Good Reds 2 - Sith Reds 1

I have not written anything about Liverpool for a while because frankly, I was disturbed and bemused about what has happened to this great club. Last season we started off with hope but then after reaching the peak of the summit, we proved we had problems maintaining the push and slowly succumbed to challenging for one of the four champions league spots.

Added to this is the debacle that is our ownership. I have said before that the Americans have not delivered on their promises and should leave. I am just hoping that the finance side of things fall though so that they are forced to sell up to a buyer who not only will respect the Liverpool way, but also have the finances to deliver a new stadium and players to return us back to the summit.

But with a new season starting, I was hesitant to write anything until I could see how we performed. After the first three matches of the season, I was not happy with the team. We played pretty average, with no real width and opposition teams just played down our centre. However we nutted out two wins through moments of brilliance through our two best players. Torres and Gerrard both scoring sensational efforts at the death of matches for us to snatch victory.

However, after the tie at Aston Villa, I felt we need to see an upturn in our playing style – more urgency and more desperation, for us to even consider making the Premiership race interesting.

After the come from behind win against Manchester United I felt more relief that anything. I am definitely not one to proclaim we are going to win the title because we have only played 4 matches. But the fact we managed to beat what was essentially our bogey team with our two best players not taking a major part in the game, indicates that we have the potential to challenge.

At the very least this has provided some belief to the players that we can beat the Chelsea’s, Arsenal’s and yes the Manchester United’s even if we are a goal behind. I shudder to think that if we had lost it would have affected our mental state in such a way we would not have recovered for the remainder of the season. Articles would have been written about how Rafa did not select the right players, his tactics were wrong and that Liverpool does not have the players to challenge.

However, Liverpool fans should not get ahead of ourselves too much. We were lucky with the first goal but sometimes you need that to win!

There are still 34 matches to go and we have to continually improve and WIN every match at Anfield. More importantly we need to start winning away at the Portsmouth, Newcastles, Bolton’s etc.

But we can do that with a little more belief than two weeks ago.

The win was satisfying but it is early days. Walk On!