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For 60 minutes we were great. If we took even half of our chances, people would be talking about how Liverpool are back etc. It was poor finishing that did us in. Don't go over the top. We played some great stuff at times. Oh good, someone else saw the good side of that performance so surely I was watching that same match?
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Well, most would have thought we'd go out early with the team in 2005, Traore, Baros, Kewell, Biscan, Nunez, Josemi, Cisse. We have a better team than then. Well, yes, but we finished 5th in the league that season, and that was without pressure from City and Spurs. We only qualified for the CL in 06 because we won the thing the previous season. We're in a worse position in terms of the league now, and we can't fall back on having won something last season as a crutch. We have to do it in the league, and as usual we're not putting away the promoted sides at Anfield. The more things change the more they stay the same, eh? How many games this season should we have scored 5 in the first half but couldn't muster more than 1? All but the games we lost and Man U? That's not good enough for LFC, no matter where we are on the table. I really would like to see us score the last goal in the game a bit more often, is all. Is that too much to ask?
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what game did you see? we played average. and then when you consider the fact that we where playing norwich at home we played awful, our passing as average and no one player played every like what - we like to think there capable of - terrible game terrible performance.
We played well first half - but were ineffective in front of goal The biggest gripe for me was that we never really looked like taking the lead once Norwich scored their goal - despite a late flurry That was the case against Sunderland too, and the second-half goal Wolves scored had us all biting our nails for the rest of the game Coming unstuck against such sides isn't the sign of a team looking likely to finish 4th - and again I think Kenny has made a huige mistake by showing Merieles the door as he is one midfielder who could make things happen - as he showed against Arsenal Kicking him out the club was almost as bad as Rafa trying to ditch Alonso behind his back - and I'm not tryig to claim that Merieles is up there with Alonso - he's not - but to let him go after signing the likes of Adam and Hendersin is bad management - plain and simple
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Coming unstuck against such sides isn't the sign of a team looking likely to finish 4th - and again I think Kenny has made a huige mistake by showing Merieles the door as he is one midfielder who could make things happen - as he showed against Arsenal
Kicking him out the club was almost as bad as Rafa trying to ditch Alonso behind his back - and I'm not tryig to claim that Merieles is up there with Alonso - he's not - but to let him go after signing the likes of Adam and Hendersin is bad management - plain and simple While I agree that our lack of quality finishing (or is that "finishers"?) is keeping us back, I can't say that having Meireles would have solved this problem. After all, if Kenny would play SG in the hole in a 3-man midfield we would surely be saying "Raul who?" Raul was good, but he wasn't as good as a lot of people think. Can we say he's been stellar at Chelsea thus far, the kind of player we desperately miss? No, we can't.
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Can we say he's been stellar at Chelsea thus far, the kind of player we desperately miss? No, we can't.
Maybe not stellar but he's one of the first names on Chelsea's teamsheet and they have a considerably better starting 11 than we do Who would you rather Henderson, Adam or Meireles? It's almost off limits to praise Meireles ever since he was forced to hand in a transfer request - and it's funny that a lot of the people saying he's no loss are the same who were praising him on-high last season
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what game did you see? we played average. and then when you consider the fact that we where playing norwich at home we played awful, our passing as average and no one player played every like what - we like to think there capable of - terrible game terrible performance.
We played well first half - but were ineffective in front of goal The biggest gripe for me was that we never really looked like taking the lead once Norwich scored their goal - despite a late flurry That was the case against Sunderland too, and the second-half goal Wolves scored had us all biting our nails for the rest of the game Coming unstuck against such sides isn't the sign of a team looking likely to finish 4th - and again I think Kenny has made a huige mistake by showing Merieles the door as he is one midfielder who could make things happen - as he showed against Arsenal Kicking him out the club was almost as bad as Rafa trying to ditch Alonso behind his back - and I'm not tryig to claim that Merieles is up there with Alonso - he's not - but to let him go after signing the likes of Adam and Hendersin is bad management - plain and simple dont be soo fcuking silly. the lose of merieles wasnt even a quarter of the lose we suffered when we lost alonso.
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Can we say he's been stellar at Chelsea thus far, the kind of player we desperately miss? No, we can't.
Maybe not stellar but he's one of the first names on Chelsea's teamsheet and they have a considerably better starting 11 than we do Who would you rather Henderson, Adam or Meireles? It's almost off limits to praise Meireles ever since he was forced to hand in a transfer request - and it's funny that a lot of the people saying he's no loss are the same who were praising him on-high last season Definately go with Adam provided he gets his Blackpool form back and I am certain he will as the season progresses. Adam as the blackpool captain last year was far superior to Meireles.
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Coming unstuck against such sides isn't the sign of a team looking likely to finish 4th - and again I think Kenny has made a huige mistake by showing Merieles the door as he is one midfielder who could make things happen - as he showed against Arsenal
Kicking him out the club was almost as bad as Rafa trying to ditch Alonso behind his back - and I'm not tryig to claim that Merieles is up there with Alonso - he's not - but to let him go after signing the likes of Adam and Hendersin is bad management - plain and simple While I agree that our lack of quality finishing (or is that "finishers"?) is keeping us back, I can't say that having Meireles would have solved this problem. After all, if Kenny would play SG in the hole in a 3-man midfield we would surely be saying "Raul who?" Raul was good, but he wasn't as good as a lot of people think. Can we say he's been stellar at Chelsea thus far, the kind of player we desperately miss? No, we can't. You're right to an extent, but he has shown more creativity than adam for example.
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