KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum Great job to all those who said tiki-taka was the way to go.

why would he even bring in Downing...i would give gas money to whoever is willing to drive Downing out of Liverpool...he is killing me men and to think they sent that much on him...smh

Anyone who doubts the style of play after that game must be blind

We dominated the game like a top side would, we had many chances and the opposition where limited to just one shot on target. Yes they scored from that one shot, i know.

But with a finisher/poacher the game most likely would have been a win

This is why when we failed to bring in the finisher/poacher to replace Kuyt, Carroll and Bellamy, we where always going to struggle going forward this year.

The style of play is great. But without the correct players for the style it wont work as well as it potentially could.

Spot on Smithy, we are a top striker away from being a very good side

Agree with that, we all looked at the fixture list at the start of the season and we all knew it was going to be tough, well, it is.
We are headed in the right direction. 4 games in, 4 games in...

They only criticize the tiki taka system bcoz its the system Branden Rogers prefers, its an indirect dig at him. Even Benitez was criticized for his zonal marking never mind that Reina won the golden glove 3 times in a row in this same system. Some p'ple cant get over the fact that Rogers is our manager. Anything he does or doesnt do will be criticized. I must confess I didnt know much about him, but am willing to give him a chance, we are not playing badly at all so far IMO (we hit the post twice....... AGAIN!)

That's exactly the point. How do you decide to play a system when you do not have the right players for that? Else every manager will try to play like Barca. That also means that as a manager you are uni-dimentional. By the way, we have had higher possession in all our games so far, incuding against Arsenal, but we have only 2 points out of 12 being caught on the counter or our defenders shaky in every single game (all to do with the new system). Last year at least we had a relatively good defence.

We all knew we needed a world class striker, why wasn't this the first priority for BR, unless he thought Borini was the guy.

The manager can not build an entirely new team in one transfer window, especially when FSG are quite reluctant to splash the cash

Brendan was brought in for the long term, to get us playing the style he knows. If he started playing a different style then it goes against why he was appointed and what he believes

And of course the defence is going to look shakey at times. They are only 4 games in to a completely different system. Also doesnt help that we lost Steve Clark.

We looked solid at the back last year yes, but alot of that was down to the coaching of Steve Ckark. Just look at West Brom so far, even they look rock solid at the back now this year. Should have kept him in my opinion.

Lost 3-0 against Fulham today. Perhaps not that rock solid defensively after all?

yes we all want to win , and we all want to be a top 4 team yes all agreed on that , but the team has been in decline for a very very long time started by benitez , hodgson couldnt stop it not good enough , dalglish wasted millions on dross and made it worse , rodgers hasnt started well at all , but what do people want ? boring negative defensive play and might sneak a few wins , or as today was a very attacking line up only let down as it has been this season by seasons experience players making errors that will be ironed out ?

i must admit i aint for this style of footy but i wasnt really worried about us giving away goals we seemed to dominate the game