It can be viewed as a blessing in disguise ......if we decide to be optimistic. In any case, the game this morning was complete rubbish. Rafa made 10 changes to the side that beat West Brom last weekend. Most of the key players needed to rest....that was his reason. But the trend was obvious. For the past 5 seasons, Rafa had constantly fielded under strength teams for this competition. It is clear that the priority has always been the Champions league, League title, FA Cup in that order.
Looking at Spurs this morning, they were not the full first team either. For one, Bently and a few other first team players were on the bench.
Hypia, Babel, Dossena, Lucas, N'gog are all first team fringe players. Even Plessis and Nabil El'zhar had a few first team starts this season. Only Degen and Cavialeri can be considered as full reserve players. In other words, there is really no excuse for the kind of rubbish we dished out. 3 goals in 8 first half minutes. The second goal by Campell was complete rubbish between out goalkeeper and defender. No excuse for a big club like Liverpool. Degen was atrocious. His defending was non existent and it was his wrong positioning that caused Hypia to drift left to cover him and as a result, leaving a man short in the centre. That allowed Spurs to score the first goal.
I am really disappointed. It's ok to lose but the quality of play must be there for all to see. In this case, we were really bad. It was so painful I had to switch off the tv and spare myself the agony of the second half.
If we view this as a blessing in disguise, then at least the team can now focus on the League title and the other 2 cups.
The League cup are for teams like Arsenal and Man U especially when they will end up with nothing to fight for this season....;-)
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