by neilE » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:05 pm
the result today was absolutely vital, and we got it. Well done lads. If Morientes had put away either of his sitters, the scoreline would have reflected our domination of the game too - especially in the 2nd half. But we are still suffering from the failure in the transfer market in the summer. We played with 4 full backs on the pitch today, and 2, Josemi and Traore are not good enough for LFC anyway, which shows how light the squad is. Sissoko played very well, but for most of the game he was the attacking midfielder, with Alonso sitting in front of the defence - didn't really understand that one. As for Zenden, my patience has run out. Today was his big chance to play in Gerrard's role, and he failed - again! His only contribution apart from getting fouled a couple of times was a free kick onto the bar. Kewell at his typical worst would have been more effective than Zenden today. And still it was Warnock who went off for Riise to come on. I hope Cisse has earned himself a starting place as one of 2 strikers for the next few games. He did his job today, and hopefully he'll get some of his confidence back, and our lack of quality strikers won't look quite so obvious