Post Match Thread Villa

[Gazzla]

Interesting interview with Gerrard, for once he shows his frustration at the ****ing circus that our club is turning into and not happy with the constant off field situations. I'm pleased that he has finally come out and said something.

[Jimbob]

Bollocks mate, Well some of it, I admit there are some average players at the club, But NONE of it was Rafas fault this evening.

[Radar]

To me it was just another boring predictable Liverpool performance. Hoofing from the back, no wide play, Yossi in every game cuts inside and always lacks the end product. Gerrard goes missing and Babel is brought on too late.

[Imy]

Its bull****, what a feckin excuse the off field problems is just crap, why should it effect them? Carra told it straight early this week. A bull**** excuse for bull**** performances.

[flyboy]

VERY POOR by rafa tonight
from selection to tactics to timing of substitutions.

[kemm1]

First half he did okay, set up the goal, played alright.

Second half he reverted to type.

This isn't the time to criticize Rafa, but once again he brought of Benayoun and moved Kuyt wide right. I just don't understand why he does this, and keeps doing it. It just doesn't work for the player or the team.

Kuyt plays on the right of a 4-3-3 for Holland that's the only explaination that I've got for keeping him on, otherwise I don't have a clue.

[Radar]

We need one of these to take off this vodoo spell that we've got:

Kemmo you probably have some contacts down there in Louisiana who practice that voodoo stuff

[MascheredUp]

Some of this is Rafa's fault. Some of this is not.

Too many average players bought - not his fault, as they were not his first choices due to financial constraints.

Rafa's stubborness - is his fault. As long as he keeps playing Kewell and Kuyt instead of Babel and Crouch.

[Nic83]

It isn't rocket science. We dominate nearly every game we play and can't finish teams off. Why? We have Torres and that's about it. Kuyt and Voronin will not get the goals and we have a potential legend of a player in Crouch who for some reason can't get agame ahead of them. Baffling.

[CAD]

Torres was the biggest disappointment tonight imo. When he has bad games he is very much like Garcia. Extremly frustrating to look at. He keeps going for the brass everytime.

Sami MOM of course.

[KK07]

We have too many bit part players who aren't top quality. Aurelio, Arbeloa, Kuyt, Riise, Voronin, Finnan. We need to replace the back line in the summer, I don't expect us to have a lot of money right now. We need more creativity in the midfield hopefully Lucas gets a better run next season.

Are you for real?

[Morph]

Last season we had horrendous problems scoring from the bench in the league.

This season has been better (I think) but it takes us going behind or a team drawing level for Rafa to send on the attacking players. Tonight it clearly wasn't working for Kuyt despite some good link up play but did he pull him for someone who could carry a bit more threat?

this isn't last season mate it's this season, and he obviously left kuyt on to try and score

[Joe King]

Arbeloa and Finnan are two of our best. They are vital to the team

Too weak, too small and in Finnan's case too slow and too old.

[Diego]

VERY POOR by rafa tonight
from selection to tactics to timing of substitutions.

crouch instead of kuyt earli in the second half other than that i don't see where rafa got it wrong

[ulsterRed]

Kop did us proud,certainly in the first half hour anyhow.

Babel should be starting if not for Kuyt,who has the touch of a brick wall,then definitely for Kewell.

At least we got a draw and tonight was about much more important than a football match.

Rafa looked in pretty good form for someone with a 'cold'.