JBG wrote:I agree Supersub.
Crouch got smoothered a lot yesterday by Chelsea as Liverpool did not get much support to him. On Wednesday night Garcia got up beside him and this caused Chelsea trouble. Yesterday Crouch was often marked by two or three Chelsea players when the ball got to him. The reason for this was because Liverpool were not throwing enough players forward to support him.
We rarely got balls in from the wings to him and that needs to be addressed.
1-4 is hard to take, but yestersay's match was a bit of a freak. Chelsea deserved to win, yes, but not by 1-4. I think a 2-1 win, or 3-1 at a stretch, would ahve been a fair reflection, as we matched Chelsea for most of the game. When Gerrard scored it looked like we would go on and win the game as we were on top. Damien Duff's goal came at the worst possible moment for us and the best time for Chelsea. Had we gone in 1-1 at half time we could have won the game. Our general play wasn't bad but we got punished for a few defence errors (in many other games you don't get punished) and we had no answer to Chelsea's world class defence. I'd put the game down to a bad day at the office. If we continue to misfire through October I'll get worried, but I'm not unduly worried at the moment.
One thing that annoyed me this week, however, was the talk from the Liverpool camp before the game, particularly from Luis Garcia and Fernando Morientes. If you open your mouth in England in the fashion they did you only give the opposition more fire in their bellies: something Garcia and Morientes need to understand.
On top of that, its not the Liverpool way to talk thrash before a game.
talk thrash? I had no idea we were discussing the likes of megadeth and slayer before the game? 
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