The players are moving forward, Dalglish not so much
Another draw against Man City, another game they should’ve won, another couple of points dropped at home.
So goes the story of Liverpool FC this season, as former captain Steve McMahon rightly pointed out on Sunday after the game, drawing against the league leaders at home isn’t the worst result but when that mirrors similar results against Sunderland, Norwich, and Swansea, it’s a heck of a lot of points dropped.
On Sunday, Manchester City pressed hard in the first half and probably deserved the spot of luck they had to get a goal scored of Vincent Kompany’s shoulder.
Huge element of luck actually, considering the Belgian completely missed his header, the ball would’ve done more justice to head towards the corner flag than the top corner of the net.
In retaliation, Liverpool rode their own luck to equalise from a deflected Charlie Adam shot off Joleon Lescott’s outstretched right boot.
Now the problem isn’t a lack of pressure exerted by the Reds in the second half to grab a winner. There were plenty of close chances – Suarez’s cut back from the left towards Dirk Kuyt nearly left Lescott red-faced again (quite a pun for a former Evertonian) as his two attempts to clear both rebounded against Kuyt and trickled out of play for a goal kick.
Excellent play between Lucas Leiva and Suarez forced Joe Hart in to the first of his many saves. Andy Carroll, after coming on for the last 7 minutes, made as much impact as he could’ve.
Here’s the issue on Liverpool’s part though. They now have a manager in Kenny Dalglish who doesn’t make the best decisions in terms of selection. After starting with Bellamy and Maxi Rodriguez against Chelsea last week, there was no justification in not playing Maxi again.
Jordan Henderson hasn’t done much wrong in the last two games. In fact he hasn’t done much at all. Apart from a couple of inspirational plays to take him past Ashley Cole last week and Gael Clichy this Sunday, he’s been quite benign down the right hand side.
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December 1st, 2011
We must be more precise due of some misdirects or misapplication of not scoring more goals that’s ending with draws it’s not because of Dalglish decision term of selecting against the league leader it’s the squad who take decision on the pitch Dalglish is only a Mentor like a teacher not sitting with you during your exams the squad must be more accuracy not to accumulate
December 1st, 2011
there are some fellaz who just hero worship kk.see no evil hear no evil,talk no evil.this kills the team.we need to be objective.we all love kk,but he is not infalible.he mustnt be arrogant like wat rafa was doing.if stew isnt playing well,bench him and we will win games.i tell u if he doesnt wake up in january and buys good players like montolivo,drenthe,soldado/damiao/llorento and samba we wont even make top 4 and i guess those who worship kk will still say there is improvement in the team simply becoz its kenny involved.
December 1st, 2011
First of all Bellamy was going to start until one of his best mates past away which was why Henderson played in the centre which might explain why he didn’t do much down the right. Maxi is 30, not many 30 year olds can play 2 games in 3 days an kenny decided to try and win them both and nearly did. Compared to some other managers performance at weekend and mid week i think he did awesome! Considering we’ve played well enough for maximum points in every game except spurs and could be sitting on an extra 3 to 7 points if hadnt been for bad decisions by officials I think kenny is doing well gelling a new team together most of which have 5-10 years with us ahead of them. With all that in mind can I ask who you think you are questioning one of the most successful managers currently working in England? When you’ve got a dangerous top side like city on the ropes dominating them and peppering them the last thing you want to do is sacrifice your midfield or defence and go for it that’s a quick fire way of letting them score on the counter. Any other day at least one of those shots would have beat hart!
December 2nd, 2011
Guy welldone for this article….if not for dalglish arogance, we should have been 2nd in the league table now…..he prefered his flops than the playr Benitez left