I missed yesterday's game, I got to spend seven ****ing hours trying to get from London to Belfast. Thanks Easyjet :twisted: :evil:
I did have the pleasure of watching that THING on Sat night that was passed off as a football match.
The first half was the worst game of football I have seen in years. Neither side looked anything like Premiership standard. TBF to Liverpool, they didn't even look like a Sunday League side. It was that bad. I haven't seen them that poor since Souness did his best to destroy the cub. United were slow and ponderous in the build up and the fact that a club of their stature is reduced to starting a big game like that with Fellaini as their lone striker says a lot about where they are ATM. Still, they should have been 3 up at the break. If Fellaini had a first touch (or any talent at all) he would have bagged a hat-trick. I heard a few Utd fans saying Liverpool turned up for a draw. I don't think they did. I think they were so bad, and so badly all over the place that they ended up encamped on the edge of their box because they couldn't string 3 passes together and kept giving it away. They were actually so bad that they were reduced to everyone stood on the edge of their box.
Still at least Brendan changed things at half time and sorted it all out.............. :roll:
The first Utd goal was embarrassing. EIGHT Liverpool players in a line on their six yard box. Even if Utd hadn't seen the two unmarked players they had at the top of the box and had decided to play it in for a header, whatever Utd players ran in would have had the momentum from a 10 yard run to use to out jump the static Liverpool defence. As it was they went for the easy option, move Clyne and roll it to the unmarked player for him to tap it in. School boys defend better.
On that note, Gomez, stay on your ****ing feet! Herrera was going nowhere, there was no danger. What have you got to gain by tackling him there? Let him go, shepherd him and FFS don't foul him.
He's young, and in his first season in the PL so I'll give him a break.
Fantastic penalty though. You just don't save those.
The final two goals were just pure class. You can't do much about Benteke's and while I'd want Skertl to do a tad more against Martial, I may be being harsh on him. Take nothing away from that goal though, pure Thierry Henry. It's still too early to say if Martial is worth the money, I suspect not, but that goal did ooze class.
I bet Brendan Rodgers is glad Jose is around. If it wasn't for Chelsea being even more ****, he'd be under a hell of a lot of pressure now. What he was doing with Ings and Fermio as wide men I'll never know. Benteke stood up there more isolated than **** knows what and he has two attacking players theoretically playing out wide, when in fact they ended up as glorified midfielders such was Liverpool's shitness (I don't wanna say Utd's dominance as I don't think they dominated so much as Liverpool just didn't turn up). Saying that, can anyone tell me what LVG "philosophy" is? I just don't see any progress at Utd at all. That club still looks to be in transition. Should that still be the case after 15 months?
