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But why? He's ignored him in the past even when we were down to the bare bones, so why give him a run of games now? Why not give Lambert a run of games? It's not as if giving Balotelli a run of games is going to make him easier to sell - he's been sneered at by Rodgers in the past, and the sight of him looking completely out of touch on the pitch is of no benefit to anyone. Rodgers' job is to try his best to get a team that can win these final games, so there's no logic to suddenly deciding it's Mario Time.
How many times does Rodgers need to see the lazy bastard to realise that he is a useless lazy bastard?
Against Villa he was offside so often that the lino automatically put the flag up on the only occasion that he wasnt offside.
Against Villa he was offside so often that the lino automatically put the flag up on the only occasion that he wasnt offside.
It is probably for political reasons... Trying to prove a point with the owners..
I was specifically watching this during the Arsenal vs Chelsea match, how they continue to find space to move forward without having to regularly make 5-10 passes at the back before pressing forward or going back to the keeper again. We simply don't have the players in midfield (Gerrard, Henderson and Allen) to be able to do this, or the forwards to drop off and create via the wings or cut in and feed the movement of other players (Ibe and Coutinho the best for us), we are far too static in attack and midfield. Can may be a good solution in that regard though Gerrard actually was a good outlet last season, able to pickup the ball and find his team mates with searching balls, something Matic, Fabregas, Ozil, Ramsey, Cazorla, Sanchez can, and all, do.
Yes. I think we do have the players who can do it, to an extent. There's no justification for them all being so static. And the defence collectively resemble a golfer with the yips. It's like a golfer twitching madly before making a putt. There's a neurotic dependence on all of that sideways nonsense because it's not exposing them to actually looking for a positive pass.
No, everyone pushed out except Balo. Lovren was screaming at the players to get out. If Balo moves his arse then Dawson is offside.
There is a reason to why Balo has never been in his own penalty area on a corner until he signed for us.
That remark he did about Balotelli having a few years left on his contract etc yesterday was also weird.
Why mention that 9 months after we've bought him.
This political brinkmanship Rodgers is playing fucks me off. A great manager puts the team first no matter what.
Getting your points across when there is still something to play for this season is pathetic.
I will give Lovren his due.. and I have been one of his bigger critics though the semi final aside (where I though he could of done better for their first goal).. he has not been at fault for the recent slump.. he has shown signs of improvment..
If Rodgers is picking Balotelli for his own political reasons than for the good of the team then he doesn't deserve to be Liverpool manager. At least when Benitez played the politics game it was with off field matters (and with Gilette and Hicks in charge he kinda had a point even if at times he may have gone about it in the wrong way) rather than trying to sabotage the team.
Rodgers reminds me of people in work who are happy to take undeserved credit for success but as soon as the shit hits the fan everything was someone else's fault.
Rodgers reminds me of people in work who are happy to take undeserved credit for success but as soon as the shit hits the fan everything was someone else's fault.
Hmm you may be on to something there : Lovren plays poorly but the team does well, Lovren plays well but the team disintegrates .........
We didn't close, but we played the offside trap perfect between our centre halves, we just didn't account for Balotelli standing there and keeping everyone onside.
Saying we lost through poor defending is technically correct, of course, but ignoring that ballotelli error we would have drawn nil nil yet again.
We simply weren't good enough in area, & in the final third we were bereft of ideas, predictable & almost entirely one dimensional.
We simply weren't good enough in area, & in the final third we were bereft of ideas, predictable & almost entirely one dimensional.
Suarez has been a massive loss, yes, of course, but we were also successful last year because we pressed and moved the ball with pace. Why have those two things gone missing, too? What's happened to the 'six second rule'? What's happened to the urgency, the speed, the drive? This team is mainly full of players who knew how to play last season, and the newcomers were supposed to have learnt the style earlier in this season, so why have we now turned into a slow, predictable, laboured team that allows other teams to dictate the play? Have some players given up on Rodgers, or given up on the club, or just given up on the season? Maybe a mixture, but why has there been no evidence of the coaching improving the situation? The one thing so-called lesser teams can do is come out pumped up and ready to play at a high tempo. We've stopped even doing that. A team starting like we did against the mancs or Villa would have been unthinkable last season. That's not down just to the absence of Suarez. There's a real malaise in the squad.
The lack of pressing, communication, 'fight' (cliché I know), & inability to show any improvement at either defending or attacking set pieces have combined to kick any confidence I had in Rodgers out of me.
Regardless of the reasons for the 'malaise' (seems the right word to me), Rodgers inability to combat it & to compound it by not correcting the basics (defending & attacking set pieces are the basics of football management imo) lay squarely on his shoulders.
He's failed this season, & failed miserably.
Regardless of the reasons for the 'malaise' (seems the right word to me), Rodgers inability to combat it & to compound it by not correcting the basics (defending & attacking set pieces are the basics of football management imo) lay squarely on his shoulders.
He's failed this season, & failed miserably.
Fuck off you doltish muck savage.
Absolute box of rocks.
He did that last year too when he put that Brad Smith kid on away to Chelsea, and ended up completely embarrassing the kid.
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