0-0 at home to a side that finished 16th last season. That is simply not good enough, the players know it, the fans know it and for gods sake Rodgers better had know it. Liverpool had 66% possession and 17 shots with only four of them being on target, it was a good display in terms of dominance but once again the finishing product isn't there. I have said that every game this season there isn't a player you look at and think he is going to score today and this time nobody scored and with the game being at Anfield that is not good enough to be in the top four.
The good thing is we have finally got a clean sheet and not conceded a goal. Carragher said that Liverpool just had to focus on getting a clean sheet and not focus on winning which in a way is right but you still needed to be beating a bottom 10 side at home. We have dropped too many points now and it's got to stop before it really does turn into a crisis, as it stands we have done a Tottenham. They had a terrible season last year after selling Bale for a world record transfer fee and the same is happening to us with Suarez.
Rodgers has took that money and invested in 8 players in the summer, and not one of them was a proven top quality player from a Champions League side. Rodgers has let us down as supporters his season with who he has decided to invest the money in. Anyway, the defense had a surprisingly good game and managed to keep a sacred clean sheet. Lovren had his best game in a Liverpool shirt and made the team of the week and was lucky not to break the deadlock getting his header cleared off the line.
Balotelli must have been as surprised as everyone else to find his name on the team sheet and should have found his name on the goal sheet as he missed a sitter at the end of the game to clinch the three points. Coutinho demonstrated what he can do when he is on form taking past two players and putting in a pin point ball to Balotelli's feet for him to swing his foot at the ball and miss it completely. There goes another game without a goal and even though Balotelli put more of a shift in he is not looking the part. Raising the question of whether he is going to still be in a Liverpool shirt come the end of January only a couple of months into his Liverpool career.
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