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Originally Posted by Frankiestine
i can't understand why benitez would want to bring on zahar, lucas or babel in on a one for one switch in midfield...wouldn't bringing on another striker like Keane at least help to stretch the defense a bit?
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benitez lost his balls already. 1 point better than the possibility of a loss. thus, he rather give up his win and do one for one switches... where did benitez leave his balls, i wonder??? didnt he take out the fullbacks and put in extra wingers against man city and wigan???
but then again, hull is a very physical team. keane would not be of much help as i have never seen keane respond well to physical sides.
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and i still cannot understand why the obsession with Liverpool to attack from the wings even when they have the ball in the final quarter right smack in the center ...you will find the players passing the ball all the way to the wingers and letting them pump the ball in back into the goalmouth and hoping to catch a header...shit why don't they just attempt to break open the defense with one touch football something which they were really good at in the 70s, and 80s...
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u r asking too much of the present pool team. the 70s and 80s were filled with players who r proud to play for liverpool. nowadays, football is a job. all i see is liverpool players jumping out of tackles to protect themselves. can u imagine souness or mcmahon doing that then???
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all these lost points at home is going to cost them the title this year and things don't look good heading into the holiday season...that a total of 8 points lost a home...Stoke, Fulham, West Ham and now Hull
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it is their own fault that they dropped those points. last nite, it was obvious that the high tempo was not suited for hull's defenders. hull's weakness was exposed during liverpool's fight back in the 1st half. while these guys can dish out physical tackles, they were unable to receive them. the ugly-looking leftback who scored hull's 1st goal got gerrard's shoulder and he was then substituted. he was the weakest link, in fact. another 5 minutes and he would have been sent off.
liverpool would have won the game if they had kept up with their fightback tempo all the time or a rampaging and destructive mascherano. but then, after getting the equalizer, liverpool went back to its slow tempo game and hull crept back into the game. mascherano was almost non-existent... is he afraid of getting yellow cards now that he is argentina's captain? who to blame???
end of the day, liverpool still cannot get rid of its problems and it is not about beating the big teams. it is its inability to translate its superiority into goals against the smaller teams.