Oh happy day! We were absolutely fantastic. Every one of our players gave his all and we thoroughly deserved the win.
The Mancs were not as bad as messrs Richard Keys, Graeme Souness, Steve Coppell and Jamie Redknapp were claiming post-match but then that is typical of today's "expert" analysis. Had the Mancs played exactly the same way but won, they would be saying what a professional performance it had been and slating us just as they did after the Chelsea game when I thought we were as good as them. The truth is the Mancs were narrowly but deservedly beaten, not because of their own deficiencies but because our players and supporters gave 110%. Lucas and Mascherano were absolutely excellent as were Jamie Carragher and Daniel Agger at the back. I could go through the whole team dishing out praise. Torres was the match-winner but ultimately I thought Yossi Benayoun was the best player on the pitch today. No Liverpool player let us down. Mascherano's red card (which I thought was a case of Andre Marriner evening up his decisions after sending off Nemanja Vidickhead) takes nothing away from his heroic performance.
Sadly, it is the job of SKY's panel of "experts" (as if Graeme Souness is qualified to criticise a Liverpool manager) to embellish or create talking points and controversy just as they did when suggesting that Carragher should have been sent off for his part in the tusseling match with Michael Shithead and implying the offence was equal to the foul by Vidickhead on Kuyt that saw the Serbian sent off for the third match against us in succession.
Firstly, to use pundit-speak I thought the free-kick conceded by Carra was a case of "six of one and half a dozen of the other", i.e. Shithead was pulling Carra's shirt just as much as Carra fouled him so I'm not even convinced it was a foul. Secondly, Shithead was running away from goal and there were at least two Liverpool defenders who could have got back had he not gone to ground. Thirdly, Marriner awarded the Mancs a free-kick in a very dangerous position and booked Jamie. Fourthly, Vidic was on a yellow when he blocked off Kuyt and received a second booking, not a straight red - even though he clearly was the last man and there is absolutely no doubt he denied Kuyt a goalscoring chance through foul play. The injustice was that Vidickhead should have received a straight red, not a second yellow but given he only got a yellow card for that blatant piece of cheating, how any so-called expert (Jamie Redknapp) can claim Carra should have been shown a straight red is beyond me.
Before the game, Coppell was asked who he thought would win. He answered: "I think Man U will win no problems and I think Rafa will struggle to keep his job at the end of the season." What did that last statement have to do with the question asked? What does Coppell know about whether Rafa is in danger of losing his job at the end of the season? Prick. One question, Coppell... Did Man U win no problems?
When asked post-match what this results proves, Rafa said it proves "the team is better than people think". Certainly today they showed more capability, grit and quality than they have of late but any team is only as good as its results. Keep performing like this, and no one will be questioning whether this Liverpool team is good enough.
Right, I'm off for a beer because results like this need celebrating. COME ON YOU REDS!!!!!
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