[quote author=Skullflower link=topic=39523.msg1077667#msg1077667 date=1269803177]
the game was obviously very enjoyable but it was also highly irritating to see it these tactics deployed after all is lost. every single liverpool fan, bar ryan, has been advocating this approach, at home, against poor opposition for the past 6 years. benitez is acting very out of character and i wonder whether it has something to do with his house going on the market.
i also think it's highly improbable that he would start sending the team out with this intent if he were still here next season, for what it's worth.
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We always play like this when we've got nothing left to lose. It happened last season too after United went ahead of us. Rafa is a technically brilliant manager with some sort of weird mental block about the value of risk. Maybe because he won La Liga doing it 'his' way, he believes he ought to be able to do the same in England. But if six years of failure hasn't changed his mind, wtf will?