven Gerrard, Daniel Agger and Lucas Leiva will all return to the starting XI after missing the game in midweek. Jonjo Shelvey is likely to start up front for Liverpool as they look to get a result against West Ham at a ground where the Hammers have lost just once this season.

Although a midfielder by trade, Shelvey played up front for the Reds during their 2-2 draw with Young Boys and scored the team’s opening goal. The 20-year-old has scored four goals for the Reds this season, all of them in Europe. Though he has yet to score in the league, Shelvey has had 17 shots on goal, 64.7% of which have been on target.

Liverpool’s other striking options are Dani Pacheco, Samed Yesil, Adam Morgan and Jerome Sinclair, none of whom have started a Premier League game this season.

West Ham will be without on-loan Liverpool striker Andy Carroll, who is both injured and ineligible. Ricardo Vaz Te, Jack Collison and Alou Diarra are also sidelined, while George McCartney and Yossi Benayoun could return from ankle and knee injuries respectively.
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After coming from behind to beat Chelsea 3-1 last weekend, the Hammers are on 22 points – three more than Liverpool. The Reds have lost just one of their last ten league fixtures but their away record is poor and they have only won once on their travels.

If Liverpool take all three points at Upton Park, it will be the first time this season they have recorded back-to-back wins in the league.

Of the three sides promoted from the Championship last season, West Ham have been the most impressive team by far and their 3-1 victory over European champions Chelsea was undoubtedly their best performance of the season. The Hammers will be confident and with good reason, while the suspension of top scorer Suarez will be a big loss for Liverpool.

However the Reds have won 19 of the last 32 league meetings between the two clubs and after winning two games in six days, Brendan Rodgers’ side will be cautiously optimistic about their prospects of securing another victory.
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35 comments

  • JMan43 says:

    Just so I make sure I get this right. The team with one of the worst away records in the league, playing the team with one of the best home records in the league, without a recognised striker as the person without whom they would be in the bottom three is suspended thinks they will win, wow talk about blind optimism. This Liverpool side is not very good I’m afraid and holds no fear for a West Ham side who took Chelsea apart in the second half last week. Sorry can’t see beyond a comfortable home win.

  • SG4U says:

    liverpoool 2-0 west ham

  • Elias says:

    If we fail to win this game then we shouldnt even talk of top four because we havent beat any contenders this season

  • Away playing we lost at least 5points of Ref bad decision against Everton Swansea and Spurs 2penalties not given there are teams who benefits of ref bad decision to be on top whereas Liverpool improvements are slowly but surely 1 0 enough to beat wham

    • jack says:

      stop talking sh*te , u big baby , crying about refs decisions , we have nobody to blame except ourselves

  • jack says:

    FFS allen is still in the team , zzzzz

  • Bernie says:

    Rodgers is a JOKE , bringing on Cole and putting Downing to left back .
    THIS GUY IS A TOTAL FOOL – also get rid of Allen

    • Ozred says:

      Yea. That didn’t work out???? You fool!!!!

      • bellers says:

        it was a dumb substitution , bringing on cole – he is rubbish . and putting downing at left back is stupid .just cos rodgers got lucky doesn’t mean it was smart

        • ozred says:

          So what should he have done?

          He made a forced move with Cole ultimately playing a key hand in winning the game for us…

        • shibashis says:

          When things go right, he is just ‘lucky’ and its a fluke, and when things go wrong, he is ‘dumb’. A proper yardstick to judge someone you think?

        • Matt says:

          A dumb assessment from a stupid fan the result really prove prooves ur point huh?

    • Matt says:

      Yeah I agree it didn’t work look at the result, ur a complete tool.

      • fotheringham says:

        Are you still being a thick Matt ? Go educate yourself before making comments

        • Matt says:

          Then if ur so smart tell me what happened. The substitution made a difference, yes he didn’t play well but he got a goal and the result came.

  • Jack The Lad says:

    While I’ll remain patient until the end of Jan. This is awful !!

  • Paulie says:

    We got lucky today but at least we are 3 points better off

    • Ozred says:

      We got lucky? They receive a 50 50 penalty and a stupid own goal. We have 57% possession, another disallowed clear penalty to jonjo. More shots on goal, forced more saves. Playing without our main man… But we were lucky. Grow up

      • bellers says:

        what a biased tw*t u are , u dont know fk all about football . we were average at best

        when we are great lets shout about it , but until coles goal we never looked like scoring

        • ozred says:

          Ha ha… Until Coles goal we didn’t look like scoring… Which came 10 minutes after Sterling’s near goal, 60 minutes after Johnsons goal… and followed by the winner 5 minutes later.

          There’s nothing biased about it you blonk. Other than the second quarter of the game, we were the better team… And guess what Jose Morino??? We scored 3 goals and won the game… Why so upset?

        • Matt says:

          Bellers u really no nothing about football, ur comments are useless but I do agree we weren’t at our best but we still won so grow up.

  • Guardian says:

    Not a good performance today , but we got the result which is the main thing

  • Martin says:

    We were so lucky today , still i suppose we deserve a bit of luck for a change . Good for first 15 min and last 15 min ,the rest we was outplayed .Fantastic performance from Johnson again , but what is up with Allen – another useless performance he looks out of his depth at a big club

  • Matt P says:

    yep we were lucky but a win is a win ,have to improve performance or we wont get anything .really disappointed not to see morgan get on

    • Ozred says:

      Yea. I wish the didn’t bring Cole on…….

      Oh and he derails assist was terrible….

      Seriously. Is this a Liverpool board?

  • ozred says:

    Lucky would have been Gerards header not going into the back of their net.

    Lucky would have been West Ham not receiving the penalty on a 50/50 call

    Lucky, no correct would have been Shelvy receiving the clear penalty – Note, half way through the season we’re still waiting for our first penalty.

    Lucky would have been Sterlings shots going in…

    You’ve all become so conditioned being so unlucky – so close but so far away, that any time we get a result it’s luck.

    • simon says:

      only a blind biased idiot could think Liverpool were good yesterday , they got the bit of luck they needed , not least with the winning own goal . i suppose there are idiot fans everywhere that think their team deserve to win 6-0 every week and their always unfairly treated by refs . there’s always 1 or 2 on every site

      • Ozred says:

        Never said they were great. But clearly good enough to warrant the 3 points. 2 goals to west ham that on every other day they don’t get… Because they were lucky. Go and support Chelsea u half wit. U still haven’t explained why I’m being biased without balancing your argument with the fortune wh received. Now move on.

        • Grey Wolf says:

          Its dumb fans like u with no knowledge that are making reds fans look stupid . I presume u are a kid so i wont say too much , just grow up !

          If u want to be totally ignorant and see the match the way u want – fine . But you give Liverpool fans a bad rep with your childish comments

  • fotheringham says:

    We got lucky , but so what ? Results are all that matter

    One good result doesnt mean Rodgers is good , we are only 10th , if he gets us to top 4 then he is doing a good job .

    Lets wait and see

  • Peter says:

    there is no need for some fans to be so biased , its just lying to yourself and others .
    to be fair and honest – we were outplayed for most of the game

  • Peter says:

    there is no need for some fans to be so biased , its not being honest with yourself and others
    to be fair we were out played for most of the game

    • Ian says:

      yes , too many fans dont see reality , they are so biased they dont see faults , if Liverpool win — We are great
      if Liverpool lose — it wasnt our fault

      Are they immature or just stupid ?

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