only me wrote:burjennio wrote:only me wrote:Set aside we are all "experts" after the fact a - how come going into a game when you KNOW you must score 3 goals at least with only 3 natural attacking players (torres/yossi/Kuyt) a reasonable tactic?
How is it reasonable that after leading 2 up at half time and you MUST score another and it's not as all the players are having their game of their lifes you don't change a thing?
F*ck it let's take the premiership.
football doesnt work like that mate, you have to take control in midfield before you can score goals or you just end up playing 70yard hit n hopes for 90mins. Rafa got this spot on, though I think Mascherano being back in the side contributed greatly in this and as we dominated position we created chances and scored 2 goals in a very lopsided 1st half. I understand where you are coming in thinking Babel would have been a better offensive option but the truth is the guy has been medicore all season, where Benny has been 1 of our best performers in the last 2 months.
Don't get me wrong i didn't want Babel in but for sure not Skertel and Lucas - Agger And Reira were a must for this game.
I understand the need to control the midfield but we came into this game with a must score 3 goals situation - we needed to mix things up - we scored and lead not becuase we controled the midfield we lead because this game called football is crazy and amazing - from this point we (Rafa) should have done better.
if i was to choose an offensive centre half for liverpool its hypia, more dangerous from set pieces than any of our other defenders but i cant really se how Agger could make a difference away from home where he cant take the chance to break forward the way he would in a home game against a lesser side. I do think he has more of a goal threat than Skrtel but I think Rafa felt the Slovak would deal with Drogba better than Danny would, which I cant really answer because theyve both been givin a tough time by the ballbag in the past