ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC"

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mawders said:
If I remember right, after the 3-0 Johnson Derby, Benitez admitted he made a mistake in fielding a weakened team. Brenda will never do that (admit the mistake)
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Similar to Moyes after Anfield, IIRC.

In fact, he actually said the only mistake he made was in not "resting" more players.

Never one word of remorse about just writing that game off.
 
Dithering Dougie said:
He's in a hole and he's still digging.

He talked himself into trouble by shouting his mouth off that the players deserved their chance before the game because the ones who'd been dropped had been poor. Clearly he never expected to keep the score down to only 1-0 (you could see from his bristling reaction afterwards) and now he's either got to go back on his word and drop the players who performed better than expected against Chelsea knowing their the weaker team or concoct some obvious BS excuse when he brings the likes of Gerrard, Henderson, Sterling etc etc back for Saturday.

He's starting his excuses early but he's just going to make a bigger [swear word] of himself again.
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He has ramped this match up into gargantuan proportions.

If they lose this it will be fun watching the cultists turn on him.
 
LinekersLegs said:
Jonathan Wilson
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...m_medium=referral&utm_campaign=programming-UK
Which brings us back to Liverpool. As they continue to struggle at the back, particularly from set pieces, there’s been much grumbling about individuals in the back four. But Dejan Lovren isn’t a bad defender; he was excellent at Southampton last season. Martin Skrtel may be getting on, but he was a rock under Rafael Benitez. Mamadou Sakho may have been overhyped, but he’s still an imposing player and regular feature in the France squad. Kolo Toure may suffer lapses on concentration, but he’s still a more than adequate reserve centre-back.

If they’re all finding life difficult, then maybe the issue isn’t personnel but the system.

Phil Jagielka and Gary Cahill, it can also be said, have looked far more composed since August than they did during the World Cup, which perhaps offers the biggest clue as to the issue: if central midfield consists of Steven Gerrard and Jordan Henderson, the defence is going to come under pressure. Therefore, with Lucas Leiva and Emre Can at the base of midfield supported by Joe Allen, perhaps it is no coincidence that Liverpool produced their most convincing defensive display in some time.

Only Rodgers actually knows what the motivation behind his team selection at the Bernabeu was, but whatever his thinking, he may have gained a valuable insight into the combinations that can give his side an additional resilience.
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Hopefully stick with what he is saying then, it was only the fact that a poor performance from Madrid resulted in the RS only conceding the 1, after all Real did have 27 shots so if that is a sign of their best defensive display I can't wait to see a bad one!
 
Khalekan said:
Similar to Moyes after Anfield, IIRC.

In fact, he actually said the only mistake he made was in not "resting" more players.

Never one word of remorse about just writing that game off.
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Khalekan said:
Similar to Moyes after Anfield, IIRC.

In fact, he actually said the only mistake he made was in not "resting" more players.

Never one word of remorse about just writing that game off.
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That was the game that finished me with Moyes.
 
royalblue66 said:
That was the game that finished me with Moyes.
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I would have forgot all about it had we won 3-0 in the Semi, which we were well capable of. Instead we rolled over again.
Beating the best team in the country at the time 2-0 the following week actually made it worse! In those few games he proved he would never win a thing with us. Pressure to succeed broke him constanty.
 
Darth Toffeeman said:
I would have forgot all about it had we won 3-0 in the Semi, which we were well capable of. Instead we rolled over again.
Beating the best team in the country at the time 2-0 the following week actually made it worse! In those few games he proved he would never win a thing with us. Pressure to succeed broke him constanty.
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I think pretty well the whole fan base switched off him after that cowardly approach.........
 
davek said:
It amazes me how people in third world countries find the time, energy and cash for stuff like that. You'd think they'd be out foraging for food and shifting themselves from volcanic activity and stuff.
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I think that stuff comes in Red Cross disaster packages. Mostly donations of stuff people don't want anymore. After the next big natural disaster we'll probably see hundreds of displaced people walking around in Liverpool FC 2013/2014 League Champions T-Shirts.
 
IllinoisBlue said:
I think that stuff comes in Red Cross disaster packages. Mostly donations of stuff people don't want anymore. After the next big natural disaster we'll probably see hundreds of displaced people walking around in Liverpool FC 2013/2014 League Champions T-Shirts.
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You can probably find them in Norway as we speak, what with that mountain about to give way (if it hasn't already).
 
It was obviously all Chelsea's fault as per usual.

Oh and Howard Webbs, that Paving Slab, Mario Balloteli's, Gerrard's boots fault and the fact they can't compete with the big spenders.
 
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