Liverpool lost their 3rd league game of the season with a woeful display against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
In a surprisingly open game of football which is rare when these two teams meet Liverpool struggled to create anything of note.
Chelsea’s stand in keeper Hilario had one save to make in 90 minutes and that summed up Liverpool’s performance. It’s the same old story for the reds and that’s if Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres don’t play well then they have no one else who can help out.
This has to be the most average squad for years considering the amount of money spent/wasted by Benitez in assembling it.
For a team as big as Liverpool to only have one proven striker is criminal. Benitez cant think to highly of Voronin because when they were 1-0 down with 10 minutes to play who did he summon from the bench? Aurelio a left back.
Many LFC fans also were left scratching their heads when the player of the season so far Benyaoun was left on the bench for the hopeless Riera. When he came on Benyaoun showed Benitez how wrong it was to drop him as the Israeli did more in 20 minutes than anyone who played the 90 for the reds.
Without any teams looking anywhere near their best both failed to create any real chances. Then in the second half Mascherano lost the ball Chelsea broke and scored through Anelka – the player Gerrard Houllier preferred El Hadj Diouff too in 2002
Then with time running out Drogba whose broken leg from a tackle 5 minutes previous was suddenly healed and he powered past Carragher and Aurelio to cut the ball back for Malouda to tap in from close range.
Torres missed and golden chance from six yards and then Benyaoun missed an even better chance from 4 yards with the keeper on the floor.
But it didn’t matter. Chelsea weren’t brilliant but they didn’t need to be to beat a Liverpool team that has been poor all season. Yes they have beat Hull, Bolton, West Ham, Stoke and Burnley but most of the big teams in the league will also do that. Liverpool have faced 3 good teams in Spurs, Villa and Chelsea and lost.
They need to buck their ideas up as a tricky visit to Sunderland and a game against Man Utd await them before the months out.
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