here are a couple of interesting things to chew over at lunch. 1. Man city V arsenal. City are 2nd but arsenal are by far the better footballing team and gave us a chasing. Is it down to just organisation that city are where they are cos for me city hardly troubled us bar self inflcted moments while arsenal were really pinning us back with their interplay. 2. Carragher v skertl Sorry but we're not conceeding any less goals are we... perhaps its time to reflect on where the goals are coming from cos carra's not put a foot wrong has he? Maybe its time to ask why agger's still in and not skertl given the mistakes we are seeing... just a question..... 3. first halves v second halves. Isn't it interesting that in both games we faded on about 60 mins. we gave a good account of ourselves in both games and frankly finished late on reasonbaly well in both games. how about loking at lucas for his fitness compared to players like garcia or carzola etc. 4. Sturrdige v Dzeko. I perosnally think a player like dzeko is as much of a cheat as sturridge. Now sturridge felt contact and flopped over theatrically, the commentator made a blaize statement about young english tlaent doing this and went on about his business and i thougt... here is suarez did that he'd be shot for it. Then Dzeko goes down, looks up waves his arms at the ref and when he fails to get one decides to lay down and feign injury. we rightly played on and ende dup scoring. the guy was trying to cheat us out of an equaliser. then seocnd half our lads clealry see aguero takes a knokc and we do put it out fairly and correctly. no credit for doing it. jones v reina Jones was a right flog v oldham.. was pepe's an error on his part or just brilliance from aguero? Suarez arsneal v suarez city Didn't luis suarez look leggy and tired on sunday? he effort form left wing and then up top on his own was a huge ask and he still put in 90 this weekend. He was off form as a result. we can't go knacker our prime asset has to be the take away here. LFC league position. After 4 tough matches we have got to the point we're 9 points of 4th with 13 games to go and actually have some light at the end of the tunnel in terms of the next fixtures. westbrom, swansea, wigan and spurs are the next 4 games. Before utd, norwich, arsneal and city i predicted 6 points max and being totally out of it... well spurs have not set the world alight and we are 9 points back with 4 key games. simple message here... 4 games to shape our season. win 4 and anyhtings possible. take 10 and anythings possible. take 9 and we could still be a long way off. anything less and we are probably screwed. Should be interesting starting with the two big midtable rivals of ours that we don't want to be competing with. we owe both sides.... what are everyones' thought son the interesting week of contrasts we've just seen?
Agger maybe should have been in a better position for the goal but he was brilliant other than that so Agger should stay and Skrtel should come back in. Carra has done well but lets not Knacker him out.
With the Reina mistake/Aguero brilliance, if I was being picky Skrtel should have gone straight on the line but maybe that is being over critical. Suarez played well and was busy but I agree we should rest him when we can.
Thing is, can we afford to risk resting Suarez? With every game being so vital now, we're going to need our best team out every game possible.
I think we will have to continue to start him, but if for example we go 2-0 up in one of our next 3 games he should be the first player coming off. Not quite sure what to do about the CB thing, Carra hasn't been at fault for me in the last 2 games but against lesser sides that will be trying to be hitting us on the break all game he could suffer so would maybe look to get Skrtel back in.
Really dont think he had time too, unfortunately it was purely down to an error from reina, nothing more, still great finish
heres the question... shoud he have come off v arsneal and sturridge stayed on... he ran himself ragged. our subs lately have been very negative in spots. v arsneal we took sturridge off and looked weaker and lost possession... v city we took off sturridge again and put on allen late on which was annoying in the extreme. surely we need to take a look at winning a game once or twice by making a postive contirbution form the bench... do we no longer turst joe allen/shelvey/borini?
Although reina was at fault it was simply unbelievable that Aguero finished like he did. Another case of us being punished for every little mistake. Carra v skrtel I think if Johnson and Enrique are in the full back positions then skrtel should start but in all honesty carra done little wrong. Not sure that we faded against city as we scored in 73rd min but we certainly did against arsenal as they ran us ragged for large periods of second half. It is situations like that where you need someone to come on and bolster the midfield and I don't think Allen or shelvey are that type of player. Would still like to see us sign a big powerful midfielder in the summer. The situation with Suarez is interesting because he did look a bit jaded on Sunday. Or was it more that being out left meant he wasn't as involved as usual or that Sturridge played so well he overshadowed him. Just a blip I think and I am sure he will back on form next Monday .
hahaha, Aguero could only put it one place, nice finish but you'd expect a person who plays football for a living getting that one in. Reina has made that particular error on 3 occasions. The CL final Milan's 2nd goal. V Chelsea I think, and now, 3rd time exact same area and side of the box, same error. Rush of blood to the head for Pepe, maybe he got bored? Carra was running back and if he continued he would have been there to clear it, our retreating CBs just watched on Agger makes too many mistakes that lead to goals. He's fine with the play in front of him but set pieces and and stuff from wide has him all over the place. Carra Skrtel would be worth a try, Agger needs to get a fkn haircut. Suarez has looked tired and has dulled his edge since Mansfield.
his touch was off in my opinion and you could see that clearly i thought i nchances he snatch or fluffed. i just thought it was a little bit of tiredness myself but now he's got to go to qatar FFS! i mean seriously thats not great but we needed him v the big teams.. i'd have taken him off not sturridge v arsenal as sturridge could and did hold it up.
