Spurs are not an ideal team to be facing to kick off the brand spanking new season.
Spurs are more than capable of giving us a game especially at the very beginning of the term- no team wants to lose.
We are also more than capable of that shaky start to a campaign if memory serves, and with the additional pressures of defensive and some might argue midfield issues, perhaps an even more wobbly start than usual.
We will have to be careful with this one needing to win it.
While we undoubtedly have that ability in spades, our players must believe and be fired up ready for that challenge. Benitez will in turn need to astutely man manage and be as tactically aware as he has ever been.
It would have been great if we didn't have, as I understand it, an international break to get our hairs and thumbs in knots over sweating on the potential injuries that could be inflicted on our key players; but should Cara return to boss the back, Lucas come out from under the shadows of all the "can Liverpool survive without Alonso" hoopla and stake his place in the first team and Gerrard and Torres cement that partnership that may soon go down in Premiership folklore as the "wow, did you ever get the chance to see it" double act, then I'm quietly confident that the rustiness and "lets try this" attitude that Rafa had in pre-season, and which most certainly contributed to what has to be adjudged as a pretty appalling pre-season might just come good after all.
Spurs with two ex players were always going to be a tough opener, but as far as I can remember, Liverpool do tough pretty well. Heck, to my mind I don't think we know how to do things any other way!
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