PLAYERS, managers and experts often say that attack is the best form of defence, but is that really so?
Of course, goals win you matches and bring fans to the stadia but an old say that “to win you have to score one more than your opponents” can be interpreted differently. To win you have to concede one less.
Don’t get me wrong, we all love watching fluent positive attacking football with lots of goals scored, but when it comes to supporting our teams we all wish they get a win rather than be a non-winning fun to watch.
Which frequently takes a lot of defensive play as well as attacking.
Take all the best managers; Jose Mourinho has always built his teams from the back. His teams have always been hard to beat whether they defended deep as Chelsea and Inter or pressing high as Real Madrid. Alex Ferguson’s United teams have always been fantastically well organised digging out results. Barcelona play arguably the best attacking football, but they are fantastic defensively as well! They defend by trying to win the ball back as quick as possible with the whole XI.
More often than not the champions are those who conceded the least amount of goals and not the highest-scorers. Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea conceded just 15 goals in title winning 2004/05. That’s three more than Brendan Rodgers’s Liverpool in first six Premier League games.
I’m not being critical but the fact is that having the same defenders as the season before, the third best defence in the league has become the third worst. And six goals were conceded in two Europa League games. Many fans were quick to praise new system and attacking philosophy but without good defensive play you can kiss all the good attacking stuff goodbye.
In 14 games so far this season LFC have kept a total of 4 clean sheets: Gomel home and away, Hearts away, and now Stoke at home. It took until after the Udinese game for Rodgers to admit that the defence isn’t good enough.
So, maybe instead of praising “courage” and “domination” in defeats, the coaching staff should concentrate on something that would bring us results?
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Without of best hard and solid defenders any team can’t go forward .every managers who have manage Lfc i asked them to strengthen the defense but remain the same question is , is there any good defenders that will and play for Liverpool?the cause for Liverpool squad result and points based on their realism and reflection though of 1-0 win against Reading BR has to Clarify to success