Performances must Improve.

By Mighty Reds
October 25 2005

The Liverpool team have been challenged by their manager to start delivering goals. Rafael Benitez will not tolerate anything like the first half performance against Fulham last Saturday and expects the players to stand up and be counted.

He said:

"Before Fulham I had been happy with our away form," stated Benitez. "We had created lots of chances and produced good performances, and against Anderlecht we had 18 shots and against Fulham it was 16. What we must do is take advantage of this and score more. Generally, in attack our movement was bad at Fulham, the players did not move enough even though we had the ball a lot. We must make clear chances, clear passes and clear movements.

"It was difficult for Fernando Morientes and Harry Kewell because they were just starting back after injury but now we will have Crouch, Sinama-Pongolle, Cisse and Luis Garcia as well. That is a lot of players with attacking mentalities and we need to score goals now.

"I hope we can work with the strikers to find solutions to what has been going wrong. The most important thing is that we must take advantage of this opportunity because I am thinking about solutions for the Premier League. It is important for each one of the strikers."

Peter Crouch seems to have come in for more criticism than most and Benitez went on:

"I don't think Peter Crouch has been affected by what has been said about him but he can stop all that when he starts scoring goals, and I hope he will start at Palace and then things will be different for him."


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