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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Needs to Stop Getting His Tactics Wrong
Once again Liverpool struggled creating chances and scoring goals, as Brendan Rodgers insists on playing with just one striker for most of the match, which means too much to do for Mario Balotelli, who looked a lot better in all of the instances when another forward was playing along side him.
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Liverpool FC – Mario Balotelli Makes Daniel Sturridge & Raheem Sterling Better
With the craziness of the transfer deadline, the addition of Mario Balotelli suddenly seems like a minor one compared to what’s happening not so far from Liverpool. It doesn’t matter as the Italian proved something to Brendan Rodgers about the diamond system and playing with two strikers, making Daniel Sturridge a lot more effective and gives space to Raheem Sterling to shine and show his incredible ability.
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Liverpool FC – Daniel Sturridge Needs a Striker Next to Him
Despite the enthusiasm, Raheem Sterling doesn’t create another SAS partnership with Daniel Sturridge. Liverpool, as their second half of an opening win clearly showed, need another striker to make their best formation work. Rickie Lambert might not be the best solution, but for now he’s the best solution for a dual-striker partnership the club has.
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10 Memes About Liverpool Getting Closer to a Championship
The 24-year drought might be coming to an end this season for Liverpool, as their 3-2 win over Norwich, making it 11 consecutive wins brings them closer to a league championship, and obviously sparking plenty of memes about them, current rivals and even some of them coming with a lot of self humor.
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Liverpool FC – Steven Gerrard, More Than a Penalty King
Almost every goal Steven Gerrard has scored this season came from the penalty spot, but there’s more to him, and to the Liverpool team Brendan Rodgers needed about a season and a bit to mold, than just making the most of set pieces, as the striking duo of Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge create havoc even when they don’t score, Jordan Henderson and Joe Allen do the work of three or four players in the middle of the pitch while the Raheem Sterling surprise might have hurt his individual performance, but worked out perfectly in the grand scheme of things.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez Great Without Even Scoring
Even a striker doesn’t have to score in order to have a great game, and it was quite an impressive performance from Luis Suarez in yet another entertaining match from Liverpool, leaving the goals to Martin Skrtel, Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez Leads the Perfect Counter Attack
Merseyside derbies aren’t usually this one-sided, but Liverpool got the right tactical fix from Brendan Rodgers, allowing Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge a lot of freedom and space up front, Steven Gerrard doing a great job as a defensive midfielder against a side that simply didn’t show up.
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Liverpool FC – Iago Aspas & Resting Stars is All That Mattered
Obviously, Brendan Rodgers wanted to avoid the embarrassment of losing to Oldham in the FA Cup for a second straight season. He managed to get by that difficulty comfortably enough (2-0), but it seemed like finally giving Luis Suarez and Philippe Coutinho some rest and on the way getting Iago Aspas to actually score a goal might have been just as important as Liverpool winning the match.
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Liverpool FC – Luis Suarez Needs Better Players
Instead of focusing on how the referee cost them at least a point, Liverpool and Brendan Rodgers should focus on how to improve as a team around Luis Suarez, doing everything he can to ignore the bias from officials and two and three players marking him, only to let Philippe Coutinho and Raheem Sterling mess up the glorious chances he set up for them.
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Lee Mason Was Helping Manchester City Beat Liverpool
When you remember who the referee was during a match, it probably means he had a bad day. That’s quite the understatement when it comes to Lee Mason, doing everything he possibly could by making wrong decision after bad one, as his assistant completely blew an offside decision to disallow a Raheem Sterling goal and himself ignore Luis Suarez being fouled in the penalty area, aiding Manchester City claim a 2-1 win over Liverpool.