Losing to Manchester United was hardly a good end to what had otherwise been a good week for Liverpool.
It’s always desperately disappointing to go down at Old Trafford – particularly after what we did there last season. But there’s just too much at stake now for Liverpool’s players and fans to dwell on it.
Okay, we started well and on Sunday with a terrific Torres goal should have done better to protect that lead.
Emiliano Insua is taking a fair bit of flak and, while he has clearly got lots still to learn, some of it has been a bit harsh. I was impressed with him last season but he just needs to sharpen up and get back to basics well. By that I mean defending.
But you can’t just point the finger at him. All in all we just sat off United and played too deep for me. Undoubtedly playing twice in the week when United had no game favoured them. And if Rafa Benitez had brought Babel on earlier to have a go at Gary Neville it might have made a difference.
But it’s done now so let’s move on. There are seven crucial league games left and while Spurs will be favourites to get fourth, we are still in the hunt.
Quite simply, Liverpool have to keep going. This is a club with a history of defying the odds and proving its critics wrong. And if we can reproduce the form we showed in midweek, we’ve still got every chance of making a late run at it and finishing above Tottenham, City and Villa.
Everton can do us a favour by beating City on Wednesday – but our destiny is still to a degree in our own hands.
Fourth place feels lousy I know. But it is important to make it as we know.
No one can afford to let a painful defeat effect the determination to make it.
It’s always desperately disappointing to go down at Old Trafford – particularly after what we did there last season. But there’s just too much at stake now for Liverpool’s players and fans to dwell on it.
Okay, we started well and on Sunday with a terrific Torres goal should have done better to protect that lead.
Emiliano Insua is taking a fair bit of flak and, while he has clearly got lots still to learn, some of it has been a bit harsh. I was impressed with him last season but he just needs to sharpen up and get back to basics well. By that I mean defending.
But you can’t just point the finger at him. All in all we just sat off United and played too deep for me. Undoubtedly playing twice in the week when United had no game favoured them. And if Rafa Benitez had brought Babel on earlier to have a go at Gary Neville it might have made a difference.
But it’s done now so let’s move on. There are seven crucial league games left and while Spurs will be favourites to get fourth, we are still in the hunt.
Quite simply, Liverpool have to keep going. This is a club with a history of defying the odds and proving its critics wrong. And if we can reproduce the form we showed in midweek, we’ve still got every chance of making a late run at it and finishing above Tottenham, City and Villa.
Everton can do us a favour by beating City on Wednesday – but our destiny is still to a degree in our own hands.
Fourth place feels lousy I know. But it is important to make it as we know.
No one can afford to let a painful defeat effect the determination to make it.
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