I think that was more down to the lack of options in front of him. When he started playing from the right, his options where Downing (later replaced by Sterling) and Borini with Shelvey coming from midfield, none of which provide great movement in the box with two of them (Downing and Shelvey) not being overly keen on getting in the box!
Morning lads! I think this is a great kick up the back side to the senior members of the team. I thought Jonjo was saying to them "Look, I know where the net is!" Joking aside, Enrique is still a class act, the problem as I see it is, once the fear of scoring creeps in which I strongly feel is the case here, this dents the confidence of the whole team. Front line aren't doing there job which places a greater emphasis on the back lads and that is clearly evident in JE. If this does give the seniors a shock, then that will help the back lads out in that once we start scoring, they won't have as much to worry about at the back. Winning breeds a winning mentality and whilst that may sound stupid, it is clearly the case with SAF and his boys up the road! SAF took a major gamble back in 90/91 in playing such a young sqaud and was greatly rewarded. Shanks used Europe to blood in the new talent and allowed him to build a bloody dynasty - Let's hope playing these kids A, builds there confidence up and B, Shows the seniors there'ssomeone behind you waiting to step into your boots if you don't make the grade! All in all, well done for a cracking performance lads!
The advantage the kids have over the seniors is... desire to please on a rare outing trumps the lack of confidence caused by successive bad seasons. Easy to pump yourself up for a handful of games a season. I would like to see some senior members benched for a few games... the kids ARE good and the senior squad need a boot in the bum. A win is important... now we need one in the league too.
Excellent post. The older players could learn a few things from the youngsters. We went behind, and did the youngsters panic? Far from it, they kept doing what they were doing. With the help of a more experienced player, 20 year old Jonjo Shelvey, they came back into the game and they got their just rewards. We would have won more games, if the senior players didn't panic when they went a goal behind. The character and atitude was spot on, even if there was a few blemishes to iron out. However Jose Enrique needs to hang his head in shame for being woeful, as does Stewart Downing. Enrique was dreadful at the back, whilst Downing was anonymous going forward. Pacheco didn't help his cause either.
Is this an LFC thread with only Liverpool fans on it and no rival WUMs? Quality. We must have won a game or something.
where they ought to me... i repeat anyone trying to insult me for saying it was not a good game, we got out of there with our lives and were fairly poor at that needs their heads examined and frankly you can suck on my chocolate salties.... mark my words... we'll take a terrible beating on of these days. so be prepared not don't just go mad when it occurs.
And we will all die one day...cant worry about all that though...Just got to enjoy the win, (and the five goals.) Agree though that if we defend as we do on the counter (not at all.) Some team is due to sit back and tear us a new one pretty soon.
I know a 3-5 at the ****dorf isn't much to write home about, and certainly with the shadow of United cast long over Anfield on Sunday, but lets take it on its merit. Some of the youngsters have shown ability, particularly Wisdom, and Shelvey has shown that he can take a good goal, and not just miss 'em from there. My overall concern is that we scored nothing from the front 3, which is (IMO) where our main problem lies. As said elsewhere, when the front players are struggling to register, it heaps more pressure on the rest of the team to keep it tight at the back and makes everyone EVEN MORE TIMID going forward, thus exacerbating the problem... On this showing, Pacheco might have problems getting much more game time even in Europe...
Perhaps Carra needs moving forward a bit. He started out as a combative defensive midfielder, after all. I still remember his debut for the seniors against Villa!! Does anyone else remember it?? And, of course, why it was so memorable??
Scored right? Ya, it is intersting when you read his book and he was an up and coming forward, then turned out to be a great CB ( although a bit gone are the legs now).
In all fairness Pacheco did nothing last night to warrant him getting more game time. If he wanted to impress, you expect him to be lively, he wasn't. Fabio Borini did more in his cameo than Pacheco did from the time he started.
Scored, yes, but it was what he did in the first 8 seconds I was interested in... I think he could do a job shielding the back 4. His distribution is adequate too.
Oh hell, yeah! I think I remember Villa kicking off and the ball went back to Andy "Tactics Truck" Townsend, who was the Villa club captain at the time. Carra, came steaming in, launched himself into the challenge and Townsend into the air. The ref had his yellow out before the Villa man hit the ground... Funny as ****, that was. He also scored that day too, in front of the Kop, and not an own goal either. So a bit of a special day.
It's not really insulting you to disagree with you is it? I don't think too many of us are getting over-excited about last night, we're just happy to take a good win, and realise the shortcomings of ourselves and the opposition. Perhaps we are due a drubbing (didn't we get one in the first PL game btw?), but there's nothing to be gained from talking ourselves into one.
