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We just need to add pace to our game we have no one who picks the ball up and runs with pace and skill only suarez we need an Eden hazard style player . Carroll just isn't getting any service so is dropping deep to make things happen which first suit his game unlike suarez he feels he has to get involved as he knows his team mates aren't going to provide what he wants he is a good player but just doesn't have a chance to show it in this slow defensive side simple as that . No striker would be a goal machine in this side . We need some class in the final third badly maybe a recall for Joe Cole could be a good move I know he isn't overly quick but he is a clever player who can make things happen.

Only difference to the team I'd make is Kelly at RB, Johnson RM and Gerrard in CM dropping Adam

People are blaming Carroll for our lack of goals yet he has had the least amount of time out of the strikers, no-one has commented on Suarez's 1 goal in 11, or Kuyt's lack of a goal in months. Carroll is not the type of player to perform miracles when coming on for 5 minutes at the end of a game.

We need a new striker or re-structure the team to help Carroll.

He is a good player and I do think he will come good with the right assistance from the rest of the team.

we need to think vry carefully about that. would you build a team around carroll? not sure i would. would it not be wiser for us to replace him? he's very limited.

How many byline-crosses has Carroll EVER scored from? I can’t say that I’ve seen more than one or two.

At Newcastle he was a target man for the following moves: early crosses by Barton from very deep positions right of centre, long balls from fullback, balls to feet (which were then laid off to onrushing midfield e.g. Kevin Nolan) in transition from defence to attack, balls over midfield from defence (again laid off to supporting midfielders) and precision corners (again from Barton). Liverpool simply don’t give him this kind of service.

that's true. i don't like to single out any players but at the moment there's not enough creativity in midfield. there's reason to ask if a combined sum of £25m for hendo and adam was a wise thing to do or if it could have been spent in a better way..

How canm you not - he doesn't even look a shadow of his former self at Newcastle and if he's playing the least you'd expect is the team to play to his strengths

But that aside, his performances in the last few games (the last 2 in particular when despite being our big man upfront he didn't come close to scoring) he's played have been very, very poor

He's not helped by having Kuyt and Downing alongside him - who last night were just as poor - and with Lucas and Suarez out Kenny seems unable to pick a team that even adds up to a sum of its parts

One of our best players last night was Spearing - and without any disrespect intended to the lad - that does say it all really

Carroll, Kuyt and Downing have been consistently poor trhis season and excluding the likes of Bellamy, Gerrard and Maxi Rodriguez to make way for them makes little - if any - sense

I am far from being a Carroll fan but I will say he has virtually no chance on the rubbish we were dealing him last night. He should still faight more for everything but not once did he gets a whipped in cross with pace which was unforgiveable considering the conditions. Adam spoke to him before Kick off to ask what he wanted and it was clear that`s what he asked for, Adam then goes on to produce pure [oops], Downing is just useless and how people can keep going on about Johnson being a right winger is beyond, the guy can`t cross a ball.!!

You can't play one striker up front on his own, we've done it for too long. 1 striker against 3/4 defenders impossible!!. Carroll has not got the pace or skill to beat 3/4 defenders. But he could if we played with two strikers giving the oppositions defense more to do. Plus you stop the exrta 1/2 defenders bombming forward cancelling out our 5 in midfield. There was a corner in last nights game where there were 7 City defenders in their own box, we had Dirk on the keeper and 3 liverpool attackers outside the box how, are you going to score from that???. Dirk had the ball on the corner of citys box looking for a cross where was Carroll....On the half way line. For me Carroll shold always be around the Penalty spot or on the last defender when we attack the oppositions goal, not tracking back trying to win the ball let the midfeild or defence do that. Charlie Adam was bought to provide the service and he is not doing so, corners woeful, free kicks shocking and thinks he's the only person on thne pitch when he has the ball! he's not even that good on FIFA, As far a reading the game goes he's too slow. Thanks god for Gerrard because he gives Carroll and Suarez something to work with when he's on the pitch. This is my oppinion before the Charlie Adam fan club get excited!!