Results tagged “dossena” from Liverpool Echo - Another Red Letter Day
IN THE last 12 months, any criticism of Liverpool has been along the lines of questioning us as a real attacking force.
But with seven goals conceded in our first four league games, is it time for questions marks to hover over our leaky defence?
A SLIGHT despondency seems to have set in amongst the Reds ranks in the last couple of weeks.
Fans who were generally positive in Jun and July now have a sombre look about them and there is the odd muttering about difficult times ahead.
Not that pre-season form is much of an indicator, but there has been a lack of cohesive form in most of Liverpool's friendlies in recent months.
Most worryingly for me, all thoughts of signing one more top class attacking player seems to have gone out the window as attentions have suddenly turned to finding a fourth-in-line centre half.
SO, Xabi has asked for a transfer request. Let's be honest, we knew the lad was going a long time ago, didn't we?
SO, it looks like our Spanish right back is on his way.
Does £3.5-£4 seem like a paltry sum to anyone else?
SINCERE, sincere apologies for using such a monstrous image at the top of this posting.
Yet it seems to perfectly sum up the devil incarnate who has decided to leave this fair shores for sleazier times in Spain.
Yes, the Greasy One has departed for loadsamoney Real Madrid.
It's a song we could have hardly imagined we'd have been singing at Old Trafford.
But we were.
Man United were mauled in their own backyard.
AND so to Goodison as for the second time in a week we couldn't find a way to beat a much-depleted but battling Everton side.
No two games could have more perfectly summed up Liverpool's currentl failings in a season that still promises to deliver so much.
WELL, if we don't win our first title for 19 years when May comes upon us, we can point to where we let it all slip away.
Drawing at home to Stoke is an irritant, doing the same against Fulham and then West Ham is bordering on the criminal.
To then go and fail to beat Hull at Anfield, as good as the Tigers are, is nigh on suicide.
Saturday was different to the two previous stalemate displays at Anfield as Liverpool played pretty well on this occasion and we had the pressure and chances to put Hull away three times over.
Still, the other big three are doing their best to do us huge favours every time we slip up at home.
Who would have thought that none of the top four, Villa excluded, would have won over the weekend?
I'm going to say it, yes I really am.
Lucas Leiva was excellent last night. Man of the match.
I'll go further. Ryan Babel was very promising too.
Jeez. I've done it. I need to go and lie down now.
DROPPING two points at home to Stoke could be considered unfortunate.
Repeating the feat at home to Fulham would be viewed as worrying. Doing the same against West Ham, and failing to score again into the bargain, is tantamount to a criminal offence.
If we fail to notch up number 19 this season, it's these matches that'll show us where we let it wastefully slip away.
IT'S OFFICIAL. Liverpool are in a bad spell at the moment.
Thankfully, that bad spell is twinned with a professionalism and ability to get results which is just about keeping us on track.
There's no doubt, however, that the unjustified loss to Spurs in the league did more mental damage than we imagined.
GOOD job Pepe Reina was Man of the Match, wasn't it?
Any early season optimism was shattered by a a thoroughly dispiriting 90 minutes of football by us last night.
Still, it's early days and we'll defintely get much, much, much better.
But, we hardly looked like a new-look Liverpool team ready to launch our first proper assault on the Premiership title for years, did we?
THE start of the new season approaches faster than we think doesn't it?
A week on Saturday we make the trip to The Stadium of Light for Sunderland.
I wouldn't be surprised if there some frenetic transfer activity over the next fortnight as Rafa looks to hone his squad for the coming campaign.
