The Benitez Thread

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*Tactically

[Jase 43,479]

*Tactically

OOH but I heard a 'S' in there!

Anyway, I BLAME MATA'S SPANISH ACCENT!!

[DYC. 7,542]

^ I was just about to post it. And this:

People say your Liverpool wasn't an attacking team. Are they right?

"We scored 119 goals in the 2008/09 season. People don't see the difference between a team that is organised with balance and a team that is defensive. We had a lot of clean sheets, I remember Petr Cech and Pepe Reina were always competing, but we liked to go forward and score goals. If you look at the stats we had attacking mentality. Sometimes when you are attacking you are defending better"

Odd response. That's like saying Chelsea in the Abramovich era were very offensive because they broke the PL goal record in 09/10.

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Pardon me for being an idiot and perhaps even paranoid here but what did Mata mean when he said they are training more movements statically? Statically?!!

I'm more worried he doesn't know Bolo's name yet.

[Jase 43,479]

I'm more worried he doesn't know Bolo's name yet.

Eh??

[Sheva. 5,373]

Odd response. That's like saying Chelsea in the Abramovich era were very offensive because they broke the PL goal record in 09/10.

Not really. A 'defensive' tag is surely not right on a team that scored 119 goals, and he said his team were more balanced than defensive.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtFhodN4tWg&feature=g-u-u

Look at Oscar while Rafa is talking; he hasn't got a notion of whats going on...10 on him to score on Sunday.

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Eh??

He called him "the other guy that came with him (Rafa)"

[Jase 43,479]

Anyone remember this?

Wonder if we will see something similar under Benitez..

[Rmpr 8,977]

Anyone remember this?

Wonder if we will see something similar under Benitez..

WHAT?

[Jase 43,479]

Pardon me for being an idiot and perhaps even paranoid here but what did Mata mean when he said they are training more movements statically? Statically?!!

Even Seb also said that he think it's statically too..

Sébastien ‏@SeBlueLion

@jayblues8 @CarefreeSam That's statically I think, how to position yourselves on the pitch to create triangles

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Anyone remember this?

Wonder if we will see something similar under Benitez..

OH FUCKKKK are we going to change from Blue to RED ????? :ph34r:

[DYC. 7,542]

Not really. A 'defensive' tag is surely not right on a team that scored 119 goals, and he said his team were more balanced than defensive.

My point was he was in charge of Liverpool for six years so you don't just point at one season.

They were indeed balanced.

[Jase 43,479]

He called him "the other guy that came with him (Rafa)"

Wouldn't read or even bother too much about that personally.

WHAT?

It was in the 09/10 season. Liverpool were playing catch up in trying to finish in 4th. They were drawing 1-1 then at Birmingham and desperately needing the points but Benitez took Torres off midway through the 2nd half and replaced him with N'Gog leading to Gerrard looking rather bemused at the substitution.

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Anyone remember this?

Wonder if we will see something similar under Benitez..

Most probably no. No one ever wonders when Torres is going off the pitch.