Emerald Red wrote:polygemus wrote:Derby is a woeful team that is strongly favoured to be relegated at the end of the season.
Some room for improvements still,
1. Babel. Goal aside he was quite awful.
2. Kuyt. Wasteful
3. Torres. Goes down a bit too easily at times. Not a good passer.
4. Finnan. Only got down to support when the score is 2-0
5. Some easy chances for derby at the end. They could have scored 2.
Mascherano is tremendous. Should get the nod over Sissoko.
I f*ckin know you! I know your kind. You're the "oh, but the glass is half empty" type of people, arn't you!
Pessimistic tw@t!
It was a great win and it's nice to see us score a few goals but if you want to point out some negative points everything
polygemus says is true.
Derby are surefire favourites to end dead last and this would probably be the easiest fixture in the whole season.
1. Sure, Babel should be able to offer more, but c'mon he is 20 years old and this season is only a learning season and we're not going to see even close to the best of what he will produce in the future.
2. Not going to argue there. Kuyt just is not Liverpool quality.
To wasteful, too slow. But still looking bright since Torres, Voronin and Crouch are players I think do have the needed quality.
3. Well, if that's the only bad thing about Torres, then I'll be happy. It's his 1st season and he hasn't got used to the PL yet. And if it can get us another 1 or 2 penalties then I'm not going to complain.
4. Well, Finnan is what Rafa loves, a risk minimalizer. This makes him never get caught out of position and extremely dependable. Sure, if you want to nitpick maybe he could
make a few more forward runs.
5. When you are 6-0 upp against any team it can be hard pretending it to be 1-0 the last 15 min.
Mascherano is the best "only" cm we've got and I've been saying for 6 months. he is so complete and can do anything well. Momo and Alonso are way more specialized and there are things they can't do well.
But Mash does it all in style. Hopefully Rafa will see the light.