Job to believe that the same team played against City and Arsenal. Gerrard seems to thrive on the moments of inspiration he is always capable of. He needs to raise his game when he is being challenged for superiority in midfield. If he is on anything but top form, he drifts in and out of games, his head goes down and the oposition take advantage. He needs to stop feeling sorry for himself when things aren't so good and get some fight in him which helps to lift players around him. He was bossed against the Arse and didn't have the fight in him to respond. Mabey that comes with age, or maybe he just picks his moments agains lesser oponents. who knows. We defo need our inspirational captain back, as at the moment he doesn't seem to want to be on the park.
Obviously if things don't improve rapidly, we will be in a relegation fight, if we can perform more like we did against City we could survive until Jan. Then we have the problem of finding a decent striker who would leave his club, mid season and join us, and for what price. The longer the problem goes on, the less atractive we become, we have no other choice but to turn things around with what we've got. A big ask, but putting aside the W.B.A. Debacle, we have had one terrific performance against City, and a dour performance against Arsenal. Can we up the confidence and belief and raise our game again, only time will tell. We will now see what sort of man manager Brendan is, as well as a football manager. He has to lift his troops, and if he can and we can also avoid any more injuries, we could turn things around, if only to avoid the drop but as things are forget a top 4. We could make top 10 and rebuild for next season but we need NSV to get the cheque book out. Not for the crazy money spent on Carroll, Henderson and Downing, Aquilani, but decent money for decent proven players. we've been playing on potential for far too long now, time we played with some real class in the squad.
We can do it, the players need to sit and watch that City game over and over to remind them of how it's done. Hard bloody graft, chasing every ball and closing down opponents when they have the ball. Keep pressing and forcing mistakes, bully, boss, and terrify teams. Attack with pace, more movement off the ball in last third, pull defenders around a bit. We don't vary our attacks enough and are becoming so predictable, we make it easy for teams.
I know we can recover from this, although at the same time i'm worried shitless.
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