Brendan Rodgers seems to be looking for a safe place to avoid firing media questions about Liverpool’s dismissible show this season, in fact, his decision to relieve Suarez and brought Balotelli at the helm is proving wrong. The major worry for the Northern Irish manager is not the dearth of talent but their availability since most of the key players are out for respective injuries and after ousted of Daniel Sturridge who has been in good form until now, Reds could only gather seven points off their first six league games. The same situation is on European front where they are playing after a long time and Rodgers seems to be under lots of pressure to prove his summer decisions correct. He clearly refused to provide any quick heal for the problem Anfield side is passing through right now, or he may not be having any overnight magic for his team or their injuries yet he is in no mood to give up and says it is just the beginning hence no one should predict finals of the season.
Notably, this is the same team who impressed everyone with its surprising entry to the Championship league and everyone had then started guessing them among the finalist of UEFA tourney but looking at their start, it is highly unlikely they would do anything noticeable in Europe, however, as far EPL is concerned, they can surely come back any good week. What 41-year-old manager told to a newspaper in his interview is, “I think the pain is for now. I think it’s unfortunate. It’s hard for the supporters and I understand that. It must be so difficult at the moment to see a team that for 18 months has been so fluent and dynamic.
“Now they probably look and see a team with maybe no resemblance to that in many ways. I understand that and there is no-one more frustrated than myself. We look at our game, which is based a lot on possession, but we were also a big threat in transition when we won the ball back and we were on the break. We don’t look a threat on the break at the moment. We could argue that we don’t even play in transition. We’re getting no one in behind, no one breaking lines.”
Today, they are up against West Brom at home and if they could not win even this game, Sportsbooks would start giving them lowest odds for a possible league title and we assume Rodgers still has lots of fireworks to show!