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woof woof ! wrote:

maypaxvobiscum wrote:

Avi Cohen wrote:I was talking to a Spanish friend of mine (a Valencia supporter) the morning after the Arsenal game and was asking him about Rafa's style at Valencia. He keeps an eye on Liverpool and says that he sees no difference in the style of Liverpool than when Rafa was at Valencia - only the results were better.

He said it was the same formation 4-4-1-1 (with Carew and Aimar instead of Torres and Gerrard), same no-substitutions before 60mins tactic, a series of boring 1-0 wins with a preference to defend rather than attack, that there was an "inner mafia" at the club - Rafa would favour certain players over others despite their quality not matching up - and that he won La Liga in 02 and 04 because Real and Barca were in the middle of a minor slip up.

He also stated that Liverpool will NEVER be a positive, attacking team with Rafa in charge. It's just not his way. Maybe my friend was talking nonsense but hopefully Sabre can confirm.

I know there are a lot on here who will take boring 1-0 wins any day of the week but there are some, like me, who think we should and can be doing more. This is Liverpool, after all.

there's no need for a confirmation from some other poster.
its obvious in our results we're a boring boring team.

We're having a poor season this time around and this is the kind of stuff that really p'isses me off. Uniformed b'ullshit thats' passed off as fact, completely ignores the FACT that last season we were the premierships leading scorers, but f'uck it, why let that get in the way of us having a whinge about how boring LFC are under Rafa Benitez.

Strange how none of this BS was being spouted last season when we were challanging for the title. 

woof woof ! wrote:

maypaxvobiscum wrote:

Avi Cohen wrote:I was talking to a Spanish friend of mine (a Valencia supporter) the morning after the Arsenal game and was asking him about Rafa's style at Valencia. He keeps an eye on Liverpool and says that he sees no difference in the style of Liverpool than when Rafa was at Valencia - only the results were better.

He said it was the same formation 4-4-1-1 (with Carew and Aimar instead of Torres and Gerrard), same no-substitutions before 60mins tactic, a series of boring 1-0 wins with a preference to defend rather than attack, that there was an "inner mafia" at the club - Rafa would favour certain players over others despite their quality not matching up - and that he won La Liga in 02 and 04 because Real and Barca were in the middle of a minor slip up.

He also stated that Liverpool will NEVER be a positive, attacking team with Rafa in charge. It's just not his way. Maybe my friend was talking nonsense but hopefully Sabre can confirm.

I know there are a lot on here who will take boring 1-0 wins any day of the week but there are some, like me, who think we should and can be doing more. This is Liverpool, after all.

there's no need for a confirmation from some other poster.
its obvious in our results we're a boring boring team.

We're having a poor season this time around and this is the kind of stuff that really p'isses me off. Uniformed b'ullshit thats' passed off as fact, completely ignores the FACT that last season we were the premierships leading scorers, but f'uck it, why let that get in the way of us having a whinge about how boring LFC are under Rafa Benitez.

woof woof ! wrote:

maypaxvobiscum wrote:

Avi Cohen wrote:I was talking to a Spanish friend of mine (a Valencia supporter) the morning after the Arsenal game and was asking him about Rafa's style at Valencia. He keeps an eye on Liverpool and says that he sees no difference in the style of Liverpool than when Rafa was at Valencia - only the results were better.

He said it was the same formation 4-4-1-1 (with Carew and Aimar instead of Torres and Gerrard), same no-substitutions before 60mins tactic, a series of boring 1-0 wins with a preference to defend rather than attack, that there was an "inner mafia" at the club - Rafa would favour certain players over others despite their quality not matching up - and that he won La Liga in 02 and 04 because Real and Barca were in the middle of a minor slip up.

He also stated that Liverpool will NEVER be a positive, attacking team with Rafa in charge. It's just not his way. Maybe my friend was talking nonsense but hopefully Sabre can confirm.

I know there are a lot on here who will take boring 1-0 wins any day of the week but there are some, like me, who think we should and can be doing more. This is Liverpool, after all.

there's no need for a confirmation from some other poster.
its obvious in our results we're a boring boring team.

We're having a poor season this time around and this is the kind of stuff that really p'isses me off. Uniformed b'ullshit thats' passed off as fact, completely ignores the FACT that last season we were the premierships leading scorers, but f'uck it, why let that get in the way of us having a whinge about how boring LFC are under Rafa Benitez.

Yeah, I heard exactly the same excuse from Gerard Houllier about us back in 2001 too. Sadly scoring a few goals DOES NOT mean you are playing good football. It usually does mean you are playing successful football ...... but not even that under Rafa.   

If you think we are playing good football you either need your eyes testing, or your memory has finally gone mate 

woof woof ! wrote:

s@int wrote:Yeah, I heard exactly the same excuse from Gerard Houllier about us back in 2001 too. Sadly scoring a few goals DOES NOT mean you are playing good football. It usually does mean you are playing successful football ...... but not even that under Rafa.   

If you think we are playing good football you either need your eyes testing, or your memory has finally gone mate 

Don't think it's me that has a problem with memory.

The conversation revolved around the question that under Benitez we play BORING football. We've certainly played poorly (especially this season) but I've rarely if ever considered watching our play as being boring.

As for

Sadly scoring a few goals DOES NOT mean you are playing good football. It usually does mean you are playing successful football

Your denigration of a team that topped the premiership scoring chart last season as "scoring a few goals" is noted, now perhaps you'll step down from your lofty perch and enlighten us all as to what "good football" actually is ? as seemingly according to you it's not about scoring goals or being successful.

LFC2007 wrote:This season has been terrible but most of the others have seen their fair share of exciting games, and last season we played some outstanding football on a consistent basis, as we did latterly in 07/08.

Not top of my complaints list, tbh.