26 Sept 2011

JOSE ENRIQUE on JAMIE CARRAGHER: "Sometimes he makes me nervous and...angry"

Jose Enrique has had an excellent start to his Liverpool career, bringing some much-needed solidity and attacking impetus to the left-hand side of the field. How does he feel about his performances so far, and what's it like playing alongside Jamie Carragher?

In a light-hearted interview with LFC.tv earlier this evening, Enrique revealed what it's like to have Jamie Carragher shouting in your ear for 90 minutes every game:

"Sometimes I tell him he talks too much! Sometimes he [Carragher] makes me nervous, and sometimes angry because he tells me too many things! But he is a leader for us, and I think he is a really important player for this club.

"He’s played here a lot of years and he’s still very important for us, and to have someone like him telling you things about what to do is important"


Enrique described the Liverpool fans as 'amazing', and seems to be loving life at Anfield, but he's also keen to keep on improving:

"I’m happy at the moment because I’ve started every league game, but I know I have to improve a lot in the games and the training because I know I can do better".

He also believes that despite the setbacks at Stoke and Spurs, the club can be satisfied with the overall start to the season:

"I think a couple of our games have not been very good, like Stoke and Tottenham, but if we get another 3 points this weekend [against Everton], then I think it could still be a very good start. The team is never perfect and you always have to improve things".


It's great that Enrique isn't resting on his laurels and is determined to keep improving. Perhaps Liverpool have finally found a long-term solution to the left-back position?

NOTE: Just to be clear: Enrique was laughing when he made the comments about Carra.


Jaimie Kanwar


25 comments:

  1. This is my personal opinion. In modern day soccer the best teams play a high defensive line and press the opponent high up the pitch. To do that you need a relatively fast back 4, especially the 2 CBs. None of our CBs except for Danny Wilson (and Martin Kelly?) fit that bill. Carra has given his life for LFC, but sadly most if not all of Liverpool's defensive problems playing a deep defensive line is due to him and players like him(Agger and Skrtel)

    I will reserve my judgement of Coates for now. On the stats sheet he doesn't have pace or acc. But he is still young and hopefully can improve on those 2 attributes.

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  2. wat an expert, your clueless. for starters its called football not soccer in the mother-land, its agive away u know nothing,...................give it up.
    for example..........spurs.....the game was lost in the centre of midfield that day, and obviously, we had a brainless donkey at right back..............simples.   NOT carras fault. i could go on.

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  3. Skrtel...

    How lucky we can be that he will never be an experiment at RB ever again and I would rather give Coates a run alongside Carra as Skrtel is good enough for the bench.

    Enrique is fitting the shoes perfectly. LB is one position that we have struggled to get right for a very long time. In actual fact, compare our whole squad to that of previous seasons and it will show that we are very well balanced for each and every position and that is with as the doom mongers would say "paid over the odds for british players".

    The rebuild of the squad started in January this year and will continue under Kenny Dalglish.

    Onwards and upwards!

    YNWA

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  4. Mercer Catherine - your views are welcome but please do not insult fellow posters.  (I've edited your post)

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  5. just curious, how many of your viewers are from America?

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  6. The English actually invented the word soccer so the buck stops here.

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  7. Grepjava has taken the red pill and has now been unplugged from the matrix.  I agree with every word you've just said.  The symptom of our problems is defending deep the root cause is Jamie Carragher.

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  8. Carragher is now a has been...did a good job but age has caught up with him..and it shows in his performance over the last two years.

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  9. so who will fill the leadership area when if carra goes agger or skrtel no carra has always been and will always be part of our great club im actually regretting the moment he decides to hang up his boots but show some respect for an all time legend of our club

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  10. carragher has caused us 3 clean sheets in 6 games -- including conceding 2 penalties. he is slow and like rafa benitez is way past his used-by date. anyone who doesn't see it is just bluffing themselves.

