Ngog is one of the worst players in the Premiership. I despair watching LFC when he is on the pitch. He cannot hold up the ball. He cannot control the ball. He cannot beat a player. He has not turn of pace. Or no player awareness. He cannot header. He can barely shoot.
WHY WHY WHY are we still playing this clown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS - Maxi is a proven Argentinian International and Kuyt a proven goal machine in Holland DO NOT EVEN BEGIN TO COMPARE THEM (even if they have below par performances ) TO DAVID F**%£ING NGOG!!!!
So N'Gog gets his first start in an age, which is for an away game in a foreign country with a crowd that went to the lengths to throw a flare behind our goal, and suddenly has to outshine Suarez, someone we signed on for more than ten times his fee? And because he wasn't up to the occasion, he is the only player on the pitch at fault for our performance, and therefore we should sell him? You didn't notice how many injuries we have at striker and in midfield, and that Suarez is cup-tied, did you?
You may despair watching him play, but I despair hearing supposedly knowledgeable LFC fans carry on like you do.
We all accept that N'Gog is not the next Torres; this is why he never played a game where we needed a result when Torres was fit. Yet the naysayers still expect him to perform at the level of a world class player at the drop of a hat when we've run out of other options. Which club has a 20m pound striker in their reserves? That's right - none.
The game may have resembled a Hodgson hodge-podge effort, with our striker isolated for most of the game and therefore too cold to do much with the ball when he got it, but it was a side lacking in quality and I'm sure still suffering some aftershocks of a demanding fortnight. We played well below our standard in general, and perhaps Kenny was overly cautious at his first European Cup game in charge of Liverpool, and while we failed to nab an away goal Kanny achieved his purpose, which was to decide the game at Anfield given an extra week for his stars to be fit. As a game it wasn't much to write home about, but then again, there is always something worth writing.