FERNANDO TORRES FANS

Report by Steve Yates

Liverpool enthusiasts should get so discouraged at times. They know that in Steve Gerrard and Fernando Torres they have two footballers who could be positive of a area in any team in the planet. The figures about the video games these two played jointly very last period make fascinating looking at, to say the least.

The supporters also know that in Xavi Alonso and Javier Mascherano the club has two players who may possibly, for instance, have provided the old rivals from Manchester a tiny much more chance of profitable the midfield battle against Barcelona very last May possibly.

Then there are people video games when the Reds seem to be on an equivalent footing with anybody. There ended up occasions previous yr when they really did glimpse all set to, last but not least, finish that, for Liverpool, extended barren spell without a League title. I instead suspect that if you’d instructed an individual on the Kop in 1990 – when 28,000 fans could nevertheless stand there – that this would be their very last championship accomplishment for at least 20 many years you would have been the recipient of some option Scouse humour.

At the finish there had been numerous folks inclined to speculate about why, even even though 86 points was a fantastic effort, the club had to settle for second area getting only only lost two league games all period.

The amount of drawn games, for instance. If just two games out of the eleven that completed up as draws had been won, the title would have been won comfortably – and Reds’ supporters will be capable to stage at so a lot of games in which they experience that should have happened. But it’s not as if the group didn’t score ample objectives to win people extra two fixtures – they finished up with 9 far more targets than the eventual league winners. They managed to concede the initial aim in 13 league video games and nevertheless only eliminate a single of them. They even scored an amazing ten ambitions in the notorious ‘time additional on’. No-1 could actually accuse the gamers of not providing their all.

Perhaps it all boiled down to holding Gerrard and Torres on the pitch together. Torres, in that ‘difficult 2nd season’, missed fourteen league video games. Even though he nonetheless observed the net at a strike rate of much better than one in 2, he nonetheless scored ten objectives much less than the preceding yr. Far more than just the ambitions, however, is the manner in which El Niño galvanises the team by his powerful entrance working and skilful touch. Handful of who noticed it will forget his utter demolition of Nemanja Vidić at Outdated Trafford.

But, to get again to the theme – is it heading to be different this coming season?

Torres has barely had a relaxation – getting been hauled off to South Africa with the Spanish national squad for the Confederations’ Cup levels of competition. And for somebody whose hamstrings have been so problematic final 12 months, that’s not promising.

And, rather of shelling out the summer time speculating about which globe class players the club would carry in, so far it is been the situation of supporters anxiously hoping that Xavi Alonso and Mascherano do not fly away to La Liga.

We preserve reading various monetary rumours about the American owners sorting out the finances, offering up or generating cash obtainable but no-one actually understands what to think anymore.

All we do know for positive is that this Liverpool squad is so shut to becoming the finest in the land that it shouldn’t consider too a lot to give it the minor push it desires to win the League.

In all honesty, although. Can you see it taking place? Or are we in for however one more season of being so tantalisingly close – but nevertheless missing out at the conclude?

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