- 15 August 2003
Re: Liverpool Thread
i think the problem is, benitez has a rigid formation he loves to play, the 4-5-1, which he used at Valencia. When Valencia playe dthat system at Anfield and the Mestalla when he was in charge they bloody destroyed us with some of the most effective attacking football and defensive football i've ever seen.
He likes his teams to attack, with possibly 4 from the five in midfield joining the attack to support the lone striker, and then when they havent got the ball to drop back into a defensive 4-5-1 situation.
If you watch us the formation works to a degree, we have a high number of clean sheets and we defend really well in most cases. unfortunately we dont score half as much as we should although in some games we've created quite a few clear cut chances and havent taken them.
I can only conclude that Benitez hasnt got the right perssonell in attack. Whereas at Valencia he had the likes of Aimar, Carew, Mista, Vicente, Baraja and Albelda and they worked really well, you can only say out of our players, probably, Mascherano, Gerrard, Alonso and maybe Crouch? The wingers have shown not to be good enough which is a big part of the way the old Valencia played.
We'll see now that he has cash if he can get the right personnel, rather than going for some cut price third listers.
i think the problem is, benitez has a rigid formation he loves to play, the 4-5-1, which he used at Valencia. When Valencia playe dthat system at Anfield and the Mestalla when he was in charge they bloody destroyed us with some of the most effective attacking football and defensive football i've ever seen.
He likes his teams to attack, with possibly 4 from the five in midfield joining the attack to support the lone striker, and then when they havent got the ball to drop back into a defensive 4-5-1 situation.
If you watch us the formation works to a degree, we have a high number of clean sheets and we defend really well in most cases. unfortunately we dont score half as much as we should although in some games we've created quite a few clear cut chances and havent taken them.
I can only conclude that Benitez hasnt got the right perssonell in attack. Whereas at Valencia he had the likes of Aimar, Carew, Mista, Vicente, Baraja and Albelda and they worked really well, you can only say out of our players, probably, Mascherano, Gerrard, Alonso and maybe Crouch? The wingers have shown not to be good enough which is a big part of the way the old Valencia played.
We'll see now that he has cash if he can get the right personnel, rather than going for some cut price third listers.
Then we'll show what we're made of .. the only problem is that Milan has a better prepared Kaka and Gilardino and Inzaghi to deal with.
