wong_se said:
wah ah goat..u are really greedy.. win also not enough for u. must play beauty football. but when we play beauty football..would u demand the striker to score a hattrick, defender to score from header and a midfielder to score from banana free kick, and as well keep a clean sheet.
as long as we win 1-0 each game...regardless dirty, ugly, stupidity...whatever....counter attack, long ball, short pass...kampong style...for the next 38 match.
we will for sure the EPL champion....
when u succeed..people dun really concern how u achieve it.
but when u fail, people will critise the way u do it.
you really don't get me do you? read the paragraph. i never said we need beauty football dude. i don't expect to see brazil on the field. what i expect to see is that when we counter, we counter with structure and flow. do you seriously believe that if we somehow managed to keep 38 cleans sheets by sitting back and soaking pressure for 90x38minutes (minus the 6x38 seconds we were countering), we can score a goal in every match just by hoofing it up? that takes more than skill. it takes luck. if that's all it takes, greece would be an all-conquering team. as is, they may be euro champs and they have a great defence but they will never be frontrunners because that kind of game needs so many things to go right before it works. heck, even the wind direction can affect it. maybe GH should hire a bomoh so that the wind will blow in the right direction and the pitch would be nice and dry.
we need to win by being the better team. if we are a countering team, fine. but i would like to see us counter better. have you seen how a team like valencia counters? they create openings by moving the ball with purpose and direction. the player know the game plan, they move into space and they can unhinge a defence with a few quick passes. how can you be happy seeing your team just hoofing the ball up and depending on luck everytime? and it's not like we have the best long ball passer (note: stevie G wasn't really that good yet under most of GH's reign) and anyway most of the long passes came from our CDs and they are not quite great visionaries on the ball are they? let me ask you. how many time did our long passes actually found owen?
if you believe i ask for the impossible by wanting the team to play proper football, aren't you doing the same by asking the team to have
38 cleans sheets and
scoring at least once in every match? teams that play the kind of game i hope we can play have won the la liga, the EPL and CL etc. how many tourneys have negative long ball sides won recently? how many won the leagues? and no, i really don't count the S-league.
i love liverpool man. so do you. and we both celebrate like hell whenever they win. i want us to win by any means possible. but i am looking to the future. and fact is that, a team that don't know how to attack properly will most likely lose out in the end of the league season, no matter how many cups we have in the end.
you may think i hate GH. i don't. i respect him and will never forget him for all we achieved under him. he gave us a strong foundation to build on. my criticisms are not meant to undermine him but they are what i believe we need to achieve to go further. the next level my friend, i'm sick of being second best and having to win because the other team didn't play well.
and i believe that a successful team needs to be flexible and at least have 2 game plans. one is an attacking style that can break down the most obstinate defence and the second a counter attacking style for when things are not going our way. and the key is switching the games at the right times. there's no such thing as a plan for all season. i guess i'm hoping that liverpool would be the pete sampras of soccer (and that FIFA won't introduce clay courts for soccer :bsmilie: )
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