Football is what you call the more democrat-ed sport. It is the peoples’ sport. A simple sports that can be easily played by the poor and rich citizens of the world. Basically you just need the people, a ball and a field.
But unlike other sport the field size and dimension are not the exact same. They have a Maximum and Minimum range in both length and width instead of exact measurement. The Nou Camp is one of the biggest while the old Highbury was one of the smaller one. Anfield is the on more average size but it is a bit narrow.
In Britain the three biggest pitch are the Millennium stadium, Old Trafford and The New emirates Stadium. Rafa’s Liverpool recent record in competitive games in these stadium this past year is not good. Liverpool drew against west Ham 3-3(Fa Cup) at Millennium, lost to Man U 2-0 at O.T. and Arsenal 3-0 at the emirates.
Statistic shows that we struggle at lengthy picth with this current squad. One of the reason is because we don’t really have a pacy and atheletic back four. If Barca can expolit this and stretch Liverpool defence it will spell trouble. The key would be to stretch, pass and penetrate.
If Liverpool’s midfield and full back are to be stretch by both Messi and Ronaldinho, then Eto will provide the penetration and goals. Liverpool will need to defend deeper. The Midfield will then drop deeper too leaving us to just play on the counter. But crouch isn’t a counter attacking player. Can Liverpool play an open game? an Liverpool play gung ho? Is Liverpool brave enough?
The good news is that the speed and athletic Eto is not starting. And maybe Messi too. So Liverpool can play a balance style instead of a more defensive style.
But will the pitch ultimately be a factor of Liverpool downfall? Or Liverpool will just finish off the job at Anfield?
