man of the match: the entire marseille team
kelong of the match: sissoko
wimp of the match: crouch
jelly of the match: leto
softie of the match: aurelio
i don't have to repeat that this is the worst match we have seen at liverpool from a team that's suppose to win the epl this season.
i favour rotation as you can have players playing at 100kmph without worrying about conserving energy for the next match because someone else will put in that 100kmph. but let me just add that there are players who don't favour rotation. why? if they play well, they are still rotated so their brains tell them no need to work so hard because they are not one of those who will be inked first on the team sheet for every game.
aurelio (just back from injury) and leto (fresh kid) on the left side. no wonder we were murdered throughout the game until we had risse and voronin taking over. and than kuyt taking over from voronin on the left side. what was rafa thinking?
we even played beanpole crouch who takes five touches to control his first touch and still can't keep himself on his feet without falling to ground. crouch's flick on is never in the forward direction always going back to the midfield so why bother using the long high ball tactic in that case. torres needs service for him to run on to, passes to his feet.
gerrard wasn't getting enough protection from sissoko and don't let me start on sissoko. i have championed him before but after last night's display and a few from games before, i think he should be sold in january. one goal in two years doesn't make a striker if he thinks he's playing as one last night. he should be playing behind gerrard and not in front of him. gerrard will make better in road against their defence.
the only players who gave a DAMN last night was gerrard, torres, benayoun, carra, hyypia, reina and finnan. the other four are simply NOT GOOD ENOUGH, crouch, leto, aurelio and sissoko.
not sure if the lack of an assistant manager makes that much of a diff but we sure missed alonso and mascherano in midfield. to a certain extend, pennant who can run at defences. benayoun is better centrally. hmmm, i wonder if we had used kuyt as a wingman from the start in place of pennant (who's suspended) and pairing benayoun with gerrard and leaving sissoko out, would we have done better?
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