by account deleted by request » Thu Aug 14, 2008 2:48 am
I thought both our full backs looked p!ss poor and Dossena looked a liability for the first 20mins. Agger and Carra hardly won a header all night and looked rattled for most of the night.
I thought Alonso after 20mins of looking like the only player with any class got found out YET AGAIN. As soon as he starts getting pressured the passes get poorer and poorer , he starts passing sideways and eventually joins the rest of the launch it up field and pray it doesn't come back too quickly brigade.
Kuyt worked hard and defensively was probably our best full back tonight, he certainly showed nothing going forward, while Keane showed with a couple of poor passes that he is no Dalglish.(OR GERRARD!) The one real occasion when we threatened, Torres was in full flow all he needed was the ball slid into his stride and he was through and clear, unfortunately Keane messed up the pass and Torres finished up out near the wing with the threat gone.
Reina m.o.m by a street, with Plessis too young to take too much blame, and Benayoun and Torres the only two other players to at least attempt to do more than just kick it as far away from themselves as they could.
The warning signs against Lazio were ignored and tonight we were very very lucky not to pay a very heavy price for our nonperformance.