English football’s most expensive signing (£35 million) Andy Carroll has claimed confidently of linking up with his striking partner Luis Suarez to jet the Reds to success. Since Suarez’s £22.8 million move from Ajax, the Uruguayan international has impressed with his performances against Manchester United and Sunderland, etc.
When news broke of the January 31 transfer deadline scrap, which saw former number 9 Fernando Torres leave for Chelsea and be replaced by the Geordie striker, excitement understandably ran across the Kopt. Given the injury Carroll was nursing when signed, coupled with the recovery time he has needed; it has resulted in him having limited effect yet. Now that he is regaining his fitness and the fact that Kenny Dalglish has opted to start him with Suarez up front, means possibly the most talked about strike pair in terms of potential, will have to start firing soon. It’s not just going to be up to the two of them though.
It’d be a foolish misconception to have, relying on the two to give Liverpool a taste of what Manchester United experienced in the late 90’s with Dwight Yorke and Andy Cole. Liverpool’s game plan needs to have a mixture of ground play in addition to capitalising on Carroll’s presence in the air. It’s true he’s brilliant in the air, but if Liverpool merely start knocking it up towards him, hoping he’d win the header and lay it off for a team mate, opposition players will simply prepare themselves to be physically tougher and deal with that threat.
Liverpool need to be good with their ground play as well, keep trying to work those intricate moves through defences and attack from the wings, as well as utilise the strike pair up front. The two periods in the last decade when they did go for the one dimensional approach of kicking it upfield for the forward to head it down – Emile Heskey and Peter Crouch, their success was minimal.
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we shud learn from newcastle, how they used him when he was there..
he was much more effective there because they didnt hoof the ball up all the time and had width in their game…they also had better wingers like gutierrez and enrique to provide crosses for carroll..
we must buy 1 more crazy striker in 20 million pound rate…
when caroll play alone at top… he must get 2 attacking striker run from behind him… look what we get… i think… honda are good with on run shoot.. or mata..
it to be very crazy movement and sure the defending line will do very busy job…
definitely need to Gervinho in that position
i keep saying we should buy lavezzi or cavani to be our ground soldiers and then caroll will be the airforce.we need arda turan and ashley young/lenon/jarvis.we also need honda/marin to play make for the team.we need garry cahill for centreback,ansaldi for left back.mvilla for defensive mid and we are done.