Is He Man Enough To Break His Rotation Policy?
After a weekend of silence, I've gotten over the disappointment of another 2 points dropped over the weekend playing to Birmingham [Birmingham?] at fortress Anfield.
Fine, we did not concede a goal.
We hardly called their goalie into action either!
Why would you pay 20 million pounds and seat your million dollar man on the bench for some key games like Portsmouth away?
I'm convinced had he started playing from the first minute, he would have run Distin [who?] and Sol Campbell ragged.
Sol and Syl must have been thanking Rafa for putting in Voronin and Kuyt there - they knew it was going to be an afternoon of nudging the Liverpool attack to the ground every encounter they had.
Reading tried that with Torres yesterday - even helped him get a sprained ankle in the first minute.
At half time, Nando looked like he was a child who was playing in freshly cut grass:
- bedraggled hair
- grass chips covering his face and in his mouth
Did that make him coy:
Heck no ... just note that he won the match ball - even the ref could not hold that away from him.
Boy did the referee do his best to help Liverpool lose.
No penalty? You've got to be kidding me! What do you want to happen to the striker? Mugging?
Despite the ref and Rafa's rotation of our best striker - Liverpool won with a Torres hat trick.
Next on, can Rafa keep him on the team sheet for the visit to Wigan please!!!
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I contritely awoke at 2.45am this morning to watch that pile of football refuse that the Reds spewed across Anfield against Marseille. As you can imagine, thinking back to it has only helped to aggravate my crankiness this morning!
Seriously, what's going on? 2 goalless draws, an unconvincing 1-nil win and a loss all on the trot...this is definitely not going down well. We now have a pile of "tough" games coming along. There's Spurs (who, despite their current dip in form, are still a dangerous force to reckon with), as well as 2 ominous encounters against the Arse and the derby against Everton.
I am racking my mind for someone or something to hold responsible for all this. Is it the manager for rotating their players more often than a "kuku pono" at Kenchic? Is it the players for their lack of resolve, character and dominant spirit? Is it lack of confidence upfront? Poor play configurations by Rafa? A factor X that we cannot fathom?
Also, was it just me or were the travelling bunch of French fans louder and more dominant than the voice of the Kop? At Anfield? Seriously...
The Reds best get their act together, get their balls back in their sacs, the fire back in their breath. It all begins and ends there, regardless of how many things or rotations we can point fingers to in blame.
I'm with you on that one Migz.
3 weeks on and I'm still trying to find the answers.
That performance reminded me of one game that was played in Russia just yesterday as England gave the game away and also little Cyprus dealing with Ireland at CROKE PARK!
If that is the game we bring on Saturday lunch time against Yobo and Lescott, Stevie G will have more than his ding dongs to grimace at this time.
Tough times ahead, champions are made of this!
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