After last weekend's away defeat to Stoke, Liverpool go to White Hart Lane tomorrow hoping to get some more points on the board. Is the game a 'must-win' for Kenny Dalglish's team, or can the club get away with a draw?
For me, if Liverpool have serious ambitions of finishing in the top 4 then the team needs to come away from London with all 3 points. Easier said than done, but another defeat and things would be looking pretty bleak, especially with tough games against Everton and Man United coming up very soon. What do you think?
Jaimie Kanwar
For me, if Liverpool have serious ambitions of finishing in the top 4 then the team needs to come away from London with all 3 points. Easier said than done, but another defeat and things would be looking pretty bleak, especially with tough games against Everton and Man United coming up very soon. What do you think?
Jaimie Kanwar
"For me, if Liverpool have serious ambitions of finishing in the top 4 then the team needs to come away from London with all 3 points"
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Agree. Time to stop thinking "it's only 3rd/4th/etc. game, even if we lose points we will bounce back". We need to approach all games, including early ones, with all the motivation we should have.
BTW, what happened to the banner of our Georgian LFC blog you had on the page?
ReplyDeleteHi Tornike - It's showing again now. I checked the code and I think there was a conflict with something else on the page. Sorry about that!
ReplyDeleteThanks for that!
ReplyDeleteSo, JK, why isn't a must win for Spurs too?, or don't they come into your 'Pressure Cooker' as well. Nothing like putting more pressure on our players, eh JK?.
ReplyDeleteIs this a Spurs website? No, so why should I be bothered whether it's a must-win game for them? And re players being under pressure - they're paid obscene amounts of money to put up with the pressure; if they can't hack it then they should get a different job.
ReplyDeleteSorry, JK, your negativity is really amazing!.
ReplyDeleteAnd your inability to see this site fairly is amazing. Anyone who visits regularly knows that I write lots of positive stuff. You just choose not to see it. And I write critical stuff, not negative. By it's very nature, being critical is perceived as negativity. Football should be evaluated and analysed, just like everything else.
ReplyDeleteWe cannot afford to lose this match. Two losses in a row would send our confidence down the drain. Drawing the match is also not the best outcome.
ReplyDeleteThe team selection is going to be the most important part, if we only decide to play one upfront then that will suggest that we will play for the draw and might end up losing. We need to go out and take the game to Spurs, they have alot of pace in their team so we need to play them at their own game.
Being that this has been decreed a must win game is this the official start of a 'Dalglish Must Go' campaign?
ReplyDeleteWhat are you implying? I've only ever called for one LFC manager to go and that was Benitez, and that was only after he'd been in charge for 6 years. I'll leave the Dalglish Out campaig to the idiots who called for Hodgson's head after 2 months last season.
ReplyDeleteI'm implying that this site makes its bones out of critique of Liverpool club and fans. It's also the source of various campaigns (pro Hicks & Gillette, anti-Benitez [ongoing], pro-Hodgson, anti-cheating etc). If this has been decreed a must win game and we don't win, surely failure has been declared and responsibility needs to be taken. I've read a lot of comments that appear to be anti-Dalglish, the only question is when will you put your hand in instead of just ramping up enough groundswell? Not that I'm judging you for it, I'm just curious to see the stages of seeds of doubt turning to critique turning to a campaign.
ReplyDeleteSorry, but your interpretation of this site is totally wrong. And why? because my views do not meet your expectations, or reinforce the way you think about LFC. This site is about critical realism of the club - if people don't like that then they shouldn't visit.
ReplyDeleteRe anti-Dalglish comments. None of them have come from me; I can't be held responsible for what other fans think - they're entitled to think what they like.
And what do you mean 'put my hands up' - I write what I think, which I'm entitled to do. I don't start 'campaigns' - that's nonsense. You've simplified my views big-time. If I have an opinion, I back it up with facts and/or in depth reasoning. To say I was 'pro-Hicks and Gillett' signals a fundamental misunderstanding of my views; I am pro-FAIRNESS, irrespective of who is being discussed. That means not jumping on ridiculous bandwagons. I wrote *lots* of critical stuff about H+G, but I also recognised that they did some good things too. That's called being fair - it doesn't mean I started a pro H+G campaign.
Not here for an argument Jamie as that will inevitably get me banned. I think I understand your site and motivations clearly but I know better than to even discuss them as I will just be banned on some trumped up charges. But I'll continue to read if only for my interest in human nature and the power dynamic on the internet.
ReplyDeleteSo what happens now that we've lost this 'must win' game - is the season officially over??
ReplyDeleteThe problem with calling games 'must win' when they are so obviously not, is that it leaves you bakced into a corner when the result doesn't go your way. Every game in the league is just worth 3 points, and especially so early in the season there are no must win games, as it remains possible to claw back the points from other games. Each game that we drop points in just leaves us with less leeway later on in the season though - I'd still say that it's worth remembering however that we could afford to lose say 3 home games, 6 away games and pick up a handful of draws on the way to achieving what I'd say would be minimum standards (78 points)