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by **tubby** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:06 pm

Our lack of strength in depth is so obvious now. Shame really as if things stay like this we will most definatley drop out of the top 4.

by **sgs** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:06 pm

Perhaps this will be a reminder to folks just why Gerrard has not being played in central MF for a long while...
Anyways, why criticize SG when you have Lucas...

by **TheLad** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:06 pm

I am depressed, off to bed. Good night lads.

by **banana** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:07 pm

lakes10 wrote:all over.

that looked like and old GH game before he left us.
Rafa better have a good talk to the players and Sammy better start kicking somw butts...he can give Rafa a kick aswell.

You are one stupid individual. If we go one year back I remember you were the one asking to axe benitez and sell Alonso and bring in Barry and similat trash.

A team with one striker and no funds to buy another striker. Even after selling Crouch, Keane and Bellamy. Relying on bosman Voronin.

Shopping in the bargain basement for players that even Stoke would find unsuitable.

Yeah right. You will probably win this one. Benitez will leave. SO will all the other players with quality. Starting with Alonso and Arbeloa this year. Mascherano and Torres next.

There is no future for this club. Where is the stadium? Man Utd and Arsenal have 3 times more match revenue than Liverpool . Can you compete with that? Where are the signings?

Loosing 14 millions on replacing a right back wit a right back of similar (or lower) quality. Shopping in the bargain basement for a replacement for Alonso.

Leeds, Newcastle and now Liverpool.

by **tubby** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:07 pm

sgs wrote:Perhaps this will be a reminder to folks just why Gerrard has not being played in central MF for a long while...
Anyways, why criticize SG when you have Lucas...

Just as Rafa takes too long to make his subs usually I think we will have dropped too many points when Rafa finally realises that Stevie needs to be brought back into midfield.

by **SoppMeister** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:09 pm

bavlondon wrote:Our lack of strength in depth is so obvious now. Shame really as if things stay like this we will most definatley drop out of the top 4.

Agreed. All the talk seems to be about staying in the title race but right now we're not playing anywhere near good enough to warrant a top 4 spot.

by **loopyliverpool** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:10 pm

You wait all summer for the League to start and then your team offers up that dross. Basically we'll have to wait the best part of another year to rekindle any hope of winning the Champinoship again.... I made being 'positive' my new mantra but I honestly can't take anything from that game.

by **woof woof !** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:10 pm

Sh'it happens , and tonight we stepped in it big time.

Thought we made all the play in the 2nd half but by then it was already too late. On this form we can forget about any dreams of winning the league or indeed any other trophy. The team seemed to lack any cohesion or assurance

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by **Bad Bob** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:10 pm

Actually didn't think we played too bad. Started like we did against Stoke and but for some flukey bounces and some nice work from Friedel we could--and perhaps should have been on top long before we gave them a goal. Goals change games, however, and the Lucas OG really turned the game on its head. Even so, we looked good to answer back but, again, it just wouldn't bounce for us. The second was a real kick in the nuts though. Sure, the extra minute was long past but the ref was ALWAYS going to let them take the corner after Reina kicked the ball away. We shut off, they score on a set piece again and we have a mountain to climb suddenly. We basically made their job simple--they had shown early that their plan was to sit deep, stay compact and hit us on the counter at that gameplan was all the more effective after going 2 up. We huffed and puffed for the first 15 of half two but couldn't get the ball into the net. We finally manage and Stevie hands them the initiative back straight away. That was the moment you knew it just wasn't our night. But, I still contend that we were not dire (we obviously weren't brilliant either but the scoreline flattered them). We were streets better than against Spurs and I think on any other night we would have cruised the 3 points. That's football, unfortunately.

by **tonyeh** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:11 pm

We played too conservatively, we expect the attack to come from Torres alone, there was no creative play and we have at least one truly awful player on the pitch. Zonal marking has let us down again and Benitez seems to have forgotten the attacking play we finished last season with. We've also lost a brilliant midfielder and replaced him with an injured player with a bad track record for injuries.

by **SupitsJonF** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:12 pm

We better win the CL, at least that way we can finish 5th

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by **tubby** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:14 pm

tonyeh wrote:We played too conservatively, we expect the attack to come from Torres alone, there was no creative play and we have at least one truly awful player on the pitch. Zonal marking has let us down again and Benitez seems to have forgotten the attacking play we finished last season with. We've also lost a brilliant midfielder and replaced him with an injured player with a bad track record for injuries.

Some of that attacking play last season was surley down to Riera too?

Torres needs a partner too but what can Rafa do, he has no more money to spend.

by **Simari** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:14 pm

bavlondon wrote:
sgs wrote:Perhaps this will be a reminder to folks just why Gerrard has not being played in central MF for a long while...
Anyways, why criticize SG when you have Lucas...

Just as Rafa takes too long to make his subs usually I think we will have dropped too many points when Rafa finally realises that Stevie needs to be brought back into midfield.

Something was horribly missing in the final few minutes.

We were very happy to keep passing the ball horizontally with no sense of urgency at all.

After this performance, I am worried about how we will perform against the other top 5. It's as if last season was turned on it's head. It won't be the weaker teams that cost us; rather our direct competition - and that would actually hurt far more in terms of league position that what we suffered against the likes of stoke, fulham and boro.

by **tubby** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:14 pm

SupitsJonF wrote:We better win the CL, at least that way we can finish 5th

Actually that won't work again mate. The rules have been changed I think.

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