Igor Zidane wrote:Right lets get this straight . Nando is not playing very well , agreed. Why though ?
Well could it be that the manager is not playing to his stregnths and he's pretty miffed at this . Anyone see the stat that nando had the least touches of any player on the park on saturday . Why would that be then ? Could it be that he is not getting the service from the midfield that he should be be ? Could it be that the gap between the midfield and the strikers is far to big ? What do you want torres to do , come deeper to get the ball off the midfield ? So that would mean you have N'gog coming deeper aswell as Torres ,very threatening to the defense i must say . Torres plays on the shoulder of the defender that is his whole game and he relies on his speed to beat the offside trap and feeding of through balls from our midfield to put him in a good position to profit . Once it happend and once he missed the chance (the goalie saved it ) . If the whole team pushed twenty yards up the park the difference would be there to see. THe defense wouldn't have to hoof the ball hopeing torres or n'gog might win a header and then somehow create a chance for themselves . The defense could pass he ball onto midfield who are then closer to the strikers to ceate chances and support those strikers when attacking goal . Torres is miffed and rightly so because hodgson thinks that he should play like Bobby feckin zamorra and plough a loan furrow up front hoping for your midfield to make that twenty yards of space up to support him . Win the headers and cause a nusance for the defense . Bollox to that , he is not your old style english target man , he's a lad who relies on his team mates to help create chances for him and he's not getting that help , so he's p1ssed off and again rightly so .
Mate, he is getting some service, didn't you see Maxi and Torres linking very well with each other against Spurs? didn't you see the two chances he had that the first season Torres would have buried ? The chance that he had that he should have buried against newcastle. Ngog out preformed him mate, he was running all around trying to dribble around players, but Torres just stood there and did nothing to help out. Clearly he isn't the Torres we know.
Steven Gerrard last season was slagged off for being poor from most of the people here, but no one called him a ''scapegoat'' or even blamed the manager for the tactics involved to utilize his strengths. Gerrard also suffered from a lack of confidence, and Torres the same this season.
You can blame the manager all you want, I do blame him for the away performances and other things, but Torres needs to look himself in the mirror and remember that he is playing for Liverpool.
