Everybody make mistakes and that includes Kenny himself. Him being the King is not an excuse for making mistakes. But it's only one f**king game and the opener of the season. Not getting maximum points on the first game doesn't mean that we'll not going to win the league.
That game against Sunderland, he picked what he believed could win the game for us, but plans didn't always go right. Sometimes along the way mistakes being made and one silly mistake either will or will not cost us. I'm not saying that Kenny was right to pick his choice of players because it was based on what he saw in training and we'not there to see who's doing well and who doesn't. He got Clarke giving him inputs about players. Where he deemed necessary, he put in his best 11 based on the inputs and actually when the whistle blow, it's up to the players to prove him they are worth the choice. They showed it in the first 45, but something went sour during the 2nd 45 and even he didn't could find the exact answer of what the problems are.
The problem arised from our 2nd half were the fluidity of the game and our lack of diversity, not the choice of players. Even if he put in kelly instead of Flanno, could anyone guarantee that he would not be in that same position as Flanno was when Larsson blasted that volley? Nobody could tell that. Up to that point he was playing very well. One bad judgement and we lost our three points. If we're talking about putting someone instead of someone, we could be saying it everytime our players made a bad judgement.
When he subbed Suarez we lost our diversity because up to that point, we are attcking from every direction and causing Sunderland a hell of a problem. It was when Suarez was pulled out then our attacking strategy was pointing the ball straight to Carroll. The problem with Carroll that he was a bit slow and only a good through ball could give him the chance to score from open play. Other than that, he could only hoped for a good crossing. So it's easy to figure out where to got from that. It's not that I'm saying that he's not that good but it will take time for him to improve but in the same time we have to improvise on our attacking approach. When with Suarez we're mobilizing all over the pitch and without him, it's all Carroll. What Kenny should do is continue the attacking approach from all angle even if without Suarez.
That's why for a good game to have a good fluidity we should at least maintain that good combination of pass and move, creativity and mobility in our game. By saying that, we should have at least two players with Suarez ability, combined with the flanking of Downings, good midfield dominance by both Lucas/Adam, Lucas/Raul, Lucas/Aquilani, Gerrard/Lucas or whatever combination Kenny put out, solid backline and most importantly a good striker with Carroll like presence(and one good sub) to be as consistent as what we have showed in our first 45. Then come the most important thing Kenny needed to tackle, the unable-to-kill-off-game syndrome. We played superb in our first 45, but still for years we're lacking that killing power. Mostly we're unable to secure the game and let opponent dictate the game. Whether it's Anfield of that striken Old Traffart, we should not let opponent dictate our game but a lot of times we let them dictate. I was like in awe when watching our first half. Our midfield was all over the pitch making strings of passes, cutting off opponents and containing the pressure. then second half, we tend to sink and let them dominate us.
It's still early in the season and I don't want to blame anyone for our lack of urgency to kill off the game especially Kenny. He has done all in his power but it is up to the players to understand the concept, philosophy and the need to win any game.
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