Injuries and the bench..

Yeah. I’m talking about Liverpool’s bad luck. Skrtel is injured for 2 weeks now with a cracked jaw after frakin’ knocking himself into Carragher. Good job.

Agger is out – what 3 weeks more? Who to take over now…18 yrs old Ayala. Is he good enough. Not sure as he looked rather scrawny on the pitch. Not muscular enough!

Aqualini – untested, unproven. And injured.

Rumours keeps surfacing that we are looking forward to more defenders. Yeah I know we have problems in the defense but I am more keen to see new attacking midfielders in the squad. Rafael Van de Vaart anyone?

Or should we just drop Gerrard to central midfield with Mascherano. Make Benayoun take Gerrard’s role. I think that would be amazing to see. But know how Rafa is… he will be stubborn to change anything at all. He will still stick to the same formation and squad.

Well, after only 1 game out of 38, still long way off to go. I hope I’m not wrong as the season goes by!

Liverpool 2 – Aston Villa 2

I actually had written something for this blog right after the game. I noticed it was filled with lots of disappointment and maybe anger too. So.. I decided to bin that post and write another one after 2 days once I cooled down.

Needless to say, the 2 all draw against Villa was simply atrocious! It was as joke really. To be controlling the game against a good team such as Aston Villa and not able to kill the game off was really poor! United or Chelsea would have killed the game off instantly. I don’t know if the off-the-pitch issues with regards to the Yankie owners and Benitez have gotten to the players. Captain, Steven Gerrard does think so….

I didn’t expect us to win the EPL title, but what I did want was the team to push closer to the top this season. Hopefully with more quality players next season, we can win the title in a few years time. I don’t think we ever did have any chance this year as the team is still not up to quality.

Speaking of the game, Benayoun did well on the right wing and pounced on the oppurtunity to score that goal. Sami Hyppia performed brilliantly actually to stop the on coming Villa attack. What we didn’t do so well was defending against set pieces. And that’s all that is needed. Aston Villa really was never controlling the game. They needed abit of luck to get 2 chances at goal. The second one was a brilliant own goal by Aurelio. Only saviour of the day was Crouch.

Poor game. Things don’t look so bright with Liverpool these days.

In the video below, you can hear how disappointed Rafa was…