LFC_fan wrote:how a handful of you guys are shooting your heads off about Zenden is really beyond me. A couple of seasons ago, it was traore (which was highly justified 99% of the time), now its Zenden. It seems that people need to point fingers and find a scape goat everytime results dont go our way.
Certainly, half the team did worse than Zenden tonight.
Bellamy was completely non-existant.
Macherano was not his usual composed self, gave the ball away and lost pocession more times than Zenden. A couple led to some pacy counter attacks by the Chavs and luckily for us, they could not take advantage.
Arbeloa was like lost sheep out on the right against joe cole. hopefully, finnan gets over his back problem for the second leg.
Agger was completely out-muscled and out-paced by Dogbreath and he would have to bear some responsibility for cole's goal. What Ciggy said in an earlier post was right.. if only hyypia had alittle more pace, i think he would have dealt with Dogbreath much better than Agger did.
the only ones who did alright were alonso, Reina and Kuyt. Gerrard needs to play in the middle for the return leg and put pennant on the right. we certainly missed his runs into the box tonight. Everytime Chelski attacked, i had to hold my breath, but when we attack, the only person i could see a goal coming from, was from Stevie.. we really are lacking a goal threat. Hope Rafa plays Crouch next week.
As the situation stands, we need to score next week, as well as keep them from scoring. Dont want to be caught out like what PSV did to Arsenal. If the chavs score one at Anfield, we'll have to hit back with 3 in regulation time.
The tie is still firmly in the balance though i must admit Chelski has the upperhand now. Maureen has a straightforward enough job at Anfield next week while Rafa really has to get his formation and tatics spot on.
The deal with Zenden was that he had so much ball, so much oppurtunity to set us up, and not once did he put a decent ball in, more often it went straight to a defender, there was no fizz on it, just floated in, what would that achieve?? yeah arbeloa, bellamy and Agger were poor, but that doesn't excuse Zendens ineptitude.
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