Liverpool Living on Blind Faith?

Article by Red Phil

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Sometimes, even when you’d give your soul for it to be a nice place, reality is painful and, unfortunately, life at Anfield is currently simply excruciating.

Sure, we’ve had a couple of decent results but let’s look at the reality of the team at the moment . . 

After watching the Reds for over fifty years I’ve never known them to play with a lone striker the size of a ballboy, I’ve never seen worse defenders than Toure and Sakho, who look like accidents waiting to happen every time the ball goes towards them, we’ve got a goalkeeper so prone to flapping that it is causing the error-prone defenders around him to have cardiac arrests several times a game and we spend £16m on an Italian striker – another one who is useless – before the manager says he doesn’t think he is the right kind of player for the tactics he wants to play so that is £16m warming the bench.

Add that to acquiring two quite impressive young Spanish full-backs and then we change to playing three centre-backs! Am I losing the plot here?

Players like Lucas, Enrique and Johnson have rarely, if ever, been good enough for this football club but they keep getting resurrected without ever showing an improvement. Sure, no team could hope to lose the thirty-odd goals of Suarez plus the healthy haul Sturridge got last year so it was always going to be difficult this year when Sturridge was injured.

Quite soon, hopefully, Sturridge will be back so the good times could return . . . up to a point. We may begin to look better going forward but that isn’t going to stop the pinball machine effect every time the ball is hoofed up into the penalty area. With a goalie too uncertain to catch and most of the defence never able to tell you which direction a ball is going to go when, and if, they head it the fact is we cannot defend.

In the papers recently I saw the manager suggesting that we wouldn’t do much business this coming January Transfer Window! Astonishing. Let us not forget that two of our goals against Swansea came from an own goal and the Swansea keeper belting the ball against Lallana and both goals against Leicester, mighty Leicester, came from penalties.

I’d even suggest that the early season euphoria about Henderson being the future captain of Liverpool makes me want to cry. Energy, yes, but what else? Very few defence-splitting passes or midfield domination.

No, a goalie is a must, two centre-backs are essential, a defensive midfielder needs to be a priority and a striker of repute cannot get here fast enough.

Getting rid of two Italians and several other bit-part players might provide the funds for part of that purchasing package but what we must ensure is that our defence stops looking like a Sunday League one every time the ball goes towards them. Any high balls, and there are now a lot of them as other teams see our vulnerability, equate to panic.

Reality is a horrible place some times but when you’ve got no confidence that your team can ever score and even less confidence that your defence can keep out any opposition you have to admit that the future doesn’t look bright!

Blind faith in the cause is not going to make poor defenders good or useless strikers prolific! We need change . . . beginning this week!

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