SouthCoastShankly » Thu Dec 26, 2013 7:25 pm wrote:Also to those who think Gerrard is not needed, I challenge you to say we would not have been better with Gerrard today. Our midfield played admirably but Gerrard's influence on big games was lacking.
Additionally, with Sturridge fit we would have been making him as a sub instead of Aspas. Go figure.
with gerrard in there they would have passed through us even more than they did, at times even allen and hendo were chasing shadows so gerrard would have been like a statue, the one change to our midfield i`d make is replace lucas with that fernando from porto.
lucas is too one paced these days to be a dominant DM as is johnson as well btw, he`s deffo lost a yard of pace himself.
overall though it was a good performance at probably the hardest ground to go to in england, it just grates that we continually seem to gift city goals, if reina isnt diving over long range speculative efforts or running to the corner flag and if skrtel isnt gifting them goals with last minute backpasses mingolet is palming half hit efforts into his own net.