Rarely have I seen a Liverpool-ManUtd game with so few goalscoring chances. Despite a dominating Liverpool midfield, which is one of the top two midfields in the country, the lack off forward committment by the Liverpool side meant the top two had no support. Unfortunately Djibril Cisse is showing more and more that he needs support. When you find yourself thinking (ok, yelling at the TV) that Rafa should take off Cisse and add Sinama-Pongolle, it's a clear sign this team really could use an addition up front. What happened to the Dick Kuyt rumours?
Cisse has blazing speed, but as is more and more evident, really nothing else. A good comparison for you non-Europeans is John Capel, the Florida track standout who won the gold on the 200m sprint in the 2003 World Championships and also had truly blazin speed, but couldn't catch a cold as a reciever in the NFL with the Chiefs and Bears.
Unfortunately, this leads us onto the topic of new players. I hate to kick a man who's already down, but new Reds signing Jan Kromkamp didn't have the best of introductions to the Premiership when he came on in the 89th minute against ManUtd. In the span of 90 seconds, he managed to get out of position and not cover Steve Finnan's closing down of Loius Saha, and forced Finnan to foul Patrick Evra. (Regardless of what Rafa says, it was a foul.). Kronkampt then promptly lost Ferdinand on the ensuing free kick, and voila, 3 points to ManUtd.Still, with the 2 games in hand, we should get 2nd spot, but I can't see Chelsea dropping 10 points...
Beaky Buzzard? Mike Riley?Referee Mike Riley didn't continue his phenomenal form of awarding a penalty to ManUtd everytime someone made a purchase at Tesco's (UK's Walmart), but still made some dubious decisions. However, I don't agree with Rafa Benitez, Riley had a decent game. His worst game, to date, probably was the ManUtd-Arsenal game in 2004.
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