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Originally Posted by beck7777
Things have fallen apart since then and the challenge is fading but it good experience for the guys next season, to know what it feels like to fight for the title...
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yes, i agree. the experience is good for the players. i also always believe that it takes 1 title to open the floodgates. liverpool were not that feared in europe before their champs league win in 05. but now, qualifying top of the group stages is taken for granted already. moreover, their group stages was deemed as the group of death this season.
the league title would also be like that. it just needs for the players to experience success just once, to make them hungrier for more... and more will come.
but the sad thing is that, gerrard stopped running after he lost the ball during the boro game. was he injured or did he just lost the motivation??? i would have rather he not played in the game, cos either his body or his mind was not in the game.
thus, i believe pool needs new players or a new mentality. players who will stick his head into a dogfight when things r not going well, players who will chase after the ball when he misplaces a pass, players who r motivated not only when playing the real madrids, but more importantly, the wigans.
the wigans place survival above everything else, thus they would defend in depth. it is now up to rafa to make the move and not just hope for things to happen by playing their normal game. out of the 10 draws, rafa had all the time to do something about them. he could have taken out defensive players and put in offensive players like he did against man city and wigan earlier in the season. imagine if he did that for all the drawn games. if they had won 3, drawn 2 and lost 5, liverpool would still be better off than now. the idea of 3 points for a win is exactly that, win games rather than settle for a draw. to win the league, draws r not good enough.
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Originally Posted by Frankiestine
Bro you are talking about Liverpool...to even finish a season without a trophy even if it is the Mickey Mouse cup is consider a disaster..Rafa has been at his task for what 4 seasons already? The team seems to have progressed...but it is always a case of taking 2 steps forward and 1 steps back...frankly how much more time do they need before they win back the holy grail?
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bro, firstly, u r talking about the premier league. no limit of foreigners. thus, the world is your oasis. at least europe. that's why it is so damn hard to win, cos it takes a lot of money to build up a winning squad. do ask roman. even he is feeling the pinch now.
rafa has brought liverpool back to being a big club, after it was dragged through the sewers single-handedly by souness in the 90s. houllier also did help but he was boring. yes, rafa has not brought liverpool the holy grail, but he has elevated liverpool to a new plateau in which u and me, the fans, would expect liverpool to win whenever they play.
this season, they have started to pick up points against the bigger teams, until to the point that i m expecting a win against manure next week. yes, they r still dropping points against the smaller teams, but that has always been the bane of liverpool in recent times. i believe that has to do with the players' and manager's mentality. that said, they have been improving every season... how many teams can say the same???
slow improvement... but improvement nonetheless.
