The few trophies they did win, meant other teams worked even quicker to counter their style of play and they did soon enough. Kenny Dalglish has done a fantastic job so far, revitalising the team that looked dead and beaten at the beginning of the season under Roy Hodgson. Part of the revival has been down to the emphasis on possession play and passing the ball on the turf, more than in the air.
That’s what will put teams under pressure, if they have to deal with the aerial threats of Carroll, as well as the passing and turf play of the Gerrard’s and Meireles’. They need to draw out the defences in different directions in order to create openings, stretch them, and most important of all – keep them guessing what to expect next.
The moment they become predictable, it’s easy meat from there on to throw in two defenders to sandwich Carroll every time he jumps for the ball. The hype about Carroll coming to Liverpool and his aerial abilities is justified no doubt. His fast progress at Newcastle coupled with the brilliance of Suarez as seen at the World Cup last year, shows potential of the two combining in to a deadly ‘goalsome twosome‘.
Liverpool however, will need the rest of their squad – Gerrard, Kuyt, Meireles, Leiva, etc to start finding even better ways to work together and overload the duo with ammunition to bury defences.
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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.