Re: Liverpool Thread
Decent performance yesterday, team looked reasonably solid. Thought Lucas and Aquilani did well, they complimented each other. The problem with Lucas and Masch is that they take up too many of the same positions and neither is really creative. Aquilani has far more movement and creates some extra space/time in the centre. He needs time to adapt as he had some poor control/passes at times but the midfield had better balance yesterday.
As for the wingbacks, well Ive noticed precisely why Insua is so crap at defending headers, he can't jump very well but he also closes his eyes when heading. Ridiculous! As for Johnson, he seems to be falling into Rafa's tactical blackhole with little attacking quality shown yesterday (he did have his hands full with the wingers) which is ok, but he seems lazy in possesion with quite a few simple passes going out.
As mentioned earlier, it's so easy to defend against Liverpool, nobody takes a shot outside the area, with both Kuyt and beni coming inside. Really need to have some wingers on and put Kuyt out of our misery. The amount of times the attack just fell flat with him recieving the ball......but then who do we have? Rather give Babel a run on the RW so he can sell himself for the coming transfer period.
