After all the hype about the impact Sunday’s game would have on fourth place it was no great surprise when it didn’t live up to expectations.
It was a poor, poor game and neither team deserved to win.
In fact, it looked as if they’d made some kind of pact not to encroach in each other’s half.
It confirmed what I’ve been saying for some time now, that we need somebody else up front.
That’s not in case Fernando Torres gets injured. It’s because we simply need someone else.
While Torres reminds me of a Roger Hunt; the one who puts the ball in the back of the net, we need a player who can go for the ball with big centre-halves and take a battering.
Some people say the game has changed and we have new formations and systems now.
But whether it’s today’s or yesterday’s game, whatever is going on at Liverpool is evidently not working.
Years ago we had John Toshack taking the onus off Kevin Keegan. Before that there was Ian St John and Roger Hunt. Later there was Rush and Dalglish.
At the moment we’ve got nothing up there without Torres.
Just two goals in our last four games says it all.
I’ve heard people saying Steven Gerrard has not been playing well. Maybe that’s because he’s got no-one to play up front with.
If Torres is up there, Gerrard plays a lot better. But if he doesn’t get any balls laid off to him when Torres is missing then what’s he supposed to do?
It’s all well and good keeping clean sheets but Liverpool teams have always been sent out to play and score goals not to defend, as appeared to be the case at City.
You’ve got to score goals to win games. I’d rather see us win 4-3 than draw nil-nil.
It was a poor, poor game and neither team deserved to win.
In fact, it looked as if they’d made some kind of pact not to encroach in each other’s half.
It confirmed what I’ve been saying for some time now, that we need somebody else up front.
That’s not in case Fernando Torres gets injured. It’s because we simply need someone else.
While Torres reminds me of a Roger Hunt; the one who puts the ball in the back of the net, we need a player who can go for the ball with big centre-halves and take a battering.
Some people say the game has changed and we have new formations and systems now.
But whether it’s today’s or yesterday’s game, whatever is going on at Liverpool is evidently not working.
Years ago we had John Toshack taking the onus off Kevin Keegan. Before that there was Ian St John and Roger Hunt. Later there was Rush and Dalglish.
At the moment we’ve got nothing up there without Torres.
Just two goals in our last four games says it all.
I’ve heard people saying Steven Gerrard has not been playing well. Maybe that’s because he’s got no-one to play up front with.
If Torres is up there, Gerrard plays a lot better. But if he doesn’t get any balls laid off to him when Torres is missing then what’s he supposed to do?
It’s all well and good keeping clean sheets but Liverpool teams have always been sent out to play and score goals not to defend, as appeared to be the case at City.
You’ve got to score goals to win games. I’d rather see us win 4-3 than draw nil-nil.
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