Skrtel landmark
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Pretty impressive feat that.
I love Skrtel and always have. He's not an absolutely top class defender and he has had ups and downs during his time with us, but his attitude has never been in question. Just gets on with the job and gets it done. This partnership with Sakho is beginning to show some promise. Martin likely doesn't have more than another year or two with us at most but he has been a great servant for the club and I hope we can send him out on a high.
One of the most unappreciated Liverpool players I can remember.
Chelsea game on Saturday summed Skrtel up for me, just when some of our support were questioning and doubting him again(which is understandable because he's regressed a little this season) he bossed Costa and put in yet another no frills, no nonsense and fully committed performance.
It sort of reminded me of his display against United at home in 2013 when we won 1-0 and he was Man of the Match, there was talk of him leaving in the run up to that game but he played and was our best defender by a mile that season(albeit the others were shite)
Just when he looks like he's done he comes back fighting and that's what I love about Skrtel.
I think and hope we'll get another 2-3 years out of him.
Chelsea game on Saturday summed Skrtel up for me, just when some of our support were questioning and doubting him again(which is understandable because he's regressed a little this season) he bossed Costa and put in yet another no frills, no nonsense and fully committed performance.
It sort of reminded me of his display against United at home in 2013 when we won 1-0 and he was Man of the Match, there was talk of him leaving in the run up to that game but he played and was our best defender by a mile that season(albeit the others were shite)
Just when he looks like he's done he comes back fighting and that's what I love about Skrtel.
I think and hope we'll get another 2-3 years out of him.
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Been a superb player by and large and one of my fav defenders to wear the shirt
Criminally underrated by many when he makes a mistake
Criminally underrated by many when he makes a mistake
He was great at the weekend, and I suppose you would have to say he's been a decent player for us during his time here. However, he's not a top defender like the likes of Carragher and Hyypia... anyway, I don't want to denigrate his achievement. He's done well to reach that landmark.
Yeah he's far from perfect and nobody would suggest he is, but still, to play that amount of games for a Club with the expectation and pressure that comes with being a Liverpool means you have to have something about you. We've seen it be simply far too much for alot of players before they've been shown the door...inevitably.
I still struggle to understand why football has become only as old as the time it was renamed.
Good feat and good on him, even if he has had periods of abject shitness, but football didn't start in 1992.
Good feat and good on him, even if he has had periods of abject shitness, but football didn't start in 1992.
The comparison with Carra is an interesting one because, before his excellent last few years, Carra for much of his career was definitely poorer than Skrtel has been as a CB (though he did pretty well at fullback). Carra eventually improved big-time at CB but it took a fair while. Maybe Skrtel can still get closer to that standard himself.
Perhaps, but Skrtel is almost 31. Carragher had been a top CB for about 5 years by the time he was that age, and had been shunted around to different positions throughout his career - Skrtel has only ever played at CB. They're relatively similar in style. Skrtel is kinda Carra-lite.
The reason I'm quite tough on Skrtel is that despite his longevity and his obvious ability, he hasn't cut out the inconsistencies and the few clangers he makes every season. He should have ironed them out by now. One week he will look world class - like he did at Stamford Bridge - then the next he will be made to look like a pudding by Dwight Gayle. He needs to sort that out.
But yeah, he's done well to reach that figure.
No he wasn't.
He was an excellent left-back in 2001, when we won the treble, and was only about 23 then.
He was voted player of the year a couple of seasons before that.
"Excellent last few years". If by few years, you mean "decade" then yeah.
I refer the honourable gentleman to the words "as a CB (though he did pretty well at fullback)" in the post he himself quoted.
Ah, I thought you meant Skrtel as a CB. In any case, Carragher was a better CB than Skrtel, and was fantastic in that position for years.
Eventually, certainly, but it took Rafa's arrival to bring that out of him. Before then he was ropey in the centre.
He was pretty good at own goals, like Skrtel.
I like both of them anyway. Fine players. Skrtel isn't in the same class as Carra, or Hyypia, but still a good and often underrated player
The Skrtel/Carragher own goals thing has never bothered me. I've always seen it as a result of being willing to throw their body on the line (literally) to block everything - the occasional poor deflection per multiple game saving interceptions.
As opposed to Lovren's tactic of his shutting his eyes tight and jumping out the way.
As opposed to Lovren's tactic of his shutting his eyes tight and jumping out the way.
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Agreed. A lot like a good DM's fouls.
Not really. A good DMs fouls aren't spotted. Unlike Lucas's.
For evidence, see 'Dietmar Hamann'
As for the comment about own goals and those last ditch interceptions, absolutely. It always used to really wind me up when Carragher (for example) was given that kind of back- handed compliment about throwing his body in the way, as if in his desperation and limited skill-set that was his only course of action.
Jamie Carragher made so many last-ditch interceptions because he was one of the best defenders in Europe at his peak, and the only one who could read the game well enough to BE the defender throwing himself in the way.
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