European Handover?

Every team except Chelsea who played in the midweek European games lost points. And our problem is even bigger as even Milan is injured.

We played quite well but just couldn't score the goal. Sinama-Pongolle missed a chance to shine, and Kewell was blamed by everyone. At the end a minor of lack of concertation had Anderton scored the goal. He seems to be doing well against us... And under Rennie's referee we lost 2 games in a row, in the first game he ruled Garcia's equalizer offside, and this time he ruled the clear handball by Izzet out... So let's hope we won't have another game under him.

Player Rating:
Kirkland: 7 Do nothing bad but can't prevent the goal. The teammates let him down.
Josemi: 6 Once again his slow in motion let the team down... And another yellow card.
Carragher: 6.5 Nothing bad, even dribbled pass 3 players in 2H.
Hyypia: 6.5 Fail to inspire the team. Maybe time to let Carra be the captain.
Traore: 6.5 An OK game, though not as good as the previous few games.
Garcia: 5.5 Missed chances and lost balls easily. Let us down.
Hamann: 5.5 Once again when the team was not doing well he can't inspire the others. Maybe time to play Biscan instead.
Alonso: 7 Do all the tricks but with no strikers available, what can he done?
Riise: 6.5 A fair game... Was winning every header
Kewell: 5 We need Harry to play well ASAP.
Sinama-Pongolle: 5.5 A chance for him to shine, but he didn't take it.

Substitutions:
Finnan: Did not lose the ball easily.
Mellor: Maybe he should be introduced earlier...
Biscan: Had one scoring chance despite only played for a few minutes.

Rafa: 5 Need to bring Siname-Pongolle and Kewell (and Garcia) up to speed ASAP.

Birmingham City: 6 As Bruce said it should be a penalty, anyway they stole 2 points from us.

Heskey: 5 As usual, misses chance after chance.

Man of the Match: Alonso. But only him doing well does not help. We need every one to spot on.