Monday, October 03, 2005

Why Liverpool lost.....

1 Ramadan falls on oct. 5, Wednesday. So it was announced on tv, by the "penyimpan mohor besar...." It has been 4 years since my last penyimpan mohor experience.... it felt good indeed.

What can I say, the premership is turning into a 1 horse race. I predicted Liverpool to kick Chelsea's ass, a defeat that would see Chelsea lose 3 points, shatter their winning habit and give confidence to the usual suspects. It was bound to not happen...

Unfortunately, Liverpool have this player called Djimi Traore. Ive never liked him, I have written bad stuff about this guy. I wrote about him standing 6 feet tall, being outjumped by midget Fabio Cannavaro in Champs League quart final. He can do worse than that, as proven in last night's showdown.

I have no idea why he was playing. Heck, he should have never worn a Liverpool shirt, and the fact that Benitez wanted him to stay after last year's joke performance baffles me. I think Stephen Warnock was injured, but I would prefer Djibril Cisse playing at left back to Djimi Traore. By the way, Cisse is a good player and he is welcome at Anfield all the time.

Djimi Traore is a special player. He has this charisma. You look at his face and you think "omg dia ni mesti nak buat lawak". A quality he shares with players such as Mickael Silvestre, Philip Neville, Gary Neville(to a lesser extent), Jerzy Dudek..... you get the picture. Do not get me wrong, these players posess football talents. But the big problem is the membuat lawak part.

There is no way that Liverpool can match Chelsea if they do not rely on defence. However, defence only works if you dont commit mistakes, and after Traore's tackle, the floodgates opened. I dont know if Benitez changed tactics, but Liverpool attacked more after chelsea's goal. They should not have, and that's why they conceded 3 more.

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