Our defence wasnt really tested, but the few times we were under attack, I wasnt very confident. Hate to be repetitive, but GJ is overrated, Agger should be recycled into a Defensive Midfielder, Enrique is back to his consistent self, and Carra compensates his shortcommings with his massive experience ( and has been probably our best defender in the past games).
Lucas isnt recovered, and its starting to be a worry. He is not half the player he was before his series of injuries
The Skipper kept pushing the team forward, but he didnt have a particullarly good game. Still on of the few players who plays with his head up, looking for a pass.
Henderson has much improved since the start of his LFC career. The lad tries hard, and have to give him credit, but still, he doesnt strike me as a midfielder to take us into the next level. He is tough a good option for the present, and our current aspirations (sad thing to say)
Coutinho looks a fantastic buy. Lively, and irreverent, with a good passing ability, and mostly looking for the FORWARD pass, and not the safe one. We missed that for a long time now. He links up well with the forwards, and given that he is not yet fit, we can have great hopes for his future
Stuart...well, I dont like how he plays, and i think he too cold (dont know an expresion in english to say what i mean). He seldom is where he should be, he realizes a pass in going his way when its already too late, and he rarely tries to beat his marker, he just usually ends up passing sideways or backwards. Dont know if he was subbed for tacticall reasons, or if he was injured, but when he left we didnt miss him
Suarez was marked like ive never seen before in the PL. He was totally owned by that bald guy (collins isnt him?). He looked frustrated, and for the first time since he is in a Liverpool shirt, i didnt feel like he was giving 100%, and sulked at times. Sad to see. I mentioned that watching the Uruguay games i sensed Luis was looking bad, and the past 2 games just confirm something is not right. Still, he was unlucky at times, and forced some fantastic saves from the finn.
Daniel was great on his first 5-10 mins on the pitch, then we saw again how he can go missing in games. Still he tried to link up a coouple times, and could have scored.
Reina had one save and nothing more to note, as i said we werent really tested.
And again, having possesion is NOT dominating, if thats what the other team allows you to do. They gave us the ball, and we didnt know what to do with it. Possesion and complete passes mean sh*t to me when they are useless.
Its not a coincidence anymore: most of the times we score, we end up conceeding, and most of the times a teams allow us to handle the ball, we are useless with it. We tied/lost games we should have won, because our defence was awful, and we tied/lost games because our attack was toothless...they always seem to take turns to appear
We are a GIANT team with a mid table squad. Up untill today, i still had hopes of CL (very slim) and EL (actually i was quite confident in getting there)
Now i dont know where we stand, and whats worrying is that i dont even know the manager knows (not that its entirely his fault)
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