Plessis played a game against arsenal a while back and some put him as man of the match, I haven't seen him since. Is he injured or just not favoured at the moment?
Nemeth was scoring goals left right and centre for the reserves last year, why is Ngog favoured over him, injuries perhaps?
I feel for the reserve players, if they are playing well then I can't see why they don't get a game. Insua has shown that he could be our best left-back, after Carra, so surely something has to have been learnt from this.
Adrian
I think the portsmouth match illustrated very much the problem Liverpool have about strength in depth. Our best 11 is a match for any team out there as proven by our record against Arsenal, Man Ure and Chelski. The season can be very long if a champions league run is included and players do get injured or need to be rested. Unfortunalty our back up players, or reserves, are not, in my opinion good enough to compete at the top level. The team put out against portsmouth was weak and we nearly paid the penalty. Rafa must see something in these players as he has come out and backed them publicly. Therefore i can only think that he doesn't think our younger players like Insua, Nemeth etc... are at the level needed. (Why he thinks Ngog is????)
This does make it all the more bizarre that he never gave Keane a chance, and the fact that we let him go without a replacement is slighty odd too, given our lack of options upfront if Torres is out for a while. I have faith in Rafa and can see us bringing in a new striker in the summer, it does just seem weird that he is happy to see out the remaining part of the season slightly short of quality options that could help us really push for the title.
