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There's an interesting article on Football365 today about Jamie Carragher and Liverpool's general malaise. In a nutshell, Carragher's inability to adapt to the kind of attacking style Liverpool need is central to our struggles this season.

http://www.football365.com/story/0,17033,13320_6011455,00.html

that isnt a bad concept. I have always said that carragher only has one pass which is the long ball to torres.

Maybe rafa knows that which is why he is stalling on renewing his contract????

i didnt want to say it, he has irritated me all season with his one dimensional game. he runs up to the halfway line and kicks a long ball up. he is just a defender, he cant do anything else in my opinion.

carra is still a quality center back, however he is on the decline. I blame players playing out of position, favouritism and inconsistent team selections for our failings, not one of our better players

hard to blame carra for playing the only pass on every time - torres is the only player not running away ...... until we get some movement in midfield and up front we can't judge the passing from the back

load of crap. carra is quality just like a lot of other players in our squad. they are obvisoly not will to play for rafa or too scared to do something what will upset him..

im sure we could all name a 1st 11 that on there day will beat anyone in front of them.we have the players ,there just not doing it

Two word explanation for our demise. RAFA BENITEZ!

And I agree with Ceb. Our team isn't the best but our first 11 should be up there challanging. They have just lost faith in the manager and he is doing nothing to get that faith back. I believe a new manager would get much more from the current players we have just by playing a different way. But rafa will never do this so bye bye and thank you very much.

Surely tho the point of the artcile is that many of Liverpool's problems stem from the slowness of players like Carragher. He and the Greek were so terrified of Wigan's pace (any ball over the top caused panic) that they sat too deep. This meant Lucas and Gerrard had to do likewise - leaving too much of a gap to support the front men. Carra is still decent in backs against the wall games where we are defending a lead, or for our lives. But not when we have to push on. Moreover, Carra has been very suspect in the air - definitely picked out as a point of weakness by the opposition. They isolate him with their big strikers and then kill him for pace with balls into channels or over the top.

True, in my opinion man utd doesnt really have many quality.players, their secret 4 success is their manager who instill fear and hunger in them, not scared to attack and who makes th right subs and improvises when things r not going according to plan.