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Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Needs to Stop Messing Up Tactics
Not for the first time this season, Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool have dropped points they really shouldn’t have because the manager seems to be blinded by the potency of his strikers. It’s great to have Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge to count on, but teams are usually defined by the quality of their midfield and defense, and not just by what’s in the frontline.
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Liverpool FC – Philippe Coutinho Has to Start Scoring
There isn’t a shortage of players who can score for Liverpool, especially with Daniel Sturridge coming back from injury to partner Luis Suarez, carrying on with his incredible scoring streak. But while in some matches the two can handle the demands on their own, there comes a point when someone else, like Philippe Coutinho, needs to put in a hand as well.
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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 – Philippe Coutinho Doing Everything But Score
A new year and an end to a short losing streak that’s not the end of the world. Liverpool got Luis Suarez scoring again with a beautiful free kick, Daniel Agger back in the lineup, Steven Gerrard closer to full fitness while Philippe Coutinho continues to improve, only the goals aren’t coming for the Brazilian.
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Jose Mourinho Loves Lying & Being a Bad Winner
Football managers don’t tell the truth. They say whats serves themselves and their team. Not all are like this, but the successful ones are usually are. Jose Mourinho knows Liverpool were robbed and wronged by a clear foul Smauel Eto’o performed on Luis Suarez. However, being the classy person he is, he preferred gloating in his victory and then calling the Uruguayan player a diver and a cheat.
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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.
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The Day After – Liverpool vs Cardiff
Despite not playing a perfect match, it’s hard to find someone displeased with the current situation: Brendan Rodgers finding the right tactics, Luis Suarez signed for much longer and can’t stop scoring and Liverpool are back on top of the Premier League, which at Christmas provides a pretty good indicator to who wins the championship at the end of the season.
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Liverpool FC & Luis Suarez Forever
One thing we’ve learned about Luis Suarez that we didn’t know about him before is that he doesn’t hold a grudge. Despite Liverpool not selling him to a club playing in the Champions League like he wished for, he has been the perfect professional and leader, hands down the best player in the Premier League since the start of the season. The next chapter in the saga? The club trying to extend his contract.
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On Liverpool Being For Real
Unfortunately, you can only live so much on the glory of your past achievements. Liverpool’s impressive win in White Hart Lane bought Brendan Rodgers a lot of credit for the way he’s shaped and molded this team into something that has turned not only into one of the more enjoyable sides in the Premier League, but possibly also one of the best.