Well, this feeling is becoming quite common lately, outplaying the opposition and creating enough chances to win 2 games, never mind the one.
Thought the lads played excellent yesterday, all of them. Let's get one thing straight again though, this was another 2 points thrown away. Sturridge was immense yesterday and i can see big things happening for the lad if he keeps his head on. We passed the ball around well, we pressed City hard and this time we did it for the whole game, unlike the Arsenal game.
We should have been out of sight by half time but it wasn't to be. Thought Sturridge's goal was outstanding, the power he generated was immense and his skill and vision in open play was clearly evident. The Gerrard goal was even better, so much more left in Gerrard. You just knew it was going in, any other player wouldn't even have had the right to take it on.
Then we come to the most talked about point of the game. Whose fault was the goal?. Reina or Skrtel?. It's a hard one but in all honesty Skrtel should have just hoofed the ball away, regardless of whether Reina gave the call or not. Then on the other hand why the F**k did Reina go to the edge of the area when there was absolutely no threat?.
While everyone has been debating the decision i've been more worried about the actual substitution that led to this situation. I may be the only one who is thinking this but i'd have put Johnson to left back and brought Wisdom on at right back, or even brought Wisdom on at left back. I was disappointed to see Wisdom dropped in all honesty but to put a confidence shot centre back on as a left back in a game we were closing out was madness.
Then we had the Allen substitution, what the F**k was all that about?. Hardly a signal of intent that we wanted to win.
It was a brilliant performance by the lads and they deserve all the credit in the world as does Brendan but let's not kid ourselves here, we had the opportunity to come away from this double header with all 6 points.
In all this it's Gerrard i feel sorry for the most, how many times has he pulled us out of the sh*t?, only to be let down by his team mates so he has to do it all again.
Ryan Giggs has the tag of the greatest player never to grace a World Cup.
I sincerely hope that Gerrard doesn't get the tag of being the greatest player to never win the Premier League.
While i'm tremendously proud of our youngsters it's patently obvious that the scales of youth and experience are well out of balance.
It's that experience that closes out games, it's that experience that gets you three points instead of one.
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