Neutrals would say that it was a harsh result for WBA and Pool were lucky to scrape a 1-0 victory. Frankly I think Pool was quite disappointing and in all fairness, a draw would be a fairer result.
With the game dragging on goaless after an hour, I was thinking if it's gonna be one of those days which opponents pack the defence with a bus and Pool is not going to find the net again. We were lucky FT bailed us out with a classy goal.
Looking at our squad, anyone who knows abt soccer can see that we are not short of talents. 1st 11 + bench, most of our players are internationals and playing for the leading countries. but somehow we lack that consistency (which teams like Chelsea and MU maintain a high std) and have a tendency to perform miserably at times, like tonight's game. we gave away the balls cheaply, we defend horrendously at times, we often get outpaced by opponents, we lack confidence in our passings, we lack understanding, we seemed disheartened when we cant penetrate thru a packed defence.
This is not a new problem. It's like some curse that had been cast into the
team and had grown to becoming a 'notorious trademark' of Liverpool over the years. I thought the curse ended 2 seasons ago but it came to haunt us back again last season until now.
