Oh come off it and stop all the moaning!
No!
It is a pre season friendly not a champions league final, yes we lost and no that doesn't make me happy but lets look at the reality of the situation.
It's still defeat for Liverpool Football Club. Whatever capaticy, it's still defeat. Something this club has forced into them, they do not accept. As an old Liverpool song says "shout no surrender, don't mention
defeat". Every game for this club is a game we should, at the very least, try to win. The opening two friendlies we haven't shown that desire.
We lose 1-0 against a side who looked fitter than us. We were playing youngsters and giving players run out. Which since I last heard was the POINT of a pre season friendly. I could hardly imagine Rafa and Stevie crying themselves to sleep over the result can you?
The POINT of pre-season is to get ready for the upcoming season. Hardly great preparation no goals in over 180 minutes now is it? The youngsters we're giving a run out to are hardly excelling and staking a claim for the first team. The first team regulars we do have out there have hardly bust a gut to get fit, they'd get more out of running up and down the sand hills at Formby beach.
Also we have had bad pre season's previously and i don't think it effects us too much come match day of the league season.
Well that happens to be because most years our first game of the season is a Champions League qualifier or the Charity Shield. A competitive game, that gives the players something to play for ahead of the opening fixture. We use those games are the ones to try and turn up in.
Last season we hardly set the world on fire with our friendlies, scoring only 4 goals in our first 5 games, against much lesser opposition, and look we started the season off okay then didn't we.
Well no we didn't start to well against Liege, then two last ten minute winners against Sunderland and Middlesborough before another shocking outing against Liege and possibly the drabbest game of football against Villa. Cracking start to a season, performance wise eh? Which is what good pre-seasons build up. They get the rhythm and momentum going.
So get over the result and look to the next friendly and lets see how we start the real season before crying over a couple of petty losses in friendlies.
Why should we look to the next friendly, it's not a Champions League final is it? The next match has no importance either so lets just sod it off. Oh and by the way, we haven't had a couple of losses in this year's pre-season. We've had one loss, one draw.
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