West Ham 1 - 2 Liverpool
Carton Cole 70 Joe Cole 1, Aquilani 90
The month started well with a decent win in a tricky game, i left Gerrard out for precuationary measures and brought in Joe Cole to play on his old stomping ground. He didnt let me down roaming the midfield popping up everywhere and scoring in just one minute. Carton Cole hit back with 20 minutes to go, before Aquilani scored an outrages 30 yarder in the 90th minute to secure a memorable win for the 'pool
Dortmund2 - 2 Liverpool
Lucas Barrios 59, 69 Kuyt 72, Jovanovic 74
A partizan crowd greeted us at the Signal Iduna Park, we new we were in for a tricky game but dominated the first half.
A worrying sight in the 20th minute when Torres went down holding his thigh, it didnt look good.
i decided to give it till half time and me sammy and thomo chatted over the tactics and who to bring on, i opted for Kuyt ahead of Pacheco, for his hard work and experience.
we went down to two silly goals from poor mistakes to go 2-0 down, then Kuyt fired us back in with a chance with a cracking strike. then Jovanovic fired his first for the club after a quality ball from insua.
the match finished 2-2 and there were some concerns about how away from home our midfield was becoming over run.
Once again Glen Johnson went down with an injury and was out for 2 weeks.
Torres' injury wasnt as bad as feared and he was fit to face Chelsea on sunday.
Liverpool 3 - 1 Chelsea
Babel 4, Torres 15, 81 Anelka 79
Degen started for us at right back, Joe Cole was dropped after a poor display in Dortmund with Aquilani coming in, and we shocked the title favourites into a 2-0 lead in just 15 minutes, Babel was destroying Bosingwa drifting in from the left.
Chelsea then grew into the game and should have nicked a goal before half time, they continued to press and grabbed a well earned goal on 79. We suddenly sprang back into life and Torres secured the win on 81.
With no injuries it was a brilliant day at the office, we had to play Chelsea again on wednesday in the Carling Cup, i would be making a few changes to the team to give players first team experience and the big players a rest.
Liverpool 3-1 Chelsea
Pacheco 4,9 Joe Cole 90+1 Santa Cruz 64
I made lots of changes to the side, The back four only had one change, Kyriakos in for Carra, Masch would captain the team. Lucas in the middle ahead of Javier, Jovanovic on the left, Joe Cole was given another go in behind the striker with Kuyt on the right. Pacheco up top.
Once again we beat the title favourties 3-1 and using a weakend team it was a phenominal peformance
Pacheco scored two early goals at the Kop end, before Santa Cruz pulled one back. Joe Cole then scored against his former club to cap off an extroadinary match.
We had drawn Middlesborough at home in the next round.
Sunderland 2 - 2 Liverpool
Jones 37, Bent 64 Gerrard 24,Torres 48
I brought everyone back into the team for the tricky league match, Degen was too tired and fatigued to play so Carra started at right back instead.
Gerrard opened the scoring on 20 with a close range header.
Sunderland hit us on the counter just before half time to level the scores.
Just after half time Torres sent the Anfield faithful into jubilation with a close range finish to make it 2-1
On 60 Torres had his 10th of the season chalked off for offside.
Darren Bent then made it 2-2 and we were completley robbed.
' A joke of a decision there were two men playing him onside if we had that we'd have gone 3-1 up and been cruisng. A disgrace'
quite a pleasing month impressive back to back victories over Chelsea. but two poor showings against Dortmund and Sunderland were not good.
Player of the Month: Fernando Torres, 3 goals in as many games was impressive from Nando.
Star Performance: Daniel Pacheco vs Chelsea, Carling Cup
two goals at the Kop end to knock chelsea out was sensational
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My favourite team is down as Liverpool and thats it really, ive only used the editor for Phil Thompson