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

yes its a worry but surely these experienced players will improve ?

I think they surely will improve, but we need at least a top finisher to compete. Creases to iron out but they looked more confortable today.

Some people's reactions judging the players, system and manager after 4 games is ridiculous. Some people suggested West Brom and Swansea would be challenging us for top 6 after 2 games...

Last year we started well (first half of the season) and ended horribly let's hope we reverse that this season.

*Brendan.

Those are some mighty fine observations, made even more amazing by the fact that you posted them at half time. Knee-jerk would be an understatement.

I honestly don't have a single worry about Rodgers as our manager, at the moment. We have a lot of improvement to make as a team but the manager's only been in the job a couple of months. The only thing that gave me cause for concern today was the lack of depth in attacking options, as it's still glaringly obvious (as it has been for a year now) that what we're lacking badly is a top finisher. The pressure will be on the club to add one of those in January.

Overall from our 4 league games, we definitely deserve more points than the 2 we have, but you need to score goals to get those points. Our opening games were always going to be ridiculously tough. I think it'll be about 15 games into the league before we can even really take a look at how things are going.

Down to 10 men
Maybe you missed what happened in their previous 3 games?

We were down to 10 men when they beat us 3-0.

I wish people would stop clamoring to get Andy Carroll back.
We royally screwed up by not getting a replacement for him, true enough, but he's not playing in a red shirt at the moment because he simply wasn't good enough and wasn't desired at the club.

He had 18 months to score goals and did very little of it. Pretending to want to play football for 30 minutes of an FA cup match doesn't mean he was any good for us by any stretch of the imagination.

I have nothing against the lad, but things didn't work out for him at Anfield for one reason or another. It's better to just move on.

As for the match today, surely anyone watching the full 90 minutes can see that we deserved the win thoroughly, but need to become better at finishing. Right from Borini to Gerrard.

No problem with our play yesterday. It was only putting the ball in the net yesterday that held us back. Notice now our final balls are always on the ground into the congested box which yields nothing most of the time. We've almost lost all our aerial threat. If carroll had been playing, he would at least have been on the end of a few crosses which could have resulted in a goal. I think that would have been the difference.

A fair point but it is flawed, if the immobile Carroll was on the pitch another player wouldn't. We do not need Carroll, at no point during his 18mths has he been good enough. 4 or 5 games he gave 7 out of 10 performances - not 9 or 10 out of 10. jees,Pennant was the best player in the 2007 final yet do we think he was good enough?

Makes me lqugh about carroll. majority of you would of flogged him mid last season. but a few performances against chelsea reserves and a cup cameo and suddenly he is the answer to ohr goalscoring woes. yes it was stupid to loan him but have some patience.

We beat utd next weekend and the mood will change. we had a very tough start. some winible games coming up