tonyeh wrote:I think the bottom line is, tonight Liverpool attacked from the midfield (partly because they won the first leg). They followed through on the ball and got bodies into the box. Kuyt was up, Babel was up, Lucas got into the box and even Dossena (who rarely passes the halfway line) got into the box and scored!
All of this support for Gerrard and Torres meant goals were coming.
Now, contrast that with the usual conservative Premiership performance where the midfield is static and simply knocks the ball on for the most part, hoping to pick out the striker and it's obvious why we can put a performance like that in tonight against Real, but fail to beat the likes of Fulham.
s@int wrote:My own view is we showed a passion and comitment tonight that is often sorely missing in League games. The unpalatable truth is that some of our players don't give the same amount of effort and importance to games in the League as they do to the big European nights. How can the same players give a performance like tonight and yet whimper through games at places like Middlesbrough and Stoke?
The only thing I can put it down to is in Europe the whole team is commited to the cause, in the league some are happy to pick up their wages and wait of another payday.
s@int wrote:My own view is we showed a passion and comitment tonight that is often sorely missing in League games. The unpalatable truth is that some of our players don't give the same amount of effort and importance to games in the League as they do to the big European nights.
sgs wrote:What it proves conclusively is that we are capable of playing like this in the big games, be it the CL or the PL. .
Not Too Xabi wrote:My take on this is that Rafa's tactical acumen shines far brighter in games against top sides than the teams languishing in the depths of the prem. Also, the better teams have an ambition to beat us rather than stifle us and this plays into our hands.
When teams try to go toe-to-toe with us and take the game the game to us, it plays to our strengths and we can exploit the spaces created.
When teams "park the bus" I think we simply lack the pace, width, guile and options from the bench to open them up and we rely on magic from Gerrard or Torres.
Our full strength first team is a match for anyone in world football but as has been discussed to death, we simply lack the strength in depth to do enough in the league over a full season.
If Rafa wants to win the league using his current methods we need 4 excellent players in the key positions;
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