Welcome to Simplysports My name is
Elijah Allotey and one thing I can tell you right now is that I am a Sports
freak. I’m 23 years of age and I've been following sports for 23 years yep I’m convinced I used to listen to match of the day as a fetus lol. I hope you
enjoy my blog its a blog that will inform you, to take the debates of the
sporting world and really dissect them, asking probing questions and seeking out the answers,
like was he really offside? And how many points for a try or touchdown? It’s a
blog that will hopefully make you laugh but take the stats into consideration
so you can make your own opinions . I welcome all feedback and you can leave me
comments on twitter, facebook, instagram and email.
Now the introductions are out of the
way let’s get down to it. My blogs are going to be 50% mainly football (My
passion) and the other 50% comprised of other sports.
If you didn't know the Barclays
Premiership has ended for another year and for most people the summer period probably form the ending of May to the end of June is like the wilderness period, I've seen people at work actually planning out there small talk thinking what do I
do I can’t even pretend to strike up conversation when there are no scores to
talk about HEEEEELPPPPP LOL ! BUT never
fear The World cup is here and all attentions will turn to Brazil 2014 IN 2
weeks time.
But today I’m going to give you my
view on Liverpool’s 2013-2014 season review. Being a passionate Liverpool
supporter since my boarding school days it was painful to see Liverpool miss
out on the Premier league by 2 points when destiny seemed to be in their hands
but like Graeme souness said Liverpool didn't win the league because they lost
to Chelsea but because they were not the best team over 38 games and I must
agree. But the season has been a revelation for Liverpool, congratulations
should go to Man city for winning the league and the capital one cup and a big
well done to Arsenal finally, finally finally winning a trophy and ending their
8 year drought for silverware. That’s all I’m going to say about Arsenal for
that!
The 2013-2014 season in numbers for
Liverpool reads; 26 wins, 6 draws and 6 loses with 101 goals scored and 50
goals conceded. Rewind back to 1st June 2012 and Brendan Rodgers
gave his first interview to Liverpool fc and he said this “The philosophy is very much based on the
attacking side of the game. People ask me that question and I always say it's
about being offensive and creative, but also with tactical discipline. If you
look at the Swansea team in the last couple of years they've been lauded for
their offensive approach but defensively we've kept many clean sheets and we're
up there with the top defensive records. That's the principles of this club.
This is a club that's based on fast, attacking, offensive football. But I'll
repeat - it's very important to have tactical discipline within that. Your
philosophy and your principles will always be governed by the players. There is
a fantastic squad here, some terrific players, but there is no doubt I'll need
to make maybe two, three or four additions to try and get that flow - and it
will take time to put that in place.”
Key
words being fast attacking offensive football and that’s what Liverpool fans
have been blessed this season to witness from the 5-1 thrashing of arsenal to the
4-0 demolition of Everton and countless other matches. Liverpool where devastating.
The stats show that Out of the 28 games that Liverpool scored first they went
to win 23 of them, with them winning at half time 25 times they eventually went
on to win 21 times.
Liverpool
were supreme and Brendan Rodgers based his team on a side that counterattacked
with pace and precision, the star players of the season being suarez,
Sturridge, Sterling, Skretel, coutinho, Henderson and obviously Captain Marvel
Steven Gerrard. Suarez and Sturridge scored 56 goals in the season there
partnership was Liverpool’s foundation of success. But for all the good there
was one glaring problem Liverpool had and that was the defence, Teams that
usually concede 50 goals are usually mid table teams or fighting relegation but
it seemed that my beloved team had the notion that scoring enough goals would
do the trick and it seemed to work however carragher said this after the
entertaining crystal palace game “"That is not acceptable, for all the plaudits Liverpool
have had in the last few months - and deservedly so as they have been the most
outstanding team in the Premier League to watch and excited us all.
"But that has been
their Achilles' heel all season. Even when they've been winning games it's been
4-3 or 6-3 or 3-2. We always felt the defence would come back and haunt them with the goals they've
conceded.”
That was said after the Crystal Palace game in which people
thought the league was theoretically out of Liverpool’s hands but Liverpool didn’t
lose the league there really it was over the 38 games as I will stress again.
I’m not slating my team just perhaps saying a little I told u so
but the 3-3 draw at crystal palace magnified everything I had seen in the
season but it had not taken the joy out of seeing my team rise to compete with
the big boys of the league! My hope for Liverpool next season is that in the
summer transfer window they focus on the defence but strengthen in all
departments to prepare them for the season return of being in the champions
league!!
All I can hope is that
one day we will taste Premiership glory.
Interesting STATs!
*Liverpool picked up 5 wins in March 2014 in the premiership
scoring 18 and only conceding 4
*Unbeaten for 16 games
*Scored 60 out of there 101 goals in the 1st half
of premier league games definitely fast
starters!
For more Liverpool stats check out http://www.premierleague.com/en-gb/clubs/profile.statistics.html/liverpool
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