bigmick wrote:Sir Roger wrote:Gerrard had a stinker last night
I've no doubts that you are right mate. If you play two players in the centre of midfield who aren't up to the job of distributing the football to the players who play up front, the aforementioned strikers won't function.
Coincidently, Torres who has been setting the World on fire was quiet as well. Funnily enough, both him and Gerrard were also quiet in the first three league games as well. Some players do their best work off the ball, but players need to have it in order to win you football matches.
Aurelio/Lucas was never going to work. I know people will accuse me of speaking after the event but that's up to them, the selection was bonkers.
Normally I don't answer your posts that start with I haven't seen any of the game, and followed by something discussed to dead ages ago, but it seems that by now you have watched the game so we may discuss the game now rather than bringing old discussions and make points that have been done to death.
After adding the Aurelio selection in midfield to the famous Rafa mistakes list (which will be probably listed with other famous mistakes like Skrtel in RB or Crouch in the left, as the decissions that define Rafa's selections), and after admitting myself it was a mistake yesterday, I wanted to ask you, in your opinion, why in the second half it was less of a mess than in the first half?
One reason is of course Fiore's intensity was lower, but was there any other reason?
It's a footie question.
. I suspect though that from reading Rafa's interviews after the match, he probably went absolutely ballistic at half time which more than likely perked everyone up a bit. That and the general consensus that they fairly naturally sat on their two goal cushion probably explains it, but like I say I don't know.
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