devaney » Thu Feb 27, 2014 7:57 pm wrote:We don't do easy !! I'm sure you are only too aware of that. Treats like Arsenal,Spurs and Everton don't happen too often !! May 2005 is more our kind of thing !! The important thing is that we would probably have lost the games like Swansea and Fulham in the not too distant past and yet we won them. And yes for me when you've got a defence of almost ever changing personnel that is the area we have most of our problems. Johnson at times this season has been pitiful and I don't use the word lightly. Cissoko for a lot of the time has been utterly woeful. If you have twenty percent of your outfield players, and defenders at that, it really isn't that difficult to see where the real problems are.
I seen your point in the ratings thread ,you know that particular nook of the forum that's supposedly free from remonstration
Anyway, I understand if Rodgers made his defence practically invariable we might form an understanding at the back ,and in truth the
swapping and changing is at times unnecessary ,with Johnson's sudden inclusion being a prime example.......And yet it makes not a
blind bit of difference how solid the back four actually are, if you consistently invite pressure by fielding a porous midfield.
Our back four received no protection whatsoever (something that's not open to argument) against Swansea ,and until we see a player who
sits in front of our defence with his main objective being to starve our opponents of time on the ball ,we will continue to see similar mistakes.