As the season approaches its end Liverpool’s form continued to soar as we romped to a 5-2 victory against Fulham at Craven Cottage. At some points this season it has seemed like most Liverpool’s fans wish would have been to just have the season end, just to put us out of our misery. Now of course, the exact opposite is true. Our wish now would be for us to be in this kind of form at the start of the season. All of a sudden people are pointing out how if you extrapolate Kenny’s points per game haul over the season we would now lie in second place in the table and still have a shout of winning the title. Such talk of course is absolutely pointless! We are where we are, and where we are is 5th place in the table, that’s not where we want to be by any means but it is a long way from the levels we had dropped to before the Kings return! There are an awful lot of positives for Liverpool fans right now, the style of play, the players, the academy not to mention the owners. We should keep these positives in mind when we are watching the club from down the road win the race to number 19. This hurts like hell of course, but it would hurt an awful lot more if had still not got our ship in order. At the moment we are poised and ready. I generally don’t like talking about next year this and next year that. Its become a cliché from Liverpool fans and is an easy stick for our detractors to beat us with. This year, however is an exception to that. I am genuinely excited about how much we can improve next year and I wouldn’t begrudge any Liverpool fan the same privilege. We have spent enough time with dejection as our driver, so now that positivity is snapping in its seat belt we should all take the opportunity to sit back and enjoy the ride!
Maxi Rodriguez goes down the wing for me:
In Kenny’s first few games in charge it seemed that for one reason or other he simply didn’t fancy our Argentinean star. He kept plugging away and working in training and forced himself back into the side. Since then he has scored 7 goals in his last 3 games, you don’t need me to tell you that includes 2 hat-tricks! Maxi is a classy player. I think some fans found it hard to take to take to Maxi for a while for a couple of reasons. One being that he was a cut price transfer deal due to his contract running down (which means some people don’t immediately respect him) and two he is not a tricky pacy winger, more a wide sided midfielder. While its true he is not a traditional winger , he is however a very intelligent player and he oozes class. He is the very epitome of a “squad player” in this Liverpool side. He is good enough for the starting 11 most weeks but when he is not in he doesn’t huff or slack off. He works harder so that when he is called upon he is 100% ready.
Six hundred and sixty six:
Jamie Carragher captained Liverpool as he moved clear of Emlyn Hughes and Ray Clemence to go second in our Liverpool’s all time appearance list. He may not be happy to have conceded two goals on such an occasion, in fact he is never happy to concede one goal.... even in friendlies! There’s not much more that can be said about Jamie, he is simply a Legend! He’s not done yet of course, who’s to say how many appearances he will have by the time he hangs up his boots. You can be sure of one thing though, Liverpool will have picked up more points because of him!
Hard work:
This team worked hard from the first minute through to the last. There were simply no passengers in red on that pitch. Every player worked their socks off from first minute to last. Even at a point when the game had clearly been won, in the 90th minute you could still see our strikers chasing down defenders, putting them under pressure. This shows great attitude and a real team spirit, and its another positive which we hope will improve next season too.
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I saw an interesting stat this week which just highlights how important Luis Suarez has alredy become to Liverpool FC
“Liverpool have averaged 2.7 goals per PL game this season with Luis Suarez playing, compared to 1.28 in his absence. “
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