No more rotations says Rafa

[AFII]

His Valencia team appeared to be a very cohesive unit alright (against us, anyway) but in his three years as manager (just happen to have some stats here ) they had the best defensive record, but only the 6th best goals for in two years and the 2nd in his final year....so he doesn't create goal machines by any stretch. Certainly I don't think we should consider his Valencia as free-scoring - whether that is neccessarily a reflection on the style of play or not I don't know tbh.

Well, he created Mista. He is **** but still scored a lot of goals but that was probably because of the partnership with the brilliant Aimar.

[Matt]

Someone did a great post on RAWK about our defensive 4 this season. To cut a long post short it basically said that when Houllier's back 4 all played together (Finnan, Sami, Carra, Riise), we've been gash, we were slightly better when there was 3 of them and when only 2 of them have played we've had our best games.

It was very well thought out post and when you look at the results for each set of players I cant help but feel it's not a coincidence.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=211567.0

[Parm]

There isn't that many games left so there really isn't any point at all to rotate to keep the players fit anymore.

fair point, they should be fit enough to get through potentially what up to 21 odd games?

[Jennings]

... too little too late

Nonsense.

Change doen't have to mean sack the manager.

[Kenneth]

I put Kewell in because I think Benitez prefers him to his other options.

I'd agree more with you...

I'd rather Fabio played LM than Kewell, personally.

[Frank Leroux]

I'd rather Fabio played LM than Kewell, personally.

..personally...well, see my sig....

[dww]

Someone did a great post on RAWK about our defensive 4 this season. To cut a long post short it basically said that when Houllier's back 4 all played together (Finnan, Sami, Carra, Riise), we've been gash, we were slightly better when there was 3 of them and when only 2 of them have played we've had our best games.

It was very well thought out post and when you look at the results for each set of players I cant help but feel it's not a coincidence.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/...topic=211567.0

IMO the Arsenal and Blackburn games were good performances. We battered Blackburn as much as we did Man City (argued as a good performance later in the post). I'm not convinced by it at all.

I will say that the Houllier back four does offer less in terms of getting forward that much is true but I really think that much of the analysis is flawed.

[Nic83]

LOL, bit late. He should be ****ing rotating now!