Villas-Boas loses another as questions are starting to arise.
The 13th matchday of the season was a lucky one for Liverpool’s manager Kenny Dalglish who managed to win against Chelsea after being dominated for the entire second half.
Liverpool managed to stay in front of Arsenal today after the 2-1 win against Chelsea, but Dalglish’s problems are not yet over. Although the team did not lose in 8 games including this one, Liverpool still have certain problems when it comes to build-up and taking their chances.
If against Swansea bad luck was the only think which kept them away from winning, now against Chelsea they managed to take away two of the very few shots on goal they had. Andres Villas Boas’ team played a very good and spectacular game, but unfortunately the shot accuracy wasn’t there and in the end they paid for that.
Liverpool managed to take advantage in the 34th minute of the game through Maxi Rodrigues after an error by Mikel and that concluded the score at halftime. To everybody’s surprise Chelsea came back like a whole different team and they completely shut down their opposition in the second half.
Sturridge managed to pull them level in the 55th minute after Malouda’s action, and after that the chances started to pour at Liverpool’s goal, but nobody was able to take one away, and even through Torres was thrown in the battle Chelsea had to pay for all those missed opportunities.
In the 87th minute Glen Johnson found the net after a beautiful personal action and Liverpool won the game stopping Chelsea’s attempt to keep up with the Manchester teams once again. Now Boas’ team is 12 points away from City after they lost 3 of the last 4 encounters. The question is if Andres Villas-Boas is really the man Chelsea needs for the job.
what a poor showing from the blues today poor movement slow play why AVB do you like the old brigade ie lampard malouda drogba who are rubbish now, also that mikel is useless why oh why does he get in the side lets get shut of him asap pay him off i would just to get him out of the club total garbage he is, don’t you like torres AVB it’s looks that way to me your tactics are awful we can’t defend we will not finish in top 6 with that team today, luiz should be a midfielder i really am disgruntled at the moment because we are so poor get it sorted AVB or you will be out like the others before you, we have to beat leverkusen on weds or no champs league later stages cannot believe how bad we have become.
totally agree with above comment we are becoming a slow lazy team to many over the hill old players in the team lets build the team around the likes of mata, ramirez, torres, sturridge come on boas gt it sorted or hiddink will be back and that will happen for sure we have to get back to basic’s and that means defending properly we look so weak at the back these days worse than when ancelotti was here i think we will finish about 8th with the current team and manager.
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What chelsea need is constant starting 11 so that the stricars will their selfishness as we still witnessed today.AVB think twice and also check ur playing pattern.
AVB put the old guard back in thinking they would win. He was worried about losing to arsenal and thought putting the old lot in they would still play like before.
Problem is, the old guard is just that, old. There is no pace between them anymore. Mikel was pants and slows the game up, malouda tries certain times but not alot and so does drogba. Stick with the rebuilding. We should have had meireles, sturridge and torres starting from the beginning ibstead of malouda, mikel and drogba. Need to sort it out and quickly.
Am disappointed in u avb,u don’t listen to advice and that will cost you your job if time is not taken,you have realise that whenever u play malouda and lampard in that midfield our strikers are always in shot of passes for goals,lampard is doing absolutely nothin together with malouda,pls january sell them off or u bench them totally,buy anoda central defend to replay terry,anoda left foot back to replace ashely,anoda rigth back to replace bosingwa bcos ivanovic can’t go wide rather can only defend,pls I need creative midfielder or put mereless in place of lampard,take dis advice stop playing lampard and maluoda to save your job,let torres play along side with mata and mereles and ramires you will enjoy the guy
absolutly agree with the above comments.why does avb insist in playing the old guys like drogba,malouda,lamp and terry?what is wrong with him???it seems those have guys have too much authority @ chelsea to be left on the bench.and why don’t you like torres?the guy is the best stricker in europe and you don’t want to use him?i can promise u if u don’t change that way of doing things u’ll be axed much sooner than u imagin,ask scolari.
i dont think a coach who uses an old formation is a good coach for epl,drogba jumping and dancing in front every game featured this season,he even stop scoring but thats not enough to let others play instead,why always using terry is he a machine or the only formation without terry cant work,avb is afraid of those players like lampard,terry because they are english cant put them in bench and thats will cost him his job…..watch out avb.