Probably a couple of key injuries away, but I agree with your sentiments. No Suarez, Gerrard and Couthino and they would look distinctly average IMO.
Probably a couple of key injuries away, but I agree with your sentiments. No Suarez, Gerrard and Couthino and they would look distinctly average IMO.
They're better without Gerrard.
^^^ This, Gerrard is now a liability for them, too old, too inconsistent, but can't be dropped, we would have done better if he had played against us.
Rodgers is a nutjob, and while they smashed us, it wasn't with any great style or beautiful football. It was fair long balls, mostly diagonals with two runners (Suarez and Henderson), nothing that is either tactically brilliant or a system to leverage.
Like others, I think they and the Scum will fall off in the second half of season unless they go buy in January.
And yes, Suarez will leave in Summer.
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Do you not realise HE ****in knew we would be playing with a high line that was so easy to exploit that all it needed was a long ball with deep runners? In actuality - it was SO simple that it actually made AVB look tactically inept.
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I hate Liverscum with a passion but all these acts of denial about other teams really does make us sound bitter and deluded. So when we win, we are great but when others win it is because of one man or because they had easy teams etc.
A high line is not so simple that it can always be exploited with long balls over the top. It takes more than that.
I think Rodgers is good, but not because of the game against us.
It wasn't just that though, you could see that they were a superiorly coached team, not just tactically.
What about last season at Anfield?
Even if we say we didn't deserve to win at Anfield (although I think we did) you'd expect a clearly superiorly coached team to show it then too.
^^^ This, Gerrard is now a liability for them, too old, too inconsistent, but can't be dropped, we would have done better if he had played against us.
Rodgers is a nutjob, and while they smashed us, it wasn't with any great style or beautiful football. It was fair long balls, mostly diagonals with two runners (Suarez and Henderson), nothing that is either tactically brilliant or a system to leverage.
Like others, I think they and the Scum will fall off in the second half of season unless they go buy in January.
And yes, Suarez will leave in Summer.
What about last season at Anfield?
Even if we say we didn't deserve to win at Anfield (although I think we did) you'd expect a clearly superiorly coached team to show it then too.
Liverpool fans and Rodgers are awfully c0cky at the minute. Yet they are only 6 points infront of us, with their next two games away to City and Chelsea. We'll have West Brom and Stoke at home and, it seems, a very attacking and high-tempo mindset for these games.
So by the half-way point in the season, they'll have had Suarez on an insanely good run and no turmoil at the club. We'll have had a million new players struggling, a change of manager and a 0-5 spanking against them...yet we'll likely be just a couple of points behind, with scope to push on from there.
They are playing well and credit to them, but the fact is we aren't that far behind and we can improve our performances to a much greater degree yet. Our attacking mindset has already seen us score 3 goals in a league game for the first time in awhile. We'll have to wait and see, but I fancy that mindset to bring us much better performances and results for the 2nd half of the season.
What about last season at Anfield?
Even if we say we didn't deserve to win at Anfield (although I think we did) you'd expect a clearly superiorly coached team to show it then too.
BoL, last season was last season. Rodgers needed time, as much as AVB needed time. We cant sit here arguing that AVB needed time yet no other coach needs time. No one is saying they are world beaters. I objected to Raziels comment that it wasnt with any great style that they beat us and Rodgers didnt need to be a tactical genius to do so - well er if that was the case then its a sad indictment on AVBs qualities if our team was so so simple to beat.
So by these comments, we expected liverpool to have improved into title contenders overnight? They have shown improvement and thats why he is doing well, you dont take over a team and have a straight line of improvement, its a curve either gradual or steep, theirs has been gradual.
We are excellent at making excuses for other teams when they do well but when we do well? Its because we have a tactical master on our hands.