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  11. Defence is more important than attack. You are vary good attacking team scoring 2, 3 goal in every match but also conceeding 2,3 than u are below average team. You score 1 only but defence it. you are a good team. Scoring a goal take too much efforts but only single stupid mistake make it null and void. after scoring too many our goal difference is Nil.

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  12. davewestausregularguest7:06 am, September 27, 2011

    Like you,to me, saying 'soccer' is'n't favourable! However I,as a 12yr old,(LFC supporter),in 1955 I used to live & go to school next to Stanley Park.As kids we either played football in the park or behind Everton's paddock in Bullens Rd.And I can tell you that the saying was very often -'let's go for a game of 'SOCCER! However,I have lived in Western Aus for years and here as in the US the 'world game of 'real football' is referred to as 'SOCCER',and it annoys the hell out of me !!!

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  13. Hey mate... the word soccer was first used in England. The yanks have another sport where the word football is used so they call football soccer!
    What's your real problem?

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  14. Carra is a rock and if it was up to Capello he would be playing for England. He's a bit of the pace but he has been for years and still he's won everything but the premier league. Every time I write him off he has a game to prove that he's as sharp as ever

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  15. Well said pal.Carragher must know that we love him,but its about time Liverpool fc place a fast skilled defender in his position

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  16. A couple of people wrote Carra off Years ago "Liverpool won't win a thing with him at the back" and "his distribution isn't good enough", then we won the Champions League. Against AC Milan who were also a youthful Pacey side? ...............NO, thought not it not all about how fast you can run? Sami is probably the best example, sort your heads out, positional play AND experience you can't measure against pace. That’s why Centre half's take time to come through, Kelly is a Center Half by trade he will slot in when he's a bit more experienced. Flano future RB, keep with the youth, the talent is in the City just needs a bit of encouragement - all hail King Kenny.

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  17. Hyppia was one of the best centre backs of the Premiership era, and it was his ability in timing his tackles, positioning himself to cut out through balls and his arial dominance that meant that his lack of pace was rarely exposed.
     
    Carragher's last ditch tackles on such a regular basis are more evidence of him having to make up for a mistake made earlier in the move, than something that should be held up as evidence of his quality. Hyppia had to resort to desperately himself around the box far less frequently than Carragher and I, for one, appreciated his quality much more for it

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  18. I'm not so sure about that mate - if it was up to Capello, Carragher would be available for England, but whether he'd actually be playing or not is a totally different conversation...

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  19. If Americans or Aussies call Football, "Soccer" does it really matter.
    I am probably equally at fault when I refer to Baseball as "Rounders", and American Football as "a big girls sport (with all that padding)

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  20. its FOOTBALL . There is only one football in the whole world and that is really played with feet. not with holding an egg with hand and ramming it into people like the so call american eggball. grow up.

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  21. Roy kean was a much better captain than Carra and has the medals to prove it.   However when his time was up Fergie lobbed him on the scrap heap as football ability is also required once you cross the white line.  If Keane would have been 24 and in the prime of his life would Fergie have bombed him out? would he heck.

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  22. Sami is probably the best example, sort your heads out, positional play AND experience you can't measure against pace.

    John, Carra is a last ditch defender he doesn't read the game like sammy or Paul Mcgrath.  He has always needed every ounce of pace he has to to make last ditch blocks.  You can't honestly tell me he nips in front of attackers the way sammy did or even had the positional play of Sammy because I won't believe you.  Hyppia NEVER had pace and so based his game around this. Carra used to have suficient pace but when he lost it was never able to adjust his game sufficiently to still be regarded one of the best.

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  23. I really should read the blog before I post.  Well said, took the words out my mouth.

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  24. Mercer Catherine is actually the brainless donkey. Did you even go to school, cause you can't even write properly in your mother tongue, let alone have an opinon about anything. Note: Sentences start with a capital letter, eg. "C". Names of people and places are writen with a capital letter. I can go on....you dumb donkey.  

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  25. although it sometimes looks like everything is carra's fault, you've got to remember he organizes the back for brilliantly, ive seen on many occasion in the last few seasons our defence looking lost whenever he is not in it.

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