by Kharhaz » Wed Sep 16, 2009 10:56 pm
Frustrating match however the positives are there. How many of these type of games would we previously have drawn? or indeed lost to last minute goals? We never really looked threatened and I thought Lucas had a pretty solid game. They came to defend and the way they were set up made it tricky but the runs of benayoun caused them problems.
Also, there were a lot of negatives. Gerrards stupid yellow card. The referee pointed out several times "not until I blow this whistle" and what did stevie do? yep, something stupid. Is it just me a bit concerned with his state of mind? the daft pub incident, the daft penalty against villa and the daft card tonight? Hopefully im just reading too much into it.
Our forward play is still static. Aside from benayoun we seemed to be pretty predictable all shots going wide or at the keeper and our set pieces are just awful. Torres to me needs gerrard further forward with him for torres to be more effective. When he is surrounded by defenders he struggles miserably when he is having a frustrating time of it.
Defensively, we got away with it tonight, and for me, I am losing faith rapidly in Skrtel. Too many times he looks clumsy and if we played a better side tonight we would have lost that one.
But like I said there are positives, the positive being we won a frustrating game. Too many times we have been on the wrong end in these games so it makes a nice change.
Bill Shankly: “I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.”