Sorry a bit off topic but I'll get to it:
It seems all the Rafa bashers are just waken up from a deep slumber. Where were you when we won our 5th Champions League while our league results were not that great? Where were you when we nearly scared the hell out of Mancs last season? Where were you when we beat their sorry a**es in Anfield and Old Toilet? These so called Liverpool fans are just f**king hypocrites! Crying for Rafa's head are we now? Where were you when we are seriously and desperately wanting to get rid of those two yank clowns?
There's people regretting his/her mom's decision to put Liverpool shirt on him/her. There's some who constantly criticizing Rafa's tactics and selection of players. There's even some who I think don't even care about Liverpool but just want to jump on to the bandwagon wanting Rafa to be sacked. What a f**king joke all of you inbreds! I just couldn't understand one thing and I hope someone could tell me. Why all the sudden people blaming Rafa for his selection of players, or his rotation policy or his tactical approach or even how he handled the transfer market? Yes, we do sometimes question his tactical approach in some games but he's just a manager. He just give instruction to his players, but the players were responsible to carry his instructions. But I'm not saying what he had right now in his disposal are not good but lacking in depth that's all.
Who's the real culprit behind our lacklustre performance this season? Some said it's Rafa fault to let go of Alonso when he played the best football last season. But did you ever analyze his games starting from the first game when he signed for us? Rafa's only wanted to sell Alonso when I think his games went into decline a season prior to last. I know most of you never been a manager but most of you do play FM or CM. How frustrating you could be when your player not playing at his best at least two seasons in a row? That was Rafa reaction when Alonso not playing well for us. He's not judging from a single or two games but his judgement based on seasonal performance of a player. So if he thought of selling Alonso at that time, there must be something wrong with Alonso's performance. But the real poison is our owner. As an owner of a great club like Liverpool, you should at least make effort to comply with whoever in his manager's wishlist, but being a self-centred greedy pr**ks as they are right now, I could assume only 30% of Rafa's targeted players were achievable. Let me see here, Daniel Alves, Simao Sabrosa, David Villa, Sergio Aguero, David Silva, Marek Hamsik, and some high profile players were Rafa's target but did we got them? Yeah, you can blame all you can on Rafa because you assumed he got what he wanted on Lucas or Aurelio or even Degen, but if you think clearly these were the only players achievable with our skint budget thanks to them dumbs.
Back to game:
Today I think Rafa has changed his tactics to a direct 4-3-3 with a three prong attack because of both Torres and Gerrard's injuries. And unlucky for us, we lost to a f**king beach ball! It was quite funny looking Reina deceived by a beach ball, but to be honest, there's nothing we could be complaining about. It was one our own fans who tossed the ball into the pitch while Reina and co didn't realized that the ball has been in the six yard box. If you want to blame, then blame that kid who threw the ball.
Touching on our gameplay, it seems that we still couldn't get a grip in midfield. Our midfield always gives posessions away while resorting to be more in our half. Given that this was Spearing first starting 11 eleven, his performance was quite ok but he tends to be caught off posession a lot. He must learn to be more composed and decisive when he passes the ball. The only thing I didn't like about Rafa is he always subbed his players late into game. It was clear Spearing was not having his best game but it took Rafa 70 minutes to at least make a change. A change too late as some might say, but it didn't changed the fact our passings were not connecting well.
My father once said (he's not into club football anyway)"Liverpool didn't play creative football nor having played like Arsenal did, but what Liverpool has compared to others is sheer determination and the willingness to push forward and make something out of nothing. Liverpool will never play fast paced football but even if they played in a slow tempo game, you could never predict what they could do. Once you convinced they are trying to slow things down, you'll be caught suddenly with a change of pace in their game. Liverpool has the most formidable defenders in PL. Even if Man Utd are so great but their defenders are easily manipulated. It's hard get past one Liverpool player without getting past another in the process. It's easy to say Liverpool is not a team of stars but attitude and passion."
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