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Ra Ra Rafa
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Today I think we looked a lot more slick when attacking. Torres and Voronin are two new faces to us this season but I feel they could be the missing piece from last season. It was their first real game together and I've got to admit they do look like once they understand each others game they can be a deadly threat to oppositions.
Last season we had Bellamy, Kuyt, Fowler and Crouch. Out of those four the only player who had pace was Craig Bellamy but the other part of his game lacked. Fowler was getting on a bit so our partnership up front was usually Crouch and Kuyt. Good partnership but lacked sharpness and pace and thats what Voronin and Torres will give us this season.
I don't want to say they will definitely be the perfect partnership up front but thats my gut feeling and I just want to share that with you guys.
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Quote from: Ra Ra Rafa on August 25, 2007, 06:57:31 PM
Today I think we looked a lot more slick when attacking. Torres and Voronin are two new faces to us this season but I feel they could be the missing piece from last season. It was their first real game together and I've got to admit they do look like once they understand each others game they can be a deadly threat to oppositions.
Last season we had Bellamy, Kuyt, Fowler and Crouch. Out of those four the only player who had pace was Craig Bellamy but the other part of his game lacked. Fowler was getting on a bit so our partnership up front was usually Crouch and Kuyt. Good partnership but lacked sharpness and pace and thats what Voronin and Torres will give us this season.
I don't want to say they will definitely be the perfect partnership up front but thats my gut feeling and I just want to share that with you guys.
Any thoughts?
It is a very good partnership upfront. Maybe a sign of things to come.
I do like Torres and Kuyt upfront. It seems like our strongest partnership at the moment.
I'm starting to feel sorry for Crouchy now!
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Many people will disagree with me but I don't think Crouch is in Rafa's plans anymore. Thing is Rafa would keep on to Crouch but will Crouch want to be playing Carling Cup games instead of Premiership games? Will Crouch want to be a sub and come on in the last 10 minutes? Will Crouch settle for sitting in the stands? Will Crouch want to be dropped for International games? Of course not, I feel next summer is his best time to go because he won't get much of a chance here. 270 minutes of Premiership football played and Crouch takes part in what 10 minutes of it?!
Why I also say they could be the perfect partnership is because they don't wander off to the flanks.
Bellamy and Kuyt always wandering off to the flanks, Crouch is too slow to make runs through the center so he needs service from wingers.
With Torres and Voronin you've got pace through the center of the final third which we've lacked since the days of Michael Owen. Remember Bellamy is quick but his runs were forever offside and he was forever wandering around the left flank.
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Quote from: Ra Ra Rafa on August 25, 2007, 08:56:39 PM
Many people will disagree with me but I don't think Crouch is in Rafa's plans anymore. Thing is Rafa would keep on to Crouch but will Crouch want to be playing Carling Cup games instead of Premiership games? Will Crouch want to be a sub and come on in the last 10 minutes? Will Crouch settle for sitting in the stands? Will Crouch want to be dropped for International games? Of course not, I feel next summer is his best time to go because he won't get much of a chance here. 270 minutes of Premiership football played and Crouch takes part in what 10 minutes of it?!
Why I also say they could be the perfect partnership is because they don't wander off to the flanks.
Bellamy and Kuyt always wandering off to the flanks, Crouch is too slow to make runs through the center so he needs service from wingers.
With Torres and Voronin you've got pace through the center of the final third which we've lacked since the days of Michael Owen. Remember Bellamy is quick but his runs were forever offside and he was forever wandering around the left flank.
hate to admit it but you have a valid point there mate, if Torres and Voronin works well like we saw today then why change it? ok I know Rafa likes his rotation but Crouch has one song whereas Voronin, Kuyt and Torres all have a 40gig Ipod up their sleeves. Crouch will probably get a bit pissed off with this but I'm sure they all understand it's simply not possible to give two of them all the games.
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I have to agree I'm afraid. Crouch is brilliant at what he does, both for Liverpool and England, but he does seem to be somewhat of a 'one trick pony'...
