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Time for Liverpool to Wake Up

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The striker let his team-mates and, more importantly, the fans down on Sunday

Brendan Rodgers’ team must put the disappointing performance behind them and actually show up at games from here on in

Well, that was rough wasn’t it?

As far as performances go, we were pretty damn turgid at the weekend, only just managing to fluke a win against a surprisingly aggressive QPR team rooted to the bottom of the table. Considering that usually, we tend to have at least one game a season where gift the bottom team 3 points (apart from last season of course), by half-time I considered it a miracle we weren’t 3-0 down and was still resigned to losing.

That first half was the worst performance I’ve seen from a Liverpool team in a long time. Worse than when Rodgers first arrived and all the players were still adjusting to his style and philosophy. In truth, it reminded me of Roy Hodgson’s Liverpool of 4 years ago. A team so utterly abject at everything, we looked like QPR in all their other games so far.

Sure, we won the game and I’m absolutely buzzing that we did. It was a great finish for the neutrals, but the amount of emotions I experienced in those final 7 minutes ranged from resigned disappointment, to gleeful elation, to mind-numbing acceptance, to insane laughter. We didn’t deserve to win that; QPR should have at least a draw, maybe even a win if all their relentless pressing didn’t tire them all out in the second half. We grew into the game and took advantage of that, but to win 3-2 with 2 own goals and a deflected strike flew in the face of everything we seemed to deserve out of those 95 minutes.

This isn’t the first game we’ve been terrible in either. We stumbled to a win against Southampton on the opening day (who have since proved that they’re actually rather good), Man City were a class above us, we were second-rate against Villa, scraped a win against the bottom-seeded team in our Champions League group (fair enough, they are the Champions of their country, but still), humiliated ourselves against West Ham, clawed our way to the next round of the Capital One Cup after the longest penalty shootout ever, lost comfortably to Basel and beat West Brom unconvincingly.

So imagine my surprise when I looked at the league table to see that we’re 5th, level on points with West Ham in 4th. We’re only 3 points away from 3rd. 4 points from 2nd. We’re miles behind Chelsea, but that’s fine. The priority is Champions League football this year, not the title. We’re playing our worst football in four years and we’re still ahead of Arsenal, Everton and Spurs in the table.

We can improve. God knows we have the quality. We just need our manager to figure out some way to get our mojo back. That might be difficult, what with Sturridge now ruled out until some time in November, but I have faith. That’s what we do, right?

Keep the faith. When our attackers start playing gorgeous, rapid football again and the defence decides to finally wake up, they’ll do so in the knowledge that they won’t be playing catch up. Once we get back to what we used to be, we’ll be right back in there.

Time to wake up.

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4 comments

  • bethrand mathew says:

    fabio borini plss!

  • AdamLallana says:

    Definitely JOsh and I reckon the guy commenting above is spot on – drop Balotelli and start Borini tonight.

  • Erin says:

    It was a miracle not being 3-0 at half time, wasn’t it???
    Doesn’t work against better teams though ! Does it? As we are finding out.
    BR can’t work out defending…. It’s beyond him. We have blamed every defender we had and Reina . Who’s fault is it?

  • Diego 'Digger' Souness says:

    Those muppets who wanted Suarez out can now hang their heads in embarassment. World class players dont grow on trees.

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