0-1 and a goal from the former "Once a blue, always a blue" guy... A hat trick of fumbles from Dudek... Can it be even worse?
The match was hyped up by Morientes' debut, but there's actually another surprise in happing Pellegrino. Despite their obvious lack of match fitness they both look very good buys from Rafa. Well done man. Pellgrino may lack space but his positioning is more than enough to make cover. Carra was superb in playing right back, and have a pass of the match and almost scored our equalizer. Traore also have an excellent game as well, and so is Hyypia, Milan and Nando working hard upfront, but so much for the goods...
The bad things are, Dudek makes yet another error, and none of the midfield play well. Maybe Rafa should play 4-5-1 to have more steel in midfield, but we just let them run the show...
On a positive side, apart from Arsenal away we can probably win all the remaining games, and as Nando getting more match fitness and banging in goals, the only way to go is up. We may not be able to finish as 3rd place or above, but at least we can finish as 4th and closing the gap.
Player Rating:
Dudek: 5 Errors at home vs them three years in a row... No excuse.
Carragher: 7.5 Pass of the match and almost equalized. On a day he's playing as deputy right back and Gerrard no where to be seen, once again he shows the others how to play.
Hyypia: 6.5 Had a solid game in defense.
Pellegrino: 6.5 He may lack space, but his positioning is excellent. Now we have a better backup at the back.
Traore: 7 Good performance from Djimi. Keep on the consistency and you can keep the left back for your own.
Garcia: 5 He is doing more harm than good to the team. Just go down to basic.
Gerrard: 6.5 Had a very quiet game and missed chances and chances.
Hamann: 6 A quiet game, doing all the dirty jobs quietly.
Riise: 6 A quiet game as well. Maybe he's tired.
Baros: 6 Work very hard but not much fruit.
Morientes: 6.5 Had a few half chances especially headers, but clearly lack match fitness.
Substitutions:
Sinama-Pongolle: 6.5 This time he can't turn gold.
Nunez: 6.5 In hinsight he should be start instead of Garcia. His crossing is getting better and better.
Biscan: 6 Almost score from his first touch.
Rafa: 5 Maybe we should play 4-5-1 and not throw Morientes in so early. His gamble is lost... and we definitely need to sort out the goalkeeping problem.
Manchester United: 7 They play better, but we don't deserve to lost. And it is now very difficult to catch them.
Man of the Match: Carragher. Even Stevie G should learn from him on how to be so consistent.
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