Owzat wrote:tonyeh wrote:Well, I'm suggesting that Rafa needs to stop fücking around with Robbie Keane. This business of taking him off on the hour every game cannot be doing him any good at all. It's getting to the point where Keane knows that when the hour's up, he's off. Even when a hat-trick is on the cards like last week.
Before the Torres injury, himself and Keane were looking quite good and they were beginning to gel somewhat and I think it's time to re-engineer that again.
Keane's movement was good today and bar the admitedly awful miss (and he wasn't alone in that today), he was doing well. But it doesn't seem how bad or well he does, he gets subbed!
Funnily enough it's about LIVERPOOL not Robbie Keane. Keane had plenty of time to complete his hat-trick, both his goals were first half and he was subbed around the usual time Rafa brings on subs which was all or the best part of HALF AN HOUR after his second goal. It's not like he scored his second and Rafa took him off immediately
I don't know how you work out that Keane and Torres were gelling :
- Keane's brace against WBA was scored BEFORE Torres came on
- Torres scored one before Keane came on against Citeh and the other shortly after
- Torres' winner against Sunderland was scored after Keane had come off
- Keane's goal against Atletico came while Torres was out injured
So only Keane's goal against the less than impressive PSV and Torres' brace against an equally unimpressive bitters side could really be used to show some kind of understanding or partnership and that's four goals out of their combined nine - bearing in mind Torres hasn't had much chance to play up front on his own so he should score more with both together since that is more common than Torres on his own.
tonyeh wrote:In addition, Liverpool need to start concentrating on playing with two strikers, after all that is what Rafa paid 20 mil for.
Robbie can't play up on his own, neither can any of the other options bar Torres (and even that's debatable this year). It's that simple, he needs another striker to play with. It's beneficial to Liverpool too as it creates more options in attack, which Liverpool can be sorely lacking in at times.
Rafa paid £20m to bolster the strikeforce, I've said before that just because he is the second most expensive player in the squad doesn't mean he has to start every game or we have to shape the team - potentially at it's detriment - to accommodate Keane.
You sure you support Liverpool for Liverpool or for Keane? Your arrival on here coincides way too much with his at Anfield. Keane has a lot of making up to do, I completely disagree that Torres can't play up front on his own. At the moment the best options are Torres on his own up front, THEN the two together and then Keane on his own. Keane hasn't shown much gelling at all with Torres, TWO of his four goals have come with Torres off the pitch and all Keane has shown so far is a horrible tendancy to miss chances he should score. Maybe that is pressure, but Keane wanted to sign for his "boyhood club" and did he expect there to be no pressure?
Keane's been given more opportunity than he deserves, because of his price tag. Crouch, Fowler, Bellamy, Morientes etc would be shipped out in January or the summer if they'd been in Keane's boots and missing like he too often does and scoring one in five as he is (one in four or even three if you go for the bigmick school of figure fiddling)[/quote]
Good post.