2012 FA Cup Final Liverpool v Chelsea
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I agree. Application and desire can only take you so far and at this level it's not enough. However, I do think Enrique was poor in his efforts against Ramires and Reina was again beaten easily for the first goal so on another day that mistake by Spearing wouldn't have been punished as easily at it was today. Credit to Spearing also because he never hid afterwards.
No way was Spearing the main culprit for the first goal. Enrique got done like a kipper and Reina was beaten on his near post. Both were far more at fault.
The camera was not straight on square. Could be completely over.
Agreed. I don't think he's anywhere near good enough, not even as a squad player. He does a lot of running around looking busy without actually making crucial tackles and interceptions which you need from your holding midfielder.
He's Bolton/Wigan standard at best.
Revisionist bollocks. Spearing's defensive play was a lot better than Lucas's then.
I think it was the way in which Spearing lost the ball that has drawn a lot of attention. I don't know what he was trying to do but it failed badly and because it happened in a position far more advanced than Spearing should have been operating (I think) it left a dangerous gap behind us which was exploited. But yes, Enrique and Reina were poor.
I don't think so. It wasn't a goal IMHO.
We've been linked with Nigel De Jong. i know he's probably not everyone's cup of tea but i'd have him in a Liverpool shirt.
Midfield is often where the game is won and lost and unfortunately we lost the midfield battle today.
Agreed.
What? He mistimed his kick completly, which started the whole attack. 3 at fault for the goal, but sPearings mistake started the whole break.
Objects above the goal-line, such as the crossbar, appeared to the right of the goal-line in that photograph. That can't be right - the angles must have been skewed so I'm inclined to think the ball didn't cross the line. Don't envy being the linesman there, he'd be damned if he did, damned if he didn't.
Of course he wasn't. A fucking pro taking an air-kick at the ball, under no pressure whatsofuckingever, which then leads to the goal doesn't make him culpable at all.
Jesus man. Just look at the goal-line and follow it outside the post . daylight leaking in there.
He didn't say he wasn't culpable, just not the main culprit. Ramirez still had loads to do before getting the ball in the net.
That sums up my feelings. For the first hour we showed all the faults we showed in all those home matches we drew and lost. Suarez was isolated up front because we weren't getting enough players into Chelsea's penalty area when it mattered. Gerrard was presumably intended to play behind Suarez but he never likes getting too far forward. Instead he was helping out Henderson and Spearing in the middle so we had three players there when we only needed two. The shape of the team was crying out for Andy Carroll in exchange for Spearing from the start but Kenny didn't get round to it until it was too late.
I don't criticise any of the players for our defeat today. They all carried out their roles to the best of their ability. The culprit was standing in the technical area.
Well said Tal.
There were three errors in the build up to that goal, but if I'm going to borrow a tennis term - Spearing's was an unforced error. He had about three passing options ahead or alongside him, but he chose none of them and turned over possession in a dangerous area, putting the rest of the team under pressure right away.
We ended up conceding the kind of goal we certainly would have been trying to avoid from the get go - getting caught out on a quick break.
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I hope we injure as many of them as possible.
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