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!

Tottenham Hotspurs 2 – Liverpool 1

When I knew that this was the opening game for us, I thought, this is definitely a very tough game. Spurs got great players in their squad. I wished some of them are in the Liverpool team like Luka Modric, Wilson Palacios, David Bentley even Gareth Bale.

Liverpool needed to up the tempo against Spurs at White Hart Lane. Unfortunately, with Alonso leaving, I for a fact know that this is gonna be a very tough season.

Except for Pepe Reina who has been absolutely smashing. He prevented old Liverpool boy Robbie Keane from scoring 3 times. The 2 goals we conceded were poor. Again from set pieces. What was really annoying and stupid was watching both Carragher and Skrtel colliding heads!! It was rather amusing (not!) to see them go for the ball together. I felt that Carragher knew that Skretel was going for the ball too, he didn’t shout for it. Then again, on the pitch sometimes you can’t hear anyone!

Torres and Gerrard were kept very quiet. Spurs back four was solid. Gomes was a suspect as usual. If not for Glen Johnson’s run in the box, we wouldn’t have gotten a whiff on goal. Penalty no doubt. Babel, 22 yrs old – one word – atrocious!! He was not of the pitch at all. Was suppose to stretch the game, make runs inwards. All I could see is that Glen Johnson and Insua was doing the runs on both wings. Kuyt was not his usual self. Benayoun should have started way earlier. The guy lit up the field but to no avail!

Well, Spurs did score the goals. First one was brilliant. We had a second penalty shout which was completely looked over by the referree. Definitely one could see Voronin (oh yeah..that’s how much quality the Liverpool squad is!!!) was barged over in the penalty box. No doubt about it.

Luck I would say.

Bad omen to lose the first game for the new season? Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United had easier starts I would say. Long way to go. United fans are in glee now with that result. They should be. We have no proper quality really to just make the team tick. We cannot rely on Torres and Gerrard all the time!