If you look at the table I have set out below you will see clear trends of progression up until last season for Liverpool. While our goal scoring tally had increased by 16 goals from 2005 – 2009, our defensive record was very consistent in Rafa Benitez’s best four years in the Premier League. As you can see the downward spiral occurred last season with a massive drop in goals scored and a significant increase in the amount of goals conceded to nearly 1 per game:
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Liverpool Premier League Results
04/05 – 51 goals scored / 41 goals conceded / 14 defeats / 5th
05/06 – 57 goals scored / 25 goals conceded / 6 defeats / 3rd
06/07 – 57 goals scored / 27 goals conceded / 10 defeats / 3rd
07/08 – 67 goals scored / 28 goals conceded / 4 defeats / 4th
08/09 – 77 goals scored / 27 goals conceded / 2 defeats / 2nd
09/10 – 61 goals scored / 35 goals conceded / 11 defeats / 7th
10/11 – 6 goals scored / 9 goals conceded / 2 defeats / 16th
Liverpool under both Gerard Houllier and Rafa Benitez were known for their defensive organisation. No matter the criticism levelled at Rafa for his zonal marking at set pieces or his two holding midfield players, the Reds always relied on their solid defensive foundations. That all changed last season when, combined with a lack of goals scored, the defence began to leak quite significantly as the Reds lost 11 games, their worst record since Rafa’s first season in charge.
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it’s half time in europa league and i don’t think i’ll bother with the second half, just more of the same crap we’ve been served up all season! same uclas lucas giving the ball away and then foulingin dangerous areas, same no control kuyt with the elephant touch, same past it carra blaming everyone else and, i will forgive fernando torres most things but not a lack of bloody effort! they ALL need to remember who they play for and give themselves a good bloody shake!
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i wrote on this site a few weeks ago, roy will play his best team, WRONG he wont rest our best players needlessly WRONG he will play attacking football WRONG. he will do the common sense things WRONG.
playing lukas and poulson is totally negative, lukas did no more than go through the motions tonight – get rid
if roy has got any idea he will get torres to play deeper, then he can play off people, that way he will be involved and able to use his pace and skill – its blindingly obvious.
The stats don’t lie. Our defence is now in decline and needs rebuilding. Carra is too slow and not athletic enough even his experience can’t save him anymore, johnson not a rb. In attack we have no width and we find it hard to break well organised teams down. Lfc needs big rebuild
we have no pace or rather we dont use it, torres should be played deeper where he can use his pace, if the opposition want to still stay back then he can run at them, that would be even better, he must go all out attack on sunday we all need a lift, and the team need a confidence booster. its blackpool if they score more than us in an attacking game good on them.
just read roys interview, he said we dont play with wingers ? what was our strength is now our weakness, i am losing confidence in this man daily.