Great result...but as you say Tes, badly fading in the second half...what happens if we don't score early? Do we have a plan B...good stuff from the lads though and considering Suarez is still banned even better...if we keep him and get a few additions, a centre back, a defensive midfielder and another attacking midfielder then we could do pretty well...waiting til the last day though is just stupid and in hindsight might cost us big style...
All in all a great result...nice to be unbeaten, no goals conceded and TOP! Not getting carried away though...
It definitely looks like we're getting the centre half. I don't think the manager sees a need for another defensive midfielder, which seems odd. With Suarez out for such a long time at the start of the season, we could have done with Gerrard being free to play further forward to give Coutinho someone other than just Sturridge to combine with. He's definitely missing the movement and creativity of Suarez.
Aspas has made a slow start, but then the PL is very different to La Liga.
We could do with someone a bit more inspirational and inspiring than Moses, but if we've not beeen able to get positive choices, I'd rather we spent the relatively modest sum of £1M on Moses and then try and find the answer in the Winter window, tricky as it may seem. Downing certainly wasn't the answer, Assaidi wasn't given the chance to be, so let's see what Moses can offer. It's why I can't understand the lack of interest in Honda.
Here's just the sort of bright, sparky player that would help the likes of Coutinho, Sturridge and Suarez, plus he'd be another potential goal outlet too.
Hopefully Sakho with his height and strength will provide a threat when we get set pieces and tightened us up when we concede them.
It's early in the season still and we had a tougher than it should have been test in midweek and a few players looked like they were feeling the effects of midweek. The Mancs of course had longer to rest after the Chelsea game, but the manager and players need to get to grips with our lack of performances in 2nd halves.
We're doing ourselves no favours and making it harder on ourselves than we need to.
There's one positive though. We're not going out all gung ho looking to get the second goal and leaving ourselves wide open. Rodgers seems to be learning that substance before style, whilst maybe not being as pleasing on the eye, is sometimes the way you have to play it in the PL.