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'one trick pony'...
like it darling
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I hope he is still in Benitez's plans! It can never hurt to have different types of strikers lined up for different matches! It would be a little harsh if he told him to stay as he was in his plans and then benched him!
On the topic of Torres and Voronin, it does seem like it's quite a handy partnership! Hopefully we can keep the opposition guessing though! Even we don't know how the team's going to play so perhaps this is a bit of an advantage!
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Quote from: County_Rd_Kopite on August 25, 2007, 09:46:34 PM
It would be a little harsh if he told him to stay as he was in his plans and then benched him!
This is true. But I don't see him starting as many matches this season as he did last. I think he's going to be more of a substitute. It hurts me to say it, it really does, because I love what Crouch can do. I just think Benitez might think he's got more possibilities with Voronin / Kuyt and Torres up front.
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Quote from: yorkie18 on August 25, 2007, 09:50:47 PM
This is true. But I don't see him starting as many matches this season as he did last. I think he's going to be more of a substitute. It hurts me to say it, it really does, because I love what Crouch can do. I just think Benitez might think he's got more possibilities with Voronin / Kuyt and Torres up front.
There's no denying, no matter how much it pains me to admit, that Kuyt, Voronin and Torres are the better options! They work the ball more and are more dangerous to the opposition!
Crouch is good to get the long balls into and F**k up creative teams! But as we play creative sides a little less often, I can't really see him being drafted in too often! Especially with Torres showing so much promise!
It's a necessary problem when you have a good squad with many quality players!
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Torres and Voronin the perfect partnership today - yes.
For the whole of the season? No.
For me I think it will be Torres and Kuyt most of the season.
If you're coming up against sides like Sunderland, our quality is going to outshine every time.
Voronin is a scrapper. He's dogged and determined. Plays against sides that defend deep and try to make things difficult and scrappy.
If you come up against sides that don't rely on that dogged ten men behind the ball ethic, the ones that really have quality to play proper football in the pass and move trend. Then I'm fairly sure you'll see Kuyt and Torres.
Kuyt will run all day long for you and get himself into positions to feed a pass, open the defense and Torres will make space all over the back four with his pace, but feed off Kuyts movement. It's all very clever really.
One thing's for sure though. If Voronin carries on the scoring when he plays, he's going to be giving Rafa a very good headache!!!
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Well I have to reitterate what others are saying here. Torres and Vorinin look very much suited to each other and are looking the real deal.
With a little more playing together they have the makings of a great partnership, but I think you will find that Crouch will play far more in the European games because a lot of defences in Europe are very wary of him. Crouch and Torres for most of the European games where Crouchy can get flick ons for Torres to run onto then Vorinin and Torres for the EPL because Vorinin is a very physical kind of forward, then Kuyt to intermingal and change things up a bit with his work rate and unselfish plays.
All in all this is a very exciting time to watch things develop and will prove the so called media pundits and media hype about Rafas rotatation policies are complete bollox. Week after week I hear people like Paul"Junkie" Merson harp on about rotation not being the key to the success of a team, its about time that tw*ts like him realease that Football is no longer a team game but a squad game. This is because of the intense physical demands of the game today unlike when they were drinking umm I mean playing.
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I tink Kuyt behind torres to do the dirty work and to push torres futher up. voronin as a sub im almost certain crouch will leave before feburary
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Torres and Voronin does look strong and pacy in front but don't you think it is a bit premature to write Crouchy off? Crouch knows he has to work hard and I'm convinced he will, I like Torres Voronin in front, I also like Torres Kuyt partnership, but I don't beleive for a second that Crouch is not in RAFA's plans. Crouch is still a player who gives you option especially in Europe, he cause problems with his size no questions about it.
It's still early days....
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I do think this could be a very good partnership because both of them are a handful for defenders. One with his brute strength and the other with his pace and technique. I think these two need to be played as a partnership more often.
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Kuyt and torres make better partnership than torres and vorrin but if babel worked with torres we would be scoring more goals that means more points so we would win loads of cups
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