my pre match analysis ( girls may be bored reading this)

i found myself constantly thinking about the liverpool bolton match so i thought i might as well blog it out... =)

the last thing liverpool need after a gruelling international period is to meet bolton.. let's face it, bolton do not have as many internationals as liverpool so they would be able to prepare for the match better... it's always hard to train your team when there's only 4 or 5 of them left at the training ground

and of course there's the obvious fatigue factor... steven gerrard, steve finnan, garcia, sami hyppia and john arne risse would all have had to play more matches in the same time, especially gerrard who is almost guaranteed to play tonigth against azerbijan.(spelling definitely wrong sorry)..on the other hand, for bolton, i think only stelios giannakoupolus the greek striker played an international??

good teams are able to grind out a win despite their fatigue and while i do wonder about the commitment of some of the liverpool players i do believe that they would work as hard as they can for a win because they know how important it is.. i even think the international break did some good because liverpool do tend to take it easy after a good win...

the problem is that's how i felt when liverpool played blackburn.. this was a team who is not strong in the goal scoring dept and are gaining points simply by frustrating their opponents to death..hmm.. i wonder what other team is like that too..BOLTON !! duh...

against a team like middlesborough who do try to play more football than rugby, it's easier to find a goal..but when you're up against a team hell bent on just knocking away the ball at every oppurtunity, you gotta prepare your attacks well and train hard on how to break down tigt defences.. which is the luxury we do not have during an international break...add to that the fact that most bolton players should be full of energy to run down their opponents and you just wonder if this tie is actually the trickiest obstacle to that coveted 4th spot

the only good news is that garcia seems not only fit but still in good form.. he almost scored a goal against china that day when playing for spain.. so he may just be able to play the lone striker role in a 4-5-1

i predict liverpool will play 4-5-1 although not out of choice. they will employ nunez and riise as wingers and try and support garcia up front. so if they start to attack alot it may end up more liek 433..which i hope is the case

gerrard, smicer and biscan will play centre midfield assuming there is no injury.. the back four would have only one change in traore instead of warnock. the weak link is smicer..he cannot tackle well enough to play central but who else do we have left with injuries to hamman and alonso?

defence will be the order of the day.. both teams would be more concerned with a clean sheet than a goal..liverpool will of course have the obligation to win but i can foresee a cautious approach rather than the all guns blazing style we saw in the previous match

all in all, as a neutral i predict a 0-0.. a 1-0 win is only a fraction less likely and even then the win could go to either team..but being a liverpool fan i have to stick my neck out and go for a 1-0 win to liverpool..

my prediction: liverpool 1 bolton 0

let's see how accurate my numerous predictions are =)

tests have an amazing sapping ability

compared to the O level and A level exams when we had to spend a whole 3 hours in the exam hall, sitting for a 1 hour test that has only 2 questions shouldn't be very tiring.

but it is.

it's not so much the duration but the amount of concentration required. for one whole hour, your mind is centred on the question and how to solve it. in the O levels, most of us practised the 10 year series so much we were practically solving the problems by heart. there was some thought process of course but even if you did not really understand, you could still solve questions step by step.

but with all the assumptions we have to consider, the conditions we need to put it, the different concepts we coudl use, an hour of tests can feel like 3 hours can't it? i guess it's the thinking that makes us so tired

which is why i'm blogging when normally i should be studying.. just so tired..=)

nothing like free milo to make everyone suddenly very thirsty...=P..including myself..duh i took the photo.. 

if you can see the words, it says master khor as featured in ?????? magazine.. that's not me though... it's some fortune teller..good luck to him.. 

i find this sign super ironic... you want to warn people about a low ceiling because you are scared peopel would knock their heads against it.. but doesn't the sign make that part of the ceiling EVEN LOWER ?!?!! 

sky line...=) 

tempura 

new layout

just thought i'd spruce things up.. new blog new content.. in more ways than one...*wink*

i just found out that sun yanzi was at geylang for a photoshoot.. if only i had seen her.. although i'd probably never have guessed it was her..cos she was supposed to look a little like a bar girl in that photoshoot... i never thought sun was some good two shoes person.. and it's just a photo shoot so i dun think it would effect her girl next door image.. in fact i likethe fact she did the photo shoot

if you hoe to see how the photo looks like check out LIFESTYLE newspapers.. or buy I-D the magazine. but it's kinda exclsuive so you may not get to see all the photos.

why do i like her so much?? well firstly it has to be her songs.. and for some reason i still think she's chio...which to me is surprising when there's other girls like sammi cheng and xiao ya xuan..i din mention jolin cos although i do admit she can be very chio.. at other angles she just looks overdone..but that's my opinion of course...=)