{"id":22886,"date":"2011-12-28T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/dalglish-backs-carroll\/"},"modified":"2011-12-28T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:00:06","slug":"dalglish-backs-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/28\/dalglish-backs-carroll\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalglish backs Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtnfootball.com\/content\/photo_1325078248203-1-0_280x187.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Andy Carroll<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish backed club record signing Andy Carroll on Wednesday and insisted his confidence is intact despite a poor goals return since moving to Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll has scored three goals in 19 appearances this season giving him a total of just five in 28 matches for the Reds, whom he joined from Newcastle for \u00a335 million almost a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Two good saves from Blackburn keeper Mark Bunn denied him in a 1-1 draw on Monday but Dalglish believes the goals will come.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think self-belief is a problem for Andy Carroll, I don&#8217;t see why it should be. There&#8217;s nothing to say he&#8217;s short of belief and there is no evidence he should be.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One game he played (started) in we went down to nine men (the defeat at Tottenham) and another (the loss at Fulham) we had another sent off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think yourselves (the media) have a bigger problem with Andy than anyone else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With Newcastle meeting the Merseysiders on Friday the spotlight will be on Carroll to prove himself and keep up a tradition of former United strikers who have left the Magpies and returned to haunt them &#8211; from 1970s hero Malcolm MacDonald, who plundered a hat-trick against his old side after moving to Arsenal, to Andy Cole, who helped deny them the 1996 title.<\/p>\n<p>Dalglish meanwhile revealed Liverpool were still awaiting the arrival of the written FA disciplinary commission verdict after Luis Suarez&#8217; was banned for eight-matches for using offensive words, including a reference to skin colour, towards Manchester United&#8217;s Patrice Evra.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a92011 AFP<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Andy Carroll Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish backed club record signing Andy Carroll on Wednesday and insisted his confidence is intact despite a poor goals return since moving to Anfield. Carroll has scored three goals in 19 appearances this season giving him a total of just five in 28 matches for the Reds, whom he joined from Newcastle for \u00a335 million almost a year ago. Two good saves from Blackburn keeper Mark Bunn denied him in a 1-1 draw on Monday but Dalglish believes the goals will come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dalglish backs Carroll - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/28\/dalglish-backs-carroll\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dalglish backs Carroll - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Andy Carroll Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish backed club record signing Andy Carroll on Wednesday and insisted his confidence is intact despite a poor goals return since moving to Anfield. 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