Aston Villa 0 - 0 LFC (RAFA SO BIZARRE...)

The Aston Villa fan is applying some xenophobia posters in their stadium...


This is one game you might just believe what the UK newspaper has been talking about Rafa. Too much tinkering, too much loco and too much experiment.
In this game... while Torres's still fit, do you realise where was Keane positioned at? On the left wing? Nuts! How in the world could someone like Rafa, mishandled so terribly a player he himself bought at £20m? Why did he kept Yousi and Babel on the bench? He should have use this two wide player to demolished Villa defence. No he didn't bothered, not until 10 minutes left thinking that Yousi could brought us a certain miracle by scoring in the last minutes.
When Torres was forced to leave the field, Rafa brought in David Ngog. This young chap impressed me during pre-seasons. But last night's game he failed miserably. Looks like he is not fit to play in the EPL. He is not fast and not strong enough. Ok lets give him the benefit of the doubt. But we usually give it when we were leading. Which was not the case.
Then Keane had one clear chance from a good through ball by the great Masherano. I wonder Torres would have slotted-in the goal rather much easily than Keane. hmmm....
With the formation, you couldn't stop thinking that Rafa came here just to get a point. He didn't really excited about winning. This is weird because LFC has no multiple game to play in this week. As we know, this weekend it would be an international break. Then the big crunch will be 13 Sept. against Man.U. But we're talking about another 2 weeks.

This is one game I wish Rafa could have done better.

One positive note is the return of Javier Mascherano. The golden Olympian had a powerful game and if he's not playing last night, LFC could be enduring one or two goal deficits.

Stopped Barry at all cost! Stop him from joining Liverpool...

Don't hurt me... aren't you supposed to be in our squad already?

I remember this one very well. Young was trying to pass the ball from the centre to the left when Masherano just bamboozled him (nothing nasty... he had the ball all along!) which he then passed to Kuyt who frustratingly wasted it.