I’ve just finished listening to Liverpool’s Carling Cup match against Northampton and I’m wondering whether I should even bother to continue to write this article. Depressed doesn’t begin to explain how I feel right now.
I will continue anyway, trying to put the Northampton result to the back of my mind, I noticed something in our previous defeat (defeat seems to be the theme for us this week) to Man Utd that I haven’t seen in a while, the return of Pass and Move. In all honesty we were not exactly world beaters against United on Sunday, and if you were to have watched MOTD 2, their superb editing would have had you believe that we were actually trampled all over by United. However, I watched the match and this was not the case. In the 1st half we were not very creative to say the least, this did improve in the second half, but the one thing I noticed is when we had the ball how well we passed it. Short accurate passes the likes of which i haven’t seen from us in a long while, we played a lot of good link up play, Meireles, Cole, Gerrard and Poulsen all linked up superbly.
Both goals that we did score came from good passes into Torres, who won the penalty and free kick (which O’Shea should have been sent off for, but this is another story). For 20 – 25 mins in the 2nd half of the match at Old Trafford I was very impressed with the usage of the ball the way that we managed to get ourselves out of tricky situations by playing small little triangles and doing a lot of one touch passing. We even passed it out from the back four instead of the long ball tactic that doesn’t work. This clearly looks like something that has been worked on the training ground, which if true is definitely the way forward.
First direct meet Lizzie Gillett, Global Director of 10:10
we trust u,,stevie G n the team. GOD BLESS LIVERPOOL.
I have to agree with this article. The link play in midfield was very impressive for 20 or so minutes during the second half at Old Trafford. It was a big ask to start an untested midfield partnership in such a big game but once they settled they looked quite impressive. Poulsen showed more promise than his previous outings and Meireles seems to have had no difficulty adapting. I think from an attack point of view there will be an immediate improvement but hope that some serious training is done on aerial defending of set pieces. I don’t know the percentages but this does seem our achilles heal over the last few seasons. Get this correct and I think it could yet prove a fruitful season.
It’s aqueakt bum time, already. The small shimmer of light will be shut out if we lose against Sunderland at the weekend…
Yes, i agree, we did look good in parts. Meireles adapted quite well, i reaaly thought we could go on to win it, but off came meireles (why, i don’t know)and it seemed to give extra imputus for manu to push for the winner. Still we have to sort it out in defence, we made Berbatov look good and it lost us the game. Konchesy can’t possibly be this bad again, Johnson is’nt a defender, if he was he’d still be at chelski, and dare i say it, Carra too slow and no other centre half is going to get out jumped by Berba.
The only real glimmer of hope is 06/10/10 when hopefully RBS finally put paid to Hicks and Gillett. Otherwise – its downhill all the way.Ryan Babel is useless