re: OFFICIAL Liverpool FC 2014-2015 Season Long Thread

That Moreno goal..will watch again and again. And loved that he went to the supporters and how excited he was. Hope its the beginning of a beautiful and long relationship!

My thoughts on Balos first start - extremely disappointed with how he finished - I counted four decent chances and he only put one on frame, and that one pretty much right at the keeper. All three others weren't really even close to frame. He has to do better than that. His hold up play and linking with others was better than I thought for a first game though. He also occupied guys on Sterlings goal.

I think being able to bring on Can when we have some leads will be a big help. Much better than Lucas (though I don't think he was really playing a second CDM with Gerrard like Lucas did week 1) even though we kinda of seemed to switch to a 4-2-3-1.

Not much on here about Sakho, but I've seen complaints elsewhere about him. I'm actually pretty happy with him. I think he's a bit goofy/uncordinated looking sometimes with his challenges, but I think he's probably our most positionally sound CB, plays a nice hard ball along the ground (so its easy to trap and move as opposed to a ball in the air) past pressing to the MF or even FWD, and is generally where you need him to be. I think a rotating 3some will do decent enough, assuming Lovren can play both sides well enough (and he was decent yesterday)

Lovren has been a bit more erratic than expected. Maybe he just needs some time to adjust?

Finally - after three weeks, its clear there was some tiers developing - I feel a lot better about our chances at top 4.

City/Chelsea
'Pool/Arsenal
5 or so teams (including Everton, Tottenham, etc.)
Most the rest of the league
Burnley

Looking at it - if Arsenal does not get more help at striker, you have to wonder if they'll struggle over the next few months and drop points (like yesterday) where they maybe shouldn't.

I thought ManU would take some time to grow into Van Gaal (like Rodgers first year where we struggled early but were the second highest point total from January to May), but I also thought they would pick up points due to their soft early schedule and by the time October or so rolled around, be high enough to compete for fourth. Does not appear that will happen and they are likely on a similar path to us two years ago. You have to think once they start playing City, Chelsea, us, etc. they won't be able to pick up points very easily. Long story short, our competition for fourth (Except Tottenham who we just beat) have dropped a lot of points early.