Please get real. We managed to get ahead v stoke, villa, and utd. Recovered from a goal down against Swansea, went ahead then gave them every oportunity to draw level, perhaps even score 3 more. We now lose to Southampton at Anfield, starting with one striker, and 4 centre backs. And people are saying we are looking good, but unlucky.
FFS we have looked good for 30 mins of 3 matches. The rest of the time we have been woefull, totally dominated and pretty ewll over run.
Win 3 of our next 4 ? we haven't created a decent goal for ourselves yet. Sturridge v utd was about the best, the others have been almost gifted.
I thought we might do a lot better this season, and thought the first three results would have given us a bit of confidence to go on and improve as we went along, lucky as they were. We have got gradually worse with each game, and the more Brendan tries to repair things, the worse it seems to get. And I assume Suarez is going to lift us to a level we've not reached yet this season sigle handed is he. I don't think so. Any one who puts this performance down to the loss of coutinho alone is derranged. We are once again looking like a mid table side, and the next 4 games will support that. Get used to the idea that unless Brendan makes some major tactical changes, we will achieve nothing more than last season. In 55 years I cant remember being more dissheartened with the way we are playing. So rigid a game plan, such negative tactics, rigidly sticking to orders to keep passing it around your own box. Don't we have any personalities on the field to say, hey this aint working, lets change it.
Every manager in the prem will be telling their players to press press press, they cant cope with the pressure, and they dont have an out ball because they've only got one player totally isolated up front, and a mid field that will drop back in front of the back 4. We are sitting ducks, home or away.
Gonna sift through that post in sections if you don't mind.
Not sure what the first paragraph is about. I for one haven't said we've been 'unlucky', Southampton were the better team and I even mentioned that it was silly to go in to the game playing four centre backs.
Again, where have I said we haven't been woeful this season? I said in my post this season we have played some dire football. As for our not scoring a single well created goal- what about the excellently crafted one at Villa Park? Or Sturridge finishing superbly following some decent passing against Stoke? Easy to forget stuff like that when you have a vendetta, of course.
Yep, we do seem to have played worse with each passing game. I think you're being a bit daft if you think that it's totally a tactical problem however. Last season when we had Coutinho, Suarez and Sturridge playing together we played some wonderful football, and took many a team apart. Take out one of those and things get harder, but we can still just about grind out results (as shown without Suarez in the first three games). Take out another (Coutinho second half at Swansea and missing today) and it's very difficult for us. Said after the transfer window that we lacked depth up top, so would be reliant on those three more than any other top side are on their three best attacking players, and I stick to that assessment. I do think perhaps the money spent on Aspas and Alberto could have been saved and put on one quality player, while Suso could have stayed because it seems Alberto is playing the same role that Suso did here last season. Suarez' return will undoubtedly increase our performance level though. Daft to think otherwise. Hopefully Rodgers dumps this idea of four centre backs pronto and puts Enrique back at left-back, and we gotta hope Johnson returns soon. Agree we shouldn't pass the ball around so much in our own area; it cost us yesterday. Problem is, we sold our plan B (Carroll) and don't have many players up top who can hold on to the ball if it's thumped up to them. Kind of a catch 22 situation.
Most managers may be telling their team to 'press, press, press' against us, but there's a difference between saying and doing. The likes of Swansea and Southampton are very much pressing teams, who are designed to do that for 90 minutes of a football match as it's part of their game. Other teams don't have the ability to do that, so we shouldn't be worried that all of a sudden every single side presses us compulsively.
Still think it's a positive start. 10/15 points without Suarez is very good, regardless of how they were won. We just need to be lucky and hope there are no more injuries to him or Sturridge, because those two and Coutinho are incredibly key to our attacking play. I'm confident that we beat Sunderland next week and Crystal Palace at home is one we absolutely must win. 16 points from 21 would mark an excellent in terms of results.
For me, last season in the first few months we were playing well but not taking points. So far this season we've generally played poorly but got points. It's about finding the right formula now. We showed in the last three months of 2012/13 that we can play well and win games, so there's no reason to think we're going to suddenly be in a scrap for 8th. Have confidence that Rodgers will turn it around. Many top sides have an early season blip in performances (Man City have looked average, as have Man Utd for the most part), you've just got ensure you get results if you are suffering from it.
