This was originally going to be a description of the recent Champions League game but by now y'all will have already seen it (or heard of it). Notably, we were reminded of why Peter Crouch is such an enigma. A fairly consistent goal scorer these days, you can see the greatness in him if he just had a bit more consistency. While he scored again, he gave away two or three chances that the best would have put away. He could have had a hat trick fairly easily. Frustrating, but you keep him around in the hopes that he'll come good.
He and Dirk Kuyt appear to be a second choice partnership to Babel and Torres right now. Not a bad option. Both are industrious and they're getting to know each other pretty well. I have to watch the game again but this Benayoun midfielder looks like a real find, pacy and quite capable of delivering some decisive passes and crosses.
Liverpool looks a different team this season - hungrier, less willing to settle for a draw. Not that they ever really did, but you could sense that four or five players drove the team in any given game. Now, perhaps because as Benitez says, there are two good players for every position, everyone seems to be pushed to excel on field.
I'm very excited for the season - they haven't played a bad game yet and their only draw came as the result of a very bad ref call (acknowledged by all for a change).
Posted by artandscience at August 30, 2007 08:11 